Glastonbury

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:55 pm

22 years ago tomorrow.......................... the wettest, headiest, funniest, trippingest weekend of my life.

clicky on the linky

Headline by Deep Purple, the line up consisted of some of the finest acts around at the time including..

Mountain

Mama's Boys

Blackfoot

UFO

Meatloaf

22 f*ckin' years ago,

God, I feel old!

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:30 pm

Dr Hotdog wrote:Yeah, my one and only ever Glasto was in 2003 and was undoubtedly the best festival line-up i've ever seen on these shores in my lifetime. Yes, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Doves, Grandaddy, Nada Surf, Flaming Lips, the Streets, REM.

Possibly the greatest Glastonbury in living memory. Weren't the Super Furry Animals there too? I seem to remember them performing an incredible version of 'Juxtaposed With You' on the Other Stage. Highlight of the weekend was The Flaming Lips who apparently spent their entire fee on the stage show!

Best band so far this weekend? 'Cherry Ghost' from Bolton! Closely followed by Bjork.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:44 pm

trotter58 wrote:
Dr Hotdog wrote:Yeah, my one and only ever Glasto was in 2003 and was undoubtedly the best festival line-up i've ever seen on these shores in my lifetime. Yes, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Doves, Grandaddy, Nada Surf, Flaming Lips, the Streets, REM.
Possibly the greatest Glastonbury in living memory. Weren't the Super Furry Animals there too? I seem to remember them performing an incredible version of 'Juxtaposed With You' on the Other Stage. Highlight of the weekend was The Flaming Lips who apparently spent their entire fee on the stage show!

Best band so far this weekend? 'Cherry Ghost' from Bolton! Closely followed by Bjork.

Sneaked out from work to see the Super Furries yesterday, proper festival setlist, all the classics - that's the way it should be, rather than sulking 'cos the punters want to hear your hits instead of the experimental fifth album... Juxtapozed came out of course, and the spaceman helmet, and a bag of crisps. Oh and, after "tempting fate" by playing Hello Sunshine, an impromptu Vocoder composition called Hello Thunder & Lightning...

Arcade Fire didn't light my candle personally, and the Monkeys - while tight - didn't grab the Pyramid Stage audience. That might have been the new, more directional speaker systems, but I don't think it was a tremendous idea to have a mid-set intermission when folk have been stood in two inches of mud for 12 hours. We slouched off to the Left Field to watch Ned's Atomic Dustbin instead, it was that kind of night. Later glimpsed Keira Knightley and, separately, Jimi from Doves (now sporting a scary Ray LaMontagne-length beard) nearly getting run over by a tractor. Oh and Romeo Magic Number hopping with rage like a well-fed but angry Ewok after a passer-by rather unsportingly shouted "your band's shit".

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:01 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Sneaked out from work to see the Super Furries yesterday, proper festival setlist, all the classics - that's the way it should be, rather than sulking 'cos the punters want to hear your hits instead of the experimental fifth album... Juxtapozed came out of course, and the spaceman helmet, and a bag of crisps. Oh and, after "tempting fate" by playing Hello Sunshine, an impromptu Vocoder composition called Hello Thunder & Lightning...

Arcade Fire didn't light my candle personally, and the Monkeys - while tight - didn't grab the Pyramid Stage audience. That might have been the new, more directional speaker systems, but I don't think it was a tremendous idea to have a mid-set intermission when folk have been stood in two inches of mud for 12 hours. We slouched off to the Left Field to watch Ned's Atomic Dustbin instead, it was that kind of night. Later glimpsed Keira Knightley and, separately, Jimi from Doves (now sporting a scary Ray LaMontagne-length beard) nearly getting run over by a tractor. Oh and Romeo Magic Number hopping with rage like a well-fed but angry Ewok after a passer-by rather unsportingly shouted "your band's shit".

Saw the SFA set on TV. Have you noticed how the shorter Gruff Rhys' hair gets, the longer his brother's beard becomes?!

Big mistake not catching Bjork rather than those professional northerners the Artic Monkeys, plodding through their dreary set. Best thing about them is the drummer. Give it ten years and they'll be the new Status Quo!

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:13 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2007/watchandlisten/

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:03 pm

I've bought a couple of bottles of Bulmers cider with which i'm hoping to blot out the Who's entire set on Sunday evening.

Iggy Pop and the Stooges might be worth watching today if their performance on the Jonathon Ross show is anything to go by. I watched most of it through my fingers.

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:25 pm

trotter58 wrote:I've bought a couple of bottles of Bulmers cider with which i'm hoping to blot out the Who's entire set on Sunday evening.

Iggy Pop and the Stooges might be worth watching today if their performance on the Jonathon Ross show is anything to go by. I watched most of it through my fingers.

Ha! I saw Iggy and The Stooges at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday night. Marvellous, they were. The man must be sixty, yet still leaps round like a lunatic! Mind you, Ron Asheton's showing his age....
Definitely recommended. Saw them round Christmas last year, at ATP, too.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:48 pm

trotter58 wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Sneaked out from work to see the Super Furries yesterday, proper festival setlist, all the classics - that's the way it should be, rather than sulking 'cos the punters want to hear your hits instead of the experimental fifth album... Juxtapozed came out of course, and the spaceman helmet, and a bag of crisps. Oh and, after "tempting fate" by playing Hello Sunshine, an impromptu Vocoder composition called Hello Thunder & Lightning...

Arcade Fire didn't light my candle personally, and the Monkeys - while tight - didn't grab the Pyramid Stage audience. That might have been the new, more directional speaker systems, but I don't think it was a tremendous idea to have a mid-set intermission when folk have been stood in two inches of mud for 12 hours. We slouched off to the Left Field to watch Ned's Atomic Dustbin instead, it was that kind of night. Later glimpsed Keira Knightley and, separately, Jimi from Doves (now sporting a scary Ray LaMontagne-length beard) nearly getting run over by a tractor. Oh and Romeo Magic Number hopping with rage like a well-fed but angry Ewok after a passer-by rather unsportingly shouted "your band's shit".
Saw the SFA set on TV. Have you noticed how the shorter Gruff Rhys' hair gets, the longer his brother's beard becomes?!

Big mistake not catching Bjork rather than those professional northerners the Artic Monkeys, plodding through their dreary set. Best thing about them is the drummer. Give it ten years and they'll be the new Status Quo!

Aye. Or AC/DC. No difference between those bands, but one is hated for repetitive simplicity while one is lauded for repetitive simplicity. Bjork? Well the Monkeys were a bit of a trudge, as I said, but I'd just endured Arcade Fire, I'd had enough hyperactive operatics for one evening...

Brother Rhys's beard is now dangerous, move-seats-on-the-bus length. Off seeing Gruff again later at Avalon, once I've put this last edition of the newspaper to bed. Thence to oblivion.

(PS Great balls-up on the Guardian Glasto blog site, enthusing about a band called Sing Star. Er, that'll be karaoke.)

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:48 pm

trotter58 wrote:I've bought a couple of bottles of Bulmers cider with which i'm hoping to blot out the Who's entire set on Sunday evening.

Iggy Pop and the Stooges might be worth watching today if their performance on the Jonathon Ross show is anything to go by. I watched most of it through my fingers.

Stooges are the one act we all agree we want to see on what's quite a damp squib of a Saturday.

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:52 pm

Puskas wrote:
trotter58 wrote:I've bought a couple of bottles of Bulmers cider with which i'm hoping to blot out the Who's entire set on Sunday evening.

Iggy Pop and the Stooges might be worth watching today if their performance on the Jonathon Ross show is anything to go by. I watched most of it through my fingers.
Ha! I saw Iggy and The Stooges at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday night. Marvellous, they were. The man must be sixty, yet still leaps round like a lunatic! Mind you, Ron Asheton's showing his age....
Definitely recommended. Saw them round Christmas last year, at ATP, too.

Iggy Pop's attempts to interact with the audience on the Jonathon Ross show during a rendition of 'I'll Be Your Dog' were hilarious! He sripped to the waist before launching himself into an audience of OAP's and middle class city types who looked like they'd just come straight from work. He shoved a microphone under the nose of one poor woman who was so panic-striken that she just blurted out 'I'll Be Your Dog'. He then attempted to engage a middle-aged man in a suit in some banter but the bloke was so terrified that he just stared straight ahead!

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:58 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Aye. Or AC/DC. No difference between those bands, but one is hated for repetitive simplicity while one is lauded for repetitive simplicity.

When the Artic Monkeys announced that they were going to perform a cover version in honour of the event, i half-expected them to launch into a rendition of 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:25 pm

trotter58 wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Aye. Or AC/DC. No difference between those bands, but one is hated for repetitive simplicity while one is lauded for repetitive simplicity.
When the Artic Monkeys announced that they were going to perform a cover version in honour of the event, i half-expected them to launch into a rendition of 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.

We've come to the conclusion, after exhaustive listening to the older artiste, that Alex Turner is a latter-day Tommy Steele.

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:34 pm

Did anyone else see Cherry Ghost? Thought that they sounded pretty good with a slight hint of the Cocteau Twins. Terry Christian is always going on about them on his TalkSport show. The biggest band from Bolton since er, Badly Drawn Boy?

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:40 pm

trotter58 wrote:Did anyone else see Cherry Ghost? Thought that they sounded pretty good with a slight hint of the Cocteau Twins. Terry Christian is always going on about them on his TalkSport show. The biggest band from Bolton since er, Badly Drawn Boy?

I was office-bound, sadly. Heard the album last week in the (real) Q office. Rather tasty.

trotter58 · Post by **trotter58** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:42 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:I was office-bound, sadly. Heard the album last week in the (real) Q office. Rather tasty.

They were introduced by Mark Radcliffe who convieniently remembered that he's from Bolton now that there's a bandwagon to jump on.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:57 pm

glastonbury

pfffft

its just a commercialised pop festival now

and the bands are all utter toss

im suprised Take That arent playing

Mich Caine · Post by **Mich Caine** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:23 pm

cowdrill wrote:glastonbury

pfffft

its just a commercialised pop festival now

and the bands are all utter toss

im suprised Take That arent playing

To be honest with you I have to agree. I would rather have a leg off than be at Glastonbury. I would be bored shitless, crap music, far too crowded, can't even have a dump in privacy.

The typical person who goes to Glastonbury is called Krispin, they have green trousers and are a complex character who thinks that if they put stones in a northernly direction it gives off positive vibes. I can't be arsed with such people.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:26 pm

and would you really wanna watch bands that look like this?

faggots

Mich Caine · Post by **Mich Caine** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:34 pm

I got the exact same pair of sunglasses as that bloke is wearing in a McDonald's Happy Meal.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:37 pm

oh he's never set foot in a macdonalds

him and his public school chums probably only eat in bistro's and five star restaurants

thats yer modern 'rock stars'

prix

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