Nattatouille Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I am quite thrilled by the idea that they will be playing Glasto again. Unfortunately I have exams (again) so I won't be able to go... But I know I will have the set to watch on BBC3 which makes everything a little better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r25d01 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I'd love to go there but I can't. Anyway, it's great they're doing Glasto again. And we might get a video of it (and probably from the Rock am Ring performance too). Have a lot of fun, everyone who's going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyan Kat Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I might not be going but I am excited to be able to watch this on the night :awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaths_friend Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 so did anyone here buy tickets to glasto last year hoping that coldplay headline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyAndy136 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Coldplay to headline Glastonbury 2011 Just been announced; http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/coldplay-announced-as-saturday-night-headliners, and on their official website (http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=700). Well, we pretty much knew it was gonna happen, hey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe_Martin Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I KNOW IT WAS ON FACEBOOK IM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED even though I cant go .................. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyAndy136 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I know, right? So excited! Even though I can't go either... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe_Martin Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Nawww It sucks doesn't it :( I've seen them once live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 It's odd that this year Glasto are announcing the headliners in reverse order, normally it's Friday-Saturday-Sunday. Maybe it means they have someone massive on Friday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaths_friend Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Maybe it means they have someone massive on Friday night. they call themselves U2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 It's official, U2 will headline Friday night Glasto http://www.u2.com/news/title/u2-will-headline-friday-night-glasto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanma Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 great for Coldplay to headline saturday :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 And Glasto won the NME award for Best Festival http://twitter.com/#!/emilyeavis/status/40531781962702848 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 U2, Coldplay - TV dictates the Glastonbury line-up U2, Coldplay - TV dictates the Glastonbury line-up Johnny Dee: Champers and supermodels have changed the face of Glastonbury, but it still beats other festivals Earlier this week U2 confirmed that they would be performing on the Friday night at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The announcement completed the list of Pyramid Stage headliners which also include Coldplay - who have headlined the festival twice before - and Beyonce, who will follow in her husband Jay-Z's steps when she closes the festival on Sunday. We won't learn the full line-up for a couple of months but so far, so yawn as already its apparent that Glastonbury's days as a gathering of outsiders, misfits and rebels are far behind it. Glastonbury is now a mainstream festival with a running order that's dictated by the primetime TV audience rather than the people who actually attend. And if you are lucky enough to get there, the huge runways taken up by the BBC cameras leave you in no doubt who the artists are performing to. For most of its history, Worthy Farm has been home to hippies, travellers and drop-outs; it was so left-leaning it called itself the Glastonbury CND Festival for nearly a decade and so carefree in its organisation that David Bowie's 1971 headline set began at 5am. In the early days the only reason you wouldn't bunk in for nothing would be because you'd miss out on a free pint of milk. Today Glastonbury is home to ever increasing numbers of upper middle-class students, supermodels and people who work in the marketing departments of mobile phone companies. The car parks are full of Land Rovers, wicker picnic baskets are filled with Veuve Clicquot and the Wellington boots of choice are Hunter limited editions. If a band goes so much as a second over its allotted stage time, plugs will be pulled; and a wall more impenetrable than the one that divided Berlin surrounds the site. Meanwhile the acts headlining this corporate playground are ageing tax-dodgers, a pompous public school boy and his anonymous friends (pop quiz: name more than one member of Coldplay) and a mega-rich pop star who sees nothing wrong in entertaining Colonel Gaddafi's son for a fee of $2m. Right on. All music events are expensive these days - as a nation we've strangely allowed promoters not only to overcharge for music but to levy booking fees on top - but the cost of Glastonbury seems gigantic. In 1981 a Glastonbury ticket cost £8 (approximately six times the price of a paperback book then). In 2011 it's £200 (20 times the price of today's most costly paperback). If a Glastonbury ticket had simply gone up in line with inflation - according to the Office of National Statistics Retail price Index figures - it would cost £26. But of course, as Muatsim Gaddafi found out, Beyonce doesn't come cheap. Even as recently as 2007, Glastonbury Festival was still part of the annual spiritual hippie trail. Increasingly these original Glastonbury tribes have become a sideshow, with people trudging to the far corners of the festival for the novelty of seeing some wizened old druid emerging naked from a teepee. Now, the hippies have been edged out and the only teepees on the site exist under the banner of Boutique Camping, temporary homes to those willing to pay more for three nights in a wig-wam than most families spend on their annual summer holiday. Circling these upmarket arrangements another layer of camping privilege exists just beyond the festival boundary, where VIP visitors pay thousands of pounds to stay in luxury yurts. Glastonbury may cling to its non-corporate reputation (it is the only major British festival without sponsorship) but nowhere will you find a finer example of raw capitalism at work. In 2009, just 45 minutes after Michael Jackson died, I wandered through the main market area and was amazed to see a stall selling 'I Was At Glastonbury When Jacko Died' T-shirts. Despite all this, despite the fact that it has without doubt sold out to "the man" - that mythical beast cool baby boomers feared more than any other - and that the lunatic fringe who helped build its reputation are long gone, there is still something incredibly special and, yes, magical about Glastonbury. In reality it doesn't matter who plays there - so much is going on and there are so many stages that everyone can curate their own private festival. And despite its soaring price, it still represents far better value than a Premiership football match or a West End play. And no matter how much you dislike U2 or feel uneasy about the hippie cleansing, little can change the atmosphere. I used to think that headlining Glastonbury was an artist's career pinnacle - I'm not so sure if it is any more. It's rare that a band will play just one festival (indeed Coldplay are already scheduled for Glasgow's T In The Park) and a Glastonbury date is usually preceded by a show in Hyde Park or Wembley. But for the audience, for all its faults, Glastonbury has become the Olympics of music fandom - but without the random drug testing. It's still the festival that beats all others and if you've only ever seen it on telly you really don't know the half of it. http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/75598,news-comment,news-politics,u2-coldplay-beyonce-glastonbury-line-up-is-dictated-by-tv#ixzz1Ez1KLDfT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumbersGirl Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 :wtf: He bashes Glastonbury throughout most of the article, and then ends with "oh by the way it's pretty cool." If a band goes so much as a second over its allotted stage time, plugs will be pulledSeriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Only if they want a rebellion second only to Tahrir Square! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 :wtf: He bashes Glastonbury throughout most of the article, and then ends with "oh by the way it's pretty cool." Seriously? Not true, the organisers allow "over-run" time into the swap-over periods but it's not the best thing to overrun your set time. As for the TV cameras, out of 20 stages only 5 have cameras (Pyramid, Other, John-Peel, West Holts & BBC Introducing), and as for people buying tickets for the line-up, remember it sold out it's tickets last October where no-one was announced to play (compare that to the other major festivals which puts out the line-up before tickets go on sale). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getithom Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Glastonbury on TV? Here in the States, will it be possible to view Glastonbury 2011 on BBC? I would love to watch it. Like, I'd really love to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanma Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 there will be videos for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Here in the States, will it be possible to view Glastonbury 2011 on BBC? I would love to watch it. Like, I'd really love to. Previous years the BBC have had a website full of videos. You just need to find a UK based proxy to watch them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Glastonbury Festival 2011 Ticket Resale Date Confirmed Final tickets resold on April 17... The final tickets for this year's Glastonbury festival will be resold on Sunday April 17 at 9am (GMT). This will be festival-goers last chance to get tickets for Glastonbury festival. The event, which takes place from June 24-26 will see performances from Elbow, Mumford & Sons and Chemical Brothers. Other acts announced to perform are Laura Marling, Warpaint, Fleet Foxes, Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires and James Blake. As previously reported, Coldplay, Beyonce and U2 will also headline. Tickets for the festival have already sold out. http://www.gigwise.com/news/62173/Glastonbury-Festival-2011-Ticket-Resale-Date-Confirmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Glastonbury Festival 2011 Ticket Resale Date Confirmed Final tickets resold on April 17... The final tickets for this year's Glastonbury festival will be resold on Sunday April 17 at 9am (GMT). This will be festival-goers last chance to get tickets for Glastonbury festival. The event, which takes place from June 24-26 will see performances from Elbow, Mumford & Sons and Chemical Brothers. Other acts announced to perform are Laura Marling, Warpaint, Fleet Foxes, Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires and James Blake. As previously reported, Coldplay, Beyonce and U2 will also headline. Tickets for the festival have already sold out. http://www.gigwise.com/news/62173/Glastonbury-Festival-2011-Ticket-Resale-Date-Confirmed 9am GMT you say? Shouldn't it be 9am BST ;) (http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up-poster/) in case people haven't seen it yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Glastonbury Festival 2011 has sold out Glastonbury Festival 2011 resale tickets were snapped up in under two hours this morning (Sunday) as fans eager to see the likes of U2, Coldplay and Beyonce tried desperately to buy unwanted and unsold passes from the original ticket sale. Sources suggested that a record number of festival-goers had registered to buy tickets in the resale after Beyonce was confirmed to headline the Sunday (26 June). “Apologies to those of you who didn't get a ticket,” tweeted the festival on their GlastoFest Twitter account, “demand hugely outstripped supply, so unfortunately some people had to miss out.” The sale wasn’t without its problems, with some people reportedly receiving internal server errors from the SEE Tickets webpage and others getting “kicked out” of the buying process after entering their details. Following festival-only tickets selling out at 9.45am, fans scrambled to buy ticket and coach travel packages to the event, but encountered more issues with the site only allowing users to purchase one seat on coaches. Once this was resolved, all the packages were snapped up by 10.40am. “All tickets have gone - thanks for your patience. See you down here!” tweeted co-organiser Emily Eavis. In an unusual move, festival chiefs announced the full line-up last week, with Primal Scream, Don McLean, B. B. King, Pendulum and loads more set to play. http://www.virtualfestivals.com/latest/news/10007/-/Glastonbury-Festival-2011-has-sold-out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 But keep your eyes out for anymore cancelled tickets going back on sale, either because people entered the wrong payment card details or just cancelling [i think they get to 1st May to cancel] if you still want to go ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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