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#1 2014-06-28 00:28:26

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Glastonbury Festival

Truly awful: Blondie all aged and decrepid with Debbie Harry looking like a gran off one of those sink estates speeding off her tits and every so often feigning a dance move. It frightened me a little, and the kids too, good job I was two or three G&T's ahead of the fear.

Then I caught this band, Elbow with a bearded beer monster of a lead singer, but sang all sweet and effete with a string orchestra in the background. I thought he was a roady doing a sound check at one stage. All the band members were also chunky beer monsters, reminded me of when I took me mum to see UB40. The sun was setting and I suppose some were getting all loved-up, swaying their hands in unison and bonding with the beer monsters on stage.

I imagine today's line-up will be equallty as bewildering.


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#2 2014-06-28 00:39:14

fxh
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Re: Glastonbury Festival

You are there!!! Live report??

 

#3 2014-06-28 00:46:26

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Of course not! I wouldn't undergo the physical discomfort and displeasure of relocating to a muddy field to watch rock bands in an acoustically inferior environment. No, that's not for me, I watched it on the telly. It was cheaper too.


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#4 2014-06-28 01:34:04

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Re: Glastonbury Festival

I went to a festival for the day once, that was bad enough. Mud, rain, queues for everything, including stomach churning toilets and overpriced food and drink, scary gangs and no escape from all permeating, over amplified crap music. Great if you're 18 of course. £350 for a 3 day ticket at Glasto isn't it?


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#5 2014-06-28 01:50:15

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Debbie Harry is a sad sight here, a far cry from the posters that adorned so many teenage bedroom walls. I don't know if those straps are meant to hold it all in but they're not working.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021rfv6

Chris Stein looks better, many years of heroin use and wearing sunglasses help to keep up a cool image.


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#6 2014-06-28 01:50:20

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I saw it on the telly too. I had it on mute though. Elbow ? - never heard of them and Lily Allen with dancing doggies. Blonde presenter and middle aged bloke presenter.

Now the Today programme on radio 4 has a piece on Bobby Womack's death. That sort of thing would have never happened when Jack di Manio was on the show.*

* At the point of his departure, de Manio was considered out-of-step with the news values of the BBC. The World at One had successfully brought to the BBC the best of Fleet Street values and a hardened newspaper editor in the form of William Hardcastle. Hardcastle contrasted unflatteringly with de Manio—who David Hendy described in Life on Air: A History of Radio 4 as "a Bentley-driving habitué of Chelsea and the clubs of St James, complete with a rich gin and tonic voice". Sue MacGregor disliked de Manio's "golf-club bore attitude to anything foreign".

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#7 2014-06-28 01:53:08

fxh
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Re: Glastonbury Festival

You can watch live on Telly?

 

#8 2014-06-28 01:55:27

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"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#9 2014-06-28 01:58:56

fxh
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Re: Glastonbury Festival

aah same audience too

 

#10 2014-06-28 02:44:33

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#11 2014-06-28 02:49:14

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#12 2014-06-28 02:53:45

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#13 2014-06-28 10:18:39

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Glastonbury...the music festival where its acceptable to take your kids, your parents, and grandparents for that matter...

...the epitome of corporate wank...

As for the BBC coverage, I can no longer tolerate Jo Whiley spouting banalities whilst corkscrewing off her chair...

...I'd give her a sly one behind the pyramid stage though mind...

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#14 2014-06-28 10:44:27

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#15 2014-06-28 11:00:05

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It's a funny old thing, at one time, you knew everyone who were claiming their old aged pensions had been through WWII in an active role either on the front line or on the home front, but not now, oh no, now we will be asking the question, did they have a mohican when they were on the front line at CBGB's and at the first gig of the Sex Pistols.


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#16 2014-06-28 11:30:22

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I see people born from the 50s to the 60s as probably the luckiest generation ever. My generation could've had it better but things have most definitely flatlined with the global economy etc. Not to say the 70s and 90s recessions weren't an easy ride.

 

#17 2014-06-29 05:09:58

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#18 2014-06-29 08:39:52

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That's because rock and pop music is no longer a threat, it's like Top of The Pops with the added delight of the modern day minstrel show. But yes, we've come a long way since Norman Tebbit during Live Aid stated "I still don't understand this music" to rapturous applause.


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#19 2014-06-30 00:48:43

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#20 2014-06-30 01:54:32

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#21 2014-06-30 02:17:42

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"I have about 100 pairs of pyjamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably."
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#22 2014-06-30 02:27:34

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Re: Glastonbury Festival

Also from this years Glasto...
Bryan Ferry seems to have turned into Vic Reeves' 'club singer', his set at Glastonbury was f***ing awful and his band of expensive session types were the worst I've seen/heard in a very long time.

Dolly Parton was miming ( or using 'vocal reinforcement' technology to use the industry jargon)
and Kassabian sounded like a bad Hawkwind covers band.


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#23 2014-07-01 13:56:50

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#24 2014-07-01 18:08:27

fxh
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Re: Glastonbury Festival

Its funny - I'd hear about Glastonbury each year and mud and rain etc.

And I'd shake my head and wonder why the brits would hold an outdoor festival dead in the middle of June - winter.  I had a grudging admiration for the plucky brits going outdoors in winter.

It never really struck me clearly until relatively recently that in fact Glastonbury is in the middle of the Northern Summer!

 

#25 2014-07-02 00:59:32

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