rockwerchter!!!! ha what a memorable festival, bad weather and great music, snoop dogg put on a show and so does jay z. kings of leon are great at what they do and well the verve are one of the great bands of the last decade and the last time they played glasto it was historic. glastonbury is not just about the headliners it is about the people, atmosphere and so much more and i am sure there will be tons of great bands/djs etc at glasto so to complain about just three acts is a bit weak

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"Totally agree with you Toby about the demand for live music. To be honest maybe there are too many festivals in Britain."

Nah I don't think there's enough mate lol

Ok I'm Scottish so i'm going to be biased here but i think Scotland has two of the best up and coming music festivals in the UK with Rock Ness and Connect. Rock Ness really turned into something special last year with the Chems and GA putting on great shows in an amazing location. But its the Connect festival which I think is the one to truly watch out for and i think its going to become a Glastonbury for the North. Its becoming more of a big cultural weekend and again its in an amazing location. Last years line up was for me the best of any festival in the UK and I'm sure they'll pull it off again this year. I'd love to see the Chems play there, they'd go down a storm as they always do up here. You can't beat beautiful live music set against a beautiful back drop.

http://www.connectmusicfestival.com

The Verve historic, please. I remember seeing Orbital at Glasto in 1994 that was historic. They were shit hot in 95 as well.

I'm finding this all kinda silly. Trying to predict or say what is good or not and leaving it as your opinion is one thing, but grinding it into the ground makes no sense.

I'm sure Glastonbury will be great this year, despite the fact that it's headliners aren't exactly the norm for it. :)

I think you hurt eds feelins if he's posting about the headliners....lol.

and personally I'm a festival goer whose focus is on the experience in both music and ambience. Iguana stated that glasto lost it's appeal as the orginizers were cracking down on drugs more. I think that if drugs are your main appealling reason to go to something like glasto then your totally missing the point. Sure it may have started in the late 60's around the whole free love vibe but it's evolved heavily in positive and negative lights from there. There are people (like myself) where drugs are a minor detail at events like this

I'm proud that Kings made it to a headliner position, as well as hot chip, where a few years ago they were really unknown.

JayZ I'm not really suprised. I remember when Eminem headlined Fuji rock about 6 years back.

And Verve is the typicall nostalgia act that will still draw in a big crowd.

Personally I'm getting Stoked as I plan to go back to Fuji rock this year. The Headliners haven't even been released and I'm already planning ahead with friends. The experience is that powerful in my opinion.

No hurting Ed's feelings. :(

I think Iggy was being facetious as he's not much of a drug-type-of-guy to my knowledge.

The headliners for Glasto don't excite me that much personally but so be it. Hot Chip on the other hand are definetly one of my favourite bands at the moment (and I don't even have their new album yet).

It's nice to see a wide variety of music at a festival though and certainly the three headliners are a rather eclectic group.

if iggy was joking about it...well that's egg on my face. if not well I still see it that way. I've seen similar comments on many other boards too much.

as for variety, I think as long as its not genre centric, it's always going to be an eclectic mix.

The Verve are awesome! There's more that meets the ear besides Bittersweet Symphony. Wish I could see them... it could be cool to see the kind of crowd they'd draw at a big festival like Glastonbury.

To categorize them as some sort of nostalgia "only got back together because Richard Ashcroft's solo career tanked" is a bit unfair.

For the record, hip hop shows are a blast. One of the best shows I've ever seen was Public Enemy opening for U2 many moons ago. Also saw a couple of interesting hip hop acts at a Nocturnal Wonderland several years ago - good fun. Jay-Z might not be everyone's first choice for a festival like Glastonbury but an event this big has to appeal to all sorts.

Kings of Leon - I really don't think much of them, they aren't my thing. But hey, if they can draw a crowd then more power to 'em. It would be an honor to be chosen as a headliner for the mother of all festivals.

Of course I was joking! What a bunch of mongaloids. I have black friend, and he wears a turbine, and he's in a wheel chair, and you know what? He's propa bo!

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and on the drugs note; I wish I did them, but I don't. My point really is that the freedom that once was is now dead, much like everything else in the U of K.

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I've never seen a hip hop act live, I can't see how it'd work but fair enough.

I can jump up and down to the Chems, but a hip hop gig you'd have to play it cool and grind with bitches.

Mongaloid....... havent heard that word in years............excellent.

No-one's mentioned Neil Diamond in the veteran spot on Sunday at Glasto. That's got to be a belter, setting up the Verve nicely? And Leonard Cohen's playing as well. I reckon it looks like being a great diverse line up.

The Verve live are awesome - I saw them at T in the Park when they split up for the first time after on stage "misunderstandings..."

And I'll be calling people mongaloids in the office tomorrow. Nice.

Hey Ed, what is your favorite Jay Z song?

Mine is 'Big Pimpin' ......... :::fart:::

OMG Iggy...MONGALOID! Thats fantastic. I say that in Holland too. In dutch. "Mongool!" Hahahahahaha :lol: u crack me up BRO!

I say this every year and I'll say it again...

if you've never been to Glastonbury and you get the chance. go

best party full stop. great setting and the most varied booking you will find...anywhere

from brass bands, to circus and comedy fields, more dance stages (indoor and out) than you can shake a stick at. indie/acoustic/rock any flavour you can think of....world music/folk/Shirley Bassey on a Sunday??

craft fields and sculptures everywhere, healing fields, lectures/debates on politics/green issues and a circus of freaks. last year there mutoid waste's field had a massive aeroplane fuselage in the middle of it and horsemeat disco had recreated new york circa 1970's for their stage

yes it's not quite as off it as it used to be but the breadth of stuff at glasters is unbelievable.

the joy is having so many ace things you've marked down to see and you still stumble into amazing scenes at every turn. performance artists, a little cafe with a dj playing an amazing 2-tone and reggae set. lost vagueness with madness playing?....line dancing or tango sessions?....going to pick the paper up of a morning and then sitting listening to Bill Brewster dj in the guardians little cafe while you have a coffee, realign your brain and read the paper?

the line-up stretches for pages and pages and yet there's 100's of little stages inside cafes etc where you can find amazing stuff.

anyway. enough said…..I love it

Oh my God The Verve are headlining T in the Park as well. Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

T in the Park line up looks far better than usual. Chems announced, but also Prodigy, Primal Scream, Rage Against the Machine, Ian Brown, Aphex Twin...

http://www.tinthepark.com/

Guess that's the typical Euro festival line up this summer.

Aphex Twin........excellent

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