The Official Glastonbury 2011 Coachella Board Meetup

[ShyGuy75]

look at all those god damn people who aren't there for the music and are just milling around not paying attention! typical glasto.

that fence has been there for a while, however the gap/walkway looks much wider this year.

[Thisismyname]

that fence has been there for a while, however the gap/walkway looks much wider this year.

So is it a pit type system where they empty it out between acts, or is it just a one in one out type deal throughout the day?

[ShyGuy75]

free for all system

[Boourns]

[Fourthisto]

That picture looks freaking awesome!

[Boourns]

This isn't restricted like most of the BBC content:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012675d

Includes Pulp's 2011 performance of "Babies" and Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler covering "Where Is My Mind"

[Boourns]

Elbow flashmob at the stone circle:

[suprefan]

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?bl...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

[Boourns]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...bury_fest.html

[shakermaker113]

so can anyone explain why tricky was on stage with beyonce?

[shotglass75]

so can anyone explain why tricky was on stage with beyonce?

Because it's Glastonbury and why the fuck not?

[Boourns]

^this

same reason why Dr. Who was on-stage with Orbital last year, Michael Eavis sang "Happy Birthday" with Stevie Wonder, Kylie performed with Scissor Sisters, The Edge with Muse, The Boss jammed with Gaslight Anthem, Jarvis Cocker with Shlohmo and Spinal Tap...

[Gribbz]

Orbital has a song called "Dr. Who" though.

[Boourns]

I know, but still.

The original plan was for him to come out of the tardis

[emtgreg]

a bunch of us will be at the next one, so whatever

[Boourns]

Indeed. Plan is to do this and Roskilde in 2013. That will probably kill me, but whatever. 2012 is still up in the air, but am leaning towards just Coachella. If not, then maybe SXSW or one of the Primavera's or a non-festival vacation.

So who else is down for 2013? Let's make this one hell of a meetup. I know some people from my Primavera crew that are interested in coming (some definites, some conditionals).

Hopefully we can all get tickets for each other. This year's special guests are probably going to make the demand even more absurd.

[paulb]

me and Jenny may be in.

[Boourns]

me and Jenny may be in.

Awesome!

This was posted in the Pulp thread, but it really belongs here because of the speech.

When we played in '95 I told a speech, 'If you want something to happen enough then it actually will.' If lanky misshapes like us could headline Glastonbury anyone could do it. Although that sounds corny it's true, it's in all of us. This is what this festival is about, it's bigger than a festival, it's a feeling.

Still hasn't completely sunk in that I finally got to see this. And there's an ever-growing feeling of "where do we go from here?"

Latenight vids have been surfacing

[paulo999]

Glad to see we might have some more of you back for 2013. It's always an honour to see people travel so far. There's surprisingly few international visitors - even from Europe.

So, ahem, here's some of my Arcadia photos.


Finally... got 'em done...



The rig in sunny times.




Rehearsals snatched whenever the weather was good. Which was not enough.




All systems go on The Spider




Mutant vehicles in The Spider Show




Come to another planet with Arcadia Not photoshopped!




Full Arcadia photo collection here

more to follow here...

[paulo999]

Aerial performer in the show




Paul Hartnoll, Orbital DJ set, Saturday




Orbital




Dry sunday Arcadia folk




Why I own a harness




Full Arcadia photo collection here

[shakermaker113]

AMAZING photos. wow. thanks for sharing.

[Miroir Noir]

I'd like to go, but I am about 100% clueless as to how to logistically pull it off.

[Boourns]

Gorgeous shots! Thanks for posting! Did you see any bands this year?

Oh man, Arcadia fucking wins.

[emtgreg]

Wow, looking at those pics reminds me that when those fools come to Burning Man, oh jesus are they going to make an appearance.

Also, Paulo, you are an amazing photographer, not gonna lie.

[Bleezie]

I'd like to go, but I am about 100% clueless as to how to logistically pull it off.

Ditto. How much does one spend on a trip like this?

[Boourns]

If you're flying from the west coast, expect to spend $1100-1300 on the flight. If you fly out of Newark, you can take Iceland Express for $700. Then a ticket for the fest is $305. Everything else depends on how long you're staying in the country, if you visit other places, what you eat and drink, camping gear, etc.

[Boourns]

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/i...owtopic=164302

I was at the Michael Eavis Q&A on Sunday and a few of the things he said may relate to some of the posts on this forum.

Firstly Ive seen a lot of posts on here talking about the younger feel of the festival audience and how this resulted in less consideration for others, more litter, and a lot of annoying laughing gas. One of the things that ME said was that he had noticed that there was a lot more dance music around the festival than ever before. Maybe this is linked to the younger audience??

He went on to say that he was not happy with the increase in dance music. He said that the Dance Village had been specifically created to contain that music style in one area, but it was obviously spreading out. He said that he intended to make moves to 'contain' dance style music in future. If he did this maybe it would change the demographic again to a slightly older audience.

Ref putting big acts as surprise guests:
He said that it was the acts decision to be surprise guests. Specifically with regards to Radiohead: Thom Yorke did not want the gig officially announced as he planned to experiment with a new direction in the music (don’t know if he did this as we couldn’t get in). He was apparently very annoyed that the Sun confirmed them as special guests on the Friday morning. Jarvis Cocker also did not want to be promoted as a confirmed guest and wanted to be a surprise guest.

Other things he said….
1. Numbers will remain the same in terms of attendees with around 135K paying tickets each year.
2. He was very pleased with the queuing system for Shangri La etc. The decision to do this was made after consultation with a crowd management specialist co, and after consulting with them it would have been foolhardy to ignore the advice. If he had ignored it and someone had been injured as a result of overcrowding it would have been catastrophic for him and the festival.
3. He is happy with Seetickets and the ticketing system
4. In previous years Comfy Crappers never took the ‘waste’ away and left it festering on the site – hence they did not come back this year
5. He was aware that the paid Security people did not have the ‘Glastonbury’ attitude, but was perplexed as to how to find 20,000 security people that would have the right attitude. The council demands this high number for licensing reasons. He felt that the security situation would be improved with NO professional security onsite.
6. He didn’t like the atmosphere around the Spirit of ’71 stage. He felt that there was no atmosphere
7. The weekend dates wont change (you cant move the summer solstice)
8. U2 – he was asked a LOT about the tax issue surrounding them – he said that it was not his job to defend Bono
9. Radiohead did the gig for free and did not get a fee
10. He was considering retiring in about 5 years. He went on to say that he felt that Emily would continue in the same direction that he followed and that they had many common values with regards to the festival. Emily is however very anti commercial sponsorship, and it was her decision to get rid of the Orange sponsorship – that had cost him £400,000. It was her intention to remove all corporate sponsorship asap.
11. Ref preferential ticketing for long term attendees – this was brought up by someone who was unhappy with the ticketing system and who felt that after having attended over 20 festivals there should be a preferential system for long-termers. ME went on to say that there were employment opportunities for 35,000 at each festival and so this was a way of long termers guaranteeing themselves a ticket.

Think that’s everything.

[shakermaker113]

cool interview. only 135 k? we overshot a little with our estimates.

[paulb]

135k fans, 20k security, 15k for jobs surrounding the place? really?

[Thisismyname]

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff.