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[Music] Glastonbury 2024
- Thread starter Pogue Mahone
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I think it’s fair to say that TV is having a negative impact on Glastonbury.
It gives millions the impression that it’s basically just a big version of the V Festival (or Isle of Wight, whatever).
And armchair viewers now think they’re entitled to an opinion on the line-up, when they barely look past the first 10 names on the bill, don’t regularly go to gigs and just want to see their personal favourite acts from 1994. Tsk!
pearl
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I stopped going end of 80s as it was getting too big and all that that entails, but I agree with you.
All festivals are struggling this year to book strong lineups. As others have pointed out, Glasto‘s depth further down still makes it stand out. Unfortunately the greed of artists like Adele means that festivals that charge £350 for a weekend ticket simply can’t compete with the revenue generated for these artists running their owns charging an average of £300 a ticket.
Queue here to ............
...even worse they pile in on acts like Billy No Mates because they dont quite understand it.
…so this thread is just full of moaning old people, right?
Randy McNob
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- Jun 13, 2020
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Imagine you regularly go to England cricket matches, you've got tickets to an upcoming Ashes Test, and there's a thread on NSC discussing the line-ups.
Then several people on here say they 'love cricket' but they wish Sky Sports would sex-up the on-screen graphics and make it more like the Hundred.
Some say they they don't like the line-up because they don't recognise some of the names. And then come back a second time time to tell us they don't like the line-up.
That's what this thread is like.
Low key. I think Glastonbury is two festivals these days tbh. The festival you attend where you have 4 million things to do across 5 days, and the festival you see broadcast on TV for a long weekend.
The BBC provides a world class broadcast that only adds to the wider mystique of the festival itself but it does mean you have a large number of people whose choose to only engagement with the festival as a TV broadcast. Due to ticket numbers, they are the vast majority, and there is no denying that compared to the last few line-ups, this year is incredibly weak.
Everyone who engages by actually going and engaging with the festival as an in-person event will have a completely different experience which will no doubt be wonderful.
Personally, I'm disappointed with the line-up. But I missed out on tickets so my only opportunity to engage is via the broadcast which will only show the names higher up on the bill.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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Now that would be good - why not put them on the poster though?
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Now that is a long tour!
jamie-oh
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Lots of bands with announced gigs that arent yet sold out dont want to be announced, cos anyone with tickets to glastonbury wont then buy tickets to their shows, theyll just go along to the festival. There's hundreds of bands yet to be announced and a decent portion of them will fall into this category. (im hoping for Judas Priest as well!)
pb21
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- Apr 23, 2010
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Pearl Jam play Manchester on Tuesday 25 then London on Saturday 29...
Randy McNob
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- Jun 13, 2020
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As a person unable to get tickets this year you'll now be pigeon-holed as an armchair critic and any further posts are automatically invalid by the ITK crowd who'll be quick to remind you there's more to Glastonbury then the headline acts - dontcha know?