Glastonbury 2015

Cafe Society
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200,000 can’t be wrong :smiley:

I’m not a big fan of Mark Ronson but from Boy Georee onwards that was a hell of a set. I actually wept a little during Valerie (with Amy’s vocal), and then the finale with Grandmaster Flash, Blige and George Clinton was huge fun.

On the Pyramid (main) stage I thought The Libertines did a decent job given they stepped in late. Not a fan of local girl Flo so won’t comment.

Obv. the real Glasto is out at Arcadia, Green Field and hundreds of other crazy places but the BBC is really about the stages.

How’s Glasto for you this year?

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opps, Mark Ronson’s set: BBC Music - Glastonbury, 2015, Mark Ronson

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Kanye is, err, tearing that shit up. Is that right?

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That first night at the Park Stage is where I would’ve been glued…great line-up.

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I would love to be there tomorrow–possibly the last performance* by The Who on their native soil.
*yeah, I know…:rolleyes:

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I’ve just gone from Patti Smith and the Dalia Lama to Lionel Richie, and now the Chemical Bros are about to kick off.

Just a wind-down Sunday in the Somerset sun.

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ftr, I thought Kayne was stunning. The man is a true artist - I don’t know why I should have to make clear that’s a face-value statement.

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Lionel Ritchie judged his set perfectly. The Sunday teatime legend slot on the Pyramid delivers more often than not.

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I haven’t caught up with Lionel yet but he got huge love from a huge turnout. Big surprise.

I still can’t understand how The Chemical Brothers did that LED display … anyway, various reviews of weekend highlights from random Guardian writers:

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[QUOTE=The Guardian]
the Chemical Brothers’ LED visuals and all-round aesthetic explosion during their Other stage headline set on Sunday was a gargantuan visual show like nothing I’d ever seen – a combination of an acid-house warehouse rave and a storyboard of psychedelic hallucinations, all synchronised to their music’s sledgehammer onslaught.
[/QUOTE]

I see them next month. Can’t wait.

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I spent half an hour on a Sunday morning continually refreshing to try and get a ticket. Not a sniff.

Didn’t watch a single moment of Glasters this year, the BBC broadcasts the townies stages. I’d be out at what was the Jazz/World stage, Avalon stage, acoustic stage and most important, the Cabaret stage. The latter is packed full with pretty much every comedy act which will play edinburgh festival this year, you’d be paying 30 pounds per person to see those… Absolute joy of a place…

Kayne, Who, Florenence, Foo fighters, Lionel Richie? Wouldn’t have seen any of them. But would have appreciated the nicer stages being quieter at that point…

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tbf, I wouldn’t either had I been there. As you note, TV audiences get the light entertainment version, plus a bit of ‘edgy’ for Saturday night.

One thing that absolutely blows me away is the BBC broadcasting from like 6 stages and the presentational village, and the next day they’re banging out Wimbledon coverage from a similar number of courts - all of that totally live online (in the sense of multiple cameras, direction, etc).

I saw a BBC depot once at I think Acton - it was like a four-wheeled Gulf War army depot. Hundreds of vehicles.