GLASTONBURY 24

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

47 minutes ago, meterman said:

Was that the one where Traffic played as well? I’d have paid to get into that for them and Gong alone ❤️ All the rest would have been a bonus to say the least!

They may well have played there , but not on the album . 
There is a documentary about that gig somewhere apparently . 

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

29 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I'd put a reserve on The Edgar Broughton Band, if I were you. They were omnipresent 'back then'; one wonders why. Happy, heady daze, but best without them, for my money. 

I liked the track on the album at the time . " out demons out" .  Don't know anything else about them .

How bad were they ?😬

[MacDaddy]

I'd love to play there, but I've no interest in being a punter.

[Dad3353]

6 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

... How bad were they ?😬

 

 

[TheGreek]

59 minutes ago, meterman said:

Was that the one where Traffic played as well? I’d have jumped over the fence and ran across the field to get into that for them and Gong alone ❤️ All the rest would have been a bonus to say the least!

 

Fixed

[NancyJohnson]

2 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Yep, same here. My festival days are well and truly over.

I think my last big one was V in Chelmsford, so some time ago.

I just cannot be ar$ed doing battle to get a halfway decent view and then giving it up to go for a two mile trek for a p!$$.

 

We're old enough to just do it in our pants now.  It's expected.

[MacDaddy]

3 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

We're old enough to just do it in our pants now.  It's expected.

 

The problem is when it's unexpected...

[meterman]

40 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

I liked the track on the album at the time . " out demons out" .  Don't know anything else about them .

How bad were they ?😬

There’s a track called “There’s No Vibration, But Wait” that I was quite partial to many decades ago. But apart from “Out Demons Out” my memory seems to have blanked them out completely. 

 

To be fair, my memory has blanked a lot of things out as I get older 🤔

[NancyJohnson]

42 minutes ago, BassApprentice said:

Watching LCD Soundsystem and the bass player is getting some mighty tones from his Serek!

 

If I was playing there, I'd use my most obscure bass and get a t-shirt done.

 

 

 

[meterman]

Glastonbury related: Does anyone else remember the Scouse kids selling fake blotter acid made out of cut-up bits of cereal packets in the 80s or 90s? 

Never fell for it myself but thinking back, they could have pocketed some decent cash 💰 

[SteveXFR]

Idles headlining the other stage. 

Beautiful chaos. Absolutely brilliant. 

[Lozz196]

Plenty of Mustangness from their bassist too. 

[SteveXFR]

3 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Plenty of Mustangness from their bassist too. 

 

Wasn't he playing Jazz basses?

[Linus27]

Dua Lipa 😍 Brilliant performance despite the cliche speeches between the songs.

[OliverBlackman]

18 minutes ago, Linus27 said:

Dua Lipa 😍 Brilliant performance despite the cliche speeches between the songs.

Obviously heavily programmed but the bass sounded great too.

[casapete]

So far watching on TV I’ve seen Dua Lipa ( really good), Paul Heaton ( great tunes but rather

flakey vocals) and Sugarbabes ( excellent vocals and band). Few acts this year interesting 

me but going to catch as many as I can and hopefully some may impress. 

[tauzero]

4 hours ago, meterman said:

There’s a track called “There’s No Vibration, But Wait” that I was quite partial to many decades ago. But apart from “Out Demons Out” my memory seems to have blanked them out completely.

 

Mine too, and that's after having supported them. I remember the Strawbs much better, and we supported them at the same venue a few weeks before.

[Leonard Smalls]

Enjoyed Squid... But not Dua Lipa's pop-dance-fest. I always find it a bit worrying when there's more (choreographed) dancers on stage than musicians - it's no longer about the music, if it ever was!

Idles always great too. Shall peruse more when relaxing with a nice Penderyn after my gig tonight.

[Lozz196]

8 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Wasn't he playing Jazz basses?

He was swapping about like The Edge

[OliverBlackman]

7 hours ago, casapete said:

Sugarbabes ( excellent vocals and band).

You must have seen a different sugarbabes lineup to the “highlights” I saw on BBC. The first thing I noticed was how bad the vocals were. On one song the key was too low for the vocal line so it was sung slightly sharp!

[Lfalex v1.1]

We went to Glastonbury once.

It was a deeply frustrating experience, we hated it and left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The festival wasn't on at the time. 

I can only imagine it to be like a special eighth circle of Hell when it is.

 

[ped]

Just watching Olivia Dean on iplayer. Very good band, and audio mix is pretty decent. Worth a watch - not sure about anyone else!

[SteveXFR]

18 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

You must have seen a different sugarbabes lineup to the “highlights” I saw on BBC. The first thing I noticed was how bad the vocals were. On one song the key was too low for the vocal line so it was sung slightly sharp!

 

I saw a bit of them. Bland, lifeless and lower and slower than the original versions. I don't think any of them sang on the original recording. The band were doing a decent job.

[bassbiscuits]

Thought Dua Lipa was excellent.
 

Sugababes surprisingly good too. Most of their singing was really good but a couple of songs seemed too low for them to sing. 

[SteveXFR]

48 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

He was swapping about like The Edge

 

I missed all that!

I used to think Dev wasn't much good as a bassist, he never plays anything particularly interesting. With everything else going on, his metronome like timing and simple root notes are exactly what the songs need.