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2.5 hours?!?!? I am going with a big group (and a lot of glasto virgins) and sold it to my best friend this year on the basis of her all time hero ever ever ever being there. Good news that it's come true but I have to watch him for THAT long?

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Michael Eavis: 'Bruce Springsteen is the world's best performer'

Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has dubbed Bruce Springsteen the "best performer in the world" after securing the singer as the main headliner.

Eavis also revealed that he managed to convince him to appear after sending a letter stating why he wanted him to play at the event.

"I saw him in Cardiff last autumn and honestly I haven't seen anybody like him," he said.

"There is no-one better in the world."

He went on: "He was so good. Even the songs I did not know were absolutely brilliant.

"So I was on the phone trying to make it happen from there on in."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/mu...00/7909801.stm

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The Geneva Convention or UN Human Rights legislation was created to prevent cruel and unusual punishment this is true. However this experience could quit possible be off the scale and i suggest we need new legislation to prevent such acts of horror. :P
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This will be the biggest crowd ever at the Pyramid.

I hope theyve got some really big hitters lined up to go alongside him because that field was stretched by Amy Winehouse last year. The crush of people leaving that field when she was finished was unreal. Bruce and the ESB will exceed that by a significant amount.

Theyve got to get their act together to deal with an 80K+ attendance for The Boss.

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This will be the biggest crowd ever at the Pyramid.

I hope theyve got some really big hitters lined up to go alongside him because that field was stretched by Amy Winehouse last year. The crush of people leaving that field when she was finished was unreal. Bruce and the ESB will exceed that by a significant amount.

Theyve got to get their act together to deal with an 80K+ attendance for The Boss.

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look at glastonbury sold out this year a lot of that on the rumours he would be playing

that was responsible for only a very small proportion of the sales.

It sold out this year because after all of the slating it got before last year's fest, it turned around and said in a very loud voice "up yours" to all the doubters. :blink:

Seriously, it would have sold out in a very similar manner if The Smurfs were the strongest rumour around for this year. The sales per-day were little different after the bruce rumours started than they were before them.

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I've been pondering this, I don't think they'll be a HUGE crowd there at all. I think they'll be a lot of people and a great atmosphere for the true believers, but 80K plus? I'm not so sure.

Springsteen is a bit of an anathema to most of my friends, he's just not our thing, and when I was younger the people I knocked about wiht were not into him. This isn't a criticism of him, that's been talked about enough, but a practical assesment. Springsteen himself said the same in the press conference for the Superbowl, that he felt his music had skipped a generation. I think I agree with him, and they'lll be less people than you might expect when he plays.

anyway, pleae don't take this as heresy, it's not meant to be, and it's not about his talents, more his appeal among the Glastonbury crowd.

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:ph34r: my faith will never die

seen him over 25 times in the uk and all over europe and saw the best concerts in history

from rain in milan to rubber chickens in barcalona to the moast amazing crowds in sweden

sweden now there is a place all over gothenburg bruce music everywhere

cars playing it pubs shopping malls

hehe :( bruceeeeeee

anyway he is and always has been my life since i have been 14

couldnt care less who goes or not to watch him

all i know is that he is the best

eek after all that i am going to have a lie down and relax

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I've been pondering this, I don't think they'll be a HUGE crowd there at all. I think they'll be a lot of people and a great atmosphere for the true believers, but 80K plus? I'm not so sure.

Springsteen is a bit of an anathema to most of my friends, he's just not our thing, and when I was younger the people I knocked about wiht were not into him. This isn't a criticism of him, that's been talked about enough, but a practical assesment. Springsteen himself said the same in the press conference for the Superbowl, that he felt his music had skipped a generation. I think I agree with him, and they'lll be less people than you might expect when he plays.

anyway, pleae don't take this as heresy, it's not meant to be, and it's not about his talents, more his appeal among the Glastonbury crowd.

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If Bruce's performance at the start sounds too much like bland american middle of the road dross (and surely even the most rabid fan recognises that at least some of what he does is just that), he'll lose a good proportion of whatever crowd he has pretty quickly.

The simple fact is that at festivals the crowd is not made up of the acts fans. People will go along out of curiosity to check it out, but with 40+ other stages to choose from at Glastonbury they'll soon wander off elsewhere if he's not impressing - it's not like all those other stages will have small bands on that no one is interested in, it's quite likely that they'll be several with acts bigger to the Glasto audience than Bruce is.

TBH, unless he does a greatest hits set, I reckon the crowd when he finishes will be at least 25% down on its size at the start.

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