Just found out the headliners for this years Glasto. How do those headliners appeal to you?
― OutdoorFish, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
*drones launched* Sorry, what?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Glastonbury attenders kinda get what they deserve by definition
― don't put the anus on me (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
This is the first time I haven't been able to get a ticket in the first round and I'm hoping the mass 'who gives a shit?' will make the resale easier in April.
I'm not exactly sure what they did to fail to get Kraftwerk given they're seemingly playing every other festival in Europe but srsly Eavises...
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Kraftwerk are playing Latitude but they're basically the only music on the line-up that i give a shit about
― don't put the anus on me (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
I actually bought a day ticket for Latitude purely on the basis of Kraftwerk but I would happily watch most of the rest of that day's line-up anyway. Conveniently the organisers have put all the good music on the same day, which was nice of them.
Would totally see Portishead at Glastonbury but their presence is basically a guarantee of it shitting with rain all weekend.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Lol I saw Portishead at Glastonbury 95. Obviously when they booked them not that many people had geard of them because they were playing in the acoustc tent. We got there early to get near the front and had to endure a mediocre country band. By the end of their set the tent was packed and people were even out in the field behind all because of Portishead.
― OutdoorFish, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Just found out the headliners for this years Glasto.
Mud in the field, shit on the stage, lovely...
― FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
So we'd endured the country band and the anticipation was palpable, next on the bill Portishead. After tge band had finished the curtains were drawn for some time. Suddenly an announcement came over the PA. "Due to his none appearance yesterday, we present to you.. Mr Evan Dando."
― OutdoorFish, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't he basically turn up on every stage he could find that year whether they wanted him or not? I kind of think of him as the Florence Welch of the mid-90s.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
xp Curtains open, tent is suddenly empty.
― FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Crowd weren't happy. As curtains opened crowd began shouting stuff like "Dando shit!" During about the fifth song he got really angry and started playing his guiitar stupidly, before shouting "i didn't want to come to this fucking hippie fuckfest anyway!" and walking off.
― OutdoorFish, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
xps Evan attempted to compensate afterwards by playing what in another era would be called 'guerrilla gigs' in the middle of fields, obv off his tits. I sat right next to him at one of these and aged 15 it was the first time I'd been in proximity to anyone remotely famous
I'd like to think that this was the difference between me going on to be 'a celebrity-obsessed habitual TMZ refresher' and 'someone who posts lazy zings to ILX'
― congratulations on yet another award and i loved your baseball cap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
i've been to about seven glastonburys and only seen three headliners in total, so never too fussed about itsome real great stuff elsewhere, very much stoked for chic with nile rogers, tom tom club, phoenix and goat.
― nathey, Thursday, 28 March 2013 09:24 (eleven years ago) link
Arctic Monkeys were really good at Orion.
Lol Mumfords though. Are they playing every festival in existence this summer (except Orion)?
― maura, Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
There is probably no band who sum up the most annoying aspects of modern Glastonbury more than Mumford & Sons, in fairness.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
rolling stones
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
Trying hard to figure out which of those three acts will have the most tired old shit in their set.
― FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
A Stones greatest hits set in a festival atmosphere would still be great, I'd be willing to bet. Not new or surprising obviously but probably a lot of fun.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
True, that would work. The Stones being the only one of the three who have enough old shit that isn't tired. But if their set is made up of Voodoo Lounge and onwards, then... that's still be better than Scumford & Co.
― FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
Are the Rolling Stones opening for the Arctic Monkeys? (judging from the poster)
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
it's written as headliners by day, ie the Stones are on Saturday
― congratulations on yet another award and i loved your baseball cap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
Headliners are always a red herring at Glastonbury and there's only a limited pool to draw from. OK, Kraftwerk would have been good but who else? Prince? Too expensive/ornery. Daft Punk? Not touring. Kanye? See Prince, and I'm not sure his current me-and-my-madness live show would work at Glastonbury anyway. Stone Roses? I'm sure they asked. I could see Depeche Mode, the Cure or Madonna working but I don't think the list of potential headliners is ever very long.
Mumfords are as inevitable a booking as there has ever been - you could see it coming two years ago. Stones will be fun, otherwise several alternative stages await.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
The pool of potential headliners is much shallower than it was in the 90s as well, you have to be bigger to headline now, and fewer bands get to that level (or even late 90s level frankly).
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Looking back, any old chancer could headline in the 90s. But when you've had Beyonce! Jay-Z! U2! you can't be dicking around with the equivalents of the Levellers or Skunk Anansie. Obviously on one level Mumfords ARE the Levellers, but they have Grammys.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
lol was just about to mention Skunk Anansie
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Skunk Anansie piss all over the likes of the Arctic Monkeys
― don't put the anus on me (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Both terrible bands but I think DL's point was more about how big you needed to be to headline. Skunk Anansie didn't actually sell that many records as far as I know, they wouldn't get near the top of the bill now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Would they even get in the acoustic tent?
― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
didn't Skunk Anansie fill in for someone else at the last minute? p sure I was there whatever year that was. could look this up I guess
― like ed balls fans know what a gif is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
It's not so much Skunk Anansie's relative merits as compared to Arctic Monkeys (not keen on either band) but the fact that they actually headlined Glastonbury which I find unbelievable- and did at the time too, given that the other two headliners were The Prodigy and Radiohead. I seem to remember you're right DJ Mencap, but can't seem to find anything online...
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
I might be conflating it with Ash in 1997 (subbing for Steve Winwood of all ppl), this comes courtesy of an aged ILM post from DL hisself
― like ed balls fans know what a gif is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Was it the final night? There's a history of headliners on the final night being a case of "it's only xxx, if you want to leave early to avoid the crush, no biggie"
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Also, what's a headliner? When they boldly stated "Beyonce, the first female headliner", I thought "um, Susanne Vega? and, yes, Skunk Anansie?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to 6Music over breakfast this morning, there was a record by the Wonder Stuff. I forgot they had a fiddle player. I blame them for Mumford & Sons really.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
Did they ever? "Hey, compare us to Slade, everybody! Look, look, we're doing "Cz I luv u"..."
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
xxp Skunk Anansie were on the Sunday night, yes. Given the atrocious conditions that weekend I recall a fair few people had given up already.
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Skunk Anansie headlined in 99, same year as REM and the Manics, it was boiling and completely dry that year.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
hah correct what am I on about, it was Ash headlining that year, sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups#Pyramid_stage_10
Kula Shaker (replaced Neil Young)
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
So which year was it when the stage started sinking into the ground while Echo and the Bunnymen were performing?
― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
1486
― nashwan, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
'85 IIRC.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
No it was during their post Electrofixion comeback
― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, I'd stopped going by then.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
I could totally see Mumford & Sons doing Size of a Cow for Comic Relief.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Glastonbury 2013: Old Men, Old Man Hat, and Old Hat
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
xxp saw it on the news
― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Stage sink year was the first if the 2 insane mud fest 90s years; 1997. Second stage as good as sank.
― piscesx, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
*of
Anyone else going this year? I got tickets in the final wave of release and after initially being less than bothered I'm now at the requisite level of giddy excitement.
Still holding out for Mumford & Sons pulling out at the last moment though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 12:08 (ten years ago) link
If that list for 2014 was the line up, I'd actually make sure I was there some way or another. 4 Glastonbury's was enough, I lucked out on the weather and thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them. I doubt very much I'll ever go again.
― not_goodwin, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Kasabian??!?!?!? Are they really that popular?
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
yes
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
but... why
― kinder, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
mate of mine is considering going with a (yet-to-be-born) baby. I immediately thought this was the worst idea ever (the facilities! the noise! the muggings-at-knifepoint-in-your-tent! the twats!) but then realised I haven't been since 1999. What's different? Is it safer just because it's properly middle-class now? Taking kids to Glastonbury seems like a recipe for having all the worst bits hit hard and missing all the good bits, but what do i know?
― kinder, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
I never understood kids when I was one so I sure as hell cannot understand them now. However they are remarkably popular with the over 30s too but I still cannot explain it.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
didn't people always take kids? those late 90s are supposedly very different to what it was before and after since the fence. Matt will know
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 1 July 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
the muggings-at-knifepoint-in-your-tent
as someone who went to only an early-00s one of these ever this seems ... weirdly hysterical and unlikely. but i don't know, i could have just been oblivious.
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
?
― kinder, Monday, 1 July 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
am I seriously having an actual mugging mansplained away as hysterical
― kinder, Monday, 1 July 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
We've avoided that heavy American rock like Offspring
lmao
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
I don't think thomp realised you were talking about an actual mugging, kinder. Those stories go around all the time, it's one of those 'Scallies will steal your shoes' things that always happens to friends-of-friends or is written about moral panic style in right-wing papers ('hysterical' also being non-gendered when aimed at that form of story, regardless of its etymology).
― emil.y, Monday, 1 July 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
The BBC iplayer seems to have loads of these live sets in full.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
e.g.Portishead's set seems to run to 70 mins on there.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
re muggings etc, late 90s/ early 00s pre-superfence era could be scary, 2000 was notoriously horrendous (quote from Eavis; "At one stage after the 2000 festival I thought I would never get a license again.. ") a proper amount of erberts knocking about, record crime etc. our kid had her phone nicked out of her hand that year, mate had his tent ransacked as he slept, people stamping through camping bits on the rob left right and centre, the dance tent bit in particular was just horrible. after the fence was built in the 2001 year off it was safe as houses, course you heard folk say it was 'sanitised' and had lost it's 'edge' but i knew which i preferred.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
I was there most years from 1998 onwards for a while, and there was definitely a big change the first year the fence went up, mostly because it felt a lot emptier. I never found it scary before then, though, and I knew people who had babies with them and it never seemed to be a problem.
Portishead were amazing in 1998, first time I ever saw them and they blew me away.
― toby, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
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first pit I was ever in age 15 was Offspring at Glastonbury when 'Smash' was blowing up and it was pretty brutal tbrr
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when that bookie is talking about headliners does that not imply Saturday night headliners...? like I get that Kasabian are hueg in an ignorable/insidious kind of way but they're an arena sized band and it seems like the stakes have been raised so that Gloastonbury's flagship act for the year has to be a stadium kinda deal
― jump around violently in so-called "mosh-pits" and go "crowd-surfing (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 07:38 (ten years ago) link
the extra O in "Gloastonbury" is quite satisfying to say out loud fyi
― jump around violently in so-called "mosh-pits" and go "crowd-surfing (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 07:39 (ten years ago) link
Do people really mosh these days, outside punk or metal gigs? I know people would mosh to pretty much anything in the 90s but you barely see it at Glastonbury now. We walked past the Smashing Pumpkins playing Bullet With Butterfly Wings and there was barely anything going on. Plus there's an enclosure near the stage to protect people at the front in the event of a big crush.
I highly doubt Black Sabbath is the kind of thing Eavis was talking about when he made that statement at the height of the nu-metal era. He's prepared to book Zeppelin after all, but I'm not sure they'd have much interest in Sabbath either.
Any crush danger is more likely to come from putting massive draws in tents that can't cope with them (ie Disclosure) but I think security are pretty good at dealing with that now.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link
FWIW I think kids are an integral part of Glastonbury, they've been there as long asd I can remember, and there are two kids fields, one of which they don't let people into without a child. The Green kids field had a big pirate ship and kids on spacehoppers. It looked pretty idyllic to be honest. Plus the area around the circus and theatre fields are really kid-friendly.
You definitely see more babies these days, usually wearing big ear protectors. Can't say I'd consider taking one, but friends of ours brought a one-year old, although we didn't see them past Wednesday.
It was definitely crazier pre-fence, because pretty much anyone could get in, but I feel like the craziness has ramped up in the last few years, since the Shangri-La field became a big thing. But there's been a family camping field for years, which looks pretty sedate.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 08:12 (ten years ago) link
Is there a "field where people get a good nights sleep" yet?
(it's not for me...)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 08:26 (ten years ago) link
when that bookie is talking about headliners does that not imply Saturday night headliners...?
I assume it means on any of the three days. So Kasabian or Kings of Leon are quite likely to do Friday
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
as a non festival attender i guess the point is that they can have despicable shitbags like Kasabian headlining to draw in the drones and you're quite free to go and watch something musical instead
― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 09:41 (ten years ago) link
they will vanish after 7 days though. http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury has approx. 1 hour highlights for each act that last for 30 days (UK only obv)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 10:24 (ten years ago) link
Will have to grab 'em while I can..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:10 (ten years ago) link
Didn't bother to watch any of this, but did have a look at the line-up over the three days and quickly found that there would have been only about 3 or 4 bands I would have wanted to have seen, anyway. Pretty taken aback at how much the line-up doesn't reflect what I'm actually listening to in 2013 for the most part, even on the smaller stages.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, but even when it did, I'd spend more time on the 'comedy' stages and the other places than the main / 2nd main stage..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:58 (ten years ago) link
Actually, I was dismissive about Glastonbury this year as I am every year but the line-up looks pretty great to me. I don't know what the West Holts stage is but looks like I could've just hung out there every day and had a reasonable amount of fun.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
It's a good field to hang out in, in general, not usually too packed and also surrounded with good food and drink places.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
just watched the portishead set on my big tv.f*ck.not that much of a fan, but that was brilliant.intense.love love love the way beth turns her back while the band get into it, and just soaks up the noise.thought i would get bored.but no ... mesmerising to the extreme.lucky you matt.(mate at work also said they were his fave of the weekend ... hence the double nudge)
― mark e, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
they were amazing when i saw them at the barras in 97 or 98
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
Will have to save a bunch of these to DVD before they go..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
taking orders? :)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Hmmmm. ()
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
I saw Portishead at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool in '94. Place was full of idiots who wouldn't shut up. Final 20 minutes were glorious though.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Their headline set at the ATP they curated was probably the best gig I've seen. It SOUNDED incredible.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
Not managed to find the full portishead set on BBC catchup or iplayer yet. So far my highlight is Bobby Womack. I love him anyway, but he was on fire.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
^^^ amazing show
― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Their headline set at the ATP they curated was probably the best gig I've seen. It SOUNDED incredible.― kraudive, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:15 PM (Yesterday)
― kraudive, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:15 PM (Yesterday)
Same here. Their first night at that was especially spine-tingling, I thought.
I went to Glastonbury in the early '90s when the crusties/ravers were climbing over the fence in their droves, but I don't remember it feeling particularly dangerous.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link
Dr X, it's here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej58q9/acts/aqnv4f#p01c2ftd
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
pretty intense Savages show in a third-full John Peel tent
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01c3hyb/Glastonbury_2013_Savages_Glastonbury_2013/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
I saw their Friday afternoon in the smaller William's Green tent and it was magnificent. Surprised they didn't get a better showing on Saturday.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Just watched Portishead now, brilliant. Beth seemed so nice at the end as well, really humble
― Gouty_Ted, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah .. that was a real eye opener for me.after the cold distance of the performance, the 'hope that was all right' outburst was totally unexpected.
― mark e, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej58q9/performances/lg49mb
Really nice page with all the links!
― Mark G, Friday, 5 July 2013 09:40 (ten years ago) link
You have until 30th July to fill your boots before it's all gone.
(Well, the performances, I mean. I daresay the pics will be there forever)
― Mark G, Friday, 5 July 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
sorry, that date is the 29th July at 01:51, certainly as far as the Portishead foorage is concerned.
― Mark G, Friday, 5 July 2013 09:49 (ten years ago) link
rokia traoré! oh wait it's not actually on there :-(
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Friday, 5 July 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Thanks Tracerhand, I found Portishead footage, which was amazing, and am about halfway through Savages now
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 5 July 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link