Glastonbury 2024

The white socks - phucking beetroot head

What Glasto is about for me, finding new music. This lot, i'll be following. Punkish. Sleaford Mods

And one but could only dream for DM. I'd unretire my festival days

Festivals like Glastonbury, with such a wide variety of acts, will draw attendees from all music tastes, and a lot with none, who just want to go to the festival. With the advent of Spotify, there probably aren’t as many giant acts as there used to be, and those that are, have mostly headlined before. My understanding is that SZA (I thought she was brutal too, not because of her music as that is subjective, but because she didn’t get the crowd going at all) was headlining due to someone else pulling out. Let’s be fair, the only two female artists who could carry the Sunday headline are Beyoncé and TS. I would have liked to see Oasis reform for a headline spot, maybe they will in the future, DM possibly wouldn’t resonate with a lot of the younger crowd, though the show would be great, in all probability there would also be complaints if they got the last spot.

Felt sorry for SZA. She's in Malahide Wednesday. I'm sure she'll get the love there.

Yeah she said she was terrified. Few v strange bookings/schedulings by the production team here this year.

I don't agree that they are the only females that could carry that Sunday slot. Plenty of others. Adele, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Ariana Grande even Rihanna would have the place rocking.

lots of entitled whinging here and on other festival threads.

Lads ye are old , festivals have historically been for the young, less so these days as younger generations getting shafted from every direction and the ones doing the shafting are the ones with money to spend on festivals.

Imagine if your parents had been hanging around stably in the early days of EP

It was a poor line-up for sure, but there was a good festival to watch just not represented by the picks on the BBC. Without the iPlayer most of what they showed was fairly dire. Ideols were the best I saw over the whole weekend. Bbc6 music on Sunday had some of the best coverage. If I went again after 30years it would be the preponderance of snotty nosed rich kids and their parents that would really piss me off. Glastonbury is so massive that there is always going to be a good time to be had even if it only around one of the cyder tents.

It's a bit hilarious seeming all the complaining here about this year's festival, from people who are not even in attendance and are 100's of miles away. The people in attendance looked to be having a super time and the weather was lovely.

The National were amazing in 3Arena last year. If their Glastonbury performance was as good as that, then it was some treat.

Also the "legenads" are whatever they called them were way overpromoted, especially by BBC, Like i get it, Jo Whiley is hardly gonna say a set was crap, but Cindy Lauper and especially Shania Twain were pretty poor.

Is there no reasearch done on these artists to see how they are performing or do they just ask these people, do you fancy this gig?

I'm led to believe Arcaida stage was excellent throughout the weekend. Woodsies and West Holts had some excellent gigs

Oh you mean Elton John who performed the greatest live act ever that night……………..Gimme a break.

The commentary around that was ridiculous.

He was very good. But the hyperbole about it was crazy. The amount of people who said it was the greatest gig of all time…….Always, in the moment bias though, i get that, but no way was it the best

Queens are excellent may i add

They probably come across ok in the venue itself, with all the noise of the crowd, music etc

Shania Twain played Malahide.

But on a BBC close in recording, it is unforgiving.