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Post by Zomoniac on Mar 4, 2022 9:40:44 GMT
Line-up wave one is out. A lot of crossover with the cancelled 2020 bill, but with the huge omission of Taylor Swift. Boo.  |
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Post by dfunked on Mar 4, 2022 9:43:30 GMT
Wet leg!!!
*Buys tickets*
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Post by H-alphaFox on Mar 4, 2022 9:58:04 GMT
Wet Leg aside that is a bit rubbish.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 4, 2022 10:01:28 GMT
I dunno. I dont care about the headliners but, schedule allowing, there would be enough on there to keep me busy over the weekend.
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Post by dmukgr on Mar 4, 2022 10:02:31 GMT
I agree (edit - with Mr alphaFox) - loads on there that I would have no interest in and of everything else I would much rather see in a small venue like I have in the past.
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Post by dogbot on Mar 4, 2022 10:03:12 GMT
I'll go if McCartney does the Frog Chorus. Otherwise, I'm a no.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 10:06:31 GMT
Caters quite well for the 90's kids like me.
I haven't even heard of most of the others.
Overall that is pretty crap considering its been cancelled twice.
But the idiots will attend in force and pretend its amazing watching crappy pop acts in the rain and mud coz Glasto vibes...
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Post by H-alphaFox on Mar 4, 2022 10:09:39 GMT
I suppose No Scrubs by TLC will be a highlight.
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Post by Lizard on Mar 4, 2022 10:19:16 GMT
Not a terrible line-up TBF.
I know that Glastonbury is more about the experience than the music, and I know that the line-up is so vast that there's bound to be something to suit any taste, but I still think it's absolutely mad to buy tickets to a music festival before you know who's playing.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 10:41:27 GMT
The majority of the plebs who attend it now have no music taste anyway. They just want to post the 'experience' on Instagram etc.
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Post by Zomoniac on Mar 4, 2022 11:05:03 GMT
I've never had a bad Glastonbury (mud and injury related events aside) and I've been to around 10. But it's definitely better with a good line-up. I'm up for Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo but there's not really much there for me.
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Post by monkman5000 on Mar 4, 2022 11:12:04 GMT
The majority of the plebs who attend it now have no music taste anyway. They just want to post the 'experience' on Instagram etc. Are you sure about that? Sounds like a lazy characterisation. |
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Post by Zomoniac on Mar 4, 2022 11:26:59 GMT
The majority of the plebs who attend it now have no music taste anyway. They just want to post the 'experience' on Instagram etc. Are you sure about that? Sounds like a lazy characterisation. My experience is, with some lazy characterisations: 35% are there to take MDMA for 5 days and never leave the dance areas. 30% are chavvy indie boys there to take cocaine for 5 days and jizz in their pants at Primal Scream or one of the Gallaghers. 2% are girls in bikinis, face paint and designer wellies trying to get featured on Buzzfeed (I assume this is what clem refers to) 33% are the rest, which is a very wide variety of types. Old people, families, people who stick chairs in front of the Pyramid first thing and never leave. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 4, 2022 11:56:13 GMT
I havent been since... wow... forever but that isnt the worst lineup. There are a good 10-15 acts I would want to see but, yes, most of them are that kind of easy listening techno I listen to while working. Kendrick is really the only headliner I would be interested in atm.
But, yes, it was getting to be more about the experience when I stopped being bothered to go which isnt the end of the world because that coincided with the rise of a load of other more music focussed festivals you could go to if you wanted to be a snide about it.
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Post by elstoof on Mar 4, 2022 12:07:20 GMT
How many headliners have to say no before you give McCartney and Diana Ross a call
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 12:18:41 GMT
I'm a grumpy old sod who did most of his festivals from the early 90's to the early 00's, watching Glastonbury slowly turn into Smash Hits Poll Winners party (music wise) has not been easy for me...
I remember the good old days when chart pop bands had their own crappy day festivals for the kids and adults with no music taste (I think they were called Roadshows).
Again I am fully self aware I am a grumpy old sod who keeps on going on about the past.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 12:20:52 GMT
I still blame Girls Aloud
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 4, 2022 12:26:45 GMT
The majority of the plebs who attend it now have no music taste anyway. They just want to post the 'experience' on Instagram etc. A bit snobbish, I mean yes there always those people but it isn't really hurting anyone. Except those girls who are on their boyfriend's shoulders blocking your view. Infuriating. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 4, 2022 12:57:40 GMT
I'd have thought several of the ones in the main pack were bigger than some of the headliners.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 13:07:52 GMT
I reckon the Glastonbury organisers use a complicated scientific approach to choosing their headliners. i.e the Spotify most streamed song list.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 4, 2022 13:27:53 GMT
I'm a grumpy old sod who did most of his festivals from the early 90's to the early 00's, watching Glastonbury slowly turn into Smash Hits Poll Winners party (music wise) has not been easy for me... The problem can be summarised thusly: Name three acts formed in the last five years who you would have headlining this years glastonbury? If youre struggling, push it out to ten. Hell, twenty. |
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Post by dogbot on Mar 4, 2022 13:29:38 GMT
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Post by Zomoniac on Mar 4, 2022 13:31:57 GMT
I'm a grumpy old sod who did most of his festivals from the early 90's to the early 00's, watching Glastonbury slowly turn into Smash Hits Poll Winners party (music wise) has not been easy for me... The problem can be summarised thusly: Name three acts formed in the last five years who you would have headlining this years glastonbury? If youre struggling, push it out to ten. Hell, twenty. The original three was Swift, McCartney and Lamar. Eilish has come in for Swift. Three of those four are pretty new by festival headliner standards. |
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Post by dogbot on Mar 4, 2022 13:32:20 GMT
Actually, it looks like there's plenty on there for grumpy old sods. Noel Gallagher's excellent post-Oasis band, the Waterboys, JAMC, Crowded House, Rufus Wainwright, Skunk Anansie, Primal Scream.
Drat those kids and their pop music!
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 13:33:40 GMT
Actually, it looks like there's plenty on there for grumpy old sods. Noel Gallagher's excellent post-Oasis band, the Waterboys, JAMC, Crowded House, Rufus Wainwright, Skunk Anansie, Primal Scream. Drat those kids and their pop music! Yeah I did reference that in my first post. Still I need to complain about something! |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 4, 2022 13:36:09 GMT
The original three was Swift, McCartney and Lamar. Eilish has come in for Swift. Three of those four are pretty new by festival headliner standards. The point, really, is that they are still the kind of pop act the 'better in my day' crowd say is ruining glastonbury but theres really no other alternative other than heritage dinosaur bands. You dont get massive stadium bands anymore, the only new acts who fill that kind of venue are pop acts. |
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 13:36:15 GMT
The problem can be summarised thusly: Name three acts formed in the last five years who you would have headlining this years glastonbury? If youre struggling, push it out to ten. Hell, twenty. The original three was Swift, McCartney and Lamar. Eilish has come in for Swift. Three of those four are pretty new by festival headliner standards. I think the point is that only pop/mainstream acts are now big enough to do it, as new 'proper' band music is just not that popular anymore. |
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 13:36:49 GMT
Or what nick said directly above me...
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Post by Zomoniac on Mar 4, 2022 13:38:32 GMT
The original three was Swift, McCartney and Lamar. Eilish has come in for Swift. Three of those four are pretty new by festival headliner standards. I think the point is that only pop/mainstream acts are now big enough to do it, as new 'proper' band music is just not that popular anymore. Which again is open for debate. Give me Eilish, Swift or Lemar over 99% of the tedious middle of the road indie shite that flooded the 90s and early 00s. It’s just nostalgia, nothing more. |
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 4, 2022 13:42:11 GMT
I think the point is that only pop/mainstream acts are now big enough to do it, as new 'proper' band music is just not that popular anymore. Which again is open for debate. Give me Eilish, Swift or Lemar over 99% of the tedious middle of the road indie shite that flooded the 90s and early 00s. It’s just nostalgia, nothing more. Well the fact that you prefer pop music is subjective. I'd rather stick hot pins in my eyes than stand in a field for two hours getting soaked with no drink watching that shite (maybe not Lemar, I could watch him). |
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