13 minutes into that Four Tet set I've had to stop it as I'm getting too carried away. Proper gagging for some of that.
13 minutes into that Four Tet set I've had to stop it as I'm getting too carried away. Proper gagging for some of that.
Father in law had Diana Ross on. I know she’s old but I’ve heard better karaoke.
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I wouldn't have sent her out there after the Jubilee showing. I'm also listening to Four Tet.
I've either missed things or today has been wall-to-wall shit. Excited about Kendrick though, it's gonna be a lot.
Charli time.
He's gone big and he's gone earlywould be nicer without the gammon singalong having to go quiet at the n-words.
That's where we're at now? I remember a few years back, a white Glastonbury crowd dropping them happily during Kanye's set.
I prefer the now. We can’t say that.
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Just got in from Glastonbury. Highlights:
- Libertines, never saw them first time round. Pete Doherty’s final evolutionary state is quite something. Tunes are better than I remembered.
- Wolf Alice, so good. No bad had quite the moment they did. Crowd was massive and they absolutely delivered. I could see them headline with one more knockout album.
- Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, both just consummate performers doing quality stuff. Have seen Plant before and getting three Zeppelin songs was a treat.
- St Vincent, only really know the album she did with David Byrne but knew I’d be a fan and she was immense. Such an intense performer and helped along by a crazy good backing band.
- Foals, probably the best all-round ‘set’ of the weekend. They’ve come a long way. I liked how the set was frontloaded with their dancier stuff and progressed into their heavy stuff. Inhaler was huge. We were right in the middle of the pit(s) too which was a lot of fun.
- Skunk Anansie, bit of a blind spot for me but totally exceeded my expectations and were very different to what I expected. It’s almost industrial-esque metal in places. Skin’s a 10/10 frontperson too. Serious banshee territory. The metre-long spiky headgear for the first few songs looked bananas.
- Avalanches, only caught about half of their set but their kind of extended jam scthtick reminded me of a more chill / blissed Chemical Brothers. Not a lot in it I recognised though (think they have a new album I’ve missed)
- McCartney, where to start? They first 90 minutes was awful. Just plain awful. Turgid crap, he lost his way a few times, hideous lip service to his old bandmates, the little song he did about Lennon was excruciating. And don’t even get me started on Obladi-oblada and Lady Madonna. All that great Beatles material and that’s what we get. After that, though, the set transformed into something that was try great. The guests helped, and sering Helter Skelter live was incredible live. Every modern indie/alt band owes that song a debt of gratitude. Crowd was obvs full of Hey Jude wankers but I was glad he didn’t close with it. Set of two halves, to put it in TTH cliche terms.
- Elbow, always good. Not much else to say.
- Jarv Is, best frontman in music. Solo stuff is silly and fun. On the Park Stage too, the best stage ofc.
Saw some comedy too - Jonathan Pie, Josh Widdecombe and Nish Kumar. Lefty af but come at me. They were all excellent.
And that was it acts wise. Festival was as great as ever, my fifth Glasto. My parents live 15 miles down the road so it does make it a whole lot easier to do. Seem to have returned with a lurgee but it’s doesn’t (yet) seem to be Covid so 👍
Yeah Doherty morphing into Don Vito Margera is surprising, to say the least.
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It was always on the cards
This has raised some immense future concerns regarding my own future self.
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I was there. It was one of the best years I've been. The build up of anticipation over three years meant it was a blowout from the very start.Originally Posted by Manc
And now I've got COVID.
I also have everything that amounts to Covid, bar a positive test for Covid. Been coughing and sneezing my soul out since Sunday.
Yeah, I shouldn't have bothered testing. I don't feel all that terrible, just exhausted. Days become meaningless there, which is great in the moment, but it means I've got a shitload of sleep to catch up on
I was there too and it was fantastic. Defo have covid but haven't got a test.
Should have added that both my partner and me have tested negative so I don't know what new-age lurgee we have ended up with.
Is your partner a man? Sounds like Monkeypox.
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She's a she so no pox here.
Are you all buying tests online or something? I thought they’d pretty much disappeared when the Government pulled the plug on the pandemic a few months ago.
I have a decent chunk leftover as they sent me 40 back in November and I've only tested when I felt I might actually have it.
Obviously. Moving on.
I lolled at seeing Tesco selling tests for £2 a pop the other day. What saddo is buying those?
Anyway, I think I'll give my best set of the weekend to DJ EZ. Watching a DJ when the traditional headliners are on can backfire massively, but it can also pay off huge. Everybody in the crowd truly wants to be there and it can fucking pop off, which it really did on Arcadia (and for Jopkins on Friday night).
The set included so many tracks that I just can't keep up with EZ's mixing. It's incredible hearing him come up with ideas on the spot, and even binning off certain mixes for something else, but it never sounds anything other than masterful. He's got the be the best in the world at keeping the crowd bouncing.
There are still quite a lot of people who are really wound up about it, two years on. My brother was seething on the family whatsapp group the other day about having to attend a work team building day due to covid risk (he's wfh) and we were all forced to 'Well, anyway...' him in slightly awkward fashion.
I've got two left. I don't think they'll ever get used.
Did he leave the Army? Melt.
Yeah. He now resides in some gaff outside Bristol and talks impenetrable corporate bullshit for a living.
I sometimes think I should have joined the Navy and retired in my forties. Oh well.
There is a petition to rename the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury. I must admit I raised an eyebrow when I saw it mentioned this year, thought after his candid admissions of child sex it would have been quietly dropped during the covid break.
"Making their way to the Tim Westwood stage now ...."
Peel was a nonce? Lol, that one must hurt the unwashed.
They are rabidly defending him on social media despite him literally saying himself he used to get regularly piped off by a 13 year old and he said as late as 2004 he 'had an awful lot' of sexual contact with underage girls. Some hill to die on because he played some records they liked, but that's the internet for you.
It may well be because he has children like Tom Ravenscroft that are deeply sewn into the happy-go-lucky 'all music is brilliant' scene that encompasses the likes of Glastonbury and the BBC. That, or they've always known.
Apparently "teenage dreams so hard to beat" was plastered on the back of the stage this year.
Hard to imagine it not being renamed by next year.
I foolishly got drawn into a facebook argument about this with his defenders and now one of them is threatening to falsely out me as a paedo, what even is that logic, defend a nonce by claiming someone else is?
Too many of a certain type have got too much lifetime baggage (i.e. having nothing to offer so defining their entire personality on the basis of liking slightly less popular music than their friends) invested in Peel to let him go now.
I'm going to BLUE DOT with work, it'll probably be alright, it's free including train tickets and food for 3 days, plus we get fancy staff camping passes with showers and stuff. Also for leaving Fri morning and coming back Sunday evening, it means I get to avoid working Friday and get two days in lieu for the weekend. Not bad for having to only do like 6 hours over the three days or something.
Might regret it a bit by Saturday evening, and my colleague will definitely be regretting letting me share her tent with my disgusting snoring.
Alex Turner sounds like Adam Sandler in Billy Madison.
I had a real good time binging on the iplayer coverage of glasto last year so I've cleared out my weekend for the same again. Not too clued up on lineup info or whatnot so will see what we get served up.
This Glasto line-up is utterly depressing.
Arctic Monkeys vs Hot Chip vs Fever Ray on right now would have been the stuff of my nightmares. I'd have no doubt gone Pyramid and it would have been the wrong choice. It's always Hot Chip.
I have just put them on, thought 'Vic Reeves', and sure enough it's trending on Twitter. Give up son.
He's just had laryngitis. It's hard to tell if it's that or it's just how he sings these days.
AM are proper clowning with this setlist. Half way through and not a single proper big hitter.
They're so shit these days. That said, I'd kill to be there. I'm doing a good job of avoiding it so far but I might tune in for Elton. Hopefully he brings out William Shatner for Rocket Man.
And a Diana hologram for Candle in the Wind.
Then reads the passage from his autobiography about gay orgies soiling his snooker table.
I had no idea the Arctic Monkeys were [or have become?] some sort of lounge lizard crooner act.
Seemed a pretty rubbish set really.
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