Glastonbury 2023

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Elton fucking John is all I've seen and heard about today. Even on the One Show some actress I'd never heard of plugging her latest series had some kind of Elton t shirt on.
Having been to two Glastonbury's in the 80's (before it was gentrified and called "Glasto" by wankers) I'm very glad I went when I did. Fucking Elton John and "Macca" and all the other dinosaurs headlining the past few years would have got pelted off the stage back then. And rightly so.
Cat Steven's is totally exempt from criticism as he isn't in the same wanker league as Elton and "Macca" - the Knights of the Realm twats.
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Then again, Elvis Costello headlined about 4 or 5 times in the 80s. Obviously he was no dinosaur then but imagine they had the same headliner almost every year now? They would be crucified for it.

Its just a different thing now, different crowd. Average is of a punter is about 40, so there's plenty of people even older than that. They just have to cater to the audience.

I wouldn't get too wound up about it, it has a hell of a lot of stages now, so there's plenty of good newer stuff headlining other stages and we can view a lot of it on iPlayer.

I'd rather this diversity of acts we have today than the 2 stages they had in the 80s with Elvis Costello headlining every other year.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Then again, Elvis Costello headlined about 4 or 5 times in the 80s. Obviously he was no dinosaur then but imagine they had the same headliner almost every year now? They would be crucified for it.

Its just a different thing now, different crowd. Average is of a punter is about 40, so there's plenty of people even older than that. They just have to cater to the audience.

I wouldn't get too wound up about it, it has a hell of a lot of stages now, so there's plenty of good newer stuff headlining other stages and we can view a lot of it on iPlayer.

I'd rather this diversity of acts we have today than the 2 stages they had in the 80s with Elvis Costello headlining every other year.
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Spent most nights in reggae tents back then
 
Returned from the festival late last night. What a few days!

I’ve been looking forward to posting here about the awful appearance of United shirts across the festival. I took great pleasure in noticing not one of those idiots had a Mancunian accent.
 
unsworthblue said:
Just seen the Fat Boy Slim set,what an absolute bell end of a man this self indulgent dick is,he’s the headline act ffs what is the world coming to! Images of Greta Thurnburg ffs and his silly pride propaganda,glad I didn’t pay all that money to witness that nonesense
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Haim did that last year with Angry Greta, really put me off them it did.

I really would appreciate it if politics were kept out of this festival. As for Fatboy Slim, he's a total spanner.
 
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stonerblue said:
The whole thing is political and has been since CND. You can ignore it.
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I'm aware of that, it only annoys me when someone on the stage shouts something like "Fuck you Boris" and all of Twatter gets into a fuss over it, or makes Greta references like Fatboy Slim this this year and Haim last year. Whatever the latest political event is really.

From all the sets I saw, I thankfully didn't see any of the above.
 
ShorehamCitizen said:
Every week we get those, as well as compound words.
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There was a programme on last night with the deaf actress who won strictly, she was interviewing a deaf mate and he was talking about expanding the BSL vocabulary. No sign existed for 'gentrification' so they combined the sign for 'posh' with the sign for 'takeover' which I thought was bob on.
 
threespires said:
There was a programme on last night with the deaf actress who won strictly, she was interviewing a deaf mate and he was talking about expanding the BSL vocabulary. No sign existed for 'gentrification' so they combined the sign for 'posh' with the sign for 'takeover' which I thought was bob on.
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Posh wanker would’ve been better.
 
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