Glastonbury 25

[bassbiscuits]

30 minutes ago, 80Hz said:

 

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

That’s my brother’s mate Andy on bass for the Selector. 

[80Hz]

13 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

That’s my brother’s mate Andy on bass for the Selector. 

 

Cool 😀 there are some low lows there for sure, even though I'm watching an audience recording of the FOH mix, I think.

[tegs07]

3 hours 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 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.

Edited 7 hours ago by tegs07

[SteveXFR]

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.

[tegs07]

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.

[SumOne]

[cetera]

Still relevant.... 😉🤣

 

Edited 6 hours ago by cetera

[borntohang]

On 26/06/2025 at 12:31, chrisba said:

My daughter is working at her third consecutive Glasto, having failed to get tickets each time. My understanding is that the event is 8-10 times oversubscribed, and if just a small percentage of those unsuccessful applicants are prepared to work in exchange for a ticket, then the event is cheaper for everybody. She works for a charity ( firstly Wateraid and now Oxfam ) , who presumably get paid for providing staff ( toilet cleaner first time, now marshal/steward ).

In return for a number of hours work ( 4 x 6 hour shifts, I think ) she gets full festival ticket, exclusive camping area with showers, access to staff bars and food for each work shift. If they fail to complete the work aassigned to them, then they have to pay the full price for everything provided, and will never get invited again. Almost never happens. Apparently, there are many people who do this every year, and the charities tend to look favourably on applications from previous workers. Usually, they are expected to do another festival too, to get into Glastonbury.

This year, she's been invited to go early ( she went down on the previous Saturday ) and do all her shifts before it all kicks off on Friday. She was well chuffed about that, but it means spending 9 nights in a tent !

My old man has been volunteering with Oxfam for 20+ years now. He was in the field again this summer shift-leading stewards on Vehicle Gate 3a which is where the interesting people come through. He claims it'll be his last year as he'll be 75 after the fallow '26, but we're not convinced. If it wasn't such a dog of a five-hour drive I reckon they'd eventually be carrying him out in a box because he loves the festival. Doesn't even go to watch bands but just wanders and occasionally texts me updates like "some old git looks like a muppet playing on Pyramid now".

 

I did a few years with him when I was younger, although only twice at Glastonbury. Eventually my future wife started tagging along and we did many years at Leeds and Latitude plus assorted others we wouldn't have got chance to visit on our minimal budget. Hope your daughter enjoyed it as much as we did.

[Clint]

On 27/06/2025 at 19:20, vbance said:

god I just love the look of this one...somebody tell me they sound awful, are too heavy, neck dive or are hard to find and save me the hassle of looking....please.

Bad news.... They sound amazing and I used one for years in the same finish. Really underrated and very powerful. I had a good strap so no real neck dive and whilst the early models are heavy this model LPB3 are chambered making them a better option. This model also has a warwick style bridge and was played by players like Stuart Zender & John Taylor. Think they stopped making them around 2012 and whilst you don't see many they do pop up now and again.  

Alanis's Bassist is from a band in the USA called Remy Zero who did the theme song to Smallville. great band.  

Edited 6 hours ago by Clint

[tegs07]

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

[BassTool]

I watch a bit then fast forward through the acts my Nana would have termed 'tripe' back when she was alive, and I would agree after some of the dross I've seen so far. Strikes me there's some truly dire stuff out there purporting to be music, but then again I must be getting old 😆

 

Chic however, and in particular that drummer..

 

Talented band and timeless tunes, witness the crowd involvement 👍🏼

 

 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by BassTool

[taunton-hobbit]

Perchance Rod has spent too long gigging in Las Vegas? What jumps in America is not necessarily 'great' in England - he could have done far worse than to incude a 'proper' backing group for some of it, which might have given the thing a bit more edge ?

 

😎

Edited 5 hours ago by taunton-hobbit

[Woodinblack]

15 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said:

which might have given the thing a bit more edge ?

 

He could have tried singing in tune as well - works for some people!

[Reggaebass]

I see some of rod Stewart as miss RB was watching it, even though he was out of tune I did find it entertaining and good for him for having a go at his age, also I think his bass player changed basses 3 times, one looked like an early 70s P 

[Woodinblack]

25 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

 and good for him for having a go at his age, 

 

Ah, like a participation award. That's what the pyramid stage is used for now! The drummers dad is over 80, he likes getting up for a sing, he's not great but he has a go and people seem to enjoy it, maybe I can see if we can get him booked for Glastonbury next time

 

[casapete]

15 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Ah, like a participation award. That's what the pyramid stage is used for now! The drummers dad is over 80, he likes getting up for a sing, he's not great but he has a go and people seem to enjoy it, maybe I can see if we can get him booked for Glastonbury next time

 

Whilst I take your point, has your drummer’s dad sold 120 million albums worldwide? 

[MacDaddy]

1 minute ago, casapete said:

Whilst I take your point, has your drummer’s dad sold 120 million albums worldwide? 

 

 

Whilst I take your point, if that's the criteria let's get The Bay City Rollers on!

[Wombat]

Haven’t ALL of them passed?

[Judo Chop]

Just now, Wombat said:

Haven’t ALL of them passed?

It hasn't stopped Rod

[casapete]

2 minutes ago, Wombat said:

Haven’t ALL of them passed?

One of them still touring I think? 

[casapete]

4 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

Whilst I take your point, if that's the criteria let's get The Bay City Rollers on!

Legends? Maybe in some people’s eyes….

[Supernaut]

Memo to BBC: Glastonbury is over. Time to go home, have a good scrub and then you can tell your friends all about it. It's changed your life, you made new friends and experienced music that touched your soul. 
 

I.e. Stop posting articles about it! We get it! You went! Now, it's over!! 

[Wombat]

But we haven’t watched it all on Catch Up yet!

[SteveXFR]

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.

[Woodinblack]

9 minutes ago, casapete said:

Whilst I take your point, has your drummer’s dad sold 120 million albums worldwide? 

 

No, but if you walked into a pub today and heard him, you would laugh and walk out and wonder why they were paying him, you would only stay because he was someone, back in the day, not because of how he is now.

I don't know if him selling slightly more records than Nicki Minaj and slighly fewer than Maroon 5 means that he is someone to put on the main stage at a place like glastonbury, especially when most of those records were decades ago. 

 

I was never a fan of 'aren't they doing well considering'. You get it a lot, for a lot of artists, I remember the cindi lauper one last time, 'oh she is doing well considering', no, she was f'ing terrible. Maybe it is because I take a performance on merit, not 'considering'. I am a huge rush fan and had a chance to see them at their final tour, but didn't, because Geddy Lee simply can't sing his stuff any more, so I am better off listing to the record, rather than going and thinking 'oh they did well considering'.