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Post by patman post on Mar 3, 2023 10:39:16 GMT
Glastonbury headliners are to be Artic Monkeys, Guns’N’Roses and Elton John. Are there no more recent groups able to attract the crowds…
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Post by walterpaisley on Mar 3, 2023 11:17:24 GMT
How sad.
In other news, I note that The Who are playing Derby at some point in the not-too-distant future.
I wonder if the septuagenarian Mr Daltrey is still singing "hope I die before I get old"..
(Also, I wonder how Mr Townsend's getting on with his "book"..)
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 3, 2023 11:35:50 GMT
I suspect Glasto goers would be thrilled if the Rolling Stones, the oldest rock & rollers in the world, appeared on the Pyramid stage.
I suspect, and this is a longshot, that todays popular music superstars will not have the enduring popularity of people like Roger Daltrey 79, Mick Jagger 78, Rod the Mod 78, Elton John 75, and no doubt a few others and, perhaps that's for the best.
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Post by Orac on Mar 3, 2023 12:06:00 GMT
Pop music is dead and it was killed by the corporations. Currently there doesn't seem to be much of anything to replace it with. All very embarrassing. Cultural stagnation
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Post by sword on Mar 3, 2023 12:44:08 GMT
I suspect Glasto goers would be thrilled if the Rolling Stones, the oldest rock & rollers in the world, appeared on the Pyramid stage. I suspect, and this is a longshot, that todays popular music superstars will not have the enduring popularity of people like Roger Daltrey 79, Mick Jagger 78, Rod the Mod 78, Elton John 75, and no doubt a few others and, perhaps that's for the best. Indeed,difference is they are real artists and musicians,most of what passes for pop or rock music these days is terrible,most of it computer driven bullshit and semi dressed Women and girls prancing about on stage with little or no singing talent. |
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Post by walterpaisley on Mar 3, 2023 15:50:44 GMT
Nice to hear that the BBC have finally renamed the "John Peel Stage".
It was never a good look.
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Post by Bentley on Mar 3, 2023 16:18:23 GMT
Nice to hear that the BBC have finally renamed the "John Peel Stage". It was never a good look. I suspect that most of the ‘ old timers’ are guilty of shagging 15 year olds but hey ho. |
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Post by walterpaisley on Mar 3, 2023 20:22:50 GMT
I suspect that most of the ‘ old timers’ are guilty of shagging 15 year olds but hey ho. Bill Wyman comes immediately to mind. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Mar 3, 2023 21:49:00 GMT
Nice to hear that the BBC have finally renamed the "John Peel Stage". It was never a good look. The BBC don't name the stages. |
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Post by walterpaisley on Mar 3, 2023 22:34:48 GMT
Didn't know that. Still - the chattering class's own version of Savile isn't being honoured any more, so that's the main thing.
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Post by Montegriffo on Mar 4, 2023 7:25:10 GMT
Michael and Emily Eavis own and run the Glastonbury festival.
They have stated that the changing of the name of the John Peel stage is unrelated to the accusations against him.
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Post by walterpaisley on Mar 4, 2023 7:58:01 GMT
Not sure if I believe that. The publicity around the issue has been growing steadily, and it's going nowhere.
Still, we have to take their statement at face value.
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Post by Montegriffo on Mar 4, 2023 8:27:10 GMT
Not sure if I believe that. The publicity around the issue has been growing steadily, and it's going nowhere. Still, we have to take their statement at face value. I suspect it has more to do with the fact most young Glastonbury attendants these days have no idea who John Peel is or what his contribution to the music industry was. |
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Post by walterpaisley on Mar 4, 2023 8:35:29 GMT
True enough.
(Edit: Are there many YOUNG Glasto' attendees these days, though? My own boys went years ago, but now just prefer to watch it on telly, as the price is prohibitive (They went to "Primavera" in Barcelona last year for a fraction of the price, and they're off to one in France this summer..).
The only people I know who still go pretty much every year are in their (I'm guessing) late sixties!
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Post by Montegriffo on Mar 4, 2023 12:53:37 GMT
True enough. (Edit: Are there many YOUNG Glasto' attendees these days, though? My own boys went years ago, but now just prefer to watch it on telly, as the price is prohibitive (They went to "Primavera" in Barcelona last year for a fraction of the price, and they're off to one in France this summer..). The only people I know who still go pretty much every year are in their (I'm guessing) late sixties! I've not been in a long while, maybe 15 years or so. I'd say it was students who bought tickets and middle aged people who did the majority of the work. Performers, stall holders, organisers etc. I used to go every year on a free ticket with a vehicle pass for doing juggling workshops in the circus area. One and a half hours on the Friday and Saturday and 3 hrs on the Sunday. I'd arrive on the Wednesday and stay until the following Wednesday to avoid the traffic snarl ups. I gave up going in the end because I was spending more and more time in my motorhome playing poker with my juggling mates and watching bands on TV than I was trudging around the site. I thought I should give up my ticket so a younger person, who was less jaded, could go instead. I lost count how many times I went but I'm guessing it was about 15 times over a period of 25 years or so. It did change a lot when they got serious about security and built the big wall. When I first went back in the '80s there used to be about 150k tickets sold and another 100k who got in for free. It lost it's edge when the wall went up although it was a lot nicer in some respects. Crime went down about 90% for a start and it became a lot easier to move around site. It could take you an hour to walk from one stage to another in the old days just because of the huge crowds and the toilets were truly disgusting. It changed from being anarchic to quite corporate though and lost a lot of its character. No more hot knife stalls or people wandering around selling tequila shots. |
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