Glastonbury 2022 - 50th anniversary

JezWynd

Grangousier said:

I love Khruangbin. I don't know if this mix is serving them that well, but it's not terrible compared to some career-wrecking mixes I've heard. They certainly make a huge sound considering they're a trio, sort of space rock you can dance to. 

I think their sound works better in smaller spaces, more intimate venues. Billie Eilish gets lost on that big stage too imo, it might work for her as a discovery but headlining the main stage is a whole different gig, one that her music isn't suited for (imo).

Schnozz

Crowded House and Krauss & Plant were wonderful - Thoroughly enjoyed

tony99

Don't know who I'm watching now; lead singer looks like Diego Costa

artiebear

JezWynd said:

Grangousier said:

I love Khruangbin. I don't know if this mix is serving them that well, but it's not terrible compared to some career-wrecking mixes I've heard. They certainly make a huge sound considering they're a trio, sort of space rock you can dance to. 

I think their sound works better in smaller spaces, more intimate venues. Billie Eilish gets lost on that big stage too imo, it might work for her as a discovery but headlining the main stage is a whole different gig, one that her music isn't suited for (imo).

Ellish is up there with the most underwhelming acts I have witnessed in a while. We now live in the age of a 4 or 8 bar loop copied and pasted up to 2.30 mins with a bit of vocal over the top being considered for the Ivor Novello award. Where do we go from here ? ( I will leave this space for Haircut 100 aficionados  . 

mattdavis

tony99 said:

Don't know who I'm watching now; lead singer looks like Diego Costa

Foals I suspect. Spanish Sahara is a fucking massive tune. Sends shivers through every part of me. 

artiebear

mattdavis said:

tony99 said:

Don't know who I'm watching now; lead singer looks like Diego Costa

Foals I suspect. Spanish Sahara is a fucking massive tune. Sends shivers through every part of me. 

That whole album is beautiful ( Total life forever ). I agree Spanish Sahara is something else. Maybe a time in  my life, but it still gets me.

spark240

Sadly Billy isn’t too appealing on this stage…lacks energy without a band….

LPManic

Felt myself getting a bit emotional watching Crowded House. Need to have a word with myself! So good.

artiebear

FH, Foals are great tonight !

mattdavis

I’m afraid I agree about Eilish. But I’m the wrong generation. Just feels quite flat to me - there’s not the drama to fill that massive stage. Really like her stuff but just doesn’t feel festival headlining music. 

ewal

I've switched over to Explosions in the Sky - exactly what I needed this evening.

MagicPigDetective

A very good day. My highlight was certainly Dry Cleaning; St Vincent, Khruangbin and Plant and Kraus were excellent.
Not so sure about tomorrow's line up, we'll see. 

mattdavis

artiebear said:

FH, Foals are great tonight !

On. Fire. 

artiebear

mattdavis said:

artiebear said:

FH, Foals are great tonight !

On. Fire. 

getting better and better, I wasn't expecting them to be this good tbh. They are brilliant.

EricTheWeary

TeleMaster said:

EricTheWeary said:

S56035 said:

What metal isTeleMaster said:

So much good stuff there. The highlights for me would be Jamie T, St Vincent, Wet Leg, Billie Eilish, AJ Tracey, Four Tet, Primal Scream, Ziggy, Wolf Alice, Andy C, Macca, Noel, Kendrick Lamaar, Sleaford Mods, Bonobo, Kurupt FM. Loads! 

The only problem is how to see them all!

People who look at a lineup like they have at Glasto every year and can't see anything from a lineup that has everything from metal to jazz to blues to electro to hip hop to lofi and everything in between , and don't think they'll find music to enjoy, I mean... do they even listen to music?

I'm seeing the Stones tomorrow so that more than makes up for not going but I'm definitely going to try again next year. 

Can you point me at the metal? 

Or the blues? 

Just because there's no big name blues or metal band high up the bill this year it doesn't mean that there has never been blues or metal there, or that there won't be blues or metal on one of the 100 stages they have there. I saw Metallica there. Metal enough for you? I saw BB King there. Blues enough for you? 

If you'd go, or if you'd have been, you'd see that they have literally every style of music there. You can walk into one of the popup pubs they have and find a hardcore band, or a blues band playing. And there are like a thousand bands, I don't know them all but there absolutely will be metal, punk, hardcore, blues, jazz, etc there. 

I have been. And I appreciate, as probably does almost anyone with even a vague passing interest in the festival, that enjoying Glastonbury isn’t wholly dependent upon who the headlining bands are. But metal is rarely well represented ( acts such as Metallica and Napalm Death being very much the exceptions that prove the rule)and it seems like many metal fans feel that they are excluded. Blues is usually well represented but isn’t this year and that seems disappointing. Yes, in a tent in a field there may be lesser known acts playing but they won’t be on the TV or maybe worth the enormous ticket price of going to Glastonbury. Scanning down the list of the line up most years it now seems dominated by a few big name ageing acts and lots of broadly indie bands ( although fine, I’m not paying for a ticket).  

Hopefully the acts that I am interested in this year (Ziggy Marley, Hollie Cooke, Imelda May, Adwaith,etc) will get on TV. Wether that would represent a serious amount of cross country running to take them all in if I was there I don’t know. 

boogieman

I thought Robert Plant and Alison Krause were ok, but they really needed to mix things up a bit, everything seemed to be played at the same ploddy pace. 

Foals and Crowded House have been the best things I’ve seen so far. (But yeah, that kid, WTF? Is he Neil Finn’s sprog or something?). 

EricTheWeary

boogieman said:

I thought Robert Plant and Alison Krause were ok, but they really needed to mix things up a bit, everything seemed to be played at the same ploddy pace. 

Foals and Crowded House have been the best things I’ve seen so far. (But yeah, that kid, WTF? Is he Neil Finn’s sprog or something?). 

Not watched it but Neil’s sons Liam and Elroy are in the band. 

https://youtu.be/bAwJRI46TRE

tone1

I’m was enjoying crowded house until the screaming started…..

mattdavis

I think that kid was Neil Finn’s grandson (Neil Finn’s son was the other guitarist)

DiscoStu

We've just watched the Crowded House set on iplayer and been singing our hearts out. What a great set, it's just hit after hit but yet so many people won't know their stuff unfortunately.
Neil has one of *those* voices. Nails it every time and always comes across like your favourite teacher at school. Probably Geography. Maybe Modern Studies.
Found myself welling up a bit too when Buddy came on at the end to 'sing' along with Dad and Grandad. What a memory x