O/T:- Glastonbury Highlights

[keldsyke]

Quite liked Rick Ashley doing Highway to
Hell 😂😂… and Dave Grohl with Guns n Roses …Anyone else’s highlights??

[jackal2]

Nothing in particular against the performers, but Glastonbury for me feels increasingly like Soccer AM: it should have been left in the 1990's where the context felt right.

[laddo]

Overall underwhelming lineup compared to past years but still very enjoyed viewing all weekend.

Highlights to date:

Royal Blood - knocked it out the park again. So much noise and energy from Brighton's finest. Must watch.

Guns and Roses - 2nd half was hit after hit after hit and a great spectacle. Slash was off the charts.

Rick Astley - good bit of fun , perfect for that time slot.

Jacob Collier - how have I not heard about this incredibly talented multi instrumentalist. Funk, fun and the harmony thing he did with the crowd at the end was insanely unexpectedly impressive. Absolute sleeper hit for me.

Honourable mentions: The Lathams, Gabriels, Maggie Rogers

Very much looking forward to seeing Elton John and guests, plus my boy Thundercat later tonight.

[Mud Pie]

lucky to have had such lifechangingly brilliant 5 (?) Glasto trips that all I get now is a wave of painful nostalgia and wish I was there balls. Good to see Chrissie Hynde and Jonny Marr ganging up.

last time there I was somewhere in this mosh:

[Elite_Pie]

Arctic Monkeys were a 4/10 disappointment. Slow start and never got going.

If Guns N' Roses were playing in my back garden I'd draw the curtains.

Can't stand the screeching vocals.

[OP67]

Smash Hits for the middleclasses, it's a no from me.

I did catch Debbie Harry when I turned my tele on after being away all weekend and promptly turned it off again, it was painful to listen to!!! I play guitar played in a few bands and roadied for some big names but Glastonbury lost it's feel for me decades ago.

[Mud Pie]

Smash Hits for the middleclasses, it's a no from me.

fair comment - remember v.posey crowd at Rage Against the Machine and Manics sets there - but unless you go way back, it was always thus

[Magpike]

Spot on assessment - not a music festival and mostly not music fans there.

[upthemaggies]

Spot on assessment - not a music festival and mostly not music fans there.

Funny to think now that the punks and new wavers in the 70s/80s were calling the previous generation of pop/rock stars - who were still in their 30s back then - "dinosaurs" and treated them with total contempt. In some ways that used to annoy me, because I much preferred the music produced before and around the time I was born, but I've always felt pop/Rock was and should be a young person's game.

Attitudes seemed to shift with Live Aid in '85 when - as Morrissey observed - "nobody younger than Bob Geldorf was invited to appear", I think the most contemporary new act on that bill was Howard Jones, who was 30 at the time. Since then the oldies have commanded the same levels of respect as old football club heroes but with people still willing to pay to see them perform. It's the equivalent of the Premier League today being pre-match entertainment for the main event, a 5 aside walking football match between Man Utd over 60s and Liverpool over 60s.
Personally I get the same feeling seeing 60,70+ year olds grinding out ****age angst/love songs as I did seeing that grannie who played Ivy Tilsley in Coronation St turning up on "The Word" talking about her toyboy conquests, it's embarrassing.

[laddo]

Would love too have seen Rage Against The Machine live with upper classes, middle-classes, or the working class. Anyone, wouldn't care.