Fair comment Ed, but personally im not that into thoses headliners, buts it allways good to see a change.

However one thing for sure is that the festival will still be great. I think people that havnt been to Glasto need to appreciate that its so much more than the music, loads of good cultural things to see and do.

Chebbers...u make me wanna go to glasto man!

Glasto is amazing. I certainly recommend it <3 but I wouldn't want to do it again :P

I really like Chebbers' vivid and illustrious guide to the fruits Glasto has to offer. If I ever get a chance to go, I want you and the missus to be my trip guide.

would be a pleasure. you should def try and come at some point.

I have so many treasured memories from Glastonbury which is why I bang on like this. amazing, bizarre and sometimes scary gubbins...loads of pictures I could never show my kids and friendships reinforced.

music experiences aside something I'll never forget was walking into one of the craft fields in the middle of night. completely spangled and finding a bearded american chap blowing glass and holding court talking to about 15 or 20 people outside his little caravan/stall thing.

turned out he was a retired physics lecturer. he gave this lecture on space, the idea time travel etc, prompting a debate and generally being very wise to the state of mind of those present and at the end of it he'd made fucking a glass swan!!

I actually had to check with people the following day that I hadn't imagined it.

people might think "what a load of hippy bobbins" but frankly at five in the morning, musics over and you're stumbling and walk into that.

genius.

rant over.....chebbers

Hmmm, i missed this thread completley before. Now that i'm back in europe, I finally get to go to Glastonbury again. But now the line-up is this? Ugh, if only I came back a year ago...

I think you, mchebne, need to pen a book and title it "Chebbers Guide To Glasto" !!

Totally weak line-up, IMHO. I prefer old skool hip-hop, and I don't really like Jay-Z, I would rather see Kanye instead. Hopefully Hot Chip will save the day, they really rock doing live!

I really hate Kanye West.

Actually, Kanye is my less hated modern rapper. The most hated would be 50cent and Jay-Z.

I am very eclectic with music in general, but hip-hop to me is just for Mr. Fingers, Schooly D and their contemporaries...

But, Glastonbury always end up in success. It's a fact.

I can't see why Kanye is where he is - great marketing team I suppose. I'd like to highlight the reasons why I dislike this pratt:

(1) His lyrics are 'wack'.

(2) He tried playing the race card at a recent MTV awards show when Britney Spears beat him for an award and said something along the lines of "can't a black man catch a break?". Shut up you fucking multi-millionare bastard! Talk to me about breaks when you're driving your hummer and I'm catching the bus.

(3)At the Live Aid concert, the legendary band The Police reunited for the show. It was great to see them performing, but for some reason, half way through a Mr. Kanye West shows up with his lyrical genius and goes "yeah, uh! come on! check it" and that was it! WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT?!

I'm mad now, real mad.

Yea, i was so pissed when he ruined the Police performance. FUCK!

@Iggy--Gotta agree with your point on (2). He's gotten a number of "Really?" moments from me in the past year or two.

I don't have much of a bad opinion musically of Kayne West either way. I think he has talent, and he's been heralded as groundbreaking.

But a lot of his success sort of echoes P Diddy, no? Kayne is a good self promotor, I'll give him that. A good example is the whole "George Bush doesn't care about black people" flare up that was nationally televised during the hurricane Katrina disaster. No matter how spur-of-the-moment that statement was regurgitated out of anger and frustration, no matter how well intentioned it was - I couldn't help but feel it sort of reeked of spotlight stealing that he's become so notorious for since then. One helluva PR stunt. I was working at Tower records at that time. After that little outburst, people regarded him as a hero and sales went through the roof.

And one last thing (because I can't believe I'm actually wasting my time crucifying some rap star's persona) The cover of that Rolling Stone with Kanye wearing the crown of thorns wasn't so much offensive - it was the height of arrogance in my opinion. Then again he was young at the time and shot to fame pretty quick so... yeah.

On a more sympathetic point, I do feel bad for the guy losing his mother as they were both very close and he loved her dearly. He seems to have cooled his heels and humbled somewhat since she passed away.

There is a very good reason that the term Mongaloid hasn't been used in years and that is because it is highly offensive. Perhaps you would not consider it to be so amusing if you had seen the effect it had on a person with Downs syndrome. I do not believe that we should live in a society where people cannot say what they feel but I do believe that we should be able to live our lives without fear of being bullied. Perhaps if what you feel is going to cause upset to other people you should be careful who you express it to

It hasn't been used in years because people have found other words to use. It's nothing to do with how offensive it is, and I personally don't think it's that offensive. Bastard

Perhaps you would if you worked with people who have a learning disability and witnessed first hand the damage this kind of ignorance has on their lives everyday.

point said, move on.

There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I’ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It’s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ‘ooh, look at him, he’s not able-bodied. I am, I’m prejudiced.’ Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he’s not, it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones

Ace Ricky Gervais quote