Glastonbury Dance Tent to be replaced by John Peel New Bands Tent

Yes.

or, i mis-read and was confused. i think they're just swapping them around.

further indication of why I should go to sonar this year

yeah i should definitely try and do that. i wasn't planning on going to Glastonbury this year incidentally.

No dance tent? Shurely not!

It's crazy - one minute rock is dead, then it's alive and quashing dance, then pop is the flavour of the month but then gets murdered by rock. WTF!?

There is going to be a dance tent, its just going to be where the New Bands Tent was last year.

Considering the dance tent was about half-full at the best of times last year I'm not going to lose a great deal of sleep over this one.

considering the lineup was so shite I'm not either!

rely on the Lock Tavern etc again.

maybe if it's smaller they can book better DJs.

Did you see the chemical bros review in NME this week? 4/10 and a caption on the photograph saying "DANCE STILL DEAD".
Tossers.

Yeah, I think with a less prominent dance tent they are less likely to go for Big Concepts like disco day and handing over the whole day to one label or something, and just book it in the way they do everything else. Which could lead to a patchier overall lineup but at least you wouldn't end up with one great day and two days of total arse.

i thought that was pretty funny actually andy. they were joking sort of i thought. hillariously in NME's 'Top 20 Trends of 2005' in at number 14 we had simply : MANCHESTER, then in the news pages a whole mini spiel about the revival of our fair city. bless them.

funny thing about the glazzo dance tent is for THREE years it's been pretty dire. terrible sound, lousy line ups, bizarre headliners, and in 2002 a memorable moment when dspite it being the biggest tent of its kind anywhere in the world (tm) not 1 solitary person except me was in there. they were playing timo *really* loud. it was weird. saturday's 'disco theme' last year was ace 2 b fair.

so good riddance, and yeah big up the rizla cafe/lock tavern/whatever its called this year.

giving it to one label would be best, or one promoter. the idea of a festival organiser booking a dance tent just doesn't work.

dance tent should be booked like a big club night.

I sympathise with Andy, but there's an interview with the Chems in the mag I write for this month, which I didn't get sadly, and it's like "they've abandoned big beat and even shockingly recorded an anti-war song, on this their 5th, and arguably best album"

Which is more annoying? I am fairly sure the guy doesn't have any of the other albums.

Does the NME still review records then?

If the line up is as good as last year I'm going to Bennicassim.

Did you see the chemical bros review in NME this week? 4/10 and a caption on the photograph saying "DANCE STILL DEAD".
Tossers.

If they're measuring the health of it by albums from one-record too many rock acts then fair enough. I wonder what score they gave the MYLO album?

Expecting them to have a clue about Rock/Dance/anything vaguely underground in music is a vain hope indeed. I don't even really trust the dance magazines opinions (what few there are left) personally.

It's a teen/lifestyle magazine these days and not much else.

T In The Park got it right by handing the dance tent over to Slam. Not just a case of them choosing the bill, but them using their clubbing knowledge to get the right set up and atmosphere. A good range of stuff - hard Slam techno, non-cheesy house, hip-hop, electro.
Dance might be "dead", but the place was completely mobbed this year. Loads of people just bring their sweeties and water and spend the entire weekend there, without even visiting the other stages.
I couldn't get in to see Basement Jaxx and had to end the night in the T Break stage. Everyone was fleeing from the Darkness I suppose.
Surely the Glasto dance tent can't be as bad as Reading though.

Eh? Basement Jaxx were on the Other Stage, not the dance tent this year, weren't they? Or did I miss a secret show?

I hope to go to T In The Park some year if my friends are booked for the Soma tent. Last year they got drunk and shouted at Tiefschwarz.

Sorry - you were talking about Stink in the Park. I wasn't reading properly.

Stink In the Park. Arf! Had a fun weekend, but thankfully I wasn't camping and had the "hospitality" area to relax in with all my other freeloading media chums. Not having to queue for the bogs is a godsend. £3 pints of Tennents aren't. Slam tent was the opposite end of the park, so I didn't spend much time there. Saw a bit of Tiefschwartz though.
Slam is the best organised bit of T in that there's always something on, the organisers have clearly thought about what will work well together, and you don't have to endure a really half-assed Kings Of Leon set in order to get a good place for the Pixies.

For those seeking tranquillity at Glastonbury Festival, a dance tent packed with clubbers is not an obvious sanctuary. But this will be the silent disco - 3000 festivalgoers are to be issued with headphones this year so they can turn up the volume without waking the neighbours.

The quietest party in town is a response to the problem of noise pollution at the festival, which has traditionally led the district council to issue a licence on the condition that the festival's main stages and tents shut down on the stroke of midnight.

This year, the council is to grant a late licence for the new dance area on the condition that thumping beats and pounding basslines are put to bed at 12. But, thanks to Glastonbury technicians, clubbers won't have to. For one night only, they will be given wireless headphones, so they don't trip up when dancing to whatever record the DJ plays.

"I like the idea of people dancing in total silence," said Emily Eavis, one of the festival organisers and daughter of the founder Michael Eavis. "Imagine if you were feeling a bit worse for wear and thought, 'This would be a nice quiet place to sit down'.
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"You would be completely freaked out to see 3000 people dancing in silence. It's certainly quirky, but our big push this year is keeping the noise down because that's what the council is keen on."

Organisers have not yet decided which DJ will play to thousands of quiet clubbers. The silent disco is part of a new dance area in which boutique tents replace the cavernous old venue. Ms Eavis said if the experiment was a success, she would consider silent gigs on larger stages in the future.

The full line-up remains secret but Michael Eavis has let slip that he expects Kylie Minogue, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson and Elvis Costello to perform at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England.

The Undertones will play a tribute to DJ John Peel, who is to have a stage named after him.