BBC Glastonbury Coverage

[Gnasher]

15 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

 

This has been happening since Elvis and Cliff Richard!

 

Yeah that's sort of the point i was trying to make. They seem to be more into the girl singer/songwriters now. Seem they can relate to a little because they sing/talk about the insecurities of growing up. You look how many records the likes of Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish and Beyonce sell and its astonishing. 

[johnsusername]

32 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

 

Yeah that's sort of the point i was trying to make. They seem to be more into the girl singer/songwriters now. Seem they can relate to a little because they sing/talk about the insecurities of growing up. You look how many records the likes of Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish and Beyonce sell and its astonishing. 

 

I like Lana Del Rey - I joined her Reddit fan club and had to quickly leave, they were absolutely mental. Nobody was allowed to like anyone else. It was like a cult. I imagine a lot of these fan bases are the same..

[Gnasher]

4 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

 

I like Lana Del Rey - I joined her Reddit fan club and had to quickly leave, they were absolutely mental. Nobody was allowed to like anyone else. It was like a cult. I imagine a lot of these fan bases are the same..

 

Ah.Thats the other one I was trying to think of. Yeah they got dedicated fans. I'm obviously not a teenags girl but i can sort of understand why they like these artists. 

[Stouffer]

Currently watching the Avril Lavigne set, s'allrite. 

[VladimirIlyich]

13 hours ago, johnsusername said:

 

This has been happening since Elvis and Cliff Richard!

Cliff was cleared of those charges if you don't mind!

[Stu Monty]

Was genuinely really nice to get a message off Rich whilst I was there, you don't expect it from that sort of cunt but some times people surprise you. 

It's honestly just funny now when you see people digging Glastonbury out for the same boring reasons (and mostly quite clearly doing it from the perspective of not being there). I've been a few years in a row now and as fucking boring as it is to hear about it from people who do see it as the peak of their summer, there's a reason they talk about it like that, and it isn't just the music. Being able to go from listening to Sylvester at a big gay tops-off disco at NYC Downlow (with some of your your mates genuinely free to be their true selves in public) and in 30 mins to be chilling listening to Kiwanuka, its just a thing you don't get anywhere else. There's some interesting chat about if there's too many people there now, and also if they understand the growing desire for dance music (given the traffic to get to those areas when the stages close is now bordering on dangerous) but it's still the best few hundred quid you'll ever spend. 

Some stuff I saw, pretty much all very good or great (some on iPlayer some not):

Simz (obvs) - Mates who will never listen to her stuff loved the set and were bouncing around to it thinking she just bossed the thing with her energy. There were nans there clearly loving it. Could easily have headlined if they leant into it like Stormzy and made a big cultural moment of it.

Justice absolutely smashed it on Sun, incredible sound at West Holts

Brittany Howard was excellent, channeling those Prince vibes. Possibly album of the year for me.

Big Special were amazing at the Leftfield - see no reason why they can't be better/bigger than Idles...and I like Idles a lot.

Jamie XX
Kiwanuka

Barry Can't Swim at the park was good but stupidly busy - DJ set at Arcadia was class
Romy was absolutely perfect vibes.

Noname

LCD Soundsystem

Jordan Rakai - Nice chilled stuff on Sun without being something to write home about

Ross From Friends was fucking great at San Remo
Two Shell - bonkers but I just can't say no to them
Afrodeutsche dropping No Good - Start the dance at fuck knows what time in the morning at iicon was a real moment.
Joy Orbison - always worth taking in their set and Flight FM was getting dropped by every DJ all weekend.

Francois K - previously mentioned bug gay disco - lovely couple of hours in the afternoon.
Mall Grab - decent without blowing me away.

Just tally up the ticket prices to see all that (without even mentioning you can hear 4 tracks from random people as you wander past) and throw in the cost of 5 days camping and it's incredibly good value for anyone that can afford it. 

 

That said, none of you should go next year, don't try for tickets...it's actually crap and all this was just bluster.

Still got no time for posting really, so fucking soak that one in, treat it like rare scripture you just found in a tomb, but cheers for the shout out.
 

[TheBitch]

43 minutes ago, Stu Monty said:

Was genuinely really nice to get a message off Rich whilst I was there, you don't expect it from that sort of cunt but some times people surprise you. 

It's honestly just funny now when you see people digging Glastonbury out for the same boring reasons (and mostly quite clearly doing it from the perspective of not being there). I've been a few years in a row now and as fucking boring as it is to hear about it from people who do see it as the peak of their summer, there's a reason they talk about it like that, and it isn't just the music. Being able to go from listening to Sylvester at a big gay tops-off disco at NYC Downlow (with some of your your mates genuinely free to be their true selves in public) and in 30 mins to be chilling listening to Kiwanuka, its just a thing you don't get anywhere else. There's some interesting chat about if there's too many people there now, and also if they understand the growing desire for dance music (given the traffic to get to those areas when the stages close is now bordering on dangerous) but it's still the best few hundred quid you'll ever spend. 

Some stuff I saw, pretty much all very good or great (some on iPlayer some not):

Simz (obvs) - Mates who will never listen to her stuff loved the set and were bouncing around to it thinking she just bossed the thing with her energy. There were nans there clearly loving it. Could easily have headlined if they leant into it like Stormzy and made a big cultural moment of it.

Justice absolutely smashed it on Sun, incredible sound at West Holts

Brittany Howard was excellent, channeling those Prince vibes. Possibly album of the year for me.

Big Special were amazing at the Leftfield - see no reason why they can't be better/bigger than Idles...and I like Idles a lot.

Jamie XX
Kiwanuka

Barry Can't Swim at the park was good but stupidly busy - DJ set at Arcadia was class
Romy was absolutely perfect vibes.

Noname

LCD Soundsystem

Jordan Rakai - Nice chilled stuff on Sun without being something to write home about

Ross From Friends was fucking great at San Remo
Two Shell - bonkers but I just can't say no to them
Afrodeutsche dropping No Good - Start the dance at fuck knows what time in the morning at iicon was a real moment.
Joy Orbison - always worth taking in their set and Flight FM was getting dropped by every DJ all weekend.

Francois K - previously mentioned bug gay disco - lovely couple of hours in the afternoon.
Mall Grab - decent without blowing me away.

Just tally up the ticket prices to see all that (without even mentioning you can hear 4 tracks from random people as you wander past) and throw in the cost of 5 days camping and it's incredibly good value for anyone that can afford it. 

 

That said, none of you should go next year, don't try for tickets...it's actually crap and all this was just bluster.

Still got no time for posting really, so fucking soak that one in, treat it like rare scripture you just found in a tomb, but cheers for the shout out.
 

Ban this cunt, @dave u
 

[Juniper]

3 hours ago, Stu Monty said:

Was genuinely really nice to get a message off Rich whilst I was there, you don't expect it from that sort of cunt but some times people surprise you. 

It's honestly just funny now when you see people digging Glastonbury out for the same boring reasons (and mostly quite clearly doing it from the perspective of not being there). I've been a few years in a row now and as fucking boring as it is to hear about it from people who do see it as the peak of their summer, there's a reason they talk about it like that, and it isn't just the music. Being able to go from listening to Sylvester at a big gay tops-off disco at NYC Downlow (with some of your your mates genuinely free to be their true selves in public) and in 30 mins to be chilling listening to Kiwanuka, its just a thing you don't get anywhere else. There's some interesting chat about if there's too many people there now, and also if they understand the growing desire for dance music (given the traffic to get to those areas when the stages close is now bordering on dangerous) but it's still the best few hundred quid you'll ever spend. 

Some stuff I saw, pretty much all very good or great (some on iPlayer some not):

Simz (obvs) - Mates who will never listen to her stuff loved the set and were bouncing around to it thinking she just bossed the thing with her energy. There were nans there clearly loving it. Could easily have headlined if they leant into it like Stormzy and made a big cultural moment of it.

Justice absolutely smashed it on Sun, incredible sound at West Holts

Brittany Howard was excellent, channeling those Prince vibes. Possibly album of the year for me.

Big Special were amazing at the Leftfield - see no reason why they can't be better/bigger than Idles...and I like Idles a lot.

Jamie XX
Kiwanuka

Barry Can't Swim at the park was good but stupidly busy - DJ set at Arcadia was class
Romy was absolutely perfect vibes.

Noname

LCD Soundsystem

Jordan Rakai - Nice chilled stuff on Sun without being something to write home about

Ross From Friends was fucking great at San Remo
Two Shell - bonkers but I just can't say no to them
Afrodeutsche dropping No Good - Start the dance at fuck knows what time in the morning at iicon was a real moment.
Joy Orbison - always worth taking in their set and Flight FM was getting dropped by every DJ all weekend.

Francois K - previously mentioned bug gay disco - lovely couple of hours in the afternoon.
Mall Grab - decent without blowing me away.

Just tally up the ticket prices to see all that (without even mentioning you can hear 4 tracks from random people as you wander past) and throw in the cost of 5 days camping and it's incredibly good value for anyone that can afford it. 

 

That said, none of you should go next year, don't try for tickets...it's actually crap and all this was just bluster.

Still got no time for posting really, so fucking soak that one in, treat it like rare scripture you just found in a tomb, but cheers for the shout out.
 

No Bloc Party?

 

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