Glastonbury.... (yes I'm wading into the furore!!)

After literally wading around glastonbury last year i'm wading into the debate about the lineup, the removal of lost vagueness and the future of glasto if they don't get their act together.

the glasto lineup was announced yesterday and i'm shocked. It's moving further and further away from netting the best headliners in the world and promoting great up and coming new bands and edgeing closer and closer to... well.... V-festival who for years have put on slightly tired yesterday headliners and catered to the t shirt buying, lager swilling masses with the rest of the bill.

The lack of lost vagueness will definately be noticed at the festival, it was THE place that if you were still wasted and wanted to dance and look at random shit til 8am the nextday you could go. it was all rammed full of gurny mentalists. These guys were to wired for the green fields and to loud for the campsites, it kept the peace. yes there will still be the dance village but even (and perhaps especially) if you are on the verge of forgetting where you are completely you need some variety and to know you can stomp off somewhere else.

The biggest threat to glastonbury this year was festivals abroad. Last year the mud and the rain was HELL I insisted that it did not spoil my fun though and it was the bands that carried the experience. I tramped to the leftfield stage after having lost a shoe for Brakes, i found that one drop of rain could actually penetrate my leather jacket during Modest Mouse and I RAN over to the dance village for Klaxons. If Jay-Z or the Verve paid me to see them in the sunshine with tea and cake, i wouldn't really be that fussed. and as for the kings of leon, been there seen them last year at Benicassim, in the sunshine, with a beach and a go-kart track. there's no competition. Thats why Glasto this year should have upped its game, not lost the best headliners to other festivals like Beni and Primavera. Which is where i will be spending my festival money this year.