Glasto 2005 is GO!!

Hey, here's an idea! How about we all have a FAP on Saturday 2nd April, go to the Spanish Bar, then a club, stay up drinking coffee the rest of the night, safe in the knowledge that we will be tucked up in bed, with our tickets purchased, at ten past nine in the morning.

was that the sound of ronan exploding i just heard?

also get off this thread, fun hater, especially if you're not even coming this year ;P

the 'learn' from last year is, sit on ILX and do not go to bed until u get a sneaky link for tickets.

If I can't get through then 'freya' and 'no s' will be the very first things I try.

I am disappointed to note that I was not, as promised, worshipped as a god at Glasto2004.

this may well b the first year i dont have the energy for all the usual ticket mither.

Is dance music officially dead at Glastonbury now? I foresee Ronan spending every night up at the stone circle with the bongo drummers in future Glastonburys.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20050127_glasto.shtml

People buying tickets will have to send in photos when purchasing them. They will then be sent a card similar to a student card complete with a photograph and electronic chip which will be read at the festival gates to accompany a ticket bearing the buyer's name and address.

better than taking your passport though, i'd say. also they're still never going to check everyone, i can't see how they'd set up the requisite technology/deal with the logjams at all the gates...

(Does this mean everyone will have to buy their own ticket? Because this may cause me major problems).

also what if you change your hairstyle between april and june?

steve: yeah, you're probably right, it just seems a bit pointless and annoying...

everyone: we must start an CAMPAIGN to write to national express (copied to M Eavis) to get them to sort out the effing busses on a monday morning...

given that I have to bring my passport anyway, I really resent having to dick around with stupid photos and some expensive smartcard that just adds tonnes to the price of the ticket.

I hope this does not lead to a mass outbreak of mime.

Weatherwise = worse than last year, not as bad as 1998 by a long way. Maybe this is because by getting down on Friday afternoon I somehow MISSED EVERY SINGLE DROP OF RAIN but also because the latter half of the weekend was pretty scorching and with the exception of the Other Stage and the lake down the bottom of our field you could sit down pretty much anywhere onsite by Sunday. Even the top bit of the Pyramid was pretty decent.

Am I right in thinking there was no Sunday night tape player horror? I went in search of the voibe and missed the whole thing. Proper highlights to follow after my second shower.

xpost Stevem please don't joke about things like that.

Other things that made me happy this weeked:

- Basement Jaxx's cover of Can't Get Me Out Of Your Head, and seeing thousands of people singing along to the slow bit. Not enough stuff off Kish Kash but otherwise brilliant - especially that bass-heavy electro thing with the Ace Of Spades riff.

- The diner in the Lost Vagueness field. Ronan and I ended up there about 7.00 on Sunday morning when it was full on Proper Disco and full of drag queens and men in tuxes and wellies. Even better was on Sunday night after all the bands had finished and my friends and I were dancing in there to DJ Motown Greatest Hits. Buzz harshed when Bobby Gillespie and Mani came in and Bobby G proceded to lurch around unfortably right next to me while occasionally mauling some poor thing that I presume was his girlfriend. But still, it provided that big hands-in-the-air singalong you need on a Sunday night. There needs to be more Jackson 5 at Glasto.

- New Order's entire set, even allowing for a disappointing Bizarre Love Triangle, no Blue Monday it was worth it for those house pianos at the beginning of True Faith. And Keith Allen on a pantomime horse, doing the John Barnes rap in World In Motion.

- Primal Scream being booed off the stage. I've never seen anything like it. Bobby Gillepsie absolutely fucked out of his face, his band having just played a set of such spectacular shitness to a very small crowd for second on the bill on Sunday, slurring “who do you want, Primal Scream of Basement Jaxx?” “BASEMENT JAXX!” went the shout, and Bobby was escorted offstage by security while people booed. Hilarious.

- The bit during MIA’s set when Sweet Dreams dropped into Ten Dollar. I was still sober, a bit knackered after work and put off by all the water. RickyT and I got very excited, that set me up perfectly for everything.

- Erol’s set in the frankly rammed Lock Tavern, finding Alba right near the end and hearing Its My Life by Talk Talk and then that beefed up version of Teenage Kicks right at the end.

- Mylo in the East Dance Tent on Sunday night - so much better than last year, a bigger sound, loads of tunes stretched out and one great new italo-disco ripoff. When he played Drop The Pressure at the end of the night I had a complete stranger attempting to take my shirt off. In the end I let her succeed, if only because there was actually steam coming out of the end. I promise, never again.

- The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain doing Smells Like Teen Spirit. And Wuthering Heights. And a ukelele mashup of Spiders From Mars with My Way. Actually much more enjoyable than the novelty joke I’d been expecting and way better than Hayseed Dixie.

- Small children running in to attack men dressed as ninjas. And the ninjas playfighting back.

- And the Chemical Brothers dropping Carousel by Koenig Cylinders into their surprisingly good DJ set and going mental. And to think I only stuck around because Ronan and his girlfriend were taking the piss out of me for considering going to see the White Stripes.

Actually, looking at that all written down, it was fucking brilliant, even without Vitalic. And going to see Wiley to be confronted with Thai ska horror. I can’t believe its a full two years til the next one.

Ha ha, this looked so rubbish on telly.

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one great new italo-disco ripoff

was this not the one he did last year? (as in Capricorn's 'I Want Love')

I see* The Go! Team are still working on that elusive second song**.

* From the front row of course
** Musical witticism #54

Music-wise nothing really blew me away this year but the overall atmosphere was a lot better than last.

The weather tried to make us as miserable as possible but it was just a case of accepting the mud and lack of wellies and hoping that the hare krishnas would step in in the event of trenchfoot.

Nice to be home and recovering, having just turned the bath water a nice shade of brown.

Time to start watching several hours of bbc highlights of everything that i missed...

Musically he was really frickin dull, clearly battered and evidently did not want to be there. Ripping the shit out of the Make Poverty History campaign is fair enough but there's no need to bang on about and as for insulting John Peel... what a wanker.

Stupid question but why does emo have to be so.. Umm….. emotional?

which was nice.

Bobbly Gillespie Conor Oberst

bah i think everyone's mentioned my favourite bits, Mitch Benn's John Peel song was the best tribute of the weekend i thought.

Ricky, today:

http://www.wilson203.freeserve.co.uk/Auton.jpg

Oh yeah, I realised on Friday, while waiting for Steve Earle, that I had no way of contacting Lauren (phone gyp was the theme of the weekend for me) and had only previously met her once in poor light. So that meeting didn't happen, sorry.

Swami Desi Rock was easily the highlight for me, Friday night playing to about thirty people had more energy than everyone on the Peel Stage put together.

He played again on the Sunday, in the Leftfield while everyone was at the Brian Wilson Experience.

Swami Desi Rock was great yes.

think I probably saw more really good stuff than any other glastonbury. mylo, erol, clor, lcd soundsystem, mia, new order, brian wilson were all really really top standard. probably forgetting some stuff too.

great to see everyone again! it was probably my mildest glasto, though Saturday was a bit crazy, the calming influence of lindsay is to responsible for that I suppose.

i want to live vicariously

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/

You were asked after as well, by H&K.

The last couple of Glastonburys have hit this amazing peak on Sunday night - last year with DJ Pikey Clothing Stall - Orbital - legendary tape deck mentalism, this year with Basement Jaxx - rammed Motown disco. I can't even remember the end of Glasto 2002, and I'm not sure that was for the right reasons. (Oh yeah, it was watching the Doves in a downpour - not quite the same).

boaby won't be coming back i'd guess then?

whoops. sorry for not making the effort to come meet any of you folks. in actually fact, i DID make the effort - got to brothers bar hella early, drank too much cider til around 7pm, at which point i went to my tent and passed out til around midnight. oops.

another time, i guess.

I will admit now to liking the track that Fatboy Slim played on Friday night that samples Sister Nancy (agane).

duhduh duhduh duh duh