Name 6 current bands you'd book to brighten up this year's Glasto lineup?
Everyone is talking about how shite the lineup is, but I've not seen many suggestions on who they should have booked. (You never know, they might be reading this and get some tips for next year).
A lot of people say Reading is a better lineup, but a lot of the acts playing Reading are also playing Glasto. People I know who are into bands like Metallica are usually exclusively into metal/heavy rock so they'd be better off at Reading/Leeds/Download or whatever any year.
It seems to me that beyond the pyramid/other stages, it's a pretty typical lineup.
But the Pyramid and Other stages usually have the big bands of the moment, with a few established acts, and big acts that haven't already played in the last couple of years seem thin on the ground this year.
Glastonbury became huge when there was that explosion of bands that transended the gap between Indie stations like XFM/6Music and Mainstream pop stations like Radio 1 and Capital FM (and therefore had a huge following). I'm thinking of mainstream guitar acts like Kaiser Chiefs, Killers, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and so on, and miserable melodica such as Coldplay, Keane, Snow Patrol and so on.
Looking at last weeks BBC Top 40, 12 of the 40 acts are playing, and it's pretty much all of the obvious ones (well you wouldn't expect Madonna, Britney, Justin Timberlake, or Girls Aloud to play, then again ...!) so they are obviously booking acts that are "popular" for these stages as they always do, but the bands who are shifting product at the moment don't seem to have the widespread appeal of bands from a few years ago.
There's obviously a lot of good underground stuff around (there always is if you look for it) and personally I don't give a toss about the big name bands of the moment, I'd like to see The Mono LPs headline the Other stage, but I'm curious what other people would like to see.
As for Shaky don't forget he's playing at something like 10am on the Saturday morning - they always have a novelty act on at that time as most people are still in their tents recovering from the night before.
Is a Welsh Elvis impersonator really any worse than a couple of Manc Beatles Impersonators? (They headlined!)
What?
Be quiet!
Fuck Glasto!
it's all about Radio 1's One Big Weekend...
The Kooks!
The Enemy!
The Fratellis!
The Pigeon Detectives!
The Hoosiers!
The Feeling!
Scouting For Girls!
Madonna!
Newton Faulkner!
this line-up
is too good! i cant believe the hoosiers AND the feeling are playing. and they have underground bands like pigeon detectives.
National pop radio station's biggest event "features popular chart bands" shock
the advert is fucking annoying though
Yep
Mainly cos of that total cunt Moyles, and all those wankers getting excited about the shit acts he announces!
Even the "In NEW Music We Trust" stages aren't new bands at all!
Hang on
Are you really suggesting that The Pigeon Detectives are an underground band and that The Hoosiers and The Feeling aren't actually cunts ?
sarcasm detector =
MASSIVE FAIL
newton faulkners middle name
is batternberg, jokes on him:)
Are you having a laugh?
All these acts are playing Glasto, except Madge and The Kooks?
Yes, he more than likely is
Yes, I definitely am!
Those bands are the sort that make me run a mile in the opposite direction, or maybe fans of those bands are!
Good!
Glad we cleared that up :)
i think that
there are a minimum number of bands that can headline festivals, combined with the huge explosion in festivals means that its easier to see your favourite band. Combined with the increased cost of glastonbury mixed with the younger average age of your chart buying youngster, they are going to find it harder to sell all their tickets.
I dont really want to go to glastonbury, and thats why i go to ATP instead.
i dont understand
why people say glastonbury is expensive. its same price as any other festival.
i would go to ATP if it wasnt right in the middle of my final uni exams :(
probably
more that people used to jump over the fence and therefore get in for FREE. now they have to pay. man. way to lose the hippy spirit. etc
I saw
Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets play in 1976 and the Icknield Hall, Letchworth, and it was fuckin' brilliant. If I get to see him at Glasto it'll break my record of years between gigs for an artist, previously held by Billy Lee Riley 1978 then 2003.
Don't think Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba have been booked for Glastonbury, but they were superb at the Barbican last week. Think they're playing some Fests. Bassekou used to play in Ali Farka Toure's band.
Wouldn't mind seeing some proper jazz on the Jazz World stage an' all. Usually there's at least one Herbie Hancock or Courtney Pine or whatever, but not this year. There are 'Special Guests' listed so here's hoping for a Wayne Shorter or an Ornette Coleman or a Sonny Rollins.
Okay, I'll pick 6 established acts and 6 new or newish acts...........
New(ish):
Johnny Foreigner
Tubelord
Tellison
Pete and The Pirates
Danananananananaanannaananannanaaaaaanna
HEALTH
Established:
The Bronx
The Thermals
Yo La Tengo
The Twilight Singers
The Hold Steady
Weezer
Just returning to your point re: 'indie' stations like XFM and 6M
in relation to the likes of Capital and R1........
I remember when XFM really was an indie station, I used to listen to it in about 1994/95 when they still had a test licence, they used to play Sonic Youth/The Afghan Whigs et al during their breakfast show! Then Capital bought them and that was it, game over.
I loved 6M and it's still pretty decent if you avoid the worst excesses of their lesser daytime presenters, but the BBC are kiling it by trying to turn it into R1 Mk 2 just as surely as Capital destroyed XFM.
So True
XFM was brilliant before Capital(ist) FM got their grubby paws on it. We used to listen to it at work, and after you've heard the same dozen songs played repeatedly day-in, day-out for about 6 months you just want to scream!
The worst thing was when they finally put a song out of it's misery and deleted it from the playlist, then it would become a mainstream hit and they'd start playing it all over again with a smug "we played it first".
BBC 6 Music at it's best justifies the license fee for me (well commercial services will always get watered down in the end in the search of ratings/revenue) but I agree it's turning into a shadow of it's former self.
Good choice of bands, but are they well enough known to play the main stages? (Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of booking on talent rather than popularity, but I think I'm in the minority).
I would add the following:
Weezer
That is all. They would play six slots, with a set from each of their albums, in backwards chronological order.
That wouldactually be enough to
get me to Glastonbury.
Meet too.
- t
i wrote a poem...
"Jaz-Zee
Who He?
Hubby of Beyoncee
An' he's headlinin' Glastonbree
If thou's think rap is crap
And hip-hop
Ain't tip top
Don't woree
Check out the facts
Over 2,000 diverse acts
Have been booked for this year's Glastonbree
An' if you do go see
Jay-zee
Have a slice of Brie
With Toadie's deceased wife Dee
But not with me
Can't you see
And he's a dud
Fling some mud
Ave a bottle of Bud
Woah, watch out, soap sud!
But if you're too old to camp
Too mollycoddled for mud, crowds and damp
Make a cup of tea
Sit on your settee
Turn on the tv
And watch Glastonbree
On BBC-HD
Or BBC3
'Ave a look at the sea
Or you'll get stung by a bee
Right in the knee
Which will swell like a pea
He He"
Well, i doctored one at least. Good eh? Come Glasto! Rah rah rah.
The biggest disappointment for me is the Other Stage
I fully expect the Pyramid Stage to be gash. Last year I didn't see a single thing on it. But the Other Stage was always good for the odd gem
Stuff I was interested in seeing on the Other Stage in 2007 included:
The Cribs
Modest Mouse
Bright Eyes
Super Furry Animals
The Coral
Rufus Wainwright
Arcade Fire
Bjork
The Brakes
The Long Blondes
CSS
Klaxons
Iggy and The Stooges
Cold War Kids
The Rakes
The Go! Team
Chemical Brothers
Stuff I am interested in seeing on the Other Stage in 2008 includes:
Vampire Weekend
Foals
Neon Neon
Black Kids
Hot Chip
Massive Attack
Elbow
I know there's stuff to see elsewhere, and fair play to them for making The Park in particular better this year, but it's pretty depressing that there's only six or seven bands I (personally) consider worth seeing spread over three days on a usually pretty solid stage
I mean, the Sunday line up is so bad it's actually a bit disgusting
That sunday line up is like V
without anyone like Muse to make it worthwhile. It competes with that day at wireless for worst line up of the year.
The problem with it as a whole is, there may be lots of smaller bands that are good that are playing, but you can see most of them elsewhere. They need someone like Bjork last year who was brilliant and was playing hardly anywhere else and actually makes it a bit special.
Don't think I'll be spending much time at The Other Stage this year
The Other Stage lineup is certainly weaker this year, but The John Peel looks a lot stronger?
i'd book Bananarama, Melanie C,
E.Y.C., Carcass, Scooter and Pig Destroyer
:D
How about a Pig Destroyer/Scooter collaboration?
Scooter: "Move! Your!...."
Pig Destoyer: "ASSGTHRRRAAAAHGHGHGH!!!!!!!"
*RIFF*