Anyone going to Glastonbury?

Arrrrr, the finest festival in the world, making Woodstock seem like a big bag of clueless muddy shite. But who's going? This year 112,000 tickets sold out in less than 3 hours. I got lucky this year, but did any other Tiki Centralites grab tickets?

Trader Woody

Woody, now that you've got my attention...please provide a few more details (i.e. who, what, when & $'s).

It's a big festival held in a lovely green valley that's been going on for decades.
It sold out in 3 hours this year despite tickets costing £125 (about $240) and with the line-up yet to be announced. Supposedly 2 million were chasing the 112,000 tickets.

I've been a few times, and it's always been excellent, with something for everyone - a big pyramid stage with major acts on it (last year it had Paul McCartney, Oasis, Muse, James Brown, Morrissey etc), a John Peel stage for left-field bands, a Jazz stage, a dance tent, comedy tent and a bunch of other stuff. It's huge, with something for pretty much everyone.

Here's a bit of history:
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/aboutus/index.asp?id=38

Trader Woody

Here's the Rumored to Attend list from http://www.gorge.org:

Are You Ready For The 2005 Line Up?
Here are things as they stand so far...

Confirmations
Bands that have self-confirmed on their website or in the media.

New this week:

The Kaiser Chiefs - from a band contact
The Beat - from their website
K T Tunstall - on the Other Stage

The rest in alphabetical order:

Tori Amos - according to Molly Knight
Ash - from a contact of the band
Athlete - playing on Saturday
The Bellagios - won the unsigned bands competition for dance
Biggles Wartime Band - confirmed for Croissant Neuf
The Blockheads - playing Lost Vagueness on Sat
Bloc Party - according to Virtual Festivals website
The Broken Family Band - from their website
John Butler Trio - playing on Friday
Chas 'n' Dave - playing the acoustic stage on Saturday
Coldplay - finally seem to be confirmed
The Coral - told a reader at a video shoot recently
Death From Above 1979 - from a contact of the band
Dresden Dolls - said at the NIN gigs this week
The Egg - playing Friday at 3.30pm at "Dance 2nd Tent"
Elvis Costello - mentioned by the Eavises on Radio 2
The Engineers - say they are playing on their website
Garbage - in a radio interview
The Go! Team - headlining John Peel stage on Saturday
Goldie Lookin Chain - playing Dance and one other stage
Jools Holland - playing Sunday at 1.30pm
Hope of the States - according to one of their engineers
I am Kloot - from their messageboard
Kasabian - confirmed on Soccer AM
Keane - said at a gig they are playing the Pyramid at 8.30 on Fri
The Killers - from several sources
The La's - according to a contact
Rory McLeod - playing Avalon stage according to his website
Kylie Minogue - Michael Eavis told the Wells Journal she is playing on Sunday
Modest Mouse - said at a gig they will play a small stage
Van Morrison - mentioned by the Eavises on Radio 2
Moya - won the unsigned bands competition for Jazzworld
Mylo - told Radio 1 he is "pencilled in"
New Order - a contact from their website tells me they are playing
Nine Black Alps - in a recent interview
The Oyster Band - playing on Friday
Razorlight - confirmed on Soccer AM
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - confirmed at a gig
Sharon Shannon - on her website
The Tears - headlining the Peel Stage on Friday
Tiny Tin Lady - says she is playing Acoustic stage on Fri
The Undertones - mentioned by the Eavises on Radio 2
The Violence of Indigo - say they are doing a DJ set, possibly in the Glade
White Stripes - Michael Eavis told the Wells Journal they are playing
Brian Wilson - mentioned by Eavis and confirmed on his website
Youngblood Brass Band - say they are playing on their website

Latest Rumours
Bands that are rumoured in the press or from sources near to the band, but which haven't been confirmed yet.

Bob Geldof - being mentioned in various places
Lauren Hill - quite likely
Billy Bragg - it wouldn't be Glasto without him!
Doves - very likely, but not yet confirmed
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - playing some summer fests
John Otway - he ALWAYS plays!
The Bravery - according to a fan they told
The Subways - apparently they will play twice
The Futureheads - according to a band contact
The Zutons - according to Deltasonic records
The Little Flames - according to Deltasonic records
Status Quo - rumoured by Q magazine and didn't deny it when asked
Snow Patrol - mentioned by Franz Ferdinand on their website
The Streets - mentioned by Franz Ferdinand on their website
Outkast - are thought to have confirmed

Maybe...
Artists which are rumoured, but with little to substantiate it at present.

Beautiful South, Blackbud, Ian Brown, Dreadzone, Embrace, Faithless, Queens of the Stone Age, Scissor Sisters, Subgiant, Suzanne Vega, The Who

Definitely Not!
The following people are definitely not playing according to the bands or Glastonbury spokespeople like Emily Eavis:

U2 - due to touring commitments (is this a bluff?)
Prince - according to Michael Eavis on Radio 2
Franz Ferdinand - have changed their website to say the only 2005 fest now is V

Hey! I just realized, no Hawkwind? :( Are they going to play on a soapbox in from of the gates to protest the fact that the show isn't free?

I've heard good things. We have something simular http://www.bonnaroo.com in Tennessee, though I think Modest Mouse is the only group at both. I'll be going for the third straight year even though last year was a overcrowded nasty mud pit and a traffic nightmare. It is quite a party and the line up is very strong this year. Widespread Panic, Black Crowes, Allman Brothers, Modest Mouse, Dave Mathews, Trey Anastasio, Bob Weir and a few dozen others.

Yeah, as ever the Glasto line-up is full of names that I know, are of "quality", yet I'm not really into. No real surprise there as this will be the 6th time I've gone, and I've never really wanted to see more than a couple of bands each time. For some reason I always gravitate towards the Green Fields, the cider bus or the jazz stage (on a hot day).

I'm just looking forward to the nitrous oxide balloons.

Trader Woody

Yes I am going, stayed up all last saturday night so i'd be awake to buy tickets.

Great! We'll have to meet up for some psychedelic pear cider!!!

Here's the official list of performers that just came out. Take a deep breath:

White Stripes
Coldplay
Kylie
The Killers
New Order
Doves
Elvis Costello
Brian Wilson
Van Morrison
The Zutons
The Coral
Ash
Kaiser Chiefs
Goldie Lookin' Chain
Jools Holland
The Thrills
John Butler Trio
The Undertones
The Subways
Taj Mahal
Hayseed Dixies
Garbage
Razorlight
Kasabian
Ian Brown
Fatboy Slim
Royksop
Bloc Party
Interpol
Rufus Wainwright
The Bravery
Futureheads
Echo And The Bunnymen
Athlete
The Dears
Cooper Temple Clause
Hot Hot Heat
Soulwax
Cake
Thirteen Senses
Brendon Benson
Martha Wainwright
Tom Vek
Black Bud
Dead 60's
KT Tunstall
Modey
Lemon
Engineers
The Tears
Go Team
Bright Eyes
The Earlies
Willy Mason
Mia
Secret Machines
M83
Your Code Name Is Milo
Maximo Park
Nine Black Alps
Jem
James
Blunt
Dresden Dolls
The Subways
Be Your Own Pet
Rilo Kiley
The Rakes
ArtBrut
Hard Fi
Longcut
Morning Runner
Infidels
Outset
El Presidente
Roy Ayers
Roots Manuva
Nigel Kennedy
Alabama 3
Tyler James
Kokolo
Dennis Rollins' Badbone & Co
Terry Reid
Moya
Seeed
Taj Mahal
Amparanoia
G Love
Levellers
Ilham Al Madfai.
DJ Dolores
Femi Kuti
Zap Mama
Oojami
Youngblood Brass Band
The Jaipur Kawa Brass Band
Steve Earle
Steve Harley & the Cockney Rebel
The Beautiful South
Paul Brady
Paddy Casey
Tori Amos
Henry McCullough
Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
Ani De Franco
Battlefield Band
London Community Gospel Choir
Declan O’Rourke
Glenn Tilbrook
The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain
Allison Moorer
Chas ‘n’ Dave
Patti Griffin
Mike Whellans
London Lasses
David Kitt
The One Man Blues Band
Ralfe Band
Kathleen Edwards
Clayhill
The Deadbeats
Amos Lee
Tiny Tin Lady
Martha Wainwright
I Am Kloot
The Backbeat Beatles
Whalebone Polly
Avalon Stage
Oysterband
Eliza Carthy & the Ratcatchers
Justin Sullivan
Terry Reid
The Proclaimers
Peatbog Faeries
Hayseed Dixie
Rory McLeod
Session A9
Kangaroo Moon
The Broken Family Band
Martha Tilston
The Huckleberries
Eddi Reader
Sharon Shannon
Shooglenifty
The Baghdaddies
Baka Beyond
Leon Hunt & Daily Planet
Seize The Day
Dragonsfly
Mahatma
North Cregg
Los Albertos
Polly Paulusma
Tarantism
Chemical Brothers present Glint
Bellagios
Carl Cox
Timo Maas
DJ Format featuring Abdominal and D-Sisive
Evil Nine
Too Many DJs
Whiley Crazy Titch J2 + Came
Mylo
Skinnyman & DJ flip
Terri Walker Live
Plantlife
West Coast Dance Tent
Dubtribe
Way Out West (PA)
System Seven
808 State (DJ Set)
Eatstatic
Ian Cheshire
London Electricity (Live)
High Contrast
Blakout
Hexstatic
Zen TV (Matt Black)
Dreadzone (Live)
Layo & Bushwacka!
The Bays (Live)
Tayo (Dub DJ Set)
Mad Professor Dub Show (Live)
Tayo (Dub DJ Set)
Renny Pilgrim Presents The TCR All Stars (Live)
The Beat (Live)
Jon Moore (Coldcut) (DJ Set)
Scratchy (Clash Tour DJ)
Tetchi (Live)
Aural Imbalance
Plump Djs
BT (Live)
Zen TV (Matt Black)
Banco De Gaia (Live)
Phil K DJ (Australia)
Atomic Hooligan (Live)
Sherem Jey (DJ Set)
Celloman with 8 Piece Strings(Live)
G Stage
Hybrid
Hyper
Elite Force
J.D.S.
Dreadzone Sound System
Krafty Kutz
General Midi
Koma & Bones
Aquasky
Atomic Hooligan / Jay Cunning
Phantom Beats
Breakfastaz
Squarepusher
DJ Speedy J
Chris Clark live
DJ Luke Vibert
DJ Surgeon
The Bug + MCs
Mark One + Virus Syndicate
cassetteboy + DJ rubbish
Clever Bunny
Juju
James Monroe
Lox
The Commercial Hippies
Jumanji
Ans
Joti Sidhu
Tristan
Son Kite
Seeed
Pathaan
The Egg
Suns of Arqa
Foreign Beggars
Genesis Elijah
Doozer
Marky, Patife, Stamina and Cleveland Watkiss
Task Force
Oojami
Lord Gosh
Iration Steppas
Smith and Mighty/More Rockers
Dub Dadda
Alpha and Omega
Salmonella Dub
Dib Dub
Chemical DubTheory
Buggs in the Attic
Pitman
Dbooga
Dive
Urban Myth Club
Little Barrie
Amalgamation of Soundz
Four Tet
Nouvelle Vague
Damn!
Racheal Yamagata
Ivory
Husky Rescue

Trader Woody

The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain! Ooh, cool! Some incredible performers listed there, & let me point out to any Reggae/Dup fans out there that the Mad Professor Dub Show will be some of the best Dub Reggae you'll ever see.

What the heck is G Love doing over there? LMAO

mmmmmmm pear cider (drool, a quick scan through the line up and this is my first pick of bands to see, but knowing past experiance of glastonbury they will all be on at the same time..

White Stripes (never seen them yet)
New Order (allways fancied seeing them)
Kylie (the wife will drag me to this one)
The Undertones (when they play teenage kicks it will possibly be the highlight of Glastonbury)
Hayseed Dixies (I've worked on the bar for three of their gigs but yet to actually see them play)
Dresden Dolls (missed them when they last played in edinburgh)
Alabama 3 (the 'bama at glastonbury oh yes)
Levellers (was a crusty for ten years but never saw them yet)
Steve Harley & the Cockney Rebel (hopefully this time steve harley wont be sulking of stage and will come out and play)
The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain (really been wanting to see them for ages)
Chas ‘n’ Dave (britains greatest blues men)
Too Many DJs (apparently there inovative)
Nouvelle Vague (misssed them as well, but really want to see them)
The Proclaimers (seen them sitting on the 23 bus lots but never heard them play)

One of these days I will make it to Glastonbury. Always wanted to see it with my own eyes. Here's an shot of the crowd:

It doesn't really do justice to the enormity of the thing. I got a poster of this image once in an issue of Q and it's really staggering.

One of the nice things about being a fan of British bands here in CA is that when they come here, no one on earth knows who they are so they end up playing tiny little clubs. They usually end up milling around the audience since there isn't always a backstage. We've just had Kaiser Chiefs (BTW, I know it's highly derivative, but "I Predict a Riot" is a killer single), Keane, The Doves, The Coral, Ash, Mull Historical Society, Ed Harcourt, and a lot more. Going to see Athlete and New Order next month as well. (not together!)

Still, wish I could be there! Have fun!

The Guys who run the Lost Vagueness Stage/area came to see me ysterday and they seemed interseted in the idea of a tiki bar, 'maybe' not this year, and not next (as there isn't one) but we may see Tiki at Glastonbury one day.

Offering to help Lost Vaugueness with building a tiki bar is a great way to blag into glastonbury, the only draw back is that the "mean fiddler" run all the bars (that is organise the licencess and set the prices) so good quality cocktails probably wont happen.

On 2005-04-18 01:23, cheekytiki wrote:
The Guys who run the Lost Vagueness Stage/area came to see me ysterday and they seemed interseted in the idea of a tiki bar, 'maybe' not this year, and not next (as there isn't one) but we may see Tiki at Glastonbury one day.

Hey, that's great news! Hope they go for it. I understand they do other shows as well now, so perhaps you could be helping them out sooner than later.

Tiki has actually been at Glastonbury in the form of the Tiki Central mascot mug Shecky, who visited a couple of years back. I made a Shecky flag to fly over the tent, too. Hopefully it'll fly again this year if I can find it.

Trader Woody

Here's hoping it doesn't rain and become a mudhole like it did in 1997 and 1998 - my friends mocked the Yank for wearing wellies and fashioning a raincoat/biohazard suit out of trash bags, but who got trench foot and/or a wicked case of the runs? Not me.

Probably the closest thing the US has to Glasto is Coachella - great line-up, but man oh man it was HOT last year...

I'm off to Glastonbury tonight and the weather outlook is "scorchio", joy, but a twelve hour drive in a monster slow moving camper van not so joyfull.

Tony, Please post some pic of Glastonbury endulgence.

I shall try my best:)

(Hi I supposed to post this as soon as i came back, but my wife decided i had something more important to do, as they do, and i only just got around to finishing it..)

Well that’s me returned from a field in Summerset, and what a good week that was.
We arrived on the Wednesday morning, after driving all night from Scotland, to bask in blazing sunshine and get hammered on Pear cider.
On the Thursday I attempted to meet up with Trader Woody, he had wrote me days before saying “ I'll wear a Tiki shirt on Thursday so you can find me in a crowd! “, but the lovely weather meant that 1 in 4 men were wearing Hawaiian shirts and yet more Pear cider robbed my ability to see very far, so I gave up.
I then went back to my campervan, donned my white dinner jacket (with black shirt, black trousers, white bow tie and white winkle pickers) and loaded up with gin to dance the night away at the pirate stage and Lost Vagueness.

Naked Ruby: A Brixton based Voodoo-billy band with a powerfully Joplinesque lead singer, who later helped demolish our supply of gin and tonics Lovely people.

Around about four on the Friday I noticed flashes in the sky, Fireworks I thought, then the biggest drop of rain hit me. Oh I thought its about to rain, better retire to my lovely dry camper and listen to the sound of the rain hit the roof, while I’m snugly and warm.
During that night a months worth of rain fell, huge apocalyptic strikes of lightening struck the stages, the mobile telephone towers and one unlucky girls umbrella. The rain fell on hard sun baked ground and rushed downhill in great torrents flooding tents, knocking over porta-loos and then forming huge lakes swamping low-lying camping areas.
I slept through this oblivious to the chaos all around, woke up to the huge lakes and thanks to the many feet of the festival goers the ground rapidly turned to a quagmire of mud.
Despite this I managed to go and see three bands:

The Zutons: who played standard Indie rock, until their last track witch had prog style freak-outs and Sativa drummer style massed drumming, which heartily impressed me.

Alabama 3: A wonderful set by the ‘bama, with a talented wee lassie singing with them, a few new songs but all the classics, “Mao Tse Tung Said” filled the field with clenched fist socialist salutes, of and they were introduced by Howard Marks and I think I saw Brian Wilson standing at the back of the stage miming shooting up during “Hypo full of Love”.

White Stripes: The field in front of the Pyramid Stage was reminiscent of the mud at the battle of the Somme, a deep sucking swamp, but the band played great, loved their version of Dolly’s Jolene.

Saturday arrived after another night of drinking, more pear cider was had for breakfast and an attempt to upgrade my very wet and mud covered trainers for some boots or wellies but not wanting to join the riot in front of the “Joe bananas stall”, I opted for drying my feet, applying some socks then jury rigging waterproofing with plastic bags and gaffer tape. With my feet now better equipped I stomped of to watch a band.

The Levellers: A crusty-hood dream to see them at Glastonbury, they were good played all their big songs, good big crowd and they offered to let my friend Rarg join the band afterwards.

The weather was overcast on Saturday and seemed to threaten more rain but as another friend said “Play stops Rain”, so on went my dinner jacked for an evening of carousing and on the way I saw..

Hayseed Dixie: I’ve seen them play at Studio24 a couple of times now but since I’m working behind the bar I never get a chance to enjoy myself, so it was a right treat to finally get to dance along and bloody hell they are talented.
When the introduced their song “Blind Beggar Breakdown” and rambled on about the blind beggar (a local Edinburgh biker pub), my darling wife phoned the beggars manager to inform him of the mobs of hippies that may be descending on the bar in the coming months.

The Proclaimers: Well they were on after the ‘Dixies and they played “Letter from America” first, we slinked of to the rock’n’roll diner at Vagueness for some dinner and came back to hear them play “I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)” as their final track.
It was good to see them live rather than stare at the back of one of the Proclaimers head’s as he takes the number 23 bus up to Morningside.

Sunday started hot and stayed that way all day, the mud started to dry and where their had been quagmires now their was dust, it defiantly perked me up, so straight into more cider. I find on weekend bender if you stop drinking that’s when your troubles start.

The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain: They were the best band at Glastonbury, in sheer talent and musicianship and comedy, just amazing, I would crawl on broken glass to play the Ukulele as well as them. Anybody that missed them wasted their entrance money.

By Sunday evening I was getting a bit lethargic so spent the evening around a campfire enjoying the company of friends, I find that so many people go a little nuts on the Sunday because their going home the next day and start to panic. I just like to relax and let the final night wash over me, in perpetration for the Monday Tat-fest.

Monday starts with my trainers splitting open, the wet, mud and heavy use on gravel roads have finally gotten the better of them, but as luck would have it its Tat-fest Monday. I wonder if it’s a sad reflection on the consumer society at the amount of stuff that gets left behind at Glastonbury (Wellie boots that could have been sold at £70 on the wet days are left by the bins, whole tents, camping mats and every year a kitchen sink are all up for grabs on Tat-fest Monday) or is more about the long march home and a desire to lighten your bulging backpack.
Within ten feet of the front gate I upgrade my broken trainers to a newly abandoned pair of Dr Martins unfortunately they are a size 10, one size too small, but they’ll do until I find a lovely pair of German paratrooper boots which do fit, then seconds later a pair of British army boots which I take for Sunday best.
By the time I’m finished tatting I score, 2 complete sets of waterproofs, 2 camping mats, a new frying pan, 3 pairs of boots, a lovely pair of rugby socks, a rucksack to carry it all in and huge blue parasol cover made of raffia that will make a good monster costume for later in the year.

And so we depart later that evening leaving the field of Glastonbury for another two years.

My dear friend RARG and my wife JILL

atomictonytiki in the mud a glass in hand.

the interior of LOST VAGUENESSand not a very good picture.

The only tiki i could find was this carved maoi

GODAMN HIPPIES I'D KILL 'EM ALL

A big carved griffin, nice carving.

[ Edited by: atomictonytiki 2009-01-21 09:56 ]

[ Edited by: atomictonytiki 2009-05-04 06:57 ]

Hilarious. That sounds like one good weekend.

It was rather good fun, while i was there i saw lots of posters for various boutique festivals all over the country, so now there is much more festival high-jinks i can get into.

On 2005-07-17 10:11, atomictonytiki wrote:
Alabama 3: A wonderful set by the ‘bama, with a talented wee lassie singing with them, a few new songs but all the classics, “Mao Tse Tung Said” filled the field with clenched fist socialist salutes, of and they were introduced by Howard Marks and I think I saw Brian Wilson standing at the back of the stage miming shooting up during “Hypo full of Love”.

In the US they're known as A3 since the Lite Country act Alabama sued them for using a name that sounded like theirs. Their song "Woke Up This Morning" is used as the theme to "The Sopranos" TV series.

So did anybody manage to get tickets for this year "Glastonbury 2007"?

Anyone have old pictures to post....would love to see those. :)