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Im heading off tomorrow night, sleeping in the van and doing my best to get a prime pitch on Wednesday.

Someone in our group is taking a big ol marquee/tent called pyramid palace. If anyone spots it and fancies a bevvy and a smoke come on over.

The weather is supposed to be glorious for the entire week, shall i risk not taking wellies?

take wellies , it's glastonbury.

Give us a review of The Stranglers

Yarp.

Setting off 5am Wednesday... can't be bothered sleeping in the carpark Tuesday night!

Same here, hopefully it'll be fairly easy to get a good spot at this time

You lot are mental - enjoy yourselves xxxx

Setting off now.  Planes, trains and automobiles job.

Have a good one.

I have a feeling there wont be much sleep  :beers:

enjoy it folks. i always wish to go, but the slumming it for days puts me off.

Where will you be camped ? I'll look out for the palace

surely a contradiction there

though an extra night of decentish sleep is probably the better option, hope you've got your airbeds

Absolutely no idea mate, its my first glasto (apart from a 12 hour jolly 10 years ago) Ive seen pics of the palace and its pretty big and on the edge of a walkway........somewhere. Look out for a short chubby guy asleep and dribbling with bits of sick in his hair.

yum

got back fron glasto as the sun was coming this morning i trust everyone had a good.time! was my first time and it was amazing, highlights were essential mix on fri or maybe stevie yesterday

Muse were bloody fantastic imho. Fantastic weekend, only slightly marred by the england result

Another good one... although i do struggle with 5 days of sun without washing! Biffy Clyro on Saturday was my highlight, and Jamie T was also excellent. I also enjoyed Delphic, and the Black Keys were a close second behind the Biff. Amazing live band.

Agree about Jamie T he had the crowd going mental by the end

So where is the Stranglers review?

there was a bloody awful one in the guardian today

The songs i knew were good... musically impressive, and a good voice on the singer. Excellent version of "All Day and All of the Night", which was my personal highlight of the set. I don't really know much of the Strangler's apart from the obvious 'hits', but they kept my concentration and kept me entertained for the full hour, so i'd say it was a sound job.

Stevie Wonder was A-MAZ-ING!!!!

Am I the only one that doesn't get Muse AT ALL?

Nah, I don't understand the hype

a shit pretentious queen, and i fucking hate queen

Fuck off they're great.

I like them.

SUPERMASSIVEBLACKHOLE

Like a few of their songs, but on the whole I find them a but meh and annoying.

And what the fuck is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_QoisjBQ0&feature=related

Muse are shit, sort your lives out

I liked their early stuff. Can't stand the new stuff though, it's just a load of pretentious noise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99I7gpswhQ4

I really can't see what's not to like about that.

yay, glastonbury means 3 new Adam and Joe podcasts. I'm now happy.

Nice !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr2bfrPgXoY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr2bfrPgXoY)

Muse rocked Glastonbury, no doubt about it! 100,000+ jumping up and down like nutters whilst giving it large with an air guitar can't be wrong. Some funny tablets and odd tasting powders could explain some of it tho

I think they're fucking awful too. I fucking love Nina Simone and anyone who manages to ruin an amazing song that badly should be killed. (When I eventually lose the ability to control my desire to murder, they're top of the ever growing list.)

Muse songs are only good in Twilight movies!

Should be a crime to cover The Smiths, no one Ive heard try to has pulled it off. Just stop.

It's a great cover. Also, the cover of feeling good is superb, better than the original.

Holy moly, musn't-take-the-bait.

If you don't think that's a good cover, there's something wrong with your ears. I think it is one of the best cover versions ever.

To cover a song from a completely different genre and make it sound so perfect, to the point that no other version sounds quite right in comparison is incredibly rare. I would've though that even people who don't like Muse would appreciate they did an amazing job. The Nina Simone version is not the original anyway - this is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW4fE2x1hxk and it's no way near as good as Muse's version.

Saying Muse butchered that is like saying Hendrix butchered all along the watchtower

Leave it Rich, he's not worth it.

Come on we've all had a drink lets just leave it.

Had a corker.  Weather was superb but in some respects it was too hot, which made coping with hangovers from the night before a real challenge.  Waking up at 7am with condensation from your own beer and red wine induced sweat dripping down on your forehead is not pleasant.

Highlights have to be Snoop Dog, Gomez, Faithless and Ray Davies who was fucking superb.  Lowlights were MGMT who were abysmal.