Flamethrowers At The Ready (tickets, alternative, hip-hop, rock, genre)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-16-2008, 06:37 PM

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Noel Gallagher has criticised the decision to have a hip-hop act headlining the Glastonbury Festival.

The Oasis guitarist said having rapper Jay-Z at the festival was the reason tickets had not sold out this year.

He said it was "wrong" to have a hip-hop headliner and added that organisers had changed things too much.

There were 100,000 tickets sold for Glastonbury on the first day, but in past years all tickets had sold out in a matter of hours.

Gallagher said: "If it ain't broke don't fix it.

"If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance.

"Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?'

"I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."

Oasis headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 1995 and 2004, with the event selling out on both occasions.

Aaaaaaaand Go.......

Laces Out Dan! · 04-16-2008, 06:39 PM

Jay Z is more talented than Noel Gallagher...nuff said.

I really dont like him, as a musician and as a person.

jackhammer · 04-16-2008, 06:40 PM

NG is about in touch with things as my father-I.E is'nt.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-16-2008, 06:47 PM

I do agree with him on one point

If you can't sell out Glastonbury something is seriously wrong.

I don't think that's anything to do with hip hop. Choice of headline artist maybe , but nothing to do with the genre of music they play.

mr dave · 04-17-2008, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I do agree with him on one point

If you can't sell out Glastonbury something is seriously wrong.

I don't think that's anything to do with hip hop. Choice of headline artist maybe , but nothing to do with the genre of music they play.

have you tried finding ticket info on the site? talk about a freaking hassle. 10 minutes later i finally find out i can pay 1800 pounds to rent a 6 person tent or pay 155 pounds for a weekend ticket. that's IF i even lived in the UK, which i don't. toss on an extra 2 grand for a transatlantic return flight and i'm thinking - forget this.

i'm STILL trying to find out who the line up is for this year. hmmm a rap guy that has gotten more press for being beyonce's possible husband over the last year than anything he's released in recent memory. hell the only thing i remember about jay-z was that stupid single he had that lifted a song from freaking Annie (the musical about a red headed orphan).

20 minutes later and i STILL can't find a list of performers on the offical glastonbury festival page. yeah i can't see ANY reason why it's not already sold out... nope... effing hippies.

thank god for google. wow.... little wonder it's not selling out. neil diamond? (i make your grandma wet - but my son is mike D so i'm cool!) leonard cohen? (i'm older than dirt and make william shatner seem hyper) the verve? (a less abrasive version of oasis that no one has heard from in 10 years?)

whoever organized this year's lineup should be fired.

simplephysics · 04-16-2008, 08:34 PM

Noel's probably just in a piss cause Liam still refuses to sleep with him.

sleepy jack · 04-16-2008, 09:09 PM

Noel's a douchebag but if I could find information on the British charts than maybe he could be right. I mean over here Jay-Z would sell out a festival but correct me if I'm wrong isn't stuff like The Kooks popular over there? If that's the case than okay yeah I can see what he's saying about guitar rock being a wiser choice but only because of popularity reasons.

simplephysics · 04-16-2008, 09:13 PM

I still can't believe that Rolling Stone named Roc Boys song of the year.

sleepy jack · 04-16-2008, 09:16 PM

The Rolling Stone also put Britney Spears in their top 50 albums of 2007.

simplephysics · 04-16-2008, 09:21 PM

Ahh good point. A really depressing, dissapointing point.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	I do agree with him on one point If you can't sell out Glastonbury something is seriously wrong. I don't think that's anything to do with hip hop. Choice of headline artist maybe , but nothing to do with the genre of music they play. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.