[Closed] Glastonbury 2014

Now that was great....Sprawl. 🙂

One day, I might make it to Glastonbury or even see a Arcade Fire live....

It's just a bit ****ing mental 😀

Arcade Fire never let you down.

Arcade fire, brilliant but a huge band lol
Kaiser chiefs were fantastic, Ricky Wilson what a front man!

I think there is a great line up this year. These are the ones I would have really liked to see.

Fri

Elbow
Arcade Fire
Courtney Barnett
Crystal Fighters

Sat

Warpaint
Jake Bugg
Manic Street Preachers
MGMT

Sun

Disclosure
London Grammar
Massive Attack
Public service Broadcasting

STW we love you. GOODNIGHT

Holy crap….just realised it's 10yrs since Funeral was released, ok…i admit it the set grew on me towards the end but seriously?…10 years since funeral?…..christ…...

Ro5ey - Member
Your arcade fire... there is so much going on there. Who's in charge? How many are just paid bods? They can't all have input?? Can they?

I saw arcade fire once in the leadmill. A billion people came on the stage, they started yelling that "aaaaaAAAAAA, aaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAA" song and one of them started hitting a soil pipe with a drum stick.

Cool story bro.

Mary anne hobbs is all about Glastonbury on her show this morning, tiz' a cracking listen so far

The Radio 1 DJ's are ruining the BBC's coverage for me, if Grimmy does any presenting then i'm gonna be needing a new telly.

Grimmy can get to ****.

Radio 1 plays utter shite the majority of the time and now they try to display a expertise in every band and genre going.

Cocks

Wow! Jurassic 5 were on fire!

Christ.

Lana del Ray can't sing for toffee.

Robert Plant about to come on BBC4

Playing babe after he doesn't want to reform led zep!

Bet jimmy livid

somafunk - Member

chewkw : relatively easy if you have the £3.5k fee

That much! Damn! 😯

I don't have that much money to throw/invest in that sort of risk at the moment.

I wonder how much other stalls earn on average after the £3.5 fee especially those related to food or coffee/tea ... 😮

Edit: just did a rough calculation and it seems rather impossible to get break-even if I sell coffee/tea at £2.50 a medium cup (assuming 5 days festival = 280 cups of coffee per day - very risky) ... 😯

A standard size pitch at most festivals is 3mx3m which can be a small burger van/clothing or your usual festival tat going up to 9mx6m for those who operate a large food court type stall, this will include allocated space to provide seating. Each pitch and it's intended use will usually be taken into account when the fee is set and the £3.5k i mentioned is for a very basic stall at a basic small scale festival, the likes of Glastonbury etc will be charging tens of thousands for a food stall/clothing/festival tat stall depending on size.

We (not me exactly, i'm just a gopher/runner for my mate who primarily organises it) organise the dance music tents (have done since festival inception) at [url= http://www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk ]The Wickerman Festival[/url], we started off with approx 1500 people the first year (2001) and last year was a sell out with 20,000 folk so that's a decent and manageable number to control.

I could go on but i'm boring myself rigid and i want to get back to blasting out Robert Plant through my sub and speakers so i'll buggeroff now 😀

If you want to check it out have a look on youtube, i've a couple of vid edits up, so has Elite Force (one of our previous DJ's).

Just been texted his setlist,

What is and what should never be
Fixin to die
Whole lotta love - yee****inha!!!!!!
Rock n' roll..

Somafunk,

... the likes of Glastonbury etc will be [b]charging tens of thousands[/b] ...

Crikey! That's even worst ... thanks for the info.

It's just a small stall if I were to try it out but that's just silly money to pay up front.

I am not that into music I am afraid but I bear it no matter how loud they can be so long as the business is boosting my income. In this case I guess it's a monopoly for some big players ...

😯

edit: The Wickerman Festival is not far from GeordieLand so let's see if I can try that out in future. £3.5k is very expensive for a small stall holder especially if it's for a very small business.

Caught a bit of Imagine Dragons earlier. Never heard them before, quietly impressed.

Watched a few of Robert Plant's set, lots of Zeppelin in there.

The Wife just watched the Manics. Never really got them TBH. Saw them years ago at Cardiff Bogies, they have improved, because they were shit then.

Not that many will be looking forward to seeing them, but I'm quite looking forward to seeing how Metallica are received by the shoe gazing, hand wringing, bed wetters. 😈

Clean bandit, great, who knew?

love rick rubin looky likey playing guitar he's bloody good.

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would like to have seen the manics also (i know countzero is a huge fan of theirs also 😉

Not that many will be looking forward to seeing them, but I'm quite looking forward to seeing how Metallica are received by the shoe gazing, hand wringing, bed wetters.

I'm not really sure what to feel: As someone who has loved Metallica for many years, based on their output up to (and even including) the black album, I have actually grown to detest them for what they have become.

However, like it or not, they are representing the metal world (the music I have been heavily into for the last 30 or so years) at a distinctly non-metal festival and they will be the first metal experience for many so, in that sense, I hope they play a blinder and go down well. It won't stop them being a bunch of *****, though.

That was ****in awesome, totally pissed all over mick jagger's prissy exploits of last year.

Yeah, I was impressed with Plant as well: His voice is holding up well. Oh, and his beardy guitarist is awesome.

Loving jack white. Not been that much of a fan upto now.

<wanders over to iTunes>

Jack White= bonkers= good

Random, chaos, music 🙂

Hmm………Metallica?.

I'm sitting on the fence for this one, I was kind of a fan back in the late 80's/very early 90's (rip cliff burton 🙁 ) as i was a committed [i]mosher[/i] and remember hitching to my first monsters of rock festival back in 87 when metallica/anthrax/wasp played (my first festival aged 15) and also the following two years when Guns n' Roses played and there was the big crush at the front of the stage, I think i preferred Anthrax or Megadeth as they seemed to actually have fun on stage, i remember seeing Anthrax at Edinburgh playhouse supported by Helloween and Scott Ian had a skateboard platform out over the crowd so he could skate and play at the same time - how cool is that?, also loved Suicidal Tendencies but that's digressing.

Late 90's i was introduced to my first rave/ecstasy by friends in Camden and that's been the ruin of my life since 😀

I'll pass judgement after watching them.

Jack White - amazing set. A genius, frankly.

The Pixies have still got it.

That's a bass he's playing, the fella from Royal Blood.

Don't realise until half way through the second song l saw.

Cool

Alison Goldfrapp has put in a good performance, very polished. Will catch the rest of Robert Plant on iPlayer later. If what I saw of the last bit of his set was anything to go by it was a cracker.

Ro5ey - Member
That's a bass he's playing, the fella from Royal Blood.

Don't realise until half way through the second song l saw.

Cool

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Total genius, sounded like a 4 piece.

Jack White + the young lady on violin 🙂

Is Dolly going to guest on a track with Metallica ? that would be too much.... 🙂

Can anyone tell me who the **** this Huw Stevens guy is? Did he win a competition or something?

Oooooooh, ESG...

Lovely bit of Metallica.

Pixies rocked.

how the **** do you do little rock out smileys on here.....

For whom the bells toll

yeah baby yeah,

Where ever i may roam now...... lets have seek and destroy 🙂

What's with the people on stage? Are they "bussed-in" fans to make the band feel wanted?

Lars: Keep your tongue in and stay the hell behind your kit you annoying muppet.

I can't argue with the older stuff, though \m/ \m/

They're sounding good. 😈 😈 😈

Really, really though, holy shit. Holy bananas.

Good to think that somewhere, a 14 year old is thinking YEAH METAL AWESOME.#METALLICA

Do a google image search and put it on like a normal picture.
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RM.

sad but true 🙂

liking the quad plait hair do

**turns over to the football** when they play black album stuff

La-La tweeted

[i]Love the metal hoarde on stage w #Metallica. very cool move! "We have come for your festival, hippies!"[/i]

I thought it was quite funny anyway……..

They are a bit poo faced……think i was wise to grow out of them 24 years ago.

i just can't get that whiney documentary they did a few years ago out of my head, [i]some kind of monster[/i]

Metallica are owning Glasto 🙂

Dammit!! Grabbed my guitar to play along to Fade to Black only to realise they've tuned down half a step... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I hope I never have to listen to anything like this again. It's unspeakably shit. That front guy...is it Lars or something? What a tosser!

"It's called Cyaniiiiiiide." 😆

I'm sitting on my couch drinking beer with morality and integrity right now 😆 I'm not entirely sure if all the brothers on the earth love me though

They truly rawk though, it's pretty much the first time ever I've watched Glasto main stage and really wanted to be in the thick of it. I prefer my live music in a smaller setting generally

Tighter than a midges tight bits.

So DD put you down as a maybe?

Not a big fan of Metallica. Currently watching Lana Del Ray and her spectacular pins, recorded earlier.

Metallica are a couple of years before my time, and not quite my cup of tea, but I reckon they are giving one hell of a show.

I think i'm in the minority here with the dislike for Metallica, just me a deadlydarcy eh?. i'm back watching Goldfrapp - an amazing set by the band and Alison's voice is astounding!.

Liking Metallica but thought Lana Del Ray was astonishing earlier. Beautifully haunting.

Unforgiven -awesome

The mighty het does look a bit like Ricky Gervais without the tash though

Trying to watch Metallica with an open mind, but seriously.... What a truly uninspiring dirge. Dull. Boring.

I suspect this makes me a hippy. Not sure how I feel about that. Shall I grow a beard?

Let's hope tomorrow's attempt to sit through Dolly Parton goes better. Giving up on this and watching Jack White on catch up instead.

Hope all metal fans enjoy it though. Fair enough to give me the headline slot, but isn't there a younger metal band that could have done it?

I'm also a maybe for Metallica, they passed me by the first time and the second pass is not floating my boat. The band don't seem to like each other!

I saw RHCP in Ipswich and this reminds me of them. Another day at the office, though with a bit more of an effort with the crowd.

Don't get me wrong, they're putting on a show and I get that people are liking it and I admire Glastonberry for getting stuff like this in. But it's all a bit Spinal Tap isn't it? 🙂

Oh yeah, forgot Goldfrapp were on tonight. Looks like I'll be watching that next, assuming it's online.

Hope all metal fans enjoy it though. Fair enough to give me the headline slot, but isn't there a younger metal band that could have done it?

No one else has the gravitas. Now be a good boy and go listen the sum41 😉

my telly only goes up to 10 on the volume 🙁

Hmmm too many slow ones so far, I did miss the beginning but i reckon they should just play kill em all from start to finish 😈

I imagine that when they close with One there will be some good fireworks

Meh(tallica).

Can't argue with the musicianship, but I'm unmoved somehow.

Want to cringe my own skin off when Hetfield opens his gob between songs.

Hope all metal fans enjoy it though. Fair enough to give me the headline slot, but isn't there a younger metal band that could have done it?

Can't think of any younger bands with the same legacy. The only alternative I guess would be Iron Maiden and their around they same age.

Good show so far, lose the on stage fans and the "hippy" speeches and we're there.

And play one and master of puppets

Edit: my wish, their command \m/

Goldfrapp on the west holts stage from 20.30 to 21.30, you'll find it [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/errnc8 ]here[/url] . Audibly and musically as good live as their studio albums.

Cheers somafunk

Given that no one who bought a ticket at the start knew Metallica were playing tonight, they've got one hell of an audience sing-along going on. Every word and every note. Shame Glastonbury have apparently banned pyrotechnics, "One" doesn't seem quite the same without the smell of cordite in the air! 8)

As for the spinal tap references, its worth watching Some Kind Of Monster documentary it is spinal tap for real but with more focus on alcoholism

i bet that is flippin loud!

This is better, now we need creeping death,

agree rocketdog, best appreciated in the most pit

I demand battery!!!

This is better, now we need creeping death

Hows about a bit of 'So What', just to upset the BBC? 😈

This is better, now we need creeping death

wasn't that the opening song?

agree rocketdog, best appreciated in the most pit

i love it when its so loud it seems to constrict your lungs and it feels difficult to breathe

I want the covers - am I evil, whiskey in the jar and maybe something new, perhaps maiden's running free. 'Tis a festival after all

Took a while to get going but Metallica still do have something.....but I get the feeling some of the on stage 'fans' would rather be making daisy chains.

Liking Metallica but thought Lana Del Ray was astonishing earlier. Beautifully haunting.

Astonishingly poor and out of tune perhaps. I would be haunted if I has paid money to watch that.

Good legs though.

Jake Bugg still sounds like George Formby