Glastonbury highlights

[overdrive]

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I think a lot of people think Glastonbury is only the 2 or 3 stages the BBC show. It's a huge arts festival; the site covers 1000+ acres and has over 100 stages. It's diverse because of that; big chunks of it are mainstream and a tick box for suburban ******s who like their 'counterculture' to be in a safe space. There is the old crusties and hippies who have attended every year since day dot, there are the people off their faces dancing to industrial techno at 7am and there is everything in between. To try and pigeon hole 250K people is just daft.

I'm watching John Fogerty right now, he can't carry a tune in a bucket anymore, but I'm enjoying it immensely.

Yeah I’m pretty disappointed Corto Alto isn’t available on the BBC. My wife works in the music industry. They are a MASSIVE deal in the jazz industry she works in. But not available on the BBC coverage. Surely they can broadcast everyone on iPlayer.

[overdrive]

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Pulp smashed it out the park.

For a band who have been around for nearly 50 years they still sound totally relevant. Jarvis Cocker sounds and looks great as well for a guy in his 60s.

They are a classic pub quiz question. People associate them with the 90s but they are actually a 70s band.

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Bob Vylan and Kneecap now being investigating by the police due to comments made by both.

Hardly surprising if so. Some moronic stuff being spouted. I know Lisa Nandy quickly stepped in to grill the BBC about showing the Bob Vylan guff live.

[Hibspur]

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What’s your point?

You don’t like it?

It’s pish?

It’s a **** fest because what?

No problem with a lot of the music (and I gather Neil Young fought the good fight for rock'n'roll in incomparable style last night) but the event is insufferably smug. A middle-class Waitrose shoppers/Remoaner weekend out. I gather Pulp dedicated Mis-shapes to the 'misfits' in the crowd. You'd be hard pressed to find many of them there.

[Hiber-nation]

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No problem with a lot of the music (and I gather Neil Young fought the good fight for rock'n'roll in incomparable style last night) but the event is insufferably smug. A middle-class Waitrose shoppers/Remoaner weekend out. I gather Pulp dedicated Mis-shapes to the 'misfits' in the crowd. You'd be hard pressed to find many of them there.

You've been reading The Telegraph again then, complete with ultra-smug "remoaner" comment.

[Moulin Yarns]

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No problem with a lot of the music (and I gather Neil Young fought the good fight for rock'n'roll in incomparable style last night) but the event is insufferably smug. A middle-class Waitrose shoppers/Remoaner weekend out. I gather Pulp dedicated Mis-shapes to the 'misfits' in the crowd. You'd be hard pressed to find many of them there.

A wee bit about the misfits of Glastonbury.


With the mystic misfits at Glastonbury – archive | Glastonbury festival | The Guardian https://share.google/rwAQ0HEVmxwpEfg49

The term misfits has been used about Glastonbury for over 50 years.

[Hibspur]

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You've been reading The Telegraph again then, complete with ultra-smug "remoaner" comment.

Yep, that must be it. I couldn't possibly have formed that opinion by myself.

I actually voted remain incidentally, but the whinging after the vote was worse than after the Scottish independence referendum and it did my head in. I remember laughing at the absurdity of Damon Albarn saying 'Democracy has failed us' when Blur played Glastonbury in 2016.

[superfurryhibby]

As Roy Harper headlines the acoustic stage tonight, playing as a duo with his genius guitarist son, Nick, I wonder if the BBC will film any of it?

Roy's 84 and doing three farewell gigs, aside from Glastonbury and is a national treasure.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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It is now. He has some sort of issue with the BBC around 'corporate control' and refused to have his set broadcast but has now backed down. He'll likely be pretty sh*t anyway.

Glad to hear those numpties Kneecap didn't get shown live. Red Arrows should have flown low over their set instead of Pulp's and drowned them out.

Full set available on BBC iPlayer now and it is absolutely fabulous. Nae red arrows though, sorry.


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[hibsbollah]

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Full set available on BBC iPlayer now and it is absolutely fabulous. Nae red arrows though, sorry.


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[babahibs]

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No problem with a lot of the music (and I gather Neil Young fought the good fight for rock'n'roll in incomparable style last night) but the event is insufferably smug. A middle-class Waitrose shoppers/Remoaner weekend out. I gather Pulp dedicated Mis-shapes to the 'misfits' in the crowd. You'd be hard pressed to find many of them there.

I've been to Glastonbury a few times, I must know at least 50 people that go regularly.

None of us are what you would describe as middle class. None.

[Pretty Boy]

The Libertines were superb there. Best I have seen them live in a long time.

[Pretty Boy]

There is is. The obligatory Celtic top in the crowd for Rod Stewart. The perfect attire for festivals, weddings, funerals and everything in between.

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Racist Rod with a dreadful start. Suffering it because my wife wants to see it as there's nothing else on.

[hibsbollah]

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Racist Rod with a dreadful start. Suffering it because my wife wants to see it as there's nothing else on.

We’ve got to give Rod Stewart a chance

[Mon Dieu4]

I like Rod, he has some **** hot tunes, amazes me that some people as huge as him don't know how to put together a set list, you need to come out the gates with a well known belter to get the crowd going

[Pretty Boy]

He's obviously a cock but I don't think he's been too bad so far. His voice is shot but that's been the case since about 1997. He's trying to put on a show and he's a bit like a no bad karaoke singer hamming up Rod Stewart. The OTT backing band, singers and production is obviously all to hide his voice and it's working to an extent.

[Sylar]

Absolutely cackling at the sudden clamouring to decry Bob Vylan from the organisers. You surely knew who the **** you were booking when you reached out to their management pre-festival. I’ve seen them live twice and they’re incendiary across lots of social and cultural issues: unashamedly and explicitly so.

Not going to enter into debate on this thread about the political merits or problems with them (or Kneecap), but if you book acts like that, you get exactly what you expect. Don’t pretend or act surprised.

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We’ve got to give Rod Stewart a chance

😂

[hibsbollah]

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He's obviously a cock but I don't think he's been too bad so far. His voice is shot but that's been the case since about 1997. He's trying to put on a show and he's a bit like a no bad karaoke singer hamming up Rod Stewart. The OTT backing band, singers and production is obviously all to hide his voice and it's working to an extent.

‘Trying to put on a show’…This is a classic in the ‘damning with fake praise’ genre

[Pretty Boy]

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Absolutely cackling at the sudden clamouring to decry Bob Vylan from the organisers. You surely knew who the **** you were booking when you reached out to their management pre-festival. I’ve seen them live twice and they’re incendiary across lots of social and cultural issues: unashamedly and explicitly so.

Not going to enter into debate on this thread about the political merits or problems with them (or Kneecap), but if you book acts like that, you get exactly what you expect. Don’t pretend or act surprised.

The irony is that, much like Kneecap, all the furore will just send their career to another level. It's outstanding publicity for them.

[Pretty Boy]

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‘Trying to put on a show’…This is a classic in the ‘damning with fake praise’ genre

I'm feeling generous, it's a sunny Sunday🤣

[Jim44]

His singing is embarrassingly poor but most of the oldies suffer from this. They should retire gracefully.

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Full set available on BBC iPlayer now and it is absolutely fabulous. Nae red arrows though, sorry.


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Neil Young? I agree, he hugely exceeded my expectations.

Kneecap's set has been heavily edited for iplayer.

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Racist Rod with a dreadful start. Suffering it because my wife wants to see it as there's nothing else on.

I wasn't aware he's racist?

[Jim44]

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I wasn't aware he's racist?

Racist by association.

[babahibs]

Rod Stewart is painful, switched to Black Uhuru, Motherwell F.C flag at the front of the crowd.

[marinello59]

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His singing is embarrassingly poor but most of the oldies suffer from this. They should retire gracefully.

I don’t think his voice is that bad, it’s improved as the set has gone on. He’s slowed down a bit as well.
He’s doing what the legend should do, throw out a selection of his greatest hits and he has some belters from the early seventies. He is a bit of a backside but I can park that and enjoy it for what it is.

[Hiber-nation]

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I wasn't aware he's racist?

Not starting up another debate on this thread. As I said in 1977 he gave the best live performance I've ever seen (maybe other than The Clash) and I'll leave it there.

[marinello59]

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Racist Rod with a dreadful start. Suffering it because my wife wants to see it as there's nothing else on.

Racist? His misguided support for Farage dies him no favours but I think you would struggle to make the case for him being racist.
I fell out with an old friend in Facebook because of his support for reform. Played the racist by association card. The next week he put up his wedding pictures, his West African wife looked stunning. Lesson learned.