Glastonbury 25

[BassAdder60]

What I did watch I thought was very lack lustre and poor ( perhaps an age thing ) but with one or two exceptions I felt Glastonbury had sold its soul slightly 

[tegs07]

12 minutes ago, BassAdder60 said:

What I did watch I thought was very lack lustre and poor ( perhaps an age thing ) but with one or two exceptions I felt Glastonbury had sold its soul slightly 

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.

[Mickeyboro]

I could see Neil Young playing the first Pilton festival alongside Stackridge and the free milk. Rod Stewart, not so much🤔

Edited 6 hours ago by Mickeyboro

[tauzero]

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

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?

 

According to the Grauniad, every artist was worthy of five stars. <checks> Tell a lie, Nile Rodgers and Chic got four stars and well-known Enoch Powell fan and Reform supporter Dino Rod only got three.

[bassbiscuits]

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Is it just me or has the media really gone all out on the Glastonbury bad thing this year?

A couple of the national papers have been churning out social media posts criticising some minor element of this act or that act with a seemingly standard strapline saying “one punter said it was shocking” etc. 

 

One punter whinging on twitter does not a news story make. Or at least it shouldn’t.  
 

Some of the more right-wing press also seem to have been digging deep to selectively pick out something to dislike.
 

I suspect going along and having a good time is a lot more fun than sitting in an office whinging about it (probably bitter they didn’t get a freebie ticket). 

[Woodwind]

3 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

A couple of the national papers have been churning out social media posts criticising some minor element of this act or that act with a seemingly standard strapline saying “one punter said it was shocking” etc. 

 

One punter whinging on twitter does not a news story make. Or at least it shouldn’t.  
 

Some of the more right-wing press also seem to have been digging deep to selectively pick out something to dislike.
 

I suspect going along and having a good time is a lot more fun than sitting in an office whinging about it (probably bitter they didn’t get a freebie ticket). 

 

 

My radio alarm clock goes off to LBC in the morning and the presenter on breakfast show (I'm not naming them deliberately) was really scathing of the whole thing.

Laughing at the average age of attendees being 39, scathing of acts whether they had made political statements or not, etc etc

 

Very odd!

[Cato]

8 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

Some of the more right-wing press also seem to have been digging deep to selectively pick out something to dislike.

 

It's just the usual culture wars/outrage monetisation nonsense that's apparently replaced real news in the social media age.

 

 

[bassbiscuits]

3 minutes ago, Cato said:

 

It's just the usual culture wars/outrage monetisation nonsense that's apparently replaced real news in the social media age.

 

 

The thing is that it just drives people further away from caring what the media say.
 

Which isn't a good thing in a world full of unmoderated social media junk. 
 

Bona fide news organisations at least carried some gravitas whether you agreed with their politics or not.
 

Nowadays it just seems a race to the bottom of clickbait and space-filling chaff. 

[taunton-hobbit]

Right at the start of his set (well a couple of songs in) I loved Rod taking the jacket off remarking 'it's fukking hot up here'. And the crowd reaction to the end of Nile Rogers/Chic being so much more than Rod got, something about disco being forever popular, old pop less so, perhaps ...

 

😎

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[stingrayPete1977]

2 hours ago, ian61 said:

Rodders.  Loved him for ever, and DYTISxy, most fun u can have playing a bass guitar. But I do think it might be time to bow out gracefully. Thgt Maggie Mae sounded a tad show style.

I think that's exactly what he wanted to do, put on a show. 

 

The majority of us here would be really happy if 100 people came to a gig and enjoyed it and wouldn't even think about that being the time to stop, if thousands of people go home happy after your gig still then why stop? 

If you are bringing joy to people I say carry on if you want.

[Burns-bass]

8 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

The thing is that it just drives people further away from caring what the media say.
 

Which isn't a good thing in a world full of unmoderated social media junk. 
 

Bona fide news organisations at least carried some gravitas whether you agreed with their politics or not.
 

Nowadays it just seems a race to the bottom of clickbait and space-filling chaff. 

 

The BBC is to blame for this. They're trying to establish Glastonbury as some sort of quasi religious experience when it's just lots of people enjoying music in a field. If we expect every performer to deliver a generation-defining set, we're all going to be disappointed. But it's still just people playing music in a field which is sometimes great, oftentimes good, and sometimes truly dire.

 

 

[Bassassin]

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

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?

 

You can't quite get past the feeling that significant proportions of the UK

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moment a few years ago. They won't be happy until Glasto's closed down, the Eavises are behind bars, every band that ever so much applied to appear has been deported and the entire Worthy Farm site's sold to US fracking companies.

[Beedster]

13 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

The thing is that it just drives people further away from caring what the media say.
 

Which isn't a good thing in a world full of unmoderated social media junk

 

I'm not so sure the media and the 'unmoderated social media junk' are as easily discriminated from each other as you might think, with many - prime among them the the BBC FFS - actually reporting the latter as if it's news, thereby not only regurgitating it but all too often reinforcing, or at least polarising. 

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

They're trying to establish Glastonbury as some sort of quasi religious experience

 

The irony being that it was in fact a quasi religious experience until the BBC got their hands on it, certainly was when I first went in the 80's  

[stingrayPete1977]

Just don't watch or listen to the media, watch the acts and either enjoy them or don't, that's as deep as it goes for me. 

 

Maybe I'm becoming like our own member Douglas Dad3353 as the years go by, maybe I'll plant some radishes. 

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[Beedster]

Just now, stingrayPete1977 said:

Just don't watch or listen to the media, watch the acts and either enjoy them or don't, that's as deep as it goes for me. 

 

Exactly, we did it this year without watching any of the presenters, just used iPlayer to watch the bands, as live as we could 

[Woodinblack]

I don't think it was a strong on telly as it was in other years, and some acts really weren't great, but there was enough as a viewer at home to see that you probably could like and you can look through them as you choose. It is obviously very different to being there, as there is a lot you won't see when you are at home, which is what makes the festival and there was enough outrage for people in the meaja to rant about for a week until some actual news turns up, so everyone should be happy.

And I am happy that after the week, we finally get the A37 past Pilton back!

[Burns-bass]

22 minutes ago, Beedster said:

 

The irony being that it was in fact a quasi religious experience until the BBC got their hands on it, certainly was when I first went in the 80's  

 

Big nostalgia marketing fest now. 

 

Simon Reynolds had this all nailed back in 2012.

[Geek99]

On 28/06/2025 at 06:36, Bagman said:

You really must try Crow 

It wasn’t very nice in a stew 

[Marvin]

I did see the Lewis Capaldi set. I don't like or dislike his material, but he always seems a decent sort. 

 

I saw it the last time he played Glastonbury, when he had problems. Excellent that he's back and great to see the crowd get behind him. Being a bit soppy, it was rather lovely all said.

Edited 17 minutes ago by Marvin

[Burns-bass]

5 minutes ago, Marvin said:

I did see the Lewis Capaldi set. I don't like or dislike his material, but he always seems a decent sort. 

 

I saw it the last time he played Glastonbury, when he had problems. Excellent that he's back and great to see the crowd get behind him. Being a bit soppy, it rather lovely all said.

 

I think it's impossible not to like him. My wife watched a documentary about him while I was (pretending) to read a book. He and his family seemed lovely people. 

[Beedster]

10 minutes ago, Marvin said:

I did see the Lewis Capaldi set. I don't like or dislike his material, but he always seems a decent sort. 

 

I saw it the last time he played Glastonbury, when he had problems. Excellent that he's back and great to see the crowd get behind him. Being a bit soppy, it rather lovely all said.

 

4 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

 

I think it's impossible not to like him. My wife watched a documentary about him while I was (pretending) to read a book. He and his family seemed lovely people. 

 

He made a lovely little gesture after one of his songs, made him seem one of the audience rather than the star 👍

[SteveXFR]

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.

Edited 3 hours ago by SteveXFR

[Hobbayne]

What happened to The Selecter? Not on iPlayer, not on the BBC live feed. Does nobody like old school 2Tone anymore? 

[80Hz]

17 minutes ago, Hobbayne said:

What happened to The Selecter? Not on iPlayer, not on the BBC live feed. Does nobody like old school 2Tone anymore? 

 

Their set is on teh YouTubes - lots of vintage P bass goodness 🙂