SteveXFR

The BBC have said in a statement that they won't broadcast "high risk" bands in the future. So that'll be no interesting bands then. Maybe it's time for the BBC to let another broadcaster take it on, one who won't choose which lyrics might be too upsetting for us.

I just sorted through the tickets for upcoming shows and it's quite a lot. New Model Army Skindred Discharge / Conflict Airborne Svalbard Blood Incantation Arctangent Festival (Karnivool, Godspeed You Black Emperors, Melvins, Kylesa Tesseract, etc)

Dried on blood would be more authentic in my case.

I just bought a very nice carbon, full suspension mountain bike. Mrs XFR is not yet aware of this purchase. I may use her new clothes line of "this old thing? I've had this for years"

What was this bass Georgia South is playing here?

Suicidal were thrash / hardcore crossover so a bit of both.

Their bass sounded pretty decent to me.

The only one I watched which didn't sound good was Nova Twins. No bass at all

The biggest, greatest thing in metal is never the best. The most amazing bands will always be on the fringes doing something original that most people will never listen to.

They were excellent. I saw them about 15 years ago and it looks like they've lost none of their energy. I'd take being their guitar tech over being Matt Pikes, scraping the gut sweat of his guitars every night.

They never used to bother me but I always avoided the Pyramid stage which is located in front of a hill so they probably are more of a distraction there.

Please don't bring Maroon 5 in to this. They really are the absolute worst. I'd honestly rather listen to Imagine Dragons or Kid Rock and I'd rather eat a fresh dog egg than listen to either of them.

Marketing innit? The BBC sell the coverage to networks all over the world. The more views they can generate, the more they can charge for it.

Just watching Prodigy. Holy crap they put on a hell of a show. Nice blend of electronic and traditional instruments. Their drummer has serious energy.

Someone advised me to watch the turnstile set. Future of metal apparently. All excited I put it on expecting some aggressive guitars, heavy drumming and angry vocals. What I heard is what I would imagine the elevator music at the Kerrang offices sounds like.

Is it just me or has the media really gone all out on the Glastonbury bad thing this year? I've seen so much, mostly just straight up lies about how unhappy attendees are, thousands leaving early disappointed, £10 a pint for beer, bands not turning up. It seems like much more of an attack than usual. Possibly politically motivated because it's unpopular with their tory/reform followers?

Nova Twins were great. Georgia South must have her own lorry just for all those basses and pedals. The wall of death was unexpected. On another subject. Are Rod Stewart and whiney millionaire plumber Charlie Mullens the same person? They look the same and ive never seen them together.

I love how Gary Numan was a huge influence on Nine Inch Nails and helped Trent Reznor get started and now Numan is sounding more like Nine Inch Nails. For his live performances, he plays a lot of modern stuff and has modernised the old stuff with more of that industrial sound and more guitar.

Because interesting bands don't get big. Bland sells, that's why Coldplay and Taylor Swift are huge and Biffy Clyro and Osees aren't

Back on subject. I'm just watching Biffy Clyro, havent listened to them in years. Really excellent performance. Definitely a few odd time signatures in there, almost prog rock at times.

My daughter came home for a bit earlier for another gig this afternoon (4th in two days, 5th tomorrow) and on her way back to Glastonbury all excited to see Deftones tonight, her favourite band and then they announced on their social media they've had to cancel due to illness in the band. She is not happy. I shall continue to wind her up about how many times I've seen them.

I saw a bit of CMAT. Seriously, that must be the worst vocal performance ever on the pyramid stage.

In the words of the great Richard Richard (Bottom) "British journalism, best in the world. You wouldn't see that in a French of Italian paper"

Gary has obviously discovered that Thenns are excellent industrial musicians.

I've just got in after Gary Numan's warmup show in Frome. That was a spectacular show. He's definitely more industrial rock than synth pop these days. Great night.