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Delivering today and a music mogul gave me some inside info......ABBA will be reforming and headlining the festival.

I like a bit of Abba.

Even the bird who's been a total recluse for years and years? The blonde one I think.

Seems to be a fair bit of smoke on this one:

http://www.gigwise.com/news/60421/ABBA-Backed-To-Play-Glastonbury-Festival-2011

http://music.aol.co.uk/2011/01/05/abba-glastonbury-rumour/

http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news/Mamma-mia-ABBA-Glastonbury-s-headliners/article-3066081-detail/article.html

Yes.....they wont do it if she pulls out......which she may do on account of to much good living on a tropical island.

BB King has been confirmed for Glasto, big fat spliff , sunshine and everything is happy fucking days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OXrmxDp44

Leaving for the famous festival later this evening wearing my wellies and armed with 50 cans of cider.

I pretty much doubt that i will hear of any more exits from the current squad or, dare i imagine it, incoming of new players. So by the time i get back, desperate for a hosing down with clean water, a new liver and a jar for my pickled brain we should hopefully have enough players to field a competitve team.

Come on sun, dry out them puddles

 :beers:  :pint: :technobabble: :dj: :band: :grouphug: :flaccid:

Off early tomorrow for this one, fuck the weather it'll be brilliant whatever.

Leaving tomorrow for it aswell, just about to go and buy my first pair of wellies since I was a child!

early am for my lot too, just gotta get through the rest of work now :)

5 am start for three of us putting tents up for the others.

first year off for me since 2005, i'll have to make do with some BBC coverage - have fun!

Same here, first one missed since 2005 due to a nipper on the way.  Had a ticket as well. 

Mates left this afternoon loaded with red wine and I have to admit I am feeling a little gutted at the thought of missing out.

Not sure whether I want to watch the coverage or not

This. Missing out this year too. Some mates are going tomorrow and I don't think I can watch it on the TV knowing how good it is to be there live.

Someone watch Glasvegas for me please and report back...

I do love Glasvegas, but sometimes live they are a little dodgy...

cheers

I'm not gutted in the slightest... i think the continuously risiing prices and constantly increased attendance has put me off. And the lineups since 2009 haven't inspired me. In fact, i think i'm coming to hate Eavis for blindly claiming each year is better than the last, when i can't agree. Unless he means profits-wise. If the attendance drops to around the 135,000 mark i might go back. If it doesn't, i think i'll spread my wings and take in a few different festivals.

It's not on next year is it? I'd quite like to go at some point, because you have to really don't you.

Last time I went, you could buy a 36 pint polypin of Somerset rocket fuel, off the back of a tractor for about 20p a pint.

Does this tradition no longer happen?

I do agree it is far to bloody busy around the main stages, which prompted us to really head off the beaten track over the past couple of years and really see sights and sounds that of the sort we hadn’t seen before.  Last year though it was far too feckin hot.  Too much sun = early start to avoid suffocating in your own sweat = no recovery time.

In 2013 we are finally going to tepee it and maybe call it a day after that and start looking at alternatives.

Next year the Exit festival Belgrade is a possibility.  Anyone ever been?

No,not enough portaloos because of the Olympics,only in England eh :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I got stuck on my way back from Shepton Mallet this afternoon, again! It doesn't start until tomorrow and there's already a load of hippy fuckers with their pollution spewing vans all over the fucking place.

Shepton Mallet is an odd place.  Worth going a day early just to samples the pubs there.

Stopped there last week,at the chippy by the lights,just up from Bulmers on the hill.
Also went to Frome which has the biggest ring road for a small market town i know.

Never been and don't intend to go anytime soon.  Reckon the glory days were the late 90s but I was too young to really appreciate them then.  It's a behemoth these days so prefer going to smaller festivals like Latitude, Green Man and the like. 

****Behemoth is a mythological beast from the Book of Job****

Well, I had to look it up.

Every year i watch it and wish i was there. I do nothing about it though.

Couldn't think of much worse than being there. My idea of hell.

Don't appeal to me much either

U2 were shite... I'm not a fan, but I really thought they'd be annoyingly decent. I needn't have worried...

Watched a bit of them last night. Was very underwhelmed by what I saw of them.

Plus Bono's face makes me want to punch it. Repeatedly.

underwhelmed is a good word...you wouldnt think they had waited 25 yrs to play...

I didn't watch much of their set, but I'm not sure covering Coldplay was a great way to get the crowd going...

Glad I wasn’t the only one. 

I must confess I did like U2 back in the day and thought last night they could have really turned it on and created something special.  There were a couple of moment but it did appear a tad flat.

Primal Scream on the Other Stage on the other hand looked fucking immense.  They only played two songs on the highlights but both were from Screamadelica and looking fresh as they were all those years ago. 

 

Im an ex U2 fan as well.  Quite enjoyed some of the set but then he had to go and do that silly link up (well recording of a link up) with some one on the international space centre and I just thought 'oh god , sorry oh bono, why do you do it.  Aren't we great linking the world together man'  Just pay your fucking taxes stop twatting around like your some sort of messiah and we might take you a bit more seriously.

Avoided U2 like the plague.
Watched Biffy, The Vaccines, and Mumford and Sons and enjoyed them all.

I agree with this pretty much. They do have some great classic songs which i thought they did a good job with. They should have just stuck with them and it would have been great.

I really liked mumford and sons. Would like to go and see them live

Always hated U2 and last night changes nothing.Try to like the Mumfords but they are just dull as dishwater,I just dont get what the fuss is all about.Thats about all ive seen of it.

Best thing is having Adam and Joe on the radio 3 mornings in a row and this mornings live Taffin shouting

I loathe Mumford & Sons... Old boss at HMV used to play Sigh No More all day. It drove me insane.

I liked mumford and sons before they were popular

Yesterday was all about Morrissey, superb set.

So you don't any more?

What a pile of wank.

So it turns out it's really easy to get into Glasto without a ticket.

They were very disappointing, a fact not missed by those actually watching live at Glastonbury judging by all my friend's that have gone facebook pages this morning!

Personally I'd have gone to watch Chase & Status who I think were playing at the same time and were superb by all accounts.

I liked Chase and Status before they were popular.

I like b3nny before he was popular.

I'm glad U2 were shite because there's few people on this planet I hate as much as Paul Hewson. (Thanks Wiki.)


The same. Went about 10 years ago, left after 3 hours.

I went in the 90s the three years before they put up the fence I think.It was ace fun,what would worry me about going now is after drinking lots of booze the time between my brain telling me I need a poo and that poo being desperate has become somewhat shorter than it was than when I was in my 20s...to much info?

No, just about enough. 

Out of interest what is the time frame these days for desperate?

We managed to get someone back last year that hadn't been for over ten years and he loved it.  Although he did claim he saw Kylie Minogue on stage with Orbital.

Cross legged funny walk and concerned look after 2 minutes.

Coldplay aren't as bad as feared, marginally better than dire U2, but Chemical Brothers are putting on a storming display on BBC 3.

BBC3 is where its at - might at least get to see something new there.

If i were Chemical Brothers i'd be very tempted to chuck on a cd and just pretend...

I dread to think what all those sillouettes and butterflies flashing around are doing for those under the influence of narcotics.  They were making me feel like I was hallucinating and I'm in my front room!

this performance is reminding me just how good coldplay are.
enjoyed elbow earlier too.

some bloody lovely looking birds in that crowd tonight by the way

Yeay!  Glasvegas!

Chemical brothers looked unreal.  Thrills pills and bellyache in the morning.

Janell Monae was awsome,incredible energy by her and her band.

Aloe (I need dollars) Blacc looked a bit special (in a good way). 

Classic and classy soul set, I can see him going very far and hitting one of the main stages in a couple of years.  Had the crowd in his hands and was clearly loving it.

The 2 songs I saw from Glasvegas were painful.

I was quite surprised how good Coldplay were. Not a massive fan but you couldn't fail not to be impressed. Elbow were very good as always.

Agree with you arriba. A second enjoyable evening spent.

Gaslight Anthem-superb!

I find Coldplay and Elbow so boring these days. Makes me want to slit my wrists sometimes. Haven't seen much this year to be honest. Might try and catch some QOTSA later as well as some White Lies and Jimmy Eat World from yesterday. Also missed Gaslight Anthem.

beyonce is so fucking fit.

I'm watching Kool and the gang 8)

Her mates are very nice on the eye also.

Poor Tricky , what the hell was he doing there.  Looked uncomfortable as hell.

Gaslight Anthem were quality.  Never heard them before but really impressed with their set earlier. The front man is superb. 

Zane Lowe....twat of the highest order.

I though Beyonce was amazing
Apart from the 3 women with the worst camel toes I've ever seen singing in the middle

Zane Lowe... Legend of the highest order

Beyonce was quite good.  But, with a degree of music/Glastonbury-specific snobbery, it isn't Glastonbury. I don't like change.

Zane Lowe "The Wombats are one of the bands of the moment"

I think that sums him up

I'M ZANE LOWE AND I DISCOVERED MUSIC.

wanker.

Zane Lowe...Dickhead of the highest order.

Oh. I quite like Zane Lowe...

Got to respect him for being honest and not being fake and agreeing with Lavernes mind boggling praise of  Beyonce

Laverne is a stupid bint and I though Beyonce was shit.

I agree....

lauren laverne (the worst), Zane, Fearne, Reggie ...I dont give a flying fuck about your fucking wellies or your pissing tent...there are probably about 20 acts playing RIGHT NOW...play some pissing music..
way too much jibber jabber...

I agree there was to much idle chit chat. The interview with Paul Simon was terrible(anyone else see it?)
Beyonce musically isn't really my thing but i thought she did a great job and had the crowd bang on side which is what it's all about aint it?
So pleasing on the eye too.

If Beyonce offered it to me on a plate, i'd refuse.  Nothing special whatsoever

Madman.

I was at Glasto with a lad named Phelpsie, was it you?

Didn't see much of last night's coverage, so will have to fire up i-player later - QOTSA and Joy Formidable I think.

queer

I fucking hate Fearne Cotton-Queen of Banality.

Do you?  Like wow.  Thats great.  Amazing.

Might watch the QOTSA set online only saw a few songs. Looked decent though.

Just seen what zane lowe said. fair play to him

What did he actually say?

Lauren laverne was going on about how great pop music and glastonbury is, asked for zane lowes opinion. he just laughed and said he went to see QOTSA

yes, everything is about her :smugfu:

I wish it was, got tickets for Reading Festival instead this year

Beyonce' s set was the most out of place set ever!. .. It was so not right for Glastonbury. Doesn't she have the ability to adapt to her surroundings. Or did all her 'yes team' not have the nerve to tell her she looked rediculous!!

Both U 2 and Coldplay had it spot on.

Alot of things are not right for Glastonbury,thats what makes it different and appealing....i mean you tell me what her right set should have been?
She isn't my cup of tea but she put a bloody good shift in,people like Beyonce get rich by looking ridiclous,what did you expect her to be sat on a chair with a pipe Val Doonigan style :D

Zane Lowe is a prick. I'm superficial enough to like people just because they like good music, but it's not happening one bit with him. Total cock. Did you see that shit poet girl they had performing for them? She was very average but he went nuts for it, "highlight of my festival", just because it was pretentious wanky hip hop type rhymes about something 'deep'. What a cunt.

That said, when he stood in for Chris Moyles one breakfast, he played some great songs which you'd never normally hear at 8am, and made me very happy.

I don't like Beyonce or pop music, but that was brilliant and exactly what the crowd wanted.

Just dont dig black women.  Dont see what the big fuss over Rhianna is too

Got a voucher for a free eyetest at Specsavers, think you need it

I think the fuss over Rihanna is something to do with this kind of thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhy-RXkNo0

She's basically making softcore porn with some Barbadian riddims over the top. Beyonce is a much classier lady, albeit of the same vein.

you can actually see her nips at 1:17

Have just checked to ensure accuracy.  I can confirm this is true.

I now like Rihanna.

Beyonce got Tricky from massive attack on stage for one of her songs, but it was all a bit weird:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjk3jv_tricky-with-beyonce-baby-boy-glastonbury-2011-full_music

"Apparently he was asked to guest as a well known local Bristolian hip hop / trip hop legend which played to his ego (at least that was how it was allegedly sold to him) - he was asked / prepped to perform a massive attack medley with Beyonce but instead they just kept playing Baby Boy while he stood waiting for his cue - which never came. After 30 seconds of dancing like a spare part he got the hint and was pulled off stage."

And it was all a bit of revenge for this:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/06/28/tricky.aspx

Laverne was clearly taking the piss and had a bit of fun by throwing it onto to Zane Lowe knowing full well he went to see the band his listeners had chosen the set for. What's he supposed to do, agreed and say Beyonce was brilliant and lender herself to the long standing tradition of glitz and glammer at Glastonbury?

He's managed to actually go up in my opinion, fair play.

What I don't understand is why people are so furious with him to the point of calling for him to be sacked.

He dismissed one artist's acclaimed performance in favour of another less generally popular one's, and for this musical snobbery he should lose his job. Smacks of hypocrisy a little no?

Really enjoyed my first Glastonbury! Wish I'd have been before now and that it was on next year so I can go again

Been reading a lot of people on various sites saying such and such were shite but I can honestly say there wasn't anyone I watched that I thought was complete shit. I am no U2 fan but enjoyed watching them live even in the pouring rain.

I suppose this is the difference between being there and being a part of it after a few(!) drinks and sitting at home on the sofa watching it on tv. Some of the BBC coverage make acts look crapper than they were aswell as it doesn't really capture the energy/atmosphere at the time. E.g I watched The Streets instead of Beyonce and it went a bit mental at times, someone set off a flare inside the tent/birds getting their tits out on the big screen/general carnage/etc but watching it on the BBC site it looks pretty poo and virtually none of the best bits are shown.

Watched far too many acts to remember/mention but some of my favs were: Biffy Clyro, Plan B, The Streets, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Also stumbled across SL2 playing old skool hardcore anthems at about 3-4am one night which was epic

2013 registration now open.

I cannot wait, I know it’s all a bit commercial and contains too many Tarquins and Chelseas but at the end of the day I haven't come across anything that can match it for sheer diversity of acts and general mayhem.  I should be to old to know better but it doesn’t seem to lose its appeal except the camping bit but we have already decided to go the Tepee route next time for that added level of comfort.

Exit festival in Belgrade is next years favourite as a filler. 

Saying that, I just found the online highlights and they show a bit more than what they did the other day, 16 mins in it captures it quite well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/glastonbury/2011/artists/streets/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/glastonbury/2011/artists/streets/)

Do you have to re-register each time?

It depends, when you registered there was an option to keep your records on file for a few years.  I can't find the link right now but on the See Tickets site you can check how long you are registered for.

Third year on the bounce for me. Sold out in record time too.

Lovely :beers:

Got tickets again too! Buzzzzing

I missed out, im gutted!

Got mine too, first time for me at Glastonbury  :pint:

I love Glasto, shame the Mrs doesn't like camping or festivals.

That sounds like the perfect scenario to me.

I have to take my Mrs

2015 Glasto is the one to go to, Oasis reunion nailed on

Oasis, meh. They failed badly at Glasto last time (so I hear)

I'm clinging to the hope that The Rolling Stones play this year, now that would be class.

Agreed, I saw Oasis in 2004 at Glasto (I think) and they just weren't up to it. Don't get me wrong they're a great band but maybe weren't on it that day.

Neither does mine. That's why she's being left at home. Can't wait haven't been since 2010.

I got tickets thanks to this Hero!

Rolling Stones are confirmed. This will be an epic set and I will be air guitaring like a twat  :beers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLKDFKRTdlo

OMG!

Keith and the crew are in my fridge, a bag of dried prunes and apricots....

Kenny Rogers is a legend, coward of the county is one of the best story songs ever written. Nothing wrong with a bit of country.

Kenny Rogers is an absolute legend, I will be throwing some shapes at ol Kenny

and after Mr Rogers I will be off to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_t13-0Joyc

Not to mention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo

and:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9d9FA3fCf4

Looking forward to this now!

It just keeps getting better.

Forgot to mention this lot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOCIP54PIQ