I saw ' a ' but I should have watched ' b '

[Filthy]

I missed Elbow for Roni Size last year. Great though Roni was, it was a decision mainly made on my intake of "sundries" rather than on merit.

My worst one of these was Reading 96 though. The jaw dropping awfulness of the Stone Roses on the main stage when Underworld were on in the tent. The smug look on my friends faces who made the right choice will never be forgotten.

[srvman]

went to the big top instead of seeing verve

i missed leonard cohen for king solomon burke which was fantastic but i feel i missed an epic moment

[Ed209]

whatever was on the same time as oasis in 04.

Edited February 17, 2009 by Ed209

[hazey_jane]

2004: went to see Bill Bailey, should have seen Orbital. I really like Bill Bailey and he was good but listening to the Radio 1 Orbital set afterwards.... gah.

[Young Lover]

missed Leonard Cohen cause I was coming up. should have gone anyway. can't remember who i saw instead (was either The Whip or Eddie Grant)

I don't particularly like Elbow, but I saw Band of Horses instead (whose first album I loved) and they were one of my biggest ever Glasto disappointments. Really lazy self-indulgent stoned performance, off-key, etc etc

I'd have liked to have seen Dizzee Rascal as well. All in all, though, last year was pretty good for clashes.

[srvman]

missed Leonard Cohen cause I was coming up. should have gone anyway. can't remember who i saw instead (was either The Whip or Eddie Grant)

I don't particularly like Elbow, but I saw Band of Horses instead (whose first album I loved) and they were one of my biggest ever Glasto disappointments. Really lazy self-indulgent stoned performance, off-key, etc etc

I'd have liked to have seen Dizzee Rascal as well. All in all, though, last year was pretty good for clashes.

[titch juicy]

1997 - Kula Shaker instead of Radiohead.

Much as I enjoyed Kula Shaker's set at the time, Radiohead's set is still said to have been one of the best ever at Glastonbury, and anyway Kula Shaker ended up repeating their set the following afternoon when some other act didn't show up.

[Francis Biley]

I wish I'd have seen the chemical brothers instead of the who in 07. The who weren't bad, but from what I heard from my mates and the footage I saw, The Chems were absolutely mesmerising.

The same year, my mates turned up at the other stage eagerly expecting the manics only to realise that they'd turned up for mika instead, while the manics were on the pyramid.

"big girls you are beautiful" instead of "under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness"

[Hellborne]

2007 - I should have left Squarepusher early to catch Bjork on the Other Stage, and 2008 I should have left CSS early to catch some of Squarepusher. Decisions, decisions!

[beadfc]

I saw Basement Jaxx instead of Paul McCartney in 2004. I will always regret that one, especially as Basement Jaxx then headlined the year after.

[Originalshez]

2009, my mates literally dragged me to see Franz instead of Bruce

[lieutenant_pigeon]

mine would have to be last year, going to see reverend and the makers in the leftfield (which was awesome btw) instead of seeing jayz (not that i like jayz, just that it was a legendary moment and everyone i say "i went to glasto last year" to always the first thing they say is "did u see jayz?" bloody annoying!

[shortleg]

Hothouse Flowers instead of Macca.

I loath Macca but it was obviously a memorable set and I should have bailed out of disappointing Hothouse Flowers to catch the Hey Jude moment.

[Pear_Cider]

In 2007 I stupidly found myself at the wrong side of the Pyramid field when Amy Winehouse was on (Saturday afternoon). I stayed to watch some of her set out of morbid curiosity, mindful of the fact that I wanted to be in the Acoustic tent to see the Dylan Project. By the time left and fought my way through the crowd and the mud to get there, I only got to see about 15 minutes

[bonny147]

I missed The Flaming Lips and Radiohead to see...well, I'm not entirely sure. I may even have seen them, but they clearly didn't make much of an impression on me. Watching the others on TV almost made me cry.

[Sam.]

2009, my mates literally dragged me to see Franz instead of Bruce

[Arronbury]

Rod Stewart/Air 2002.

I felt I made the wrong choice too but unlike everyone else here I chose Air. I saw the first 3 or four Songs of Rod, then the majority of Air (maybe all of their set, I certainly remember the start of the Encore) then ran back and caught the end of Rod. I thought he put on a true show. Exciting, carnival like and was a brilliant close to the weekend with 100,000 people swaying and chanting "Sailling". Air may have looked good on telly but at that time on a Sunday when you have been partying like never before and you know you will only see one more major that weekend I think you need something a bit cheery and dare I say it, cheesy. Muse were a great energetic close but often I find the Sunday headliners don't fit the mood of the final day of a hard weekend. Kylie would have fun for example in 2005(?).

As for Killers and Iggy... I made the same mistake as many in thinking the Killers would be a good show. After a fantastic firework display I felt they walked on and the mood (and sound/volume output) sank and after 3 or 4 songs I dashed to see Iggy. I saw one song and then there was the stage invasion which took so long to sort out. 1 song later I heard Lost Vagueness a callin'. I managed (somehow) to make it up there just in time for Madness (it was a long, fast and busy dash to have made it from the back of the Pyramid to LV in such a short time and to have seen Iggy on route). Having seen bits of the 2 main headline acts I can safely say that Madness was the right choice of the 3.

[disasterplan44]

I can safely say that Madness was the right choice of the 3.

[Stuster]

I watched Kasabian stupidly instead of Arcade fire a few years ago, much to my regret .

[sifi]

It wasn't me, but a mate of mine watched The Charlatans instead of Robert Plant. Afterwards he asked me who Robert Plant was.

He felt a little bit silly.

[Saturday Boy]

2007: Saw Doctors instead of Ozric Tentacles. My GF was ill, we were already at Avalon, she didn't fancy trudging down to the Glade. I should have been a total bastard and abandoned her. I loves a bit of Ozrics at Glasto!

[Crouchie]

1. ozomatli instead of muse! IDIOTS

none of my mates wanted to see muse so I decided to stay with the crowd instead of going to it on my own and go to the dance tent for ozomatli.. only to find out that they had been moved to the jazz world stage! therefore we ended up walking half the night and saw a handfull of songs. BIG MISTAKE.. HUGE

2. We left the Arctic Monkeys after 3 songs to go and find hot chip in the JP tent. It was horrendous and we left after 2 songs to go back to the tent - passing a brilliant sounding Bjork. Looking back we should have gone to Bjork.

[amfy]

As soon as I saw the thread title I knew I wouldn't be the only one who made the Oasis V Chems mistake.

I had seen The Chems many times already but never seen Oasis, so I decided I must see Oasis.

Thats the worst part, I wasn't even dragged there by friends with poor taste, it was my own stupid decision.

The worst part was that i had an almost identical dilemma last year with Groove Armada V The Verve, and found that i had learnt nothing. Went to see the Verve and really wished I'd ended the Festival with the errrm slightly more upbeat Groovemeisters. Not that The Verve were shite or anything, just not where I personally should've been.

[Chazeboy]

Made the big mistake of going to see Amy last year instead of Anybody else!!!!, she was utterly awful

[alframsey]

I have two, missing KoL last year for Jimmy Cliff. While Jimmy was amazing, i do love KoL. And also, watching Oasis in 2004. Why the hell did i do that?!