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I suspect the band will be middle aged men grifting off the chance for a very comfortable retirement FTFY

I suspect the audience will be mostly middle aged men reliving their youth.

If it’s online rather than bricks and mortar it may well just be located in a distribution centre staffed by by 3rd party employees who have nothing to do with the online store. Their job is to take stuff off shelves and get it on vans for delivery. Online sales are cheaper for a reason. If you want the personal touch buy in store, preferably from an independent retailer.

Never sounds too bad for me. I just put the AV receiver into pure audio mode and turn the volume up.

The poster suggests that like the early days of Glastonbury it was a more organic, less commercial, community driven festival. Different times with less of the pressures of budget, health and safety, policing, community relations and all the non musical aspects that dominate music festivals now. I would think more exciting times when there wasn’t a massive industry looking to profit from the consumption of music and youth culture, just people who wanted to get a scene together and have a good time. To a large extent it was started by the hippies, revived by the punks and had its last hurrah in the early days of hip hop. For now it is the domain of big business. Safer, bigger, more polished and professional. But very different.

Robert Smith with Olivia Rodrigo. Now that’s a duet I wouldn’t have predicted

Kneecap. I gave this a try and I am the wrong demographic. Maybe it’s an age thing but it just sounded like the generic noise I regularly hear coming out of Corsa’s with horrible body kits and the tinny headphones of yutes who like to eat Maccy Ds on public transport with their feet on the seats.

wrong place!

The rot set in with rolling news. 24/7 coverage of what’s going on right NOW. Content becoming less relevant than immediate impact. It’s now not far off rubbernecking motorway pile ups and gossiping about celebrities. I largely ignore what passes for news now. On a Glastonbury note. Greentea Peng, Black Uhuru, Cymande, Ezra Collective. Just great.

This has been an accusation made about Glastonbury since it stopped being a free festival. I think each generation has an expectation about what type of festival Glastonbury is/should be based upon their personal experience of enjoying the festival during a particular era.

Great band You probably have… just sampled in plenty of hip hop

I guess so. Without a thread derail though it must be kind of obvious to most people now that there are deep structural issues with capitalism and neither right nor left have a solution. The best I hope for is not to turn on each other and make things even more ugly. So anyone preaching division or proposing violence as a solution whether with a guitar or ballot box can just fcuk off.

To an extent I agree, but kind of draw the line at supporting terrorists and paramilitary groups. I feel the same about people who get all starstruck by gangsters and serial killers. Not much glamour or glory in being a terrible human being.

Problem is banning or censoring them just gives them a platform. I’d never heard of them before the recent controversy. Now I have. Still not listed to them. When interviewed they seem like confused puppies.

Yep. So far I have enjoyed Osees, Loyle Carner, badbadnotgood and am looking forward to watching burning spear and vieux farka toure.

It’s kind of like those folks who write in to complain about TV programs or shows “after two hours of suffering through this degenerate filth I was utterly disgusted to find there will be another episode, I can’t believe I will have to endure this again” I would recommend not bothering with Glastonbury if it bothers people so much, but with the sheer variety if you really can’t find something you like I am a little lost for words.

I kind of see both sides of the pay for free argument. It’s worth noting though that Glastonbury keeps going due to the vast array of volunteers, from security, medical, cleaning, maintenance etc. Artists always used to get free entry and camping and a 40 minute set seem like far less hassle than cleaning up afterwards or herding in a couple of hundred thousand revellers.

Sounds crazy. Works very well. I never persisted purely because the hassle of using them outweighs the vanity of the easier glasses option.

As ever something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay. If no one is willing to buy it, it won’t sell. At this point the price has to come down or the seller is stuck with it. It’s not worth getting upset about.

Indeed. Put your foot down. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.

This is fairly rare but rarely terminal: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-revive-your-mac/

I think it’s more of a North/South thing. A lot of venues in the South (London and the South East in particular) are no more.

let england shake - pj harvey

^ This If it was a custom order my gut feeling is that the customer would have specified the make and model of the pickups. If the bass is a keeper then getting it put right will be far easier than chasing the luthier. My honest opinion is by the time you have jumped through all the hoops you will be sick of the sight of the bass. Even if the luthier agrees to fit new pickups for free, I doubt that they will pay for shipping and taxes to and from Belgium. It would be far cheaper and far less of a ball ache to get someone locally to do the work. It’s just wood.

Looking at the influences this guy seems to think it’s still the 1980s when record companies were still throwing money at bands. Not sure I would want to be involved in any hard slog crawl to getting anywhere with this guy. Probably best hitching your wagon to the next taylor swift if you’re planning on hanging around with a diva.