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good.evening.glastonbury
it’s that time agin to start the speculations of who is going to play at glastonbury next sumnmer. tickets have been and gone and i got one. which is all that matters really. it’s the 40th year but it’s the 30th festival.
that’s maths.
so jarvis cocker has said he is playing and then the media got their hopes up and started spreading the rumours that pulp were reforming which was shot down quick smart by jc. a shame but anyone with a bit of cop on knows that they won’t be getting together anytime soon.
next up is robert plant, who recieved the Q outsanding contribution to music award this week. he had a chat to michael eavis, founder and organiser of the glastonbury festivals, who asked him if he would be interested in a slot at the festival next year. of course plant said yes. the question now is who will he be playing with, will it be the strange sensation, the band behind him for the crittically acclaimed ‘mighty rearranger’ or will it be his grammy award winning partner alison krauss, the bluegrass songstress whom he paired with on the masive hit ‘raising sand’…
or could it be.. y’know… the other guys.
time will tell.
see you at glastonbury bitches.
f*ckity bye
week.nutshell.in.
haven’t gotten upto much this past week. i started progress on a radio programme i’ll be doing as part of university. it focuses on the hacienda, the rise and long fall of the worlds first super club. the place should have been arrested for the money it nicked from people. not the punters though, the people that ran the place, Rob Gretton, Tony Wilson and those New Order fellows. i’ve been interested in it for a long time now, well since i was old enough, that and Factory records. there’s a great background to the whole thing, which we’ll be covering in the show. which i suppose i’ll drop here when it’s done. which won’t be soon let me tell you.
been reading hooky’s (that’s peter hook-new order bass player, lovely boy) book, the temptation to call it hookys booky must have been fierce. it’s caled ‘The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club’. decent read, writing style isn’t upto much but then he’s not a writer really is he. some cracking tales in there though and he tells them well, which is the aim at the end of the day. pick it up if you get the chance or have any interest, a fast, funny and fascinating read.it looks exactly like this.
i’ll leave you with this for now, it’s where they got their title and tagline.
And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. Now that’s finished. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist.
The hacienda must be built.
f*ckity bye
