Glastonbury 2024

[coollino]

But they have that many stages they could do that in any case AND hand a lot of legacy acts their usual amount of time. The needn't be all on the Pyramid Stage, but just have them on the later slots.

I think they're (Glastonbury) are in danger of heading down a path toward something that's unrepresentative.

You can just pick legacy acts that aren't parodies too, I don't know why the festival is so hung up on them. Why would you want to see a hasbean hooked up on meds 4pm in the afternoon.

If you look at Primavera (maybe the best big festival in the world), they still have older acts but ones that can still actually play, but and not ones that sound like a karaoke act and are their because of their name. If pulp headlined instead of Coldplay, it may have been seen as a good act of headliners but bands like Coldplay hold the festival back

 

[MisterJ]

I watched and enjoyed Shania, but that's all I bothered with

 

[b-rad]

None of live reviews mention the SZA sound issues, and the crowd didn't seem to as well. Maybe it was just on TV, weird

Lots of sound issues across many acts over the weekend. I wonder how much is the BBCs feed and sound processing rather than the acts?

 

[coollino]

Lots of sound issues across many acts over the weekend. I wonder how much is the BBCs feed and sound processing rather than the acts?

Ah it probably was the BBC then, as I think it would have been mentioned if it was the festival

 

[trueblue84]

Lots of sound issues across many acts over the weekend. I wonder how much is the BBCs feed and sound processing rather than the acts?

BBC's sound at the euros has been abysmal as well, and I don't mean Danny Murphy. They've got the mixing all wrong. I wondered weather they were playing around with multi channel audio and it's not worked.

 

[davek]

You can just pick legacy acts that aren't parodies too, I don't know why the festival is so hung up on them. Why would you want to see a hasbean hooked up on meds 4pm in the afternoon.

If you look at Primavera (maybe the best big festival in the world), they still have older acts but ones that can still actually play, but and not ones that sound like a karaoke act and are their because of their name. If pulp headlined instead of Coldplay, it may have been seen as a good act of headliners but bands like Coldplay hold the festival back

You're not looking at this right IMO.

There's always been a reason Glastonbury had the big name headline acts: because they are a major factor in the rest of the population taking a peak into Glastonbury a few times over the 3 days it's on for and they have a right to be able to get involved in the festivities. Glastonbury is saturated broadcast on two BBC - ie publicly funded - channels for 3 days.

It's a national institution, so you cant have it going down a complete niche market route.

Let me address the elephant in the room regarding this year's event: they've gone OTT with their 'representation' at the expense of putting on genuine banger-laden bands the majority are familiar with ("has beens on meds" or not). That's why Glastonbury 2024 was an epic fail.

In any case, there's umpteen festivals up and down the country every summer where you can see the niche bands of your choice...festivals dedicated to that, in fact.

 

[coollino]

You're not looking at this right IMO.

There's always been a reason Glastonbury had the big name headline acts: because they are a major factor in the rest of the population taking a peak into Glastonbury a few times over the 3 days it's on for and they have a right to be able to get involved in the festivities. Glastonbury is saturated broadcast on two BBC - ie publicly funded - channels for 3 days.

It's a national institution, so you cant have it going down a complete niche market route.

Let me address the elephant in the room regarding this year's event: they've gone OTT with their 'representation' at the expense of putting on genuine banger-laden bands the majority are familiar with ("has beens on meds" or not). That's why Glastonbury 2024 was an epic fail.

In any case, there's umpteen festivals up and down the country every summer where you can see the niche bands of your choice...festivals dedicated to that, in fact.

The majority of popular musicians are either woman and/or of colour these days though, from all around the world. Latin American pop is massive, and south African music is also getting huge so they've hardly there to make up the numbers. You could argue than some semi-successful Brit pop band reforming for a festival like this is more for the diversity quota

Anyway, another issue here could also be the cost of everything these days. Glastonbury do not pay artists a lot of money, if at all, and it's probably not viable for someone like Taylor Swift to play at a festival like this anymore. With music streaming no one needs 'exposure' as pay anymore, they want money

If you look at Reading/Leeds/Download, all the line ups are saturated with different types of music whereas they were not before. The costs just don't add up for any party these days

The bigger issue here is maybe the 3 day camping festival just isn't viable anymore financially for various reasons in the UK. There is a reason why countless numbers of festivals in the UK are being cancelled and the European model of music from say 4pm to 6am, with no camping for 2 days (you sort your own accommodation) is thriving

Personally, I think one day festivals are the way forward

 

[neil999]

Glastonbury pay alot less for their headliners than other festivals, it's often why their headliners are a bit odd( often to do with who is available and who will do it for the prestige rather than fee)

The pay off is the amount of stages and entertainment that far out weighs any festival in the uk(possibly the world?)

Also the lack of arena(so no security checks for alcohol etc) brings a level of freedom

 

[davek]

The majority of popular musicians are either woman and/or of colour these days though, from all around the world. Latin American pop is massive, and south African music is also getting huge so they've hardly there to make up the numbers. You could argue than some semi-successful Brit pop band reforming for a festival like this is more for the diversity quota

If that is the case - and I don't know if it is, tbh - then Glastonbury have made too jarring a step change in reflecting that in their (certainly headline) schedule. I know there's been a steady introduction to main slots of R&B and Hip Hop acts in the 2020s especially, but never at the expense of leaving everyone else not into that behind.

Anyway, another issue here could also be the cost of everything these days. Glastonbury do not pay artists a lot of money, if at all, and it's probably not viable for someone like Taylor Swift to play at a festival like this anymore. With music streaming no one needs 'exposure' as pay anymore, they want money

If you look at Reading/Leeds/Download, all the line ups are saturated with different types of music whereas they were not before. The costs just don't add up for any party these days

As @neil999 mentions above: the kudos of playing the event would outweigh any loss of revenue for artists of that stature...most of whom would hardly need the cash in any case.


Overall, I don't think it'll take an awful big shift to bring Glastonbury back into line. I don't forsee another SZA debacle again. The demographic she played to was very small at a festival like this. A very young crowd - hence its poor attendance. That was a major mistake that can easily be rectified.

I'm not against seeing new bands, btw. Ild like to have seen Kneecap, for instance, to see what the fuss is about...but they stuck them on at 11.30am - for 'some' reason. So much for Glastonbury's radical reputation...

 

[gonetomorrow]

You can just pick legacy acts that aren't parodies too, I don't know why the festival is so hung up on them. Why would you want to see a hasbean hooked up on meds 4pm in the afternoon.

If you look at Primavera (maybe the best big festival in the world), they still have older acts but ones that can still actually play, but and not ones that sound like a karaoke act and are their because of their name. If pulp headlined instead of Coldplay, it may have been seen as a good act of headliners but bands like Coldplay hold the festival back

The public like to see the hasbeans though. It's like visiting a museum.

 

[COYBL25]

The majority of popular musicians are either woman and/or of colour these days though, from all around the world. Latin American pop is massive, and south African music is also getting huge so they've hardly there to make up the numbers. You could argue than some semi-successful Brit pop band reforming for a festival like this is more for the diversity quota

Anyway, another issue here could also be the cost of everything these days. Glastonbury do not pay artists a lot of money, if at all, and it's probably not viable for someone like Taylor Swift to play at a festival like this anymore. With music streaming no one needs 'exposure' as pay anymore, they want money

If you look at Reading/Leeds/Download, all the line ups are saturated with different types of music whereas they were not before. The costs just don't add up for any party these days

The bigger issue here is maybe the 3 day camping festival just isn't viable anymore financially for various reasons in the UK. There is a reason why countless numbers of festivals in the UK are being cancelled and the European model of music from say 4pm to 6am, with no camping for 2 days (you sort your own accommodation) is thriving

Personally, I think one day festivals are the way forward

The main problem as I see it, is that there just aren`t enough " new " traditional headline bands coming through, hence why they have to do a retread with dull and available bands like Cold Play.

If you think about it, who was the last " massive " traditional band that came through ? (

It was probably Oasis and their first breakout was Supersonic in 1993.

 

[dublinbluenose]

The majority of popular musicians are either woman and/or of colour these days though, from all around the world. Latin American pop is massive, and south African music is also getting huge so they've hardly there to make up the numbers. You could argue than some semi-successful Brit pop band reforming for a festival like this is more for the diversity quota

Anyway, another issue here could also be the cost of everything these days. Glastonbury do not pay artists a lot of money, if at all, and it's probably not viable for someone like Taylor Swift to play at a festival like this anymore. With music streaming no one needs 'exposure' as pay anymore, they want money

If you look at Reading/Leeds/Download, all the line ups are saturated with different types of music whereas they were not before. The costs just don't add up for any party these days

The bigger issue here is maybe the 3 day camping festival just isn't viable anymore financially for various reasons in the UK. There is a reason why countless numbers of festivals in the UK are being cancelled and the European model of music from say 4pm to 6am, with no camping for 2 days (you sort your own accommodation) is thriving

Personally, I think one day festivals are the way forward

Spot on

Dua Lipa was paid £200k for her slot.

Taylor Swift played 3 nights in Dublin while Glastonbury was on. Average price for tickets was about €400 so ticket sales alone are about €20m per night.

 

[NeilMorepies]

Spot on

Dua Lipa was paid £200k for her slot.

Taylor Swift played 3 nights in Dublin while Glastonbury was on. Average price for tickets was about €400 so ticket sales alone are about €20m per night.

I would not pay that for Dua Lipa’s slot.
Just sayin..

 

[peteblue]

Haven’t watched a single minute of it. Have I missed anything ?…….

 

[anton66]

I would not pay that for Dua Lipa’s slot.
Just sayin..

Or Arne’s.