Music/gigs

[wilsdenrover]

4 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

#2 Yes (Yeggles) in Manchester on the DRAMA tour. Anderson & Wakeman had buggered off so Buggles came off the subs bench…
Great show but it wasn’t “real Yes” 👀

You took ‘retain this portion’ literally didn’t you 😀😀

[Herbie6590]

#3 Status Quo on their 20th anniversary tour. The following night the gig was attended by Charles & Di…

[Herbie6590]

Bumped into Rick Wakeman yesterday…

[Upside Down]

4 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Bumped into Rick Wakeman yesterday…

He's looking a lot better than when I last saw him.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Just watching John Fogerty now at Glasto on BBC 2. Nothing is for ever.

[Gav]

80yr old Neil Young rocking the stage at Glasto.

Legend, not In the legend slot, but being a legend, we are blessed. 

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

5 minutes ago, Gav said:

80yr old Neil Young rocking the stage at Glasto.

Legend, not In the legend slot, but being a legend, we are blessed. 

 

I’ll watch it later.

[only2garners]

Just had as good an evening as I’ve ever had at Glastonbury at my 15th. Had a break from my shift to catch most of John Fogerty’s set, followed after shift by Pulp and then Nick Lowe. Just relaxing on a sofa in the crew bar behind the Acoustic stage waiting for my wife, son and several friends to get up after Neil Young.

[Upside Down]

Is there anyone playing this thing that was born later than 1965?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Truly shocking that Kneecap and some other pillocks called Bob Vylan were allowed to politicise a Music event with hate filled rhetoric.

The irony of their action's?... Young Isrealis were murdered in cold blood at a MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Have those in the Glastonbury crowd no Consience/Brain's either?

I was as ever enjoying the event coverage but that was horrible to hear about..that's me done with it.

Edited June 29 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Truly shocking that Kneecap and some other pillocks called Bob Vylan were allowed to politicise a Music event with hate filled retoric.

The irony of their action's?... Young Isrealis were murdered in cold blood at a MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Have those in the Glastonbury crowd no Consience/Brain's either?

I was as ever enjoying the event coverage but that was horrible to hear about..that's me done with it.

Hate filled rhetoric?

Give your head a wobble son you're making yourself look like a complete turnip.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

20 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Hate filled rhetoric?

Give your head a wobble son you're making yourself look like a complete turnip.

80 people killed in Gaza yesterday trying to get food. . The majority of them will be civilians, women and children. But don’t get excited about that, get excited about some chanting at a pop festival ! 
 

Edited June 29 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33514nryy1

That's hate filled in my book 'son'...has no place in a Music festival.

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33514nryy1

That's hate filled in my book 'son'...has no place in a Music festival.

I'd say a holocaust is a bit more hate filled than some people chanting against it. 

And yes that absolutely has it's place at a music festival. 

Sort yourself out, you're on the wrong side of history here lad.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

...Errrr yeah,swiftly moving on!😲

Enjoyed Alanis Morissette...great voice.

Edited June 29 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Norbert Rassragr]

Ugh, never liked Alanis, but glad someone had a good time. 

[Gav]

28 minutes ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

Ugh, never liked Alanis, but glad someone had a good time. 

How were Pulp @Norbert Rassragr ?

[Gav]

Well thankfully Rod Stewart can still sing, I was worried it could be another Diana Ross shambles.

80yrs old and rocking the place. 

[Cherry Blue]

11 minutes ago, Gav said:

Well thankfully Rod Stewart can still sing, I was worried it could be another Diana Ross shambles.

80yrs old and rocking the place. 

A brilliant performance by the Celtic fan.

[Gav]

The Torygraph giving Rod Stewart 3 stars for his Glastonbury set???

The guy’s 80 for uks sake and the fact he can still knock out the golden oldies for 90 minutes in 30C degree heat in front of 200.000 fans is worth 5 stars out of 5 in anybody’s book.

Bitter press, who haven’t got a clue.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 hours ago, Gav said:

The Torygraph giving Rod Stewart 3 stars for his Glastonbury set???

The guy’s 80 for uks sake and the fact he can still knock out the golden oldies for 90 minutes in 30C degree heat in front of 200.000 fans is worth 5 stars out of 5 in anybody’s book.

Bitter press, who haven’t got a clue.

He’s had mixed reviews, not just from the Torygraph. I’m not a fan, but Mrs Shoelaces is so I had to watch him. I’ve never really taken to him. He always comes across as a bit of a twat to me. I remember him from his early days when he was knocking about with Alexis Korner and Long John Baldry at the Cubi-Klub in Rochdale .
 

As a spectacle it was great, what it must have cost to put that backing orchestra together ? 
Obviously his voice wasn’t what it was but he gave it his best shot. The crowd definitely loved it and that’s what matters at the end of the day.

[only2garners]

On 29/06/2025 at 23:46, Gav said:

The Torygraph giving Rod Stewart 3 stars for his Glastonbury set???

The guy’s 80 for uks sake and the fact he can still knock out the golden oldies for 90 minutes in 30C degree heat in front of 200.000 fans is worth 5 stars out of 5 in anybody’s book.

Bitter press, who haven’t got a clue.

I was there for most of Rod's set and 3 stars would be generous in my book. The wonderful grainy, gravelly voice he had in the 70s has gone and the general show appeared pretty shambolic to me. Now I start as someone who believes that he hasn't done anything worthwhile since Every Picture Tells a Story so I might be biased but the general view from people I spoke to afterwards was an overall meh - so the Telegraph seems fair to me. The Guardian also gave 3 stars and the Independent 2.

I guess that it probably didn't come across on the TV coverage but the screens that the vast majority of the crowd watch the show on mostly showed some "arty" videos rather than what was happening on the stage. Right at the end when Lulu came on (after Rod's false introduction the number before) the screens showed Rod in various football shots for half of the song rather than Lulu.

Anyone who wanted to see what a proper slick production looked like just needs to watch Olivia Rodrigo's headliner show. I can't personally warm to her voice which seems too harsh and shouty but the bit of the show I watched live in a break from my shift showed what could be done as a spectacle.

For me it was also pretty painful to watch Proud Mary being sung (while Rod did a costume change) barely 24 hours after the guy who wrote the song had done it on the same stage. 

Also I doubt that there were more than 100,000 there tops. It was some way from the biggest crowd at the Pyramid stage and the biggest crowd of all was for Charli XCX on the Other Stage.

Edited July 1 by only2garners

[only2garners]

On 29/06/2025 at 01:58, Upside Down said:

Is there anyone playing this thing that was born later than 1965?

Here's a few: -

Charli XCX - 32

CMAT - 29

Raye - 27

Matt Healy - 36

Noah Kahan - 28

Olivia Rodrigo - 22

It's just us old farts on here talking about people we remember from our youth.

[only2garners]

I don't get the chance to see a huge number of bands at Glastonbury but my highlights this year were Nick Lowe, who played another glorious hour on the Acoustic Stage to a crowd of about 200. More obscurely my son recommended that we see Duo Rout - a pair of Estonian women playing the same weird zither and singing fabulously in a small tent in the Green Fields. He wasn't wrong - they were sensational.

I wish the BBC would just send a few cameras round everything else that is happening at the festival instead of concentrating on just 5 stages.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

4 hours ago, only2garners said:

I don't get the chance to see a huge number of bands at Glastonbury but my highlights this year were Nick Lowe, who played another glorious hour on the Acoustic Stage to a crowd of about 200. More obscurely my son recommended that we see Duo Rout - a pair of Estonian women playing the same weird zither and singing fabulously in a small tent in the Green Fields. He wasn't wrong - they were sensational.

I wish the BBC would just send a few cameras round everything else that is happening at the festival instead of concentrating on just 5 stages.

I saw Nick Lowe a couple of years ago backed by Los Straitjackets. They are a bit like The Shadows wearing Mexican Wrestlers masks.

The whole show was excellent.