2013 Lineup

[thetime]

That's the thing, he's into Coldplay, Two Door Cinema Club, and that stuff. He's coming to the Reading Sunday with me this year. I think he'd be fine at Glastonbury!

[Mouseboy11]

He would love especiallhow diverse it is. Will be the first year Glastonbury doesn't fall on my daughter's birthday next year so I'm hoping for a ticket.

[LondonTom]

I'm hoping to go to Glastonbury but my mate is claiming it doesn't have any music he likes!

[Mouseboy11]

Not to worry! Once your there, he will see...there's just so much different to music to like! You simply cant see you don't like the music glastonbury has, otherwise you probs just don't like music (Bit limited in the big heavier acts but had QoSTA last year.)

[Vacant0]

I'm hoping to go to Glastonbury but my mate is claiming it doesn't have any music he likes!

[eFestivals]

I'm hoping to go to Glastonbury but my mate is claiming it doesn't have any music he likes!

then your mate doesn't like music.

[Mouseboy11]

Yeah that's exactly what I told him haha!

[AcademicPistol]

Your mate doesn't like music then. Don't persuade him otherwise though, more chance of getting a ticket myself then...

[LondonTom]

His mate could be exclusively in to Classical or Death Metal......

[mrtourette]

I've seen classical at Glasto to (I give you not much but its been there a few times )....Bet you could find death metal on one of the smaller stages to

[eFestivals]

The range of death metal, punk and harcore is very limited if not non-existant, but I'm sure if that was your excuse for not liking Glasto it would be your fault for being narrow-minded and not willing to experiment with world music or jazz.

there's absolutely loads of punk at Glasto. There's everything else too, just not necessarily of 'big name' bands. The reason people think there isn't is because they don't know their bands as well as they like to think they do.

[mrtourette]

Well it depends on your definition of punk. Someone tried telling me last year that Glasto had punk covered by booking Jimmy Eat World

And if you like punk, what's wrong with wanting to go to a festival where you've heard of some of the punk on offer?

[eFestivals]

Well it depends on your definition of punk. Someone tried telling me last year that Glasto had punk covered by booking Jimmy Eat World

And if you like punk, what's wrong with wanting to go to a festival where you've heard of some of the punk on offer?

anyone who doesn't know the punk bands that Glasto has every year doesn't know what punk is.

[mrtourette]

Yeah I thought that would be the case.

[Hart Attack]

I don't like Glasto either to be fair... it doesn't ever seem to have much of the stuff that I like; metal, pop-punk, post-hardcore, emo, post-grunge, hard rock and so on. Only a handful of token bands of those types, and they're usually ones you can often see at Download/Sonisphere/Reading (like QOTSA, JEW, Slash, Coheed, Biffy, Pendulum etc).

You would think a festival of that size and prestige would make more of an effort to include a wider variety of styles, especially with the number of stages they have...

[mrtourette]

I don't like Glasto either to be fair... it doesn't ever seem to have much of the stuff that I like; metal, pop-punk, post-hardcore, emo, post-grunge, hard rock and so on. Only a handful of token bands of those types, and they're usually ones you can often see at Download/Sonisphere/Reading (like QOTSA, JEW, Slash, Coheed, Biffy, Pendulum etc).

You would think a festival of that size and prestige would make more of an effort to include a wider variety of styles, especially with the number of stages they have...

[eFestivals]

You would think a festival of that size and prestige would make more of an effort to include a wider variety of styles, especially with the number of stages they have...

Glasto has always been a pop/alternative fest.

Would you also say that Download should book Cher Lloyd?

[eFestivals]

I'm afraid you're wrong HartAttack, Glasto does have plenty of these genres but you obviously aren't a big enough fan to notice when bands from these genres are on the smaller stages.

tourettes got the better of you today?

There were 1,200 distinct acts that efests listed last year (so you can add a few hundred more to that). How many of them do you know?

[AcademicPistol]

tourettes got the better of you today?

There were 1,200 distinct acts that efests listed last year (so you can add a few hundred more to that). How many of them do you know?

[VCK]

Thing about Glasto is, there's more to it than just the bands. It's hard to explain but you just have to go and see for yourself to fully understand. There were only four acts I really wanted to see all weekend (Blur, Springsteen, The Specials and Spinal Tap) but it was the best weekend of my life.

[eFestivals]

Where is the list?

same place they always are for a fest, on the line-ups page for that fest.

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/2011/lineup.shtml

(there's actually more entries than 1200 on that page, as some acts are listed more than once. I did a bit of back-end trickery to get the distinct number of acts.)

[eFestivals]

I'm afraid you're wrong HartAttack, Glasto does have plenty of these genres but you obviously aren't a big enough fan to notice when bands from these genres are on the smaller stages.

what you're missing from this mrtourette, is that if someone wants (say) the Download line-up, guess where they can go instead of Glastonbury?

[AcademicPistol]

same place they always are for a fest, on the line-ups page for that fest.

http://www.efestival...11/lineup.shtml

(there's actually more entries than 1200 on that page, as some acts are listed more than once. I did a bit of back-end trickery to get the distinct number of acts.)

[jump]

How I tell how many punk bands are at Galsto is to count the mohawks on the bands playing when I'm watching them on BBC. Last year I got 0.

[AcademicPistol]

Neil there is no alternative to Download, Soni got cancelled

Edited June 15, 2012 by AcademicPistol