Glastonbury 2022

Yep was real close in the pit. Enjoyed it. Particularly the Battle of Evermore.

Small enough crowd but its a **** time slot. The 6.30pm ish slot. People are off getting food, going back to their tents etc.

And for some weird reason, Glasto really doesnt do the Americana thing.

Kacey Musgraves had a very small crowd this year and I saw Patti Griffin in the acoustic tent in 2016 and no joke there was 80 people there. Maybe less.

They also did Rock and Roll & The Battle of Evermore. Sounded brilliant, but a relatively small crowd. Plant looked very stiff, like he'd slept on my useless self-inflating mat.

The Americana thing is usually at the Acoustic Stage with the odd slot on West Holts or The Park. Khruangbin drew a big crowd and I've seen Wilco & Calexico do the same in the past. There's an audience for it but I think you're right about the timing. Having them as headliners on West Holts opposite Billie Eilish would have drawn a huge crowd. Buddy Guy, John Fogerty, Bobby Womack and others have had that slot. It works.

For West Holts headliners I was giving examples of similar acts who'd done that stage. Guy is blues and Womack is soul but Fogerty is definitely rock/blues/Americana and Wilco are the archetypal Americana act, particularly in their Uncle Tupelo origins and early years. The definitive Americana magazine No Depression is named after an early Tweedy/Tupelo album.

Personally I'd love them back and more such acts. Big Thief also stray into that area and they had a huge crowd last weekend.

Id love more of those acts but no one watches them! Theres defo a difference between Buddy and Womack and Fogerty etc compared to Patti Griffin and Alison Krauss. Im really referring to people who play the Ryman. Old timey bonafide stuff.

This sort of stuff

I'd love some more of them for sure but what you're really talking about are Country acts rather than Americana, the latter a blend of folk, bluegrass, soul, country, roots, etc. They could have done with a lot more of both at the Acoustic stage this year, despite it having loads of great acts. Lucinda Williams is due a return, and forget not that Johnny Cash & Willy Nelson have pulled big crowds there, the latter only 12 years ago. Let's lobby for more.

Btw Jesca Hoop is probably in the Americana camp and she was excellent in William's Green.

awe now, he wasn't too bad for a 73 yr old..

i won't be deleting this recording for a long time.. great background music..

No, I just follow the thread really

He was brilliant, just looked very stiff (arthritis or other health issues?), much more so than Ross, Macca & Hancock who are 5-9 years older than him. Missing that set was the toughest choice of the weekend.

There'll be one female anyway.

A Glasto 2023 thread incoming? Surely enough recovery time has been had.

Surely the headliners for 2023 won't be as bad as all the acts we've mentioned? I understand that you can easily avoid them all but the headliners set the tone for the lineup.

2023 thread please?

I’ll not be going next year so seems kinda inappropriate for me to start it. I’ll just be checking in the odd time as still interested.

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That's the thing about Glastonbury, I feel. It does get hyped up by various BBC commentators and others to nauseating levels with all sorts of superlatives thrown about. It generates such expectations especially if it's your first time that i suppose could be hard to live up to. I try to block that guff out and just see what happens.

In saying that, I had a fantastic time this year. Never been to EP but my missus has many times and she thinks Glasto is head and shoulders above it.

It's what you make of it bla bla

Maybe you just bigged it up a bit too much. My intro to Glastonbury was very different. In 2015 before the october sale my mates in the UK asked me was I interested in going with them. Id been going to EP since 2010 and id been to B&S and Oxegen and a few others but id never really thought about glasto, wasn't on my list of things to do which is bizarre in hindsight, and I had no idea about how difficult the ticket sale was so that hadn't been putting me off. When they told me it was only £50 deposit up front I said grand ill try and get the tickets with ye. Id never even watched the TV coverage much so I didn't know much about it, I had no expectations or preconceptions about what it was going to be like, I knew it was big and they had pyramid shaped stage but that was about it. The overall experience in 2016 totally blew me away, I had never seen the like of it anywhere, the near 24hr music, the scale of it etc. I still remember walking into The Temple in the south east corner for the first time and my jaw just hit the floor.

The Rocket Lounge in Shangri La is always good fun but its just a nightmare to get anywhere near the SE corner after the headliners.

Bimble Inn has some DJs playing funk and stuff. Williams Green has a "guilty pleasures" thing and Northern Soul. Most of the bars have tunes on into the night. Stone Circle is still fun albeit swallowed by the SE Corner.

Worth it imo.

Premier league and equivalent across europe season moving due to Qatar meant Taylor couldn’t do the europe run in 23

Id imagine it will put some people off. But its still only 50 quid up front so I reckon most people will just go for it and see next year. Came off very well on telly this year from what Ive seen largely due to Macca so demand will be bananas as always.

It will affect the resale more than the main sale imo. As you say it's still a small amount up front.