Inspired by Martin's Live 8 thread ...

This is about the only time I ever hear any new music. As usual, I’ve never heard of most of the bands who are playing, and most of the stuff I have heard of is a pot of shit anyway. Highlights though include Eat Static, the Mad Professor Dub Show and Squarepusher. Possibly Ian Brown and New Order, depends what I’m doing at the time. Echo & The Bunnymen appear to have reformed as well.

So, your recommendations please – from the official line-up here.

PS – anyone going who wants to meet up, say by the Cider Bus or something?

Went last year and pretty much hated every mud filled minute of it. Full of dick head scallies and felt uncomfortable leaving my tent unguarded.

Was quality to see Ella Guru, Dave Clarke and Dubdadda though...

I reckon this years line up looks half decent.

I LOVE them....fantastic debut album and they deserve to be more widely heard.

I like the white stripes and evil 9

I would love to be going. tried to get tickets and it was useless! :cry:

I'd certainly try to catch Doves and The White Stripes on the Main Stage, Bright Eyes, The Earlies, The Subways, Maximo Park, The Magic Numbers, Be Your Own Pet, Bloc Party, The Futureheads, The Go! Team, Brendan Benson, Engineers and many more on The John Peel Stage, and that's before we even get to the Dance Tent and the JazzWorld Stage etc. etc.

Nigel Kennedy is playing somewhere....!!

It's all good....

:)

Cheers Frenz, but it's quite a long list. If you had to pick just three, who would you go for? EDIT, not including Doves and White Stripes cos I've heard of them.

That's too hard....

but try The Magic Numbers, Bloc Party and Engineers.

Not a bad mixture, but it could be almost any 3....!!

I shall be camping out in my front room with three TVs tuned into everything going (BBC2, BBC3 and the pesky red button feature, which they used to broadcast Tim Booth and Zero 7's sets last year, at the same time as BBC3 - murder to record most of it - didn't get the Booth set, unfortunately - still haven't watched half of it yet, mind !!!)

Oh dear Clayts....Zero 7 is middle-of-the-road coffee-table muzak for boring middle-of-the-road 30somethings....

Oh right, I forgot....!! ;)

And as for Tim fucking Booth....!!!!! :sick:

Well, I'm going, and mostly looking forward to....

i) Squarepusher
ii) Four Tet
iii) Cassette Boy
iv) DJ Format
v) LCD Soundsystem

Any other recommendations?

That's all great stuff Tom....have you heard the new Four Tet album?

It's good.

And I mentioned LCD Soundsystem and James Murphy's Fall interest on another thread. I think it's Movement that's particularly Fall-ish and even refers to a guy reading lyrics off bits of paper....

I'd love to see him live...you lucky bleeder!!

I've only been once before it was sunny (I call that lucky).
When its sunny or least not raining I can see the attraction.

If it was, i'd be happy to see White Stripes, The Coral, The La's, The Earlies, Ryan Adams, 808 State (DJ Set), Four Tet, Mad Professor Dub Show, Smith and Mighty, The Beautiful South (acoustic) and as much as everything else a swell.

The new Fourtet album is ace. The guys a rare genius.

LCD Soundsystem-wise - do you remember when there was that great big 'Best song of the last 25 years' thing? Well, he wrote a big article for the NME that week as to why 'Totally Wired' by a certain Fallgruppe should be winner. The boys certainly one of ours.

Just bumping this one back to the top before the festival starts! Thanks to everyone who chipped in their recommendations so far. Any more suggestions for new bands to go and see? The full line-up is here.

Acoustic tent: Chas'n'Dave.

You know you owe it to yourself.

A varied and interesting line up. Don't waste anytime not listening to music.

Despite this most eclectic of fare on offer, I see BBC4 are showing three live sets. They are Elvis Costello, Brian Wilson and Van Morrison. I find this a tad disaapointing. I'd much rather hear one of the acts I've never heard on/in any one of the stages or tents.

Anyway, have fun and do a full report of the stuff you get to see/hear.

You may be interested to hear that if you've got Digital telly then by the magic of pressing the red button you have the choice of watching one of five stages, a bit like how you can choose a certain game at wimbledon. However, methinks the beeb are only on from 7pm onwards and have the binned the afternoon slots for reasons I dont know or understand.

Cheers Doon. I hadn't realised that.

Roots Manuva

High Contrast

Friction

Mad Professor

Aquasky

DJ Format

Squarepusher

Alpha and Omega

Fourtet

Battlefield Band

Lady Sovereign

Kasabian

..would be my top picks from this bunch..

Wot no Eat Static RT? Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check a few of them out. Will also attempt a review, of sorts.

Actually, Eat Static are stunning live, particularly at Glasto. The records don't match up for me though..

i'd recommend nine black alps, longcut and the magic numbers, all from the john peel stage. twill be a bit weird and sad watching the glasto highlights this year with jo whiley sans john peel.

their visuals are ace. never been keen on the tunes too much tho - kinda techno for people who dont really like techno.

saw them in the sfx in dublin in the mid 90's. had been to a few gigs there before so i knew it had a big old church hall feel to the inside of it. well that night as i came in i thought i was walking onto the surface of some distant planet, there was huge wall hangings of alien landscapes draped everywhere and during the show a huge electronic brain came up from the stage floor with lasers flashing....sounds a bit tacky but it was an amazing show.

I'd definitely go and see Rory McLeod on the Avalon stage

"Showers" forecast for Friday and Saturday... :P

Wish I was going though. Instead I have a volleyball match in Poznan ! :wacko:

Is Otway playing ?

Or Roy Harper?

Only been twice before, found the best idea is to get a bit "off it" and wander round the periphery. One year there was an "Act" that was some bloke just sitting outside his tent who would make a brew for you in exchange for a nice chat . Then there are the big kangaroo blokes bouncing around, people done up as centaurs etc.

A case of hyped up mass hysteria? What do you all reckon? If you're not going, will you be watching it on BBC2/3/4? - along with inane, sycophantic presenters such as the strike-breaker Jo Whiley.


Would-be Glastonbury gatecrashers flushed out

Patrick Barkham
Friday June 24, 2005
The Guardian

When the lorry carrying 24 portable toilets stopped at a service area on the way to Glastonbury, the opportunity was too good to refuse for three ticketless festival wannabes.
While the driver was looking the other way, the men managed to force their way inside three of the locked loos. After a long and bumpy ride on a toilet seat, they heard the truck stopping again.

In the half-light of the toilets, the men decided they must have arrived. All went quiet so they leapt out - only to find the lorry had pulled over in a layby just outside the glittering steel fence that surrounds Glastonbury.

As record numbers of festivalgoers pitched up to Somerset early in glorious sunshine yesterday, all lorries bringing portable toilets to the site were being searched after the driver told security staff about the failed gatecrashers.
"We haven't caught anybody in the portable toilets yet but the intelligence is that they are coming in hidden inside, which is why we're increasing the checks on vehicles," said Brian Schofield, the festival security coordinator.

With greater demand than ever for a weekend watching Coldplay, the White Stripes and thousands of other bands, performances and acts of weirdness, the ways in which some of the estimated 1.9 million people who tried and failed to get tickets seek secret entry to Glastonbury, which is sponsored by the Guardian, become ever more ingenious.

This year, some of the 2,000 security guards and stewards patrolling the site at any time foiled a man posing as a "driver's mate" who tried to enter the festival on a delivery lorry and stopped a gang who had already managed to dig a 2ft hole under the fence.

Last year, security officers were tipped off about a scam in which gatecrashers were plotting to impersonate paramedics by travelling in an old ambulance, which resulted in searches of every emergency vehicle. Expensive extendable ladders and rope ladders have also been seized.

"It would be naive of me to think nobody gets smuggled in but the numbers that do get in are greatly reduced compared with previous years," said Mr Schofield, a retired policeman.

Well I won't be watching it on the TV. :cry:


I'll just have to imagine how it is. If it rains I'll be glad I didn't get tickets.


It's just amazing how people are so inventive in trying to gate crash. I think I would dress up in something so outrageous and sparkly, that it would be a shame if they didn't let me in because I would look so much like I belonged. :)

It rained-
£150 to take part in a Hyronimous Bosch painting.

or you could come to Scaledown tonight!

I am happy here in the sunshine drinking martini and chatting to cultured people.

Bagrec, Hahahahahahahahahaha that's gruesome really really awful. There is no music in the world worth that.

Are cultured people full of beneficial bacteria like yoghurt, as opposed to full of shit like everyone else?

By the rivers of Babylon.. oh it shat down..
Yeah they wept, when they remembered Reading...

what a great idea - I'm at a loose end tonight :girl2:

But there is music thoroughly deserving of it though. :devil:

I hate it when bands play outdoors. Gigs should have lids on.

Dan

Check this from the BBC website - for photos see link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4116738.stm

The strangest sight so far at Glastonbury was 20-year-old Stuart Chappell from Somerset swimming to his tent. Literally, doing the front crawl.

He was hoping to retrieve his car keys, but he didn't find them.

His tent was in the most unfortunate part of the site, where dozens found their tents almost completely submerged.

Mr Chappell retrieved a few bags from his tent and that of a friend before wading back - up to his neck - to shore

Festivals are my ultimate experience.. true anarchy at their best..

I try and avoid gigs in rock'n'roll toilets if I can..

..But Glastonbury's lost it since they stabilised the fence..

There's loads of cool free festivals on these days, if you can put up with tie die and genial hippies and buddhists.. Beats horrorshows like Reading and Leeds any day..

I agree.

It's the morning here and I hadn't read the news. I can't believe it's from this years festival. I thought Bagrecs photo was from 2 years ago!

That bloke swimming to his tent.........I'm speechless. I would be so pissed off.

:D

Best festival in the world is the Sidmouth Festival- it takes over the whole town, all the pubs have folk sessions going- a really amazing atmosphere...

Was hoping to make it along to this, Bag, but I'm off on holiday for a fortnight as of, um, about 45 minutes...