Glastonbury - thoughts

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Watched quite a bit of the whole thing via Iplayer.

Coldplay - how boring? Yes a polished performance, and yes talent to write songs that millions love, but fk me they are so bland. Chris Martin-  what's with all this bumming his piano seat he does? Quite off putting.

Adele - again, good set of pipes, but so boring.

Beck - yes.

PJ Harvey - mey shes's talented, but I do find the later stuff (whilst clever) not as good as here early and0m id point material. Thought the performance of To Bring You My Love was awesome.

New Order - brilliant, though Barney is getting a bit of a tubber.

ELO - just so very very good. Not just head and shoulders better than any other band that was on, but a good few bus lengths.

Flags - anyone with a flag at a festival needs a bit of a shoeing really. Obnoxious.

Lots of smaller interesting bands on too, Sea Bed, liked them. Must also catch up on Joh Grant's set, he usually puts a good show on. Talent,.

Fretwired

Muddy and wet.

joneve

Muse were the best of the Headliners (and I'm saying that as a non-Muse fan). 

Adele's set was good in that she seemed genuinely over the moon that she was there. 

Coldplay's set was OK (the effect with the wrist bands made for good TV), but ending with Michael Eavis doing My Way was terrible and completely pointless. 

 I haven't caught any other bands yet as I spent most of the weekend driving. 

not_the_dj

I thought ELO were incredibly boring compared to Coldplay.

So in answer to your question, not very boring at all.

thomasross20

I was watching GNR in Detroit, much better.

lustycourtier

The worst year I can remember watching tbh. Even the artists I love, I lost interest in during their sets. ELO are one of them bands that just sounds like a CD playing. Totally Wonderful, but just too perfect. Coldplay were better than the radio1 thing a few weeks ago, but just totally bland people. ZZ top are way past it too.

suspiciousminds

I really enjoyed new order but its not the same without Hooky.

EricTheWeary

I've only been once but had a lovely time. The headliners were shit then but you make your own agenda between the different stages. Yet to find much on iplayer I've particularly enjoyed (well, I like Madness but that's just them being Madness and no Savages as yet on there ) but I'm sure had I been there I would have had a gay old time.

RocknRollDave

I thought Beck was flipping rubbish, myself.

I don't own any of his stuff, but had heard he was one to watch. Very little personality coming over, the songs were too laid back and groove-orientated to hold the attention and he was outplayed and outsung by his band.


Coldplay... A band I have been very vocal in my critcism of, but let's be honest as a live festival act they must take some beating? The illuminated wristbands that were synchronised with the lighting are a stroke of genius (I know they have done them for a while at Coldplay gigs, just never seen it for myself before). Still find Chris Martin generally off-putting, though.
And I would defy anyone I know to name any member of the band except for Martin without resorting to Google...(How can a bass player who has played so many massive shows still look like he is in a nervous teenage band at their first battle of the bands gig?!)

ZZ Top....crying shame but pretty bad.

New Order are a band I like a lot, they always sound great live UNTIL Bernard opens his out-of-tune gob and ruins it all. Stephen Morris looks like a special needs too. Sorry, how un PC of me..

Spotted a band on the red button I thought were pretty good, albeit not my kinda thing...Turned out to be the terribly-named Catfish and the Bottlemen.

mudslide73

I'm just too set in my ways and old to enjoy what the young uns like. I quite enjoyed White Denim but even they weren't up to the usual. Pfft.

Hopefully they can entice some proper acts to be headliners soon. (I don't know who to suggest though).

lloyd

Nothing on tv that got me interested to be honest-will have a dig through the smaller acts and will hopefully find some good stuff.

Pretty uninspiring line up for me.

stratman3142

Haven't caught all of it but I liked

Muse

Adele

Earth Wind And Fire

ZZ Top were very disappointing for me because I was a huge fan in their early days

Guitar man of the match was Serg Dimitrijevic of Earth Wind And Fire. I was blown away by his rhythm guitar playing.

Moss

M83 - Ridiculously good

LCD Soundsystem - A religious experience

Foals - Pretty great

Daughter - Great band, rubbish crowd

Savages - Needed to be there to get the full power

ZZ Top - Awful

Wolf Alice - Needed a smaller stage

Chvrches - Great as usual

New Order - The best they've been in ages

UnclePsychosis

RocknRollDave said:

Stephen Morris looks like a special needs too. Sorry, how un PC of me..

Adding that little disclaimer doesn't make the first sentence any better. Not cool.

Winny_Pooh

Half Moon Run - very underrated, always excellent

dogload

I've been trawling through some of it. I'm currently watching Mercury Rev, who are very underwhelming; very samey. Apart from the saw.

Daughter were very good

Hinds were OK, but a bit on-dimensional... sort of thing I used to hear back in the 80's!

PJ Harvey was good, I thought. Interesting band too.

ZZ Top - well it's all been said. This year's Motorhead?

St. Etienne - disappointing

Mystery Jets were touted as 'Space Rock' on the iPlayer and sounded like another dance outfit with a guitar.

Tame Impala weren't very good (I just don't like their present 'direction')

The Phillip Glass thing conducted by Charles Hazelwood was very good

What I saw of Protoje was very good indeed

Unknown Mortal Orchestra weren't as good as I was hoping - but that's just me not liking the tunes

White Denim and Beck next I think. 

Having said all that, I found the programme from Glastonbury 1986 the other day, and there weren't that many bands I was into on the bill and as far as I remember I had a great time... mind it was gloriously sunny!

thomasross20

Guys what was wrong with zz top?

EricTheWeary

I've only seen one Protoje track on the TV. It was very good, IMHO, and had I been there the one act I'd have been down the front for. Great band; the recordings not that guitar driven so I wasn't sure what he would be like live.

ewal

Enjoyed PJ Harvey, Expolosions in The Sky and Sigur Ros very much, didn't see anyone else.

shrinkwrap

Not a good year IMHO.
Muse - soulless - great tunes and musicianship but could be machines.
ELO - boring - never liked them back then either.
Disappointed with the Philip Glass Heroes symphony and I say this as a Glass /Bowie/Hazlewood fan.

ZZ Top are sadly just too old - the other guy just played single finger bass on a keyboard.

Good :
PJHarvey
Earth Wind and Fire - cracking - seeing a big band having a great time and playing really well
Christine and the Queens on the Beeb acoustic backstage - tres bonne..

thermionic

Enjoyed PJ Harvey very much. How many middle aged blokes playing Jazzmasters through AC30s does she need?

I must seek out Explosions In The Sky on iPlayer, I have a few of their early albums.