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Title: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: brennser on April 11, 2005, 11:58:00 am
apparently  Kylie Minogue (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/glastonbury2005/story/0,15865,1456603,00.html) is headlining this year
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 11, 2005, 12:18:00 pm
she is the ultimate indie act   ;)   whats next an OC appearence?
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: sonickteam on April 11, 2005, 12:33:00 pm
you people have a totally eerie obsession with the OC.  (i figure Kosmo may be kidding though)
 
  really....do you all watch this show?
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 11, 2005, 12:45:00 pm
no OC watching here...  watch the BBC seriese Shameless if you want to see young adults getting it on. and get it on they do, it's not called Shameless for naught.  in fact it might well be causing heads to explode in those christian tv monitoring orgs.
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 11, 2005, 12:47:00 pm
I have never seen it. I think it's about a bunch of rich Jewish people in California, if I gather correctly.
 
 Sorry, just trying to make sure I am on every thread.
 
 I started watching Lost a month or two ago. First tv series I've watched in years and years.
 
 And I been watching the new Little House on the Prairie, which is good.
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: sonickteam on April 11, 2005, 12:49:00 pm
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
 
 Sorry, just trying to make sure I am on every thread.
 
did you post here yet??? (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009728)
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: nkotb on April 11, 2005, 01:15:00 pm
I was a proud viewer until a few weeks ago.  Now it seems that the writers don't know what to do with any characters.  Sure, it's a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I don't feel guilty about it.
 
 Meanwhile, I am hopelessly addicted to Lost.  It makes my head want to explode at the end of every episode.
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: Venerable Bede on April 11, 2005, 01:56:00 pm
i watch it, although i've missed the last few weeks. . .however, for obsessed o.c. viewers, i nominate smackie and fico.
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: Lazer Guided Melodies on April 11, 2005, 02:20:00 pm
The two years I went to Glasto, '99 and '00, the headliners were REM, Manic Street Preachers, and Skunk Anansie and The Chemical Brothers, Travis, and David Bowie.  Even if you would happen to be at the Pyramid Stage for the headliners, I would much rather watch Kylie shake here arse than a bunch of preachy whiney Welshmen or whiney Scots or freaking Skunk Anansie.  For the record, my girlfriend insisted on David Bowie with 75,000 others when I could have been in the New Band Tent seeing the doves.  In 1999, I didn't see any of the headliners choosing The Chemical Brothers in the dance tent, Orbital at the Jazz World Stage and for the life of me I can't remember where I was on the Sunday night although I did see Merucry Rev and SFA that evening.
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: kurosawa-b/w on April 11, 2005, 09:39:00 pm
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Originally posted by Lotan Baba:
  Meanwhile, I am hopelessly addicted to Lost.  It makes my head want to explode at the end of every episode.
I'm a devoted Lost viewer as well. It's an incredibly clever show in how it's constructed. They can string us along for quite a while with those backstories. Boone R.I.P.
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 12, 2005, 06:51:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  no OC watching here...  watch the BBC seriese Shameless if you want to see young adults getting it on. and get it on they do, it's not called Shameless for naught.  in fact it might well be causing heads to explode in those christian tv monitoring orgs.
SHAMELESS RULES!!!!!! Apart from the fact they're all Man Shitty fans!  :mad:
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 12, 2005, 08:09:00 am
Ian Curtis was a City fan as well...
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: brennser on May 17, 2005, 09:16:00 am
Kylie just pulled out - she has breast cancer
 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1485711,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1485711,00.html)
 
 
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Originally posted by brennser:
  apparently  Kylie Minogue (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/glastonbury2005/story/0,15865,1456603,00.html) is headlining this year
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: thirsty moore on May 17, 2005, 09:48:00 am
Guys, at least take the story from her home paper (http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/Kylie-has-breast-cancer/2005/05/17/1116095952778.html?oneclick=true)!
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: Frank Gallagher on May 17, 2005, 10:36:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  Ian Curtis was a City fan as well...
.........and look were it got him!
Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: amnesiac on June 27, 2005, 10:42:00 am
Glad I didn't go this year:
 
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Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival
Post by: SPARX on June 29, 2005, 09:24:00 pm
From NME:
 
 Brian Wilson triumphs in Glasto sunshine Sun king - Brian Wilson is
 a Glasto hero The legendary BRIAN WILSON brought a taste of the
 Californian sunshine to the GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL today (June 26)
 with a set full of BEACH BOYS classics in front of a massive crowd
 of sweltering devotees.
 
 People were spotted surfing across the front of the stage as the
 singer, making his first appearance at Worthy Farm, blasted through
 hit after hit, delighting festivalgoers enjoying the beautiful
 weather.
 
 Wilson told the crowd: "We brought the Californian sunshine" and
 later even managed to get the crowd to sing the nursery rhyme `Row
 Row Row Your Boat'.
 
 Among the hits inciting mass hysteria were 'California
 Girls', 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' and a monumental 'Good Vibrations',
 which had virtually the entire crowd singing along.
 
 One fan, Michael Clewley, told NME.COM: "That's the show of the
 weekend and certainly one of the greatest ever Glastonbury
 performances."
 
 The set was:
 
 
 'Then I Kissed Her'
 'Don't Worry Baby'
 'Dance Dance Dance'
 'Darlin''
 'In My Room'
 'Little Surfer Girl'
 'The Little Girl I Once Knew'
 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'
 'All Summer Long'
 'Little Saint Nick'
 'I Get Around'
 'Sail On Sailor'
 'Marcella'
 'Our Prayer'
 'Heroes And Villains'
 'God Only Knows'
 'Sloop John B'
 'California Girls'
 'Good Vibrations'
 
 Encore:
 
 
 'Do It Again'
 'Help Me Rhonda'
 'Barbara Ann'
 'Surfin' USA'
 'Fun Fun Fun'
 
 Publication date: 2005-06-26 19:52:00
 
 
 And this appeared in the UK Guardian:
 
 7pm update: It's a long journey from living life in a sandbox in
 your front room in LA to playing a vast, muddy field in Glastonbury.
 Especially for Brian Wilson, whose well-documented and all-but-
 terminal nervous breakdown in the mid-1960s reduced the rest of his
 life, in some people's eyes, to one perpetual bad trip.
 
 Wilson is wearing a Hawaiian shirt with the Beach Boys motifs of sea
 and sand, and a thousand mile stare that seems to ask: "Who are all
 these people and what are they doing in my front room?" He shows
 little emotion as he sits at his keyboard. He looks like a botox
 casualty, his face frozen into a mask of numb confusion. His dark,
 staring eyes betray a life turned into fragments. But his autocue-
 fed banter is gentle enough.
 
 "We thought we'd bring some Californian weather with us," he says,
 his voice still quite boyish and high. Blue skies and sunshine
 create the perfect backdrop to what becomes the most life-enhancing,
 mood-altering of performances. Even the keyboard player, who has
 obviously seen all this before, takes to a surfboard and rides on
 the hands of the crowd. For everyone else, indulging in dance moves
 last seen on Ready, Steady, Go! in 1964 seems to suffice.
 
 There's no shilly-shallying for Wilson, who dives into one classic
 Beach Boys song after another. Luckily, he's got eight lifeguards on
 hand, in the form of his backing band. They provide not just the
 peerless harmonies that swoon over every song, but a sturdy scaffold
 of support for Wilson's sometimes fragile voice. With their
 essential help, he glides through the emotional turmoil of Don't
 Worry Baby, then turns into a fun-loving teen again on Then I Kissed
 Her.
 
 When Wilson pulls off a solo, however, it's a thing to treasure, the
 years of depression and drug abuse washed away to reveal the young
 genius who changed the nature of pop music. God Only Knows runs
 shivers up and down your spine; All Summer Long feeds on an acutely
 felt sadness.
 
 That these songs, full of their teen dreams and adolescent
 anxieties, could be performed so convincingly by a man recently
 turned 63 is testament to the maturity and adventurous nature of
 Wilson's music.
 
 California Girls and I Get Around still sound as exciting as the
 first time you ever heard them. In My Room remains the most poetic
 and heart-wrenching explanation of just what goes on behind the
 slammed doors of juvenile bedrooms.
 
 But to really enjoy watching Wilson, you have to separate the man on
 stage from his music. Otherwise it feels uncomfortably like freakish
 fun. Forget asking yourself if he actually has any idea where he is
 (and the inclusion of a Christmas song suggests not) and instead
 concentrate on the magnificence of the exquisitely blended
 harmonies, the joy of Barbara Ann and pioneer spirit of Good
 Vibrations.
 
 Wilson has the power to turn a corner of England into an all-
 American beach hop, almost turning the mud beneath our feet into
 perfect, golden sand. And you can't get more godlike than that.                                                                                               Some video highlights of a few bands that played:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/glastonbury2005/watchandlisten/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/glastonbury2005/watchandlisten/)