With the Who announced today as the final headline act, what are your thoughts on this year’s bill – and will anyone from here be there – Bargepole likes his creature comforts these days so will be strictly an armchair spectator.
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I’m going, but there’s no-one I’ll be rushing to see on the main stage. Probably do a lot of wandering around the periphery. The bloke in the pub who promised to lend me his campervan has given back word and sold it, which is a bugger. Glastonbury is the busiest weekend of the year for camper hire.
Two questions. How much is the ale (just out of interest, as we’ll bring proper stuff from Yorkshire) and is there a jam band tent?
Be nice to meet up.
I’m also going, not masses on the Pyramid that I fancy but always plenty of other acts to see. Beer has been around the £4.50 pint mark for the last couple. Strummerville probably the place to head for jamming.
£4.50? Crikey. I may just take a barrel of the local brew.
I might make a few bob and recoup the cost of admission, ‘cept I’m getting in for nowt.
I don’t usually do the complaining-about-Glasto thing, but seriously, The Who? Christ. The yodelling permed fackin-tastee Walford midget and one with the face like Will Self’s genitals thrashing his arm around like an SA Gauleiter with a massive sleep twitch? Churning out their unthrilling CAMRA slab-rock? Blegh.
Kanye can bog off an’ all.
That’s EXACTLY what a massive racist would say.*
*Finally, an excuse to reactivate an old fave for the new blog.
There’s always The Moody Blues instead of Kanye, and yes take your own booze,mind you no bottles, look after the farm
CAMRA?
I did a blog a few months back about my displeasure at this Kyane West chap headlining, and the fact that Glastonbury is a dismal affair, pandering to the 4 x 4 latte brigade weekending from Belgravia and bien pesant ligger luvvies, and that the only fun to be had is on the fringes, if one can bear the lack of civilised toilet and personal grooming facilities. As for The Who, all two of them, they made a few good singles in the 60s, one classic album and a superb live set. The rest is utterly boring crap about fruit machines and mopeds, going on and on for hours. They invented Rock Opera for fuck’s sake. That is a crime against humanity and can never be forgotten or forgiven.
Even the telly coverage is as dull as ditchwater. Of course, as a bien-pensant rocksnob who stopped going 20 years ago, why would I say any different, so , if pushed, there seem to be way more iddly diddly one man and his dog(gerel) stages than in my day, and I bet they can be a fantastic way of destroying a few braincells. As well as ultimately disappointing. Folk festivals are the thing, hipsters, especially when folk includes all these people:
http://www.moseleyfolk.co.uk/line-up/
No, won’t be going there either, even if the Unthanks are.
Festival of the year, IMHO, will be Shrewsbury:
http://shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/line-up/
Tho’ also hitting another of the curious Moseleyfolkorganiser’s stables of the exotic, the arcane and the ridiculous, next month, Lunar, near Solihull. Nowt like the Fall, Julian Cope, the Pretty Things and Sun Ra Arkestra to unravel all logical thought, not even to mention Wilko or the BBC Radiophonic Workshop:
http://lunarfestival.co.uk/line-up/
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2015/?stage
Timings!