"i came - i saw - i conquered"

that you certainly did ..

Carcass wrote:

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According to the GLC who is on site. Someone pelted Jay-Z's exiting bus with bananas to much cheering.

Seems like it's more of a 'festivals-really-attract-wankers-these-days' kind of thing.

Yep - crowds bring out the 'lowest common denominator' in people. It's part of the reason I don't go to festivals - the bigger the crowd, the lower the common denominator ...and this is a new low.

Wha... no mentions of Neon Neon's set? With Griff Rhys and Cate Le Bon on deckchairs, Har Mar doing the Spank Rock parts on his head and Boom Bip channelling Jan Hammer?

What a treat.

I'm reading a colleague's copy of the Sun and just read this in 'Bizarre'.

Apparently the twat who writes this daily shite was under whelmed by Jay-Z's performance. Seems like his mates agreed as he writes,

"TV Host TIM LOVEJOY, who knows his tunes, agreed with me that it was poor. Speaking backstage, Tim said, "That was bland".

Brilliant. That cunt Lovejoy wouldn't know a tune if it bit him in the arse.

robw wrote:

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"TV Host TIM LOVEJOY, who knows his tunes, agreed with me that it was poor. Speaking backstage, Tim said, "That was bland".

Brilliant. That cunt Lovejoy wouldn't know a tune if it bit him in the arse.

Particularly a Ramones one.

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It's nonsense. It was only not sold out by a couple of hundred tickets. As always they put a few more tickets on sale this year. Therefore they sold the same amount of tickets

Though the festival is putting the above line about , I don't think it is true. The festival appears to have sold significantly less tickets than in the last two years. This of course still means there were 125,000+ people on site but having been there for a few hours on Friday evening it was markedly less crowded in the key areas than 06 or 07.

"This of course still means there were 125,000+ people on site but having been there for a few hours on Friday evening it was markedly less crowded in the key areas than 06 or 07."

Could be that everyone was in the Park Field for Franz Ferdinand and/or Dizzee Rascal and/or the Doherty cunt. That's where I was. In fact, I spent more time at the Park stage than any other stage (CSS on Saturday, for instance). I probably wasn't the only one.

That Park field if absolutely jam packed would probably hold a couple of thousand tops! Although there is case to be made that the relatively unspectacular lineup meant that people were spread around the stages a bit more evenly - no "Killers" headliners which packed out the pyramid stage last year for example.

I also noticed big gaps in the camping fields too, whilst last year you couldn't have pitched a windbreak anywhere.

Made everything much more pleasant though, in combination with the nice weather.

Just thought I would drop by after my recovery day. Fortunately, the sensible pat of my relationship (not me) taped the beejeezua out of the whole weekend.

Yesterday was a wee bit average, but apparently Franz Ferdinand have about 20 hit singles waiting to happen.

I re watched Jay-Z sober, and the wee man was bloody brilliant AGAIN. Someone upthread mentioned about the Gallagher thing, and yes: talk about kicked into touch?

I will be perfectly honest and say that I dont much care for mr Z's music, and I did at about 4 seconds into it, scream, wheres your big nosed girlfriend... but 6 seconds in, the man became THE MAN.

Oh, and apparently the Fratellis were there too... maybe they are saving it up for T in The Park (where Glasvegas will blow them off the face of the earth).

Hope everyone who went enjoyed it, and dont have too big a hangover (or whatever)

All the fucking broadsheet coverage and all the twatting talk in the staffroom today seemed to be along the lines of "I never thought a black man could headline Glastonbury, but he proved them wrong by becoming a white man".

Where do you work that people talk like that?

See fatter's football team... it may make his point, sense.

I work in Nottingham.

That was the subtext more than the context. It was just all this "hip-hop's not right for Glasto" type stuff, replaced by "it was great cos he did Wonderwall".

In fairness, the response to the non-Wonderwall section that made up 99.3% of his set has been overwhelmingly positive as well.