Leonard Smalls

Yesterday I watched using The Big Stereo at A Reasonable Volume... English teacher I found alternately excellent and deeply annoying. My Mrs likes 'em more than me, I feel! Loved Gary Numan - serious bass sounds! If only he'd played It Must Have Been Years... Enjoyed Fat Dog with their Klezmer-tinged punky stuff - singer very shouty and looks like James Acaster dressed up as the Man From Delmonte. Shame the bass level wasn't upped till halfway through. Briefly watched Haim for a look at The Bass Face but found it all rather too cheesey and wet. Liked The Ezras, though I prefer max rather than min funkin'! Unfortunately, missed Big Bad Bobs Vylan - nice to see the boys still causing trouble! I wonder if the Beeb will put his show up for our viewing pleasure? 😁

Jump Around - House of Pain

I'm a thumb plectrum man... Basically hit the string on both the Up- and the Down-stroke! Some times with a slap for emphasis. Then 3 fingers wiggle about doing other widdleystuff.

Having seen her on Later a while ago I'll be steering well clear. But some folks are clearly huge fans!!! It clearly takes all sorts... Shall hopefully be catching up with Bob Vylan later, then search for entertaining oddness, like the Porn Crumpets last year!

I thought they were great - excellent musicians. Though I feel their cover of "Sunshine" was ill-advised; musically they nailed it but the drummer's "singing" and constant shouts of "hey Glastonbury" would have poor old Ayers spinning in his grave!

I would say that The Electric Bass Guitar is a Whatever-You-Want-it-to-Be Instrument! Original purpose is irrelevant; after all, Viagra wasn't invented as "support instrument" either...

Up The Junction - Squeeze

We're going to Ibiza - Vengaboys

Holiday Head - Screaming Blue Messiahs

Let's Start The Dance!- Hamilton Bohannon

Bop Gun - Parliament

Lick My Love Pump - Nigel Tuffnell (and Mach)

I think that, so long as you make it one capitalised word and sound like this, you'd get away with being a tribute act!

Having just checked out the "up and coming" Nottingham Girlband, there's not an enormous overlap between them and previously-named Girlband. Girlband are a straightforward Lady Parts-ish band, and Gilla Band are not up-and-coming due to being a bit too Leftfield. Luckily they didn't call themselves that! like this:

Love 'em! I was confused by mentions of Girlband from Nottingham...

Only capitalist lackeys and lickspittles succumb to the tyranny of melody and its evil master, key!

Southbound Pachyderm - Primus

No, silly! It's obviously the Isabel Marant Shirred Paisley-Print Georgette Miniskirt! I always go topless at festivals! (actually, it's the toothbrush. Good piece of kit!)

I'm ashamed to say I have one thing on their list!

Talking of gear, I hope everybody going will be following Vogue's advice! https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/what-to-wear-to-glastonbury

Say What? - Trouble Funk

Smile in a wave - Screaming Headless Torsos

Happy to sing 'em for you!

Oi! It's only me who's allowed to do that! As for saving the planet, I'll be taking my Sandberg which, being German isn't made of ordinary rainforest-killing bass wood, but of Ersatzholtz which is actually sculpted from recrystallised oil company executives.