Kinda wish I'd been to Glastonbury but it's Latitude for me this year, like last - only two weeks away now 🙂
There have been a few already. Which ones are you going to? Which ones have you already been to?
Top tips?
Whatstandwell Festival tomorrow night - it rocks!!!!
Off to beatherder this weekend.. :O)
Latitude, assuming tickets arrive- three weeks to go, no sign yet 🙁
Edit: 2 weeks to go! come on viagogo, sort it out
I would haved been going to many but with a 9 month old baby in tow It's going to have to be a very different approach this year..
We'll be attending Beautiful Days down in deepest Devon.. the Levellers very own festival.. very clean and safe and family orientated with a host of fantastic bands but no chart topping pop acts to speak of.. James headlining too which will be ace for the SO.. The Wailers with Dreadzone and a host of other small acts for me..
my top tip.. In the wise and immortal words of Hunter S Thompson.. 'I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity... but they've always worked for me..'
Yay...another Latitudiner 🙂
three weeks to go
It's two isn't it? 😯
They're shocking at getting the tickets out on time...don't worry, they'll come (as long as you used a reputable ticket seller, that is).
I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol
Yeah, me too. Since giving up the tabs, even a joint might send me back into nicotine hell so I'm thinking Hash Cakes...anyone got any good recipes? Does one use the brown oxo-cube type stuff or the green stuff? (I'm not very drug literate 🙂 )
V, but only because it's just round the corner. Would have preferred Sonosphere, but dates don't work for us 😥
It's two isn't it?
Yes you're right! edited my post.
I remember last year they came last minute.
unfortunately this yr I cocked up and didn't get tickets till they'd sold out so had to pay way over the odds for them off viagogo, hence a bit nervous now
Really want to see Florence live, had such a great time last year
Really want to see Florence live, had such a great time last year
Yep me too...just looked at photos of me during The Doves...fantastic set. Hope weather's a bit warmer this year. I'm bringing a wheelbarrow strapped to the roofrack this year - two trips last year damn near killed me 🙂
I'm bringing a wheelbarrow strapped to the roofrack this year
these are quite handy and pack down small:
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[/img]Two trips- blimey you were efficient- I'm sure I walked up and down that hill half a dozen times!
This year we are doing smaller tent and much less paraphernalia!
Unfortunatley can't get monday off work this time though so got to drive back to Sheffield sunday night- am I [b]so[/b] not looking forward to that!
Really want to see Florence live
Are you referring to Florence and the Machine? If so then I fear that you are in for a bitter disappointment if her Glastonbury performance was anything to go by.
A self indulgent hag tunelessly caterwauling meaningless drivel accompanied by some music.
Yunki
Here here can't stand the droning bint
Lattitde for me too - first visit to a festival in 10 years! I'm not holding high hopes for florence live, recorded I quite like her though.
A self indulgent hag tunelessly caterwauling meaningless drivel accompanied by some music.
You should get a job writing for the NME.
I'd start buying it again then.
Mouth of the Tyne festival tomorrow, does that count?
Each to their own. I like her album. She does seem to be getting a bit over exposed at the moment- on stage with dizee, the XX, etc last weekend.
Belle and Sebastien will be interesting on sat night- can't see their fey indie mellowness coming over that well on a big stage.
The best thing about festivals is the surprise good act. I was blown away by the gossip last yr, having always considered beth ditto to be just a fat lass who shouts- she can really sing, and golden silvers were really good too.
My 9 yr old is especially looking forward to vampire weekend on sunday, I will probably have the pleasure of him on my shoulders for the whole set, same as last yr for mika. I've seen VW live before and wasn't impressed, hey ho!
But at least he has better taste than his older sister who prefers cheryl cole and alexandra burke!
Pearl Jam at Hyde Park Calling last week!
Saturday-only at Latitude in 2 weeks.
I'm hoping to get to Beautiful Days, but things ain't looking too bright at the moment.
Belle and Sebastien will be interesting on sat night- can't see their fey indie mellowness coming over that well on a big stage.
My worry too...I think I will devote Saturday night to exploring other stages, and the comedy/film tents.
Latitude is so ace with all the stuff going on in the woods. We're going with friends with triplets - so we can steal a child to get into family camping - warm running water, proper toilets.... 🙂
dizzee.. florence.. probably belle and sebastian too but I can't quite remember (not surprising really).. all mercury prize winners..
excuse me if I don't like my taste spoonfed to me by industry marketeers..
had anyone actually heard of flo or dizzee or b and s before the mercury marketing campaign started precisely one year before their win?
blue stripe tesco value music.. it's no wonder 'da youf' feel it necessary to get smashed out of their fluttering eyelids on plant food and white cider.. anything to make the tedius corruption slightly more palatable
all that aside... I was only critising florences glasto2010 appearance which was actually dire.. even my other half had to switch over and she loves pop..
Godiva festival in Coventry tomorrow, free entry, music includes Ash, Badly Drawn Boy, Cornershop, Senser, Bentley Rhythm Ace. For those of an eighties orientation todays line up at Godiva is The Christians, Martin Fry, Kid Creole and Hazel Oconnor. Also doing just Sunday at Sonisphere - Come on you Irons!!!
Having seen Glastonbury on TV seems to have developed in to middle class, middle aged corporate drivel with only Muse, Slash, Dizzee Rascal, Ray Davies and Rolf Harris the only acts worth seeing over the three days.
The Christians
Ah...memories...saw them live at a gig in the late eighties at Uni.
Kid Creole
😯 Wot, no coconuts?
nice rack though
seems to have developed in to middle class, middle aged corporate drivel
you know what... I've thought that for the last 15 years.. but looking again.. there's a lot of teenagers that are the product of middle aged.. middle class.. corporate drivel that will actually get close enough to touch something different and alternative and gut wrenchingly real and emotional when you read between the lines and look into the nooks and crannies of what they will be exposed to at Glastonbury..
I'm starting to think that it's found a useful purpose after all..
excuse me if I don't like my taste spoonfed to me by industry marketeers..
ouch!
welcome to the modern world (TM paul weller 1977)
[s]Muse, Slash, Dizzee Rascal, Ray Davies and [/s]Rolf Harris the only act[s]s[/s] worth seeing over the three days
Never quite understood muse, seeing glasto footage just confirms that view
what a catalyst you turned out to be.. loaded the guns and then you run off home for your tea.. left me standing.. like a guilty schoolboy
(paul weller probably '77 ish too)
It's easy to qoute irrelevant jam lyrics
so it would seem 😐
sorry docrobster
Sonisphere's our next festival, did Download last month. \o/
Well I am going to a Festival with Live Music, Real Ale and Mountain Bikes!
Guess which one that is.
Guess which one that is.
Not a clue...I think it might be the Big Bike Bash is it? Which I heard was shite anyway...
🙂
[i]Which I heard was shite anyway...[/i]
That was just sour grapes from those who didn't make it. 😉
Check out some feedback from last year
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/big-bike-bash-if-youre-not-there
Hmmmm...
Very positive!
When is it again?
Once our kid is old enough to sensibly take with us (so not this year), we plan to go to this:
What more could you want, indie music, trains and real ale!
Joe
What about music, real ale, bikes AND free viewing of the Bournemouth international Airshow?
We had the Red Arrows do a formation fly by at the start of prize giving last year.
Cambridge Folk Festival again for us. Great event. Would have gone to Glastonbury, but too slow getting tickets.
Yunki, I think you'll find that the Mercury awards go to artists who've been around for some time but who aren't so well known to a wider audience. Those who listen to 6Music on a regular basis, however, are likely to be very familiar with them. I had heard Flo being played by them quite some time ago, Bell and Sebastien had been around for years before being put forward for a Mercury. Hell, Elbow were a successful multi-album act before getting nominated, and there are still people I know who have never heard of them.
count zero that is utter guff..
Another vote for Beautiful Days. Sadly won't be making it this year (although it's the best line up for a few years)...
many happy memories though
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countzero... to recount.. I didn't come down in the last rain shower.. my rant wasn't a knee jerk reaction because tom jones and bryan adams weren't nominated..
florence and the machine won last year.. and for precisely one year before that they were on ITV every five mins advertising their album for 5.99 from tescos..
You may be correct.. [b]BBC[/b] radio 6 may well have been playing their songs even before that.. I'm really not so sure.. If people were really already very familiar with them before that I shall be pleasantly surprised..
but that does not explain belle and sebastians win of ten years previously.. exactly the same mysterious circumstances but without the existance of bbc radio 6.. and they can't have been around much before their sudden appearance on the scene unless they formed in junior infant school..
marketing nonsense to sell nonsense to people with no sense..
and yes.. [b]every[/b] year there are well known and loved bands [i]nominated[/i]
Lucky enough to have been backstage with Gang Of Four at Glasto last week - best mate plays bass with them. 😀
