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Is it just me or is anyone else considering cancelling Glasto this year?

The rumoured line-up is very disappointing, in my opinion. There is not one act (apart from Blur probably) that I would pay money to go and see in their own right.

Didn’t Mr Eavis say a couple of years ago he wanted to attract younger visitors to his festival? I’m no spring chicken myself but acts like Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Springsteen, Fairport Convention, Crosby Stills Nash, and Tom Jones etc aren’t going to help at all. They actually make me feel young.

I think the final nail in the coffin was when I read that Des O’Connor was rumoured to be there. Give me strength!

Things better improve soon or I’ll be cashing in my ticket for the Leeds or V Festival.

Anyone else considering cancelling or is it just me??

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Is it just me or is anyone else considering cancelling Glasto this year?

The rumoured line-up is very disappointing, in my opinion. There is not one act (apart from Blur probably) that I would pay money to go and see in their own right.

Didn’t Mr Eavis say a couple of years ago he wanted to attract younger visitors to his festival? I’m no spring chicken myself but acts like Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Springsteen, Fairport Convention, Crosby Stills Nash, and Tom Jones etc aren’t going to help at all. They actually make me feel young.

I think the final nail in the coffin was when I read that Des O’Connor was rumoured to be there. Give me strength!

Things better improve soon or I’ll be cashing in my ticket for the Leeds or V Festival.

Anyone else considering cancelling or is it just me??

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Give it a try man, i blasted last years line up, but had a brill time....i have to agree now that its not only the music i go for, although at the time i did not think that way,its 60/40 now for music and a good time...so don't knock what you have not tried :angry:

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Five of my mates are desperate to get tickets in April, the more available the better. I would suggest if like anything else in life that you are not happy, then you do somthing about it. Get a refund, go to V or Reading and everyone will be happy. Well I say happy but its very unlikely that my 5 mates or thousands of others will get that golden ticket come April!! Seriously, you don't know how lucky you are and thats a shame.

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Wow! I didn't realise I was being so controversial. I was only stating MY opinion.

I've been going to festivals for years but never been to Glasto. I ususally choose my festival based on the line-up. This was going to be my first year at Glasto although I have enjoyed many previous acts that I've seen on the BBC TV coverage.

I just posted my thoughts before I left work after reading the rumoured line-up. I am staggered by the response. I wasn't trying to wind anyone up or 'bait' them. It's just that I know of one person who has already cancelled. My mate and I were just considering it and wondered if others thought the same.

Thanks to those few who gave me a positive reply and support.

But most of the replies were just abusive. Is this typical of the people who go to Glastonbury? Surely not.

Being told to 'f**k off' just because I've stated my opinion seems a bit strong.

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I can sorta cope with the small minded that want Glasto to be overrun by kids from 6th form - but Eavis putting a comment like that out there is just crazy. Funny how when he couldn;t shift tickets last year he started to panic - but I bet alot of people that bought them early on were the folks who have been going to Glastonbury for many years and not the young festival first timers or regular fesitval goers.

the thing that's passed most people by is that that comment came about as a part of a set-up by nme - eavis' words were in response to questioning by nme (so they weren't just a comment he came out with), and the questions were loaded to get that sort of response because nme are desperate to try to worm their way back into Glastonbury. The questions were followed by a comment along the lines of "well, if you want young people then you should let nme have greater involvement and you should have us selling your tickets" (which they'd have made money from). They've never got over being booted out in the mid-nineties.

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OK, I lov glastonbury, it means an awful lot to me.

while i agree that 3 or 4 acts don't make or break a festival, I also think that the booking policy has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. I'm going to go to Glastonbury regardless of who's playing pretty much and I am a classic example and believer in WoW's 'vibe not lineup' credo.

But, and this is the big BUT for me, the vibe has changed, it's becoming more and more of a revivalist festival. I believe it should be about new music, it should be about the alternative. Remember 'Archaos' headlining the pyramid? waht a tremendous thing. Is that possible now? It's safe and easy to book rolf harris, bruce springsteen, blur etc, but is it a good thing?

now i know that I'm on danger of sounding like I'm knocking the line-up, I'm not, I'm questioning the mentality that says you have to book big acts and the mentality that seems to say that old blues singers/ bands from the 60s etc etc have a an imortant role in a vibrant, contemporary cutting edge music festival.

I'll be there, I'll have a great time, but there is a worry for me that the festival is increasingly backwards looking, safe and conservative

Vibe not line-up, definitely. But lets think about that vibe....

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But most of the replies were just abusive. Is this typical of the people who go to Glastonbury? Surely not.

but the acts currently rumoured are also not typical of what plays at Glastonbury and what will play at Glastonbury this year - they're simply what is currently rumoured.

Those that have been 'abusive' (or in most cases just simply not agreeing with you :lol:) know this is the case, which is why they find your comments a little ridiculous.

It's simply the fact that acts that have been around for a long time know how the game works and what they can do and not do. Newer acts don't know the game and so are controlled by their fears - and so tend not to put up on their websites what they aren't sure they should be publishing. The same happens each and every year.

Over the next few months a huge number of acts that will also be playing the likes of T, V and Reading/Leeds will either announce themselves or will be announced by Glasto, and along with the older acts and more diverse acts that Glastonbury also has will have this will build into a line-up that no other festival can get close to .... unless it's the case that there's a particular band playing exclusively at another fest that you just have to see in which case you'll probably prefer the line-up where that band is.

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Wow! I didn't realise I was being so controversial. I was only stating MY opinion.

I've been going to festivals for years but never been to Glasto. I ususally choose my festival based on the line-up. This was going to be my first year at Glasto although I have enjoyed many previous acts that I've seen on the BBC TV coverage.

I just posted my thoughts before I left work after reading the rumoured line-up. I am staggered by the response. I wasn't trying to wind anyone up or 'bait' them. It's just that I know of one person who has already cancelled. My mate and I were just considering it and wondered if others thought the same.

Thanks to those few who gave me a positive reply and support.

But most of the replies were just abusive. Is this typical of the people who go to Glastonbury? Surely not.

Being told to 'f**k off' just because I've stated my opinion seems a bit strong.

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it's becoming more and more of a revivalist festival.

that's nothing particular to Glastonbury - it's happening with all festivals, and with the music scene in general.

I believe it should be about new music, it should be about the alternative.

Glastonbury has never particularly been about new music. That doesn't mean it ignores it (cos it clearly doesn't), but that is not ever been where it's focus is - it is and always has been a broad church.

As for 'alternative', new music is, in the main, about as far away as it's possible to get from anything that could be called 'alternative' - the vast majority of 'new music' has always been about imitation of what has preceded it.

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Wow! I didn't realise I was being so controversial. I was only stating MY opinion.

I've been going to festivals for years but never been to Glasto. I ususally choose my festival based on the line-up. This was going to be my first year at Glasto although I have enjoyed many previous acts that I've seen on the BBC TV coverage.

I just posted my thoughts before I left work after reading the rumoured line-up. I am staggered by the response. I wasn't trying to wind anyone up or 'bait' them. It's just that I know of one person who has already cancelled. My mate and I were just considering it and wondered if others thought the same.

Thanks to those few who gave me a positive reply and support.

But most of the replies were just abusive. Is this typical of the people who go to Glastonbury? Surely not.

Being told to 'f**k off' just because I've stated my opinion seems a bit strong.

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absolutely Neil, as I was writing that, I was thinking that the music scene in general is becoming more backward looking. But yeah, just cos it's happening everywhere, doesn't mean it's too be encouraged. It's a whole other argument, but the quantity of tribute acts, the mass of bands reforming and the prediliction for bands to play their classic album as a gig makes me want to weep.

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This will be my second Glastonbury and after spending far too much of my time on front of the Pyramid last time around I'm actually hoping that this year there aren't too many bands that I know and want to see.This year I really want to able able to wander around the site, discover new things, make new friends, soak up the vibe and hopefully stumble across a band I've never heard of that will blow me away.

Just look upon a line up that you don't know or like as an opportunity to discover new things. To me life would be incredably boring if we only ever stuck to what we knew!

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As for 'alternative', new music is, in the main, about as far away as it's possible to get from anything that could be called 'alternative' - the vast majority of 'new music' has always been about imitation of what has preceded it.
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