Wooooo! Glasto 19!

It was good when John Peel did it.

He was pissed, mind.

 

I haven’t quite got my head around the recent Met Office trend for naming weather systems heading towards the UK. You surprise me that we’re already on Storm Z. I must’ve missed A-Y.

 

Agree with a lot of that. Jama is so far up her own backside it's unreal. Totally devoid of the ability to laugh at herself too.

Thought Stormzy was ok and a decent performance last night, but he has been put in the uncriticisable bracket by the media. He still has a bit too much of that "ladies, my mercedes" and "look how hard I am" to his lyrics for my liking, plus all the Jesus crap.

Love New Order. Listened to Technique this morning while running, it's their finest work.

 

Bit too much punk by numbers for me. Same with Slaves, they are just recycling the late 70s with no originality.

Much prefer Sleaford Mods and Fontaines DC for angry, direct stuff.

 

It's still just someone playing records. Peel could have chosen the playlist and got someone else to play them and it would have been exactly the same!

 

Listen to Idles lyrics. They are totally original in that they deal with male depression, toxic masculinity, NHS amongst other things. Not to everyones tastes granted but their message and direction can't be faulted.

I'm currently sat in the Glasto sun waiting for my next beer to be brought to me in between sets. Heard Stormzy was good and watched a bit on my phone from my sleeping quarters this morning. I bailed on watching him in favour of Tame Impala - don't regret it.

 

Overuse of the adjective "amazing."

It's so ingrained that people just say things like "I'm going to see the blah blah blah and they're going to be amazing."


There is no critical eye anything. All just different types of amazing.

 

Just for you, I'll give Idles another go.

Tame Impala are only doing well on the basis that they're the only ones making that kind of music. A couple of good songs but they are miles behind My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Curve.

 

I raise you with AWESOME!!!

In the US unfailingly boomed through Firmino white teeth.

 

Brandon Flowers looks like a Thunderbirds version of Tim Henman.

I’ve not seen the Killers before.

Offensively inoffensive.

 

My son, 19, assures me Stormzy is the real deal for the youth.

It’s all a bit curated, though, these days.

The influencers factory farm their likes to shove in front of the big brands.

Ideal conditions for a downward doom loop in creativity.

Btw, hoping that no one in the forum is putting their cap down their ass. Certainly not in this weather.

 

Neil seemed to have misread the weather forecast.

 

Niles Crane Award for this post.

 

Killers are bang average pop parodies, how anyone chose that over the chemical brothers idk.

 

Glastonbury finds for me so far are Michael Kiwanuka and Jungle. Both perfect for chilling out in the hot sun.

 

With all the debate about whether music has got worse, the problem with booking headliners and festival line-ups is a pretty easy one to deal with.

Working within the industry, it’s hard for Glastonbury to always pull special headliners now due to the rise of one-day London festivals such as BST. They will pay an extortionate fee to an act to play Hyde Park but insist on them being a UK exclusive which rules Glastonbury out. You will get the odd year when they get The Rolling Stones and what have you - but they have to give breaks to acts like Stormzy more regularly now. The Killers and The Cure have quite recently headlined other festivals that wouldn’t normally hold a torch to Glastonbury.

Likewise, there aren’t many big acts these days who can headline whilst also playing new material the crowd actually want to hear. Arctic Monkeys are probably the one I can think of who buck that trend. But a lot of acts will want to play their most recent stuff whereas a lot of the crowd will want a greatest hits set. It’s a fine balancing act being able to get a huge act who can straddle both lanes.

 

Really getting old m8. Grandad and his shoegazing bands.

 

It's quite hard to not get old.

 

Tell me about it.

 

Glitter and **** on grown ass women's faces. Stop it.

 

Watching Kylie and it's bringing back all the memories of when I started hating her in the early 1990s. Great times.

 

Just heading out to see the B52s.

Although more like the B67s these days.

 

Watford being represented nicely

 

The Chemical Brothers set was awesome.

 

Really good that the cure are doing some of their older and more obsCure stuff. Not just the hits.

 

No gimmicks, just great tunes and musicianship. Fantastic stuff.

 

The crowd appear to be the same person photoshopped in over and over.

 

When I saw the Arctic Monkeys (at a festival) they played a whole load of new crap that nobody was interested in and cut some of their classics. Came across very badly, and most left the show a bit p*ssed off.

People go to watch you on tour to see your new material. They come to festivals to see the hits.

 

We're not about to do a free-form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd.

 

Hope you enjoy our new direction.