Great news for sure. I won't be going but I hope for those that do they have a wonderful time and I know they will. The Acoustic stage is where I would be most of the time except for when the Rolling Stones came on the Pryamid stage. I would also try to check out the Alabama Shakes, The Lumineers and Phoenix. What a lineup, lucky are those of you who will be going. Have a great time and get back with some recaps if you will.

I think the GLastonbury crowd will love the Stones, and I say that as a fairly regular Glastonbury-goer.

Thye'll play a hits and warhorses set, the crowd will lap it up, as they do when most major bands have appeared. And there's great opportunity for singalongs - when Glasto joins in, it really is something to behold. I'm not sure I've seen the Stones in a big venue where even half the crowd gets into it, but Glastonbury will if they play it right.

Just hope it stays dry while they're on as that can always be tricky. But even a wet Glastonbury isn't that bad. In 2011 I came home with a tan, and that was between the rain. It's not been as bad as that pic upthread in a long time.

This should be an incredible outing by the band. Since it's not just their show one would expect a stripped down stage and a ripping set. They will have to let the music talking and I'm confident it will be a MONSTER show.

CBII

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This should be an incredible outing by the band. Since it's not just their show one would expect a stripped down stage and a ripping set. They will have to let the music talking and I'm confident it will be a MONSTER show.

I wouldn't bank on that though, they changed the whole stage at the Isle of Wight in 2007...

Tickets are sold out ? ( how much was it anyway?)

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This should be an incredible outing by the band. Since it's not just their show one would expect a stripped down stage and a ripping set. They will have to let the music talking and I'm confident it will be a MONSTER show.

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Tickets are sold out ? ( how much was it anyway?)

It was about £250. I done the whole registration thing then tried to get tickets using 3 phones and my pc but didn't get any. I'll try again when the 'returns' go on sale.

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

Fee is on a set scale therefore they get Stones at 10% of their normal fee.

Michael eavis on the radio this morning. The Stones only confirmed just before announcement, negotiations took ages. Not paying a lot for them just standard headline rate.

Michael sounded absolutely delighted to have got them.[

30th of june is my 40th birthday. so, i'd pay alot if anyone could organise me 2 tickets.....

Can anyone of those with Glasto-experience tell us how to get tickets? It seems that it's registered with photo, so it seems buying second-hand-tickets is difficult? I NEED to be there (I'm sure I'm not the only one)...

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I should have known it was a one horse town

The ticket has your photo on it to prevent it being sold on by touts. Good idea if you ask me. So the chances of you now getting a ticket without registering first are pretty remote. Unless you find someone who looks just like you and wants to sell.

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

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Anyone else noticed that Bill Wyman and the Rhythym Kings are also playing at Glastonbury? Maybe Bill will hook up with the Stones again?

No chance. This is proof that those two-song appearances last year were it. Bill will never appear with The Stones again. It ends [again] as acrimoniously as ever.
Maybe the Bill and the RK will blow The Stones off the stage.

I think he will play with them for a couple songs like the O2, I'll put a virtual bet of 50 quid on it.

Stones and Glastonbury ‘the same thing’

THE Rolling Stones will add nothing to the Glastonbury Festival because they are basically the same thing, experts have confirmed.


The dawning of a new Aquarian age

The ageing rockers were unveiled as one of this year’s headline acts, giving the event a much not-needed injection of faux rebelliousness and rampant commercialism.

Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: “They are both emaciated, excessively grandiose versions of their former selves that mainly appeal to people who wear bum bags.

“The Stones and the festival also share a philosophy, that everyone should stick it to ‘the man’ by giving them several hundred pounds and staying out of the enclosure reserved for footballers and ageing catwalk models.

“The reason the Stones haven’t played Glastonbury until now is because there was absolutely no need.

“Since the late 1990s Glastonbury has been like a Rolling Stones concert that lasts for three days.”

Brubaker added: “Maybe this is Glastonbury perfected.”
Copyright © 2013 The Daily Mash
[www.thedailymash.co.uk]

Glastonbury's Michael Eavis: 'The Rolling Stones are getting the bog standard headline fee'

Festival organiser also said signing up the veteran rockers felt like 'winning the World Cup'

Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis has revealed The Rolling Stones will receive a "bog standard price" for their headline slot at the event.

The veteran rockers, who are making their debut at Worthy Farm, are not getting any special fee for their performance, Eavis revealed. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "There's a bog standard price for the headliner. We get the headliners for a tenth of the normal price. So they're not being paid very much. Headliners are always good to us because they want to do it because they get TV and they get huge record sales straight after the show."

Eavis also said their decision to play at the bash on June 29 felt like "winning the World Cup". He added: "We've waited a long time for the Stones to play. It's their 50th year and this [show] is part of their 50th anniversary, so what a place to be. Of course it's a thrill for us as well. It's taken a long time to get confirmed. So we were all thrilled obviously, we threw our hands in the air with joy and we hugged each other and everything. It's like winning a football match really or winning the World Cup I suppose I should say. It really is a huge thing for us."

The band have also expressed their delight at headlining the three-day festival. Guitarist Keith Richards told The Sun: "We all had such a ball last year and the energy between the band is so good, we can't wait to play Glastonbury." Ronnie Wood added: "I've been using all my persuasive charm on the boys for a few weeks now. Really pleased to be doing it. Can't wait to be getting out on that stage at Worthy Farm."

[www.nme.com]

On the news earlier they said more tickets would be on sale next month.

Can we dig a tunnel?

If we start now...

At lesat it will be on the telly.
[unless they have some stupid embargo on televising their set.
I'd hoped to see more of the IOW show the other year than ever came to light]

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At lesat it will be on the telly.
[unless they have some stupid embargo on televising their set.
I'd hoped to see more of the IOW show the other year than ever came to light]

Looks like they will be, Michael Eavis said that the Headliners don't mind only being paid a bog standard 10% of normal fee because they get to be on TV and their CD sales go up a lot the following week(s)..........

Summary of the press generated by yesterday's announcement - including the obligatory "last time" speculation.

Rolling Stones at Glastonbury: final farewell at home of rock



Jagger and Co to headline Saturday night - could it be the Stones' last ever show?

LAST UPDATED AT 09:06 ON Thu 28 Mar 2013


THE WORST-KEPT secret in rock is finally out after the Rolling Stones were confirmed as one of the headline acts for this year's Glastonbury Festival, amid reports that it will be their final show together after an epic 51-year career.

The band will play on Saturday night, 29 June, and Mick Jagger said he was looking forward to the experience. "Can't wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt!" he tweeted.

Rumours have swirled that the Stones would be performing at this year's festival since last summer, when it was reported that Glastonbury would be a staging post on their 50th anniversary tour.

Last October Keith Richards hinted at a big summer show and organiser Michael Eavis was reported to be "desperate" to get them on board.

In February the rumours increased as Ronnie Wood came out in favour and said he would try and "twist the arms" of his bandmates, and Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno let the cat out of the bag by suggesting that his band's shows on Glastonbury weekend would be overshadowed by the Stones.

"Around 200 performers have been announced for the festival but it is three words – the Rolling Stones – which leap out from the list," declared The Guardian.

The veteran rockers have certainly dominated the headlines. "It will be the first time the Rolling Stones have played Glastonbury, and is likely to be their final performance after 51 years together as a band," reported the Daily Telegraph.

According to The Times it is a match made in heaven. "No other festival in the world garners the level of interest Glastonbury does, and no band continues to inspire as much fascination as The Rolling Stones.

"This former R&B covers act from South London has been the greatest survival story since the cockroach. That is down to the charisma of the band members, and the fact that the Stones remain a brilliant live act."

The show will be a "historic milestone" for the band, according to the Mirror, which points out that they have always been absent from other musical "gatherings" like Live Aid, the Olympics and Jubilee celebrations.

Neil McCormick of the Telegraph says that the Stones turned their back on festival shows after Altamont in 1969, when Hells Angels providing "security" murdered a fan.

But Glastonbury is different, and represents the "last bastion" of rock idealism. "Pretty much every great surviving rock and roll band has played there, except, arguably, the greatest of them all. In a way, the Stones need Glastonbury as much as Glastonbury needs them," he argues.

The only problem will be getting tickets. This year's festival sold out in one hour 40 minutes last October, almost six months before the line-up was announced. However, cancelled tickets will go on resale next month to those who register by April 20.

[www.theweek.co.uk]

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Fee is on a set scale therefore they get Stones at 10% of their normal fee.

For Mick and Keith, that's like doing a free concert.

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Anyone else noticed that Bill Wyman and the Rhythym Kings are also playing at Glastonbury? Maybe Bill will hook up with the Stones again?

No chance. This is proof that those two-song appearances last year were it. Bill will never appear with The Stones again. It ends [again] as acrimoniously as ever.
Maybe the Bill and the RK will blow The Stones off the stage.

I think he will play with them for a couple songs like the O2, I'll put a virtual bet of 50 quid on it.

You're on! I doubt they will even speak to one another. Bill would not settle for just 2 songs, having already voiced his disappointment at being given short shrift, what with the lack of even a sound check. When asked if he would join them again this year as he did at the O2, his response was "Once bitten, twice shy."

Not only are The Stones a virtual corporation unto themselves, but they are also "their own best friends", even if they are not really friends. The Stones' social and professional world is an insular universe, and its closed membership code requires loyalty and longevity, even if you are Bill Wyman. And if you leave that world, you become just another among the 7 billion odd other strangers.

If The Stones really were doing what they do for the fans, then they would give the fans what they want. In Bill's case, they didn't even come close to trying.

More romanticizing:

Rolling Stones to play Glastonbury 2013: why it's the perfect way for them to bow out

James Hurley on why Glastonbury is the perfect stage for the Stones' last ever gig...

28/03/2013 14:45 | By James Hurley, editor, MSN Music


Confirmation came, as it so often does these days, via a tweet. “Can't wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt!”, it read, and for once the rumours turned out to be correct.

While it’s hard to imagine 69 year-old multi-millionaire and knight of the realm Sir Mick Jagger sleeping in a tent (maybe he meant yacht?), it seems The Rolling Stones really, truly, honest-to-God-will-be headlining the UK’s premier music festival this summer.

And if, in the words of the song so beloved of headline writers whenever the Stones announce new activity, it does turn out to be the last time, I can’t think of a better platform for their final performance.

Why? Well, that requires a trip back 50 years in time to the beginnings of the self-appointed ‘greatest rock and roll band in the world’.

Long before the Stones were being introduced by that rather grand moniker to enormo-dome audiences around the world, they were a ragtag bag of poverty-stricken musical evangelists.

Playing the distinctly non-commercial musical forms of blues and R&B (which is what rock and roll was renamed when white people started playing it), and being far from conventional heart-throb material, fame and fortune were the furthest things from their minds.

With the sort of earnestness only young men on a mission can muster, their aim was to spread the word of this then-obscure music; to give grim, grey post-war Britain a proverbial kick up the backside and have a ball in the process.

Rock and roll wasn’t a career choice in those days, it was a radical political statement which refused to get a haircut or a ‘proper’ job, and unashamedly proclaimed the virtues of enjoying life’s most basic pleasures to the max while you still can.

This sort of philosophy has nothing to do with “I hate myself and I want to die” (Nirvana), or “Heaven knows I’m miserable now” (The Smiths), or for that matter “Take all the courage you have left / Wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head” (Mumford & Sons, Glastonbury co-headliners and currently the most successful UK band in the world).

In other words, the Stones are about as far removed as you can get from 90% of what has passed for rock music since their heyday.

And it’s not just about lyrics.

Keith Richards is fond of saying, “Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.” He’s referring to the fact that, with a few notable exceptions, guys with guitars have stopped making music to dance to.

The rhythm, the funk, the roll which makes the Stones’ best stuff so compelling has been almost entirely hijacked by hip-hop and dance music. Rock (notice nobody calls it ‘rock and roll’ these days) isn’t party music anymore. At its best, it can still be witty, anthemic, poignant, and any number of other things but it doesn’t make you want to cut a rug.

When was the last time Coldplay gave you the irresistible urge to dance? Exactly. Now stick on the first few bars of Brown Sugar. If you can’t tell the difference, we’re sorry to inform you that you’re dead.

This is why the Rolling Stones headlining Glastonbury is the perfect way for them to go out. Playing as they will be to their youngest audience for years, and one which hasn’t paid specifically to see them, the Stones will be back to where they started – educating the youth of Great Britain in the art of having a bloody good time.

[music.uk.msn.com]

What's this about last ever show? I thought they were doing 18 shows in the States May/June.(is that no longer rumoured?)..then Glastonbury, if that's all true then my guess would be that Glastonbury will be the first of a European leg.............then who knows, back to the States, down south, Oz etc?.........

I've got a video on the shelf of a news report by the BBC on 20.8.1976 "It is rumoured that this will be the Rolling Stones' last ever performance"............I know of course that one day, one show will be the last and they will stop but I do wish the rumour mongers would stop sooner.....tiresome..........



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Nothing more than a few writers getting dewy-eyed at the thought.

Glastonbury is after the still rumored (soon to be confirmed?) North American dates.

And BST Hyde Park is after Glasto, so when/if that gets confirmed they'll relocate their "last time" theories accordingly.

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Nothing more than a few writers getting dewy-eyed at the thought.

Glastonbury is after the still rumored (soon to be confirmed?) North American dates.

And BST Hyde Park is after Glasto, so when/if that gets confirmed they'll relocate their "last time" theories accordingly.

yeah......... ....that's about the size of it..........

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Can we dig a tunnel?

If we start now...

Just make sure you don't run into the underground bar.
(You've got to love a festival with a bar built underground!)

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Can anyone of those with Glasto-experience tell us how to get tickets? It seems that it's registered with photo, so it seems buying second-hand-tickets is difficult? I NEED to be there (I'm sure I'm not the only one)...

Best bet now is try for resale, failing that enter competitions, or look for someone who can get you hospitality tickets (record labels, etc, can get hold of them, but takes you to know someone, and pay a lot more for it).

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On the news earlier they said more tickets would be on sale next month.

These are returns, so there won't be many. And you need to register to buy them.



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wellies and yurt - rainbooths and in homeland,that's good to mick

Gimme shelter

Stones practise Glasto camping


Paint it Blacks ... Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood in tent

Exclusive By JACK ROYSTON

ROCK millionaires Sir Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood went camping over chilly Easter to prepare for sleeping in tents at Glastonbury.

Mick, 69 — who has a £200million fortune — and 65-year-old Ronnie, worth £60million, braved biting winds as they slummed it in a £70 Blacks tent.

The Rolling Stones stars stunned fellow campers after deciding they needed to prepare for the hardships of the Somerset music festival they are headlining.

Student Danny Jones, 18, said: “We were walking through the campsite when I saw these two guys poking out of a tent.

“I couldn’t believe it. I took a photo and they looked straight at me.

“It was freezing — so if they can put up with these temperatures they’ll definitely be ready for Glastonbury.”

Pal Matt Begby, 19, said: “We both did a double take. It was definitely them.”
The rockers were spotted at the Rolf Apilo Campsite in Hampshire.

Last year keen camper Mick put up 150 guests in a tepee village when his Glasto fan daughter Jade, 41, married DJ Adrian Fillary.

It was announced last week that Mick and Ronnie — along with bandmates Keith Richards, 69, and Charlie Watts, 71 — would play the June festival with the Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal.

Mick immediately tweeted: “Can’t wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt.”

[www.thesun.co.uk]

Mick Taylor wants to join The Rolling Stones on Glastonbury stage

Guitarist wants in on headline slot

Tuesday 2nd April 2013 by Grace Carroll

Mick Taylor, former guitarist for The Rolling Stones, has expressed an interest in joining the band onstage at Glastonbury.

Taylor played with the Rolling Stones at their anniversary shows in London on 25 and 29 November, performing during the song 'Midnight Rambler'.

According to The Sun, Taylor is just waiting for the call and would be happy to reprise his role. The 64 year old said, "It would be great. I really didn’t think they’d be touring again. But I hoped they’d want to recreate some of the music from my days in the band. It would be a big noise, I tell you."

He did, however, criticise the band's choice of songs in their recent gigs, adding, "The last time I saw them play live from the crowd was at Wembley Stadium six or seven years ago and to me it seemed that they hardly played anything from the ’70s - or indeed the ’60s."

Even if Taylor was asked to play with the band, it's not certain that he'd be able to play as the guitarist has a history of ill health - and had to cancel his Australian tour this April due to medical concerns.

[www.gigwise.com]