Glastonbury 2010

scudzilla

So the headliners are decided

U2, Muse and..............Stevie Wonder (:eek::eek:)


Guess old Mr Wonder is a shock for most fans!!!

Source : http://www.nme.com/news/muse/49545

markcellardoor

Yeah. Think everybody assumed that Stevie Wonder was just another one of those ridiculous early rumours. Apparently Emily Eavis denied that he was gonna play before Michael confirmed it. They're still finalising it i think but it does look like it's happening.

Not that i'd plan to see all 3 headliners but they are decent ones. Considering that 2 of them never do festivals and one is one that always goes down well at them.

The build up should start proper now the next few weeks. Great to have this to look forward to!

Looking forward to even booking ferries. Roadtrip to Glasto!

robinph

Is that the order with U2 Friday, Muse Saturday and Mr Wonder Sunday?

I'll probably not bother with Muse as I'll most likely be off elsewhere watching something strange and wondering what the cause of the strangeness is. Probably will catch Stevie Wonder though, just for the WTF is he doing at Glasto'ness of it all. If I'd just been told that he was playing there and not what slot, I'd have assumed it would have been Rolf's Sunday midday time he was getting and not the headline one.

I'm not sure about seeing U2 there tbh, seen plenty of their big stadium gigs over the years so would be interesting to see how they cope with being stuck in a muddy* field and limited props, but again I'll be quite likely to be off elsewhere in a state and will then just catch it on the Beeb's coverage afterwards.

*It will be dry and sunny all the way through the weekend this year.

Minstrel27

Stevie Wonder wouldn't be much of a headliner I would have thought.

beans

I've been dreaming about Stevie headlining for years now. And didn't get tickets in time Fingers crossed for the re-sales!

robinph

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Stevie Wonder wouldn't be much of a headliner I would have thought.

Once he plays lots of stuff that everybody knows he can't go far wrong.

beans wrote: »

I've been dreaming about Stevie headlining for years now. And didn't get tickets in time Fingers crossed for the re-sales!

There will be more sales after the end of February, probably the first Sunday in April if I had to guess. There won't be many and they will go quick, but I'm now looking for another couple of tickets as well so will have to keep my eyes peeled for when they do go on sale.

pistonsvox

Whens these cancelled tickets coming back out??

ricero

wait till stevie wonder sees the glasto crowd he will never forget that image

robinph

pistonsvox wrote: »

Whens these cancelled tickets coming back out??

The deadline for paying off the balance of your tickets is the end of this month, so some point after that. I'd expect it to be the first Sunday in April that they flog of the remainder, but it all depend on the kind of numbers they have to get rid of and thus how much they feel they need to publicise the event. So the remaining tickets could be sold with barely anyone noticing with the website going live at any random time between the beginning of March and ???.

punchdrunk

ricero wrote: »

wait till stevie wonder sees the glasto crowd he will never forget that image

shít joke is shít.

ricero

punchdrunk wrote: »

shít joke is shít.

what im being honest, heard he got a cheese grater for xmas was the best book he ever read

pistonsvox

robinph wrote: »

The deadline for paying off the balance of your tickets is the end of this month, so some point after that. I'd expect it to be the first Sunday in April that they flog of the remainder, but it all depend on the kind of numbers they have to get rid of and thus how much they feel they need to publicise the event. So the remaining tickets could be sold with barely anyone noticing with the website going live at any random time between the beginning of March and ???.

Sure ill keep checking www.seetickets.co.uk/g2010 i assume?:pac:

I dunno why but I really feel I cant miss Glasto this year, its like a drug!

robinph

Just checking See at random times was how I managed to pick up an extra couple of tickets the week after they sold out in October and the website suddenly worked for me.

cirkumflexjohn

bit surprised by the headliners really.

u2....amm, well i think theyre a load of ****ing twats and theyre music is middle of the road, contrived ****. but thats my opinion...sure itll get blasted on here.

muse, yeah why not. great live band. will be good on the pyramid.

stevie? headlining? hmmm, not sure...looks to me like they were trying for someone else and couldnt get them so had to settle on stevie. still, he'll be savage live.

i work at this festival, so ive been a few years. LOVE it. makes you think about what a dump oxegen is!

i heard a long time ago, from someone quite high up in the glasto organisation that they were going for u2, bowie and rolling stones...must have been bull****.

pistonsvox

Fingers crossed as they say

robinph

The Stones is a permanent rumour for playing "next year". Bowie did 2000(?) and whilst Muse have also played more recently, obviously, would be a bit soon for him to get a headline again with the Sunday oldie slot again.

pistonsvox

wouldnt mind muse at all:cool:

pistonsvox

Come on cancelled tickets...

beartooth

Its my first time going over this year, wondering is it best to get over there on the Wednesday? do the campsites fill up on the Thursday/Friday?

pauliewallie

we got there on the thursday evening last year and the campsites were pretty full by then ... still it was no prob getting the tent down, like any festival you will always find a spot

robinph

Some of the areas will be full by midday on the Wednesday these days.

As long as your not trying to pitch three 8 man tents next to each other then you'll be able to pitch somewhere, it might not be too central though and you may have to work creatively with the neighbouring tents occupants in order to fit yours in, but you'll get in somewhere.

The earlier you can get there the better though, the best days of the festival for me are always the Wednesday/ Thursday.

shoutman

Wow wasn't planning on heading over to Glastonbury, but may just have to now!

pistonsvox

Its gonna be so hard to get the tickets now ugh

beartooth

flights booked.

pistonsvox

^^Hate you :pac:

See tickets one emailed me back and theyre reselling early April

tman

shoutman wrote: »

Wow wasn't planning on heading over to Glastonbury, but may just have to now!

Good luck getting tickets for it... There'll be a bazillion U2 fanbois trying to get them at the same time when they release around 10,000 (tops) tickets for resale!

Paid my balance on Saturday and have booked a week off work surrounding it, so bring on the Glasto!!!!!:D

robinph

I really should see about sorting the flights out soon, and seeing if we actually have a campervan to go with the campervan pass that we bought. Not sure I could handle ruffing it in with the rest of you in tents anymore.

pistonsvox

tman wrote: »

Good luck getting tickets for it... There'll be a bazillion U2 fanbois trying to get them at the same time when they release around 10,000 (tops) tickets for resale!

Paid my balance on Saturday and have booked a week off work surrounding it, so bring on the Glasto!!!!!:D

U2 wnkers! :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhZ23yGcno

pistonsvox

I think they should have every headliner they ever had playing all day for the 3 days Now that'd be an anniversary festival

Goat_Boy_jones

Whats the flight prices like at the moment...Need to book mine...

robinph

Still looks to be flights from 9.99 depending on when you go over.

Not quite decided which flights I want to go on yet though so am still putting off booking for some reason.

pistonsvox

Try ryanair to bristol I guess, I usually drive over, take ferry from rosslare to pembroke, love road trips :cool:

Goat_Boy_jones

pistonsvox wrote: »

Try ryanair to bristol I guess, I usually drive over, take ferry from rosslare to pembroke, love road trips :cool:

Might be an idea...

snazzy

Orbital confirmed.

pistonsvox

Worked at their gig in tripod, bloody insane! Crowd were mental

pistonsvox

Tickets being resold 11th April at 9am:pac:

Glastonbury Festivals.com wrote:

We're pleased to announce that the re-sale of cancelled tickets for this year's Festival will take place at 9am on Sunday, 11th April 2010.

Tickets will be sold online at www.seetickets.com/g2010 and via the Seetickets booking line 0844 412 4635. The numbers are limited and we expect them to sell out quite quickly.

In order to purchase tickets in the re-sale, you must be successfully registered by Wednesday, March 31st. Register online at www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk. For more information about ticket sales and registration, please visit our ticket information page.

Glastofarian

I'm flying into Bristol on wed 23rd june for glastonbury festival and returning to bristol airport on monday anyone interested in sharing car
hire ?

shoutman

pistonsvox wrote: »

Tickets being resold 11th April at 9am:pac:

Nice one, cheers for this.

Goat_Boy_jones

Line up annoucement Wednesday!

pistonsvox

where ya find that?

Goat_Boy_jones

Twas on twitter, was meant to be announced tomorrow but was pushed back to Wednesday...

jefreywithonef

Pixies are playing there according to Joey Santiago.

jill_valentine

That was an April Fools thing if I'm not mistaken.

jefreywithonef

Ah, you're right.

robinph

Don't know why they feel the need to change the name of the Jazz stage again:

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/west-holts-stage-and-line-up-announced

Goat_Boy_jones

So how many tickets are goin on sale in the resale...Unless my mate gets a ticket on sunday I'm goin solo...

markcellardoor

in the same situation myself...

i think i heard there was about 2000 to 3000 available. they'll go in mins i'd say

Goat_Boy_jones

Ah bollix, has to be more than that...

robinph

Just an update link on the ticket sales for Sunday:

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/newsticket-re-sale-this-sunday

I'd expect that they will have a large number of those on sale this weekend will be coach only ones, not that there is many left to sell. You then have to get to the site by that specific coach that it puts you on from wherever you select and they then give you the ticket on board or something. Bit of a pain, but if your finding it says the tickets are sold out it could be worth trying some different departure points of the coach tickets and see if you can get one that way which will then mean you need to take a round about route to get to the site.

markcellardoor

ahhhh.. right, that sounds promising.

On that link it says:

"For all Combined Coach and Festival Tickets, it is mandatory that you travel on the coach."

I presume you have to then get your tickets when boarding the bus heading to the fest. That the case yeah?

robinph

Yep, you can only get your ticket by travelling on a specific bus.

I think last year they left at various times between the very early hours of Wednesday morning until the Thursday morning, but I'm not sure if you could actually pick what time bus you got put on, just the initial departure city. Once Ryanair fly Dublin to wherever it should be doable, you don't have to return from the festival on the bus though if you've got other ways of getting a lift back with mates or just head back via Bristol.