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darthpunk wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:32 am Glastonbury could have it's own thread called "340 quid for that pile of shite?"

Thank god for I-player though, they've actually put up some not bad stuff without the hassle of actually having to go. Going to watch the Sparks set later and the Rick Astley sets were really quite good, especially where he did a set of Smiths songs with some band called The Blossoms (I'm old)

Only one I haven't found so far that might have been good was Max Richter, a bit of culture n'that

I lived near the site all my childhood (and some adulthood) and for a few years we lived 'next door' to it. My bro and sis loved it, but I just never got into it.

The free entry on sunday afternoons I used to go to sometimes if the bands playing were interesting. But for me the headlines were rarely people I wanted to see and in my experience, walking on the site meant that everyone was 8 foot tall and going in the opposite direction to me, so I hated that (not good in crowds!). So the inclination to walk to the smaller stages was lost!

I spent a lot of years going to see live bands locally on a regular basis so couldn't justify camping somewhere like Glasto, paying a bloody fortune to try and walk through thousands of people etc.

A few years ago a mate texted me from there saying "you should be here, we're at the most amazing stage watching some awesome rockabillly" - I went and watched awesome rockabilly pretty much ever yweekend, and didn't have to pay an entry fee for most of them! Even when I did a weekender, it certainly wasn't 300+ quid for a weekend of awesome bands - and we stayed in proper beds, not tents!!!

darthpunk wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:32 am Glastonbury ... that pile of shite

some not bad stuff
really quite good, especially where ...

So shite except when it's good, or especially good?

It would make quite a good round on 'Pointless':

Name a performer or band (with at least one member still alive) that hasn't played Glastonbury.

Significant chunks of it are getting more and more like a séance every year. (Probably true of many festivals though).

(Apparently the industry body representing festival organisers - the AFO - is lobbying for financial support because they perform services essential to wellbeing or summat. They should contact Help the Aged ).

Julian Sands now confirmed to be a corpse.

Alan Arkin. You may not know his name, but you've seen him in something...


https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/bre ... n-30362300

Taipan wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:32 pm Alan Arkin. You may not know his name, but you've seen him in something...

Catch-22 and Grosse Pointe Blank - thirty years between them & loved him in both.

Taipan wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:32 pm Alan Arkin. You may not know his name, but you've seen him in something...


https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/bre ... n-30362300

I noes his name......very sad .

Taipan wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:32 pm Alan Arkin. You may not know his name, but you've seen him in something...


https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/bre ... n-30362300

Little Miss Sunshine star Alan Arkin dies aged 89 as tributes pour in

NO NO NO NO

He did not die "as tributes pour in" - hopefully, even if expecting the news, people would have had the decency to wait until he was dead.

Taipan wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:32 pm Alan Arkin. You may not know his name, but you've seen him in something...


https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/bre ... n-30362300

He, sort of, achieved Yossarian's aim:

Yossarian's motivation is to "live forever or die in the attempt."

Emily Morgan, ITVs Health and Science Editor. I'd swear she was on the news just weeks ago?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65735658

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 6:46 pm Emily Morgan, ITVs Health and Science Editor. I'd swear she was on the news just weeks ago?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65735658

That article is dated 27th May, she's been dead ages!

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 6:46 pm Emily Morgan, ITVs Health and Science Editor. I'd swear she was in the news just weeks ago?!

Yeah. She died

They just announced it on ITV??

*edit* It was her funeral today.

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:15 pm They just announced it on ITV??

*edit* It was her funeral today.

You know Michael Jackson's deed aye

Felix wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:55 pm

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:15 pm They just announced it on ITV??

*edit* It was her funeral today.

You know Michael Jackson's deed aye

Get away!

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:26 pm

Felix wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:55 pm

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:15 pm They just announced it on ITV??

*edit* It was her funeral today.

You know Michael Jackson's deed aye

Get away!

Apparently Macaulay Culkin flipped. Got the better of him. Gaffa taped him to the railings of Never Never Land while feeding him painkillers with a catapult.

Jane Birkin is 'non plus'.

Aged 76, found dead in her apartment. Sigh.

Count Steer wrote: Sun Jul 16, 2023 2:21 pm Jane Birkin is 'non plus'.

Aged 76, found dead in her apartment. Sigh.

She came and she went.

Tony Bennett. 96. That's no age, is it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66271090.



Was still knockin' 'em out in his 90's. Fair play.

As remarked on test match special "A GOOD KNOCK"