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Glastonbury line up is a nightmare!

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EachandEveryone · 30/05/2023 15:55

At first glance I was relieved as it looked like there were no acts I needed to see appart from my future husband Jarvis. And it was perfect, about five acts I wanted to try and see but no urgency. Elton obviously is one. I will not be in tip top condition this year and Im grateful just to be going but, honestly looking a it properly its full of clashes. Kelis V Artic Monkeys V Wizkid!

who would you be prioritising? https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2023/

Glastonbury Festival - 2023

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2023/

OP posts:
User18538754 · 30/05/2023 21:14

Cat Stevens would also be my priority. DS is going, I will ask him what he thinks of the line up, he manages to get tickets every year, I have only been once, 1984, it was The Smiths and Elvis Costello then.

jay55 · 30/05/2023 21:15

I've never gotten over Prodigy v The cure in the 90s. Didn't even have mobiles so couldn't call my dad to get him to record one.

FfeminyddCymraeg · 30/05/2023 21:15

I’d try and see the Stanton Warriors and Showhawk Duo too.

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Rockbird · 30/05/2023 21:15

Festivals are way too much for me to handle but I'd be there to see Blondie. But I'm seeing them the following week with Iggy Pop, Billy Idol etc which is way more my scene.

mewkins · 30/05/2023 21:18

EachandEveryone · 30/05/2023 16:20

Well, for a start, we dont go for the line up. Its just a bonus. Theres brilliance to be had in the circus. I always like to see about five bands and its never about the headliners on the main stage, Im more likely to be at Hot Chip in John Perl or Sparks up in the Park.

we have been going for twenty years the same ten people give or take. This year only four of us managed to gettickets so it will be different. We have ramped up the glamping as I havent been well and cant rough it. Not that we have since we hit about 45😂. Im looking forward to some healing in the healing fields. And Cat Stevens in the sun.

I'd want to see both Hot Chip and AM. Hot chip are so good live. AM could be hit and miss with him crooning away.

Park stage on Friday looks great! And the acoustic stage looks like a good line up too. Agh! I've no idea what I'd do!

notprincehamlet · 30/05/2023 21:21

Sparks, Manics, Phoenix, Richard Thompson and Goldfrapp for starters. It'll be fab - have a brilliant time!

ididntknowthat11 · 30/05/2023 22:16

I've never been. I've only ever been to some smaller, local festivals.

I clicked on the link to the line up though, and I eventually had to stop scrolling - just pages and pages of bands (and djs, I think?) that I've never heard of!

I was expecting there to be bands I've never heard of, but I wasn't expecting that AMOUNT of them!

I understand it's 5 days of music and there are various different stages, but I wasn't expecting that. Could somebody explain to me what's is like, please? Hard to put into words I suppose, but I am just so taken aback by the pages and pages and pages of performers. For example, what is the pyramid stage, please? Is this the main stage? What other stages / venues are there?

Also, I saw Fleetwood Mac listed really far down in the depths....is this the real Fleetwood Mac?? I'm guessing not as it was really, really far down.

ididntknowthat11 · 30/05/2023 22:18

@EachandEveryone seems knowledgeable, if you have a couple of minutes to educate a very uncool non-festival goer (questions in my previous post above) but would welcome info from anyone!

Although I doubt I'll ever go.....I know they are supposed to be fun but I think I'd find it all very stressful and overwhelming!

BillyBraggisnotmylover · 30/05/2023 22:19

If you’re awake at 2.30am on Thursday head to Truth Stage for Alt.Blk.Era - caught them at the weekend at another festival and they were brilliant.

Also saw Elvana who are playing Avalon on Sunday afternoon and are very silly and entertaining.

Never done Glastonbury (too big!) but do love a good festival.

BillyBraggisnotmylover · 30/05/2023 22:21

ididntknowthat11 · 30/05/2023 22:16

I've never been. I've only ever been to some smaller, local festivals.

I clicked on the link to the line up though, and I eventually had to stop scrolling - just pages and pages of bands (and djs, I think?) that I've never heard of!

I was expecting there to be bands I've never heard of, but I wasn't expecting that AMOUNT of them!

I understand it's 5 days of music and there are various different stages, but I wasn't expecting that. Could somebody explain to me what's is like, please? Hard to put into words I suppose, but I am just so taken aback by the pages and pages and pages of performers. For example, what is the pyramid stage, please? Is this the main stage? What other stages / venues are there?

Also, I saw Fleetwood Mac listed really far down in the depths....is this the real Fleetwood Mac?? I'm guessing not as it was really, really far down.

That’s Fleetmac Wood, not Fleetwood Mac 😉

ididntknowthat11 · 30/05/2023 22:35

@BillyBraggisnotmylover Oh, is it? 😂 Haha, I didn't clock that, just read it as Fleetwood Mac. Never heard of Fleetmac Wood, but that does make more sense then GrinBlush

Thank you for the map...that certainly does look huge!! So how does it work? Like you surely can't just go with the flow or you would miss all the acts you want to see? You must have to properly plan it all out, time wise?

And what is Arcadia, please?

And there are really bands on at like 4am? I take it some people are in their tents asleep, and others are still wandering about watching bands?

I was desperate to go to Glastonbury in the early 90s (never did) but it seems very different now and it just doesn't appeal...,or maybe I'm just older. Or maybe I just didn't realise back then quite how huge it was (although I'm guessing it was smaller back then).

I've seen a lot of Woodstock documentaries (was slightly obsessed with Woodstock when I was younger) and the bands playing late late late at night always fascinated me. I've always wondered what it would have been like to have been there, at something so absolutely amazing, but I think it's like a lot of things, it would have undoubtedly been great, but at the time people wouldn't have realised they were a part of history and how seminal it would become in the future. There's no denying it would have been amazing, but i don't know if it would have been quite as amazing at the time as it looks to us now looking back, particularly with the death of Janis Joplin etc.

I'm rambling, I guess I'm saying I felt that Glastonbury in the early 90s held an appeal to me that it doesn't now and I wonder if it it because it had changed, or maybe just that I'm getting old Grin

Oldraver · 30/05/2023 22:41

Bin them all off and go and see The Saw Doctors on Friday night

stepstepstep · 30/05/2023 22:47

Ooh ooh ooh

Los Bitchos - bloody love ‘em
Big Joanie
Shelf Lives
The Big Moon
Young Fathers - best gig I’ve seen this year
Fever Ray
Billy No Mates

Don’t have tickets 😭

Costacoffeeplease · 30/05/2023 22:48

Yes deffo Saw Doctors. Have seen them numerous times since they started touring in the late 80s/early 90s. Great craic

tinselvestsparklepants · 30/05/2023 22:55

I will be able to hear most of it from the garden. Been watching the fence start to go up and the 'no access to festival' signs have been up for weeks. Already telling work I can't travel ion the weds/thurs, I could get out of the village but it might take several hours to get back in. It is a very mad and fun thing to live next door to!

passthegingordon · 30/05/2023 22:57

@jay55 I saw the Prodigy but I mind it being Oasis not the Cure they clashed with - a pretty hazy memory though so happy to be told I'm wrong! Prodigy were ace anyhoo.

Apart from Hot Chip it looks shite this year.

MadisonAvenue · 30/05/2023 23:06

I think that there’s only Blondie, Sparks and Lottery Winners who I’d be bothered about seeing.

Marsyas · 30/05/2023 23:16

I was at Glastonbury in 93, 94 and 95, in the front row for Pulp on the main stage, loved my time there but way too old now.
I agree with you OP, it’s not just the bands - I saw Les Amants du Pont Neuf (sp?!) in a cinema tent, slept in the Sacred Space, wandered round the circus field..
Anyway looking at the line up I’d love to see Badly Drawn Boy, Richard Thompson, Billy Bragg, Blondie, Fat Boy Slim, Manics, Lightning Seeds, …and checking out weird stuff like the Fire and Water Ceremony with the Wisdom Keepers, I love all that.

CheesyChipsOnWembleyWay · 30/05/2023 23:38

Go and see the Lottery Winners they are superb live.

PlantingMarigolds · 01/06/2023 07:42

Not going.

But I'd go to the following. (just woke up so no idea if they clash time wise)

Guns & Roses
Lizzo
Amadou & Mariam
Blonde
Loyle Carner
Rudimental
Candi Staton
Sophie Ellis B
Lana Del Rey
Ricky Lee Jones
Mica Paris

I'd go and throw eggs at Billy Brag. Vile man.

Have a brilliant time OP! 💃🏻🙌🪩🎪

OneHundredOtters · 01/06/2023 09:28

I'm so excited! The clashes are so hard though.

Things I can't decide:

Friday night
Artic Monkeys
Hot Chip
Sack it all off to get a good spot for Chemical brothers

Saturday: Manics or Lizzo. Or try for a bit of both
Bother with Guns and Roses?
Lana Del Ray would be great in the afternoon but maybe not Saturday night vibes
Try to go to Fatboy Slim when he's on quite a small stage and it's always overcrowded
Rumours that that TBAs are blur and/or Florence

Sunday has to be Elton but time to go to War on Drugs first?

So many logistical issues to think about!

The next two weeks of work are going to be hard!

Karatema · 01/06/2023 09:39

Bluebells1970 · 30/05/2023 18:15

Hmm not the best year but I thought that last time and we ended up watching loads on TV so who knows..!!

Saw Elton live a few years ago, and it was awful. I nearly cried because it was a milestone birthday gift for DH, cost nearly £400 for the tickets, and we left 2/3rds of the way through to avoid the traffic. His voice was awful. And he kept stopping, which was really irritating - mainly to shout at stage hands or venue staff.. he was clearly in a foul mood that day.

I agree. I took my DMiL to see Elton many many moons ago, she's had dementia at least 10 years, and he was awful! Such a disappointment 🙁
Would go to see Gilbert O'Sullivan, Arctic Monkies, Christine and the Queens plus Yusuf and Blondie and I also see Sparks are playing. My friend tells me the Queens of Stone Age are good too but, as you can gather from my list, I'm too old to camp! 🤣

lostinfusion · 01/06/2023 09:49

I would definitely skip Elton - saw him at Bestival & not sure what I expected but it was the most boring live performance i'd ever seen.