Glastonbury 2015 thread
Discussion
warp9 said:
Kanye West as headliner shows how much Glasto has sold out to the commercial bandwagon over the last 10 years and is a shadow of what it used to stand for and represent IMO.
I went in the early eighties to the Stonehenge Free Festival and then when that ended on to Glastonbury. I feel I must correct you in that Glastonbury actually sold out in the early nineties, it's just a lot worse now: From an anarchic gathering with alternative music 25 years ago to chart-toppers and a rites-of-passage thing for middle class schoolgirls and older men suffering identity crises. Glad to see some are at least trying to keep the spirit alive by sleeping in mobile homes...I slept in a converted ambulance for 10 months. 80sMatchbox said:
I'd prefer to see Kanye at Reading festival. It would all end in tears, as it did for 50 Cent years ago.
I dont think you are that well informed on Kanye's music of late, he is nothing like 50 cent and his music (especially his last album) has nothing generic about it, more akin to death grips than 50 cent.'Yeezus', google it.
Alot of ignorance/borderline racism on social media at the moment, quite disappointing after Jay-Z's acclaimed performance a few years ago - thought we had moved on.
Type R Tom said:
Nothing to do with racism in my opinion, just people don't like him and for good reason. The whole Beck thing for starters.
If personality decides how worthy/how well an artist will perform at a festival then clearly the protesting bunch are just as moronic and have no interest in music in the first place (and actually Oasis would have never headlined a festival, bunch of prats)Re the racism thing, just type Kanye west glastonbury into twitter and you will see what i mean....
Type R Tom said:
Nothing to do with racism in my opinion, just people don't like him and for good reason. The whole Beck thing for starters.
Agreed - I used to really like him and went to the London gigs he did for his first and second album tours (which were pretty good tbf), but I certainly wouldn't pay money to see him perform nowadays - partly because I've gone off modern hip-hop almost completely (bring back the spirit of '94!) and partly because I think he's a complete tit. There will always be racist knuckle-draggers sadly, but I think/hope the majority of people reacting negatively to the announcement are doing so because they think he's a massive bell end with a messiah complex. If he was white, asian or eskimo and only said half the ridiculous stuff he does now, I'd expect the same reaction.
80sMatchbox said:
I'd prefer to see Kanye at Reading festival. It would all end in tears, as it did for 50 Cent years ago.
List of bottling incidents by year2004[edit]
At Reading Festival, rapper 50 Cent was pelted with bottles, many of which were filled with urine. One audience member threw a deckchair onto the stage. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off following one song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bottling_inci...
if kanyes' performanc at the brits was anything to go by this will have the potential to be absolutley terrible. I'll go out on a limb here, and each to their own but that wasn't music imho. rapping over a recorded bassline, foul moouthed and offensive...well if that's your thing then fine but it has no place at a "music" festival imho.
I'm all for expansion and as a metal fan really welcomed metallica last year who were excellent and before anyone says thats not music either, metallica write their own songs and play all their instruments, that automatically puts bands like that miles ahead of manufactured RnB, drum and bass etc...
I'm sure Fleetwood Mac will enjoy co-headlining with Kanye....
I'm all for expansion and as a metal fan really welcomed metallica last year who were excellent and before anyone says thats not music either, metallica write their own songs and play all their instruments, that automatically puts bands like that miles ahead of manufactured RnB, drum and bass etc...
I'm sure Fleetwood Mac will enjoy co-headlining with Kanye....
dorme said:
If personality decides how worthy/how well an artist will perform at a festival then clearly the protesting bunch are just as moronic and have no interest in music in the first place (and actually Oasis would have never headlined a festival, bunch of prats)
Bunch of Talentless prats more like.soad said:
List of bottling incidents by year
2004[edit]
At Reading Festival, rapper 50 Cent was pelted with bottles, many of which were filled with urine. One audience member threw a deckchair onto the stage. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off following one song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bottling_inci...
To be fair throwing bottles of urine at Reading has been happening for a long while, Def Leppard felt the wrath of this circa 1980 due to Sounds editor Geoff Barton saying they had sold out to America.2004[edit]
At Reading Festival, rapper 50 Cent was pelted with bottles, many of which were filled with urine. One audience member threw a deckchair onto the stage. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off following one song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bottling_inci...
te bits but still some awesome bits of loveliness. if you dont like it dont go. its like t
JmeSwaz said:
Does anyone know when the ticket resale is next month, I failed to get tickets first time 
As for Kanye West, he's irritating, but why get annoyed that he's playing, theres plenty of other acts on at the same time, go see someone else?
It's not been announced yet, but it's usually in April, a week or two after the first week in April when everyone who paid a deposit has to pay up the balance. As for Kanye West, he's irritating, but why get annoyed that he's playing, theres plenty of other acts on at the same time, go see someone else?
Raygun said:
soad said:
List of bottling incidents by year
2004[edit]
At Reading Festival, rapper 50 Cent was pelted with bottles, many of which were filled with urine. One audience member threw a deckchair onto the stage. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off following one song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bottling_inci...
To be fair throwing bottles of urine at Reading has been happening for a long while, Def Leppard felt the wrath of this circa 1980 due to Sounds editor Geoff Barton saying they had sold out to America.2004[edit]
At Reading Festival, rapper 50 Cent was pelted with bottles, many of which were filled with urine. One audience member threw a deckchair onto the stage. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off following one song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bottling_inci...
droopsnoot said:
Yes, I recall Steel Pulse having a couple of bottles thrown at them at Reading in 1983, and foolishly taking to the microphone and saying "if anyone else throws a bottle, we're off". Cue a deluge of bottles, and departure of the band. Plastic bottles, by then - anyone turning up with cans or glass bottles of booze were being given plastic bottles to decant them into.
Yeah it's idiotic really as my mate found out when he got hit in the face with a half full plastic bottle, it narf hurts!Gassing Station | Music | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff