Tonight (July 15th 09)  Dawn Pugh and myself are off to see Reverend and the Makers in Manchester at the Academy 3.

Never seen them before but we’ve been listening to them for the last couple of years.

I just love John McClure’s lyrics they’re so real.

Their new CD is out in just under a couple of weeks and if the single is anything to go by, then it’s going to be a cracker.

Enjoy some of their videos below.

Heavyweight Champion of the World

Open Your Window

Let me know who you’ve been to see lately.

Australian band Empire Of  The Sun will make their long awaited debut live appearance at the Brisbane Parklife Festival held at the Botanical Gardens on Sept 26th.

Luke Steele says “The show is going to be epic, full of colors, dinosaur teeth chomping at the valleys of future. It will be more outrageous than the scents of imagination and will take the audience on a journey to another world.”

The pop duo will be touring the UK and Europe at the end of the year and I for one can’t wait to see them.

Their latest album “Walking on a Dream” has some fabulous tracks such as “We are the people” and their videos are colorful sto say the least.

Empire Of The Sun “We Are The People”

Empire Of The Sun “Walking On A Dream”

That’s all folks.

Gary

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In the last post I talked about how Glastonbury Festival were able to completely sell out the event shifting more than 140,000 tickets at £175 a pop.

What’s amazing is that they were able to do this without revealing the full line-up of acts.

Brilliant!

How did they do it?

Glastonbury has been around for almost 40 years and in that time has had its fair share of problems. Those problems pale into insignificance when compared against the amazing times 100’s of thousands of customers have experienced.

It’s therefore not surprising that a very high proportion of the festival goers have been to Glastonbury several times before.

Even though on many occasions the weather has been extremely wet, Glastonbury Festivals have always delivered to a hungry crowd (in the musical sense) of Dad’s,Granddad’s, Pre Teens to the 30 something’s, a solid line-up of both old and new acts that have appeal.

To sum it up, they sought and developed a hungry crowd of enthusiastic passionate music loving customers and continue to give them what they want year after year.

Take a leaf out of Glastonbury’s book and find a hungry crowd of clients that are looking for your services and then make them your client.

Until next time

Gary
p.s. This is what it can be like when it rains at Glastonbury

p.p.s. Here a a couple of my personal favorites from Glastonbury 2008

Enjoy

Well the Glastonbury Festival 2009 is getting closer and the anticipation in my house is building by the day.

My 16 year old son Joel is going with his brother Jonathan and his girlfriend Laura. I’m going to stop this naming people now because if I was to detail everyone that I either knew, my partner Dawn knows or my sons know who are going there, then the festival would have come and gone before I had finished.

Anyway, let’s get to the point.

In 2008 Glastonbury Festivals announce that there is to be a Glastonbury Festival in 2009.

Anyone wanting to go to the Glastonbury Festival paid a deposit on a ticket.  Sometime later those same people paid the balance on their ticket.

OK so far so good. Nothing out of the ordinary about this type of transaction except for 1 thing.

They did not know who they would be seeing at The Glastonbury Festival 2009 because the full line-up was only published on 25th May 2009.

What incredible brand loyalty this shows. You see the Glastonbury Festival brand is so strong that it didn’t even have to declare who was playing and yet they still completely sold out.

How did they do this?

Well you’re going to have to read the next post and I will reveal all.

See you next time.

Gary

p.s Here’s the Glastonbury Festival 2009 Linup

THURSDAY JUNE 25

Queen’s Head Stage:

Metronomy
Kap Bambino
Ebony Bones
Golden Silvers
Alessi’s Ark
Liz Green
The Gentle Good
Charlene Soraia
Stornoway
We Have Band
Maximo Park

FRIDAY JUNE 26

Pyramid Stage:

Neil Young
The Specials
Lily Allen
Fleet Foxes
Special Guests
Regina Spektor
Gabrielle Cilmi
Bjorn Again

Other Stage:

Bloc Party
The Ting Tings
Lady GaGa
Friendly Fires
White Lies
The View
The Maccabees
The Rakes
The Whip
Mr Hudson

John Peel Stage:

Doves
Jamie T
Jack Penate
Little Boots
Metronomy
VV Brown
The Virgins
Fucked Up
Rumble Strips
Dan Black
General Fiasco

Jazz/World Stage:

Q Tip
The Streets
Steel Pulse
Lamb
Hot 8 Brass Band
Stephanie Mckay
Speed Caravan
The Perceptions
Rolf Harris
Warsaw Village Band

Acoustic Stage:

Ray Davies
Fairport Convention
Jason Mraz
Scott Matthews
No Crows
Hugh Cornwall
Ben Taylor
Sean Taylor
Alyssa Bonagura
John Smith

The Park Stage

Animal Collective
The Horrors
Noah And The Whale
Special Guests
Emiliana Torrini
Special Guests
James Hunter
Golden Silvers
Bishi
Lay Low

Queen’s Head Stage:

Jason Mraz
The Big Pink
The Rakes
Rumble Strips
The Virgins
Dan Le Sac Vs Scoobius Pip
Tommy Sparks
The Low Anthem
Team Waterpolo
Hope And Social
Dead Like Harry
Yr Ods
City Stereo
The Mojo Fins
Maura Kincaid
The Slips
Sub Universe
Smash n’ Grab

East Dance

David Guetta
Layo and Bushwacka!
Easy Star Allstars
Iration Steppas ft Mark Iration
Dreadzone
Tom Middleton
The Egg
Paul Woolford
Pama International

West Dance

Erol Alkan
Crookers
The Whip
Annie Mac
Skream And Benga
Whomadewho
Joe Goddard (Hot Chip)
DeepGroove
Nathan Detroit

Avalon Stage:

The Blockheads
British Sea Power
Michael McGoldrick, Iain Fletcher and Andy Dinan
The Puppini Sisters
3 Daft Monkeys
Baskery
The Mandibles

The Glade:

Tom Real
Beardyman with The Bays
James Monro
Banco de Gaia
Pathaan
Outmode
Mum Suleiman
Clive Craske

SATURDAY JUNE 27

Pyramid Stage:

Bruce Springsteen
Kasabian
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dizzee Rascal
Spinal Tap
Eagles Of Death Metal
Tinariwen
VV Brown

Other Stage:

Franz Ferdinand
Pendulum
Maximo Park
Paolo Nutini
Peter Doherty
The Script
Jason Mraz
Metric
Peter, Bjorn and John
Broken Family Band

John Peel Stage:

Jarvis Cocker
White Lies
Florence And The Machine
Passion Pit
Gaslight Anthem
Hockey
The Temper Trap
Esser
The Big Pink
Baddies
The Nightingales

Jazz/World Stage:

Playing For Change
Baaba Maal
Lonnie Liston Smith
Jamie Cullum
Rokia Traore
Erik Truffaz

Acoustic Stage:

Kilfenorca Ceili Band
Tindersticks
Newton Faulkner
Lisa Hannigan
Gary Louris and Mark Olson
Lunasa
Bap Kennedy
Hope And Social
Stornoway
Cora Smyth Band

The Park Stage:

Bon Iver
M Ward
Special Guests
Shlomo and Guests
Horace Andy
Easy Star Allstars
The Memory Band
Bombay Bicycle Club
The Low Anthem
First Aid Kit

Queen’s Head Stage:

Guilty Pleasures
Dan Black
The King Blues
The Shortwave Set
Special Guest
The Wombats
Official Secrets Act
Noah And The Whale
Emmy The Great
Broken Records
Special Guest
Peggy Sue and the Pirates
Marina and the Diamonds
Theoretical Girl
Blue Roses
The Glitterati

East Dance:

2ManyDJs
Deadmau5
Pete Tong
La Roux
Wiley
Tinchy Stryder
Eric Prydz
Heartbreak
We Have Band

West Dance:

Josh Wink
Yoda
DJ Food
Qemists
Timo Maas
Japanese Popstars
Hudson Mohawke
NAPT
Emperors Machine
Jam The Channel

Avalon Stage:

The Wonder Stuff
Edward II
Eliza Carthy
Badly Drawn Boy
Solas
The King Blues
The Lancashire Hotpots
Wheeler Street
The Martin Harley Band

The Glade:

Stereo MCs
Stanton Warriors
DJ Fresh
Dub Pistols
Don Letts
Dr Meaker
Tayo
Rusko
Sancho Panza
Nairobi
Jinx

SUNDAY JUNE 28

Pyramid Stage:

Blur
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Madness
Tom Jones
Amadou Et Mariam
Tony Christie
Status Quo
Easy Star AllStars

Other Stage:

Prodigy
Glasvegas
Bon Iver
Bat For Lashes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Enter Shikari
Brand New
Art Brut
Boxer Rebellion
In Case Of Fire

John Peel Stage:

Echo And The Bunnymen
The Wombats
Noisettes
Ladyhawke
The Soft Pack
Just Jack
Emmy The Great
Twisted Wheel
We Have Band
Wave Machines
Good Books

Jazz/World Stage:

Black Eyed Peas
Manu Dibango
Roots Manuva
Khaled
Orquesta Aragon
Linda Lewis
Abdullah Chhadeh And Syriana

Acoustic Stage:

Georgie Fame
Roger McGuinn
Sharon Corr
London Community Gospel Choir
Beth Rowley
Imelda May
Penguin Café Orchestra
Kate Walsh
Martin Harley Band
Lucy Wainwright Roche

The Park Stage:

Seun Kuti and Fela’s Egypt 80
Cold War Kids
Tunng and Tinariwen
Alela Diane
Terry Reid
The Rockingbirds
Alberta Cross
Chief
Micachu and the Shapes
Bristol Community Choir

Queen’s Head Stage:

Robyn Hitchcock
The Aliens
Magic Numbers
Bombay Bicycle Club
Joe Gideon And The Shark
Vagabond
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
Fight Like Apes
The Capitol Years
Soft Toy Emergency
Priscilla Ahn
Jersey Budd
Two Door Cinema Club
Major Major

East Dance:

Calvin Harris
Mr Scruff
VV Brown
Rob Da Bank
Frankmusik
Wonky Pop DJs
Kissy Sellout
Wonky Pop DJs
Ou Est
Chris Coco

West Dance:

Peaches
Jodie Harsh
Beat Torrent
Freq Nasty
Dirty Vegas
Quiver
Filthy Dukes
Don Diablo
Goldfish
Stuart Wilkinson
Transformer

Avalon Stage:

Peatbog Fairies
Seth Lakeman
Dodgy
Will Young
Teddy Thompson
The Mummers
The Destroyers
6 Day Riot
Stornoway

The Glade:

Gong Sunday
Steve Hillage Band
Eatstatic
Richard ‘Kid’ Strange and the Party
Second Class Citizen
Back to the Planet
3 Daft Monkeys
Hybrid Cinematic Set
Breakfast with Howard Marks

MONDAY JUNE 29

Queen’s Head Stage:

Motown 50th Birthday.