Cavalier (Lost Version)
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Posted: April 02 2011, 10:48 |
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Matt... he giveth and he taketh away. I was all set to air my Glastonbury thoughts yesterday (after my new phone's internet browsing is holding up to practical usage) and what was the newest of new posts up here?
Oh well. I was bracing myself anyway as the April 1st window had not yet closed, but that was a quicker denial than I expected. I guess the only way around this is if the arrangement was supposed to be that Mike would appear as a surprise guest on someone else's bill, and they stick to that plan. If we were to spend nearly three months speculating on a set-list that he hasn't planned, played by a band he'd have to go the trouble of recruiting, we might have aired our frustrations when we recognised the second guitarist from the left during Steve Hillages' bit.
All this said, Glastonbury one year is far from impossible. I would be very surprised if Emily Eavis and her team have never put out feelers towards agents representing Mike. Look at their line-ups over the last decade and you can see that their invitations are diverse and rarely made for ironic or even post-structuralist reasons. The trick would be finding the time and means. It's all very well if you are an artist forming part of an existing touring unit but it's a big ask, for a festival slot that could be as short as thirty minutes, to get a special team together. The typical other times are forty-five minutes and an hour with the headliner able to keep going until curfew. Although you won't find too many making up a three hour show as they go along - it's usually simply a Glasto-themed version of their usal acts.
If anything does happen don't forget your mobile phones, intrepid festival campers. With so many stages we'll be lucky if one tune makes it onto the BBC's coverage. And don't bet on Phil Jupitus doing the links
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