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For the first time in living memory (Says a living memory expert) the tickets for the Glastonbury Festival didn't sell out within hours, in fact over a week later there are still tickets available. Noel Gallagher (Of Oasis, a pop group) has opined that the reason is that the Big Name this year is.. uh, I have a problem here, I know how to pronounce the name, I have no idea how to spell it. J.Z? JayZee? Jayzie? Whatever, you know the guy; Married to Beyonce, overweight, overdoes the jewelry, just signed a multi million dollar deal?

Yeah him.

The guy's a rapper, right?

So the Oasis theory is that the guitar band fans of previous years are staying away because this year there's a crarapper headlining. Wouldn't that be a little petty? The Beavis Clan who run the event have a different theory, they think that the years of rain and mudslides have taken their toll, and this coupled with the fact that it snowed when the tickets went on sale just kind of diminished the public's desire to attend an open air festival. This too sounds a little unlikely. Why would everyone unilaterally decide they'd had enough of the mudslides in the same year? And what did the snow have to do with it? I went out to enjoy it, but upon getting home the snow would have made no difference to my ability to use the 'phone or the internet.

I hate to say it, but the reason I'm not going this year is because of the rapper, and before anyone accuses me of being closed minded or throwing my toys out of the pram it's really quite simple, I have never, even during my wildest days of gigging, gone to a concert/festival/show which I knew I wouldn't like. I went to see The Tubes at the big theatre in town, later I went to see Frankie Beverly & Maze at the same venue. I also saw Lonnie Donegan, West Side Story, Cliff Richard, Godspell, The Kinks, Hair, Gene Pitney, The Who, and David Essex there. I didn't go to see Shostakovich.

'Nuff said?