Glastonbury 25

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Misdee said:

Might as well give the broadcast rights to GB News. We could have three full days of self-righteous indignation and moral outrage.

 

Jeremy Kyle could go round telling festival goers to get a job and sort their life out, stop spending money on drugs, tattoos, smashed avocados and Palestinian flags and pay proper child support ect. 

 

I watched GB News once out of curiosity. It was exhausting keeping up with the outrage and depressing listening to them talk about how terrible life in Britain is (and they claim to be patriotic!) And then they got in to talking about how handsome and wonderful their mate Nigel is. They're politically unbiased you know? They said so many times and they wouldn't lie would they?

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Misdee said:

Who decides what constitutes "high risk"? To me, Coldplay are a high risk band. There's a high risk they will bore me to death.

 

Next Glastonbury will be Coldplay playing 12 sets each day on each of the 5 main stages. 

[Bassassin]

2 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

My other half saw her a couple of years back and still talks about it being the best gig she's seen in 30-odd years, and she wasn't a huge fan beforehand. JLP was a big moment in 90's music culture, and to my mind on the basis of that one album she deserves the Legend status irrespective of anything she's done since. Also enjoyed her set last weekend and remain a little confused at some of the criticism, for example that she couldn't stand still........ 👍

 

I only ever saw her once, in 1995 at Glasgow Garage - I think her first UK gig. She was very good, but a bloody awful harmonica player. I went with a guitarist mate I was writing & putting a band together with. We were quite blown away by her drummer & talked about hanging around at the stage door & kidnapping him when he came out.

 

Wish we had - it was some dude called Taylor Hawkins.

[Ramirez]

On 04/07/2025 at 07:32, NancyJohnson said:

 

Fundamentally you need to look at the festival itself.  They love a 'legend'. 

 

I'd wager that there were thousands of people gushing over AM that probably knew one song (if that) or hadn't even given her a second thought in the last 20 years.

 

She still has a voice like nails on a blackboard.  Some things don't improve with age.

 

 

 

 

 

Viva la difference! I loved Alanis’ set. Yes she has a distinctive voice, but it’s hers and she’s a made a career with it. She can’t change her voice. I can accept it’s a bit of a a marmite voice, but she has really good songs with a lot of unexpected chords, quirks and key changes. It’s clever, well worked stuff, and she delivered it great. I’ll admit it was a massive nostalgia trip for me as well, as I loved the JLP album when I was a young teenager!

 

On an unrelated note, if Glastonbury ‘25 has proved anything to me, it’s that men around my age (ie early middle age) and above are the most intolerant of other people’s tastes in music. The amount of posts slagging off bands and artists I’ve seen on social media is astounding, and it’s almost always men above 35. It seems we really are a breed that like to tell other people what to do, how to do it, what they should like and for what reasons. It’s like we can’t accept that something we don’t like might hold emotional value to someone else.

 

At least with music it’s reasonably benign, but when the same trait is applied elsewhere in life - politics for example - it’s exposed as being quite controlling and sinister. And unfortunately it’s all too common.

Edited Saturday at 18:15 by Ramirez

[Beedster]

1 hour ago, Ramirez said:

 

Viva la difference! I loved Alanis’ set. Yes she has a distinctive voice, but it’s hers and she’s a made a career with it. She can’t change her voice. I can accept it’s a bit of a a marmite voice, but she has really good songs with a lot of unexpected chords, quirks and key change. It’s clever, well worked stuff, and she delivered it great. I’ll admit it was a massive nostalgia trip for me as well, as I loved the JLP album when I was a young teenager!

 

On an unrelated note, if Glastonbury ‘25 has proved anything to me, it’s that men around my age (ie early middle age) and above are the most i tolerant of other people’s tastes in music. The amount of posts slagging off bands and artists I’ve seen on social media is astounding, and it’s almost always men above 35. It seems we really are a breed that like to tell other people what to do, how to do it, what they should like and for what reasons. It’s like we can’t accept that something we don’t like might hold emotional value to someone else.

 

At least with music it’s reasonably benign, but when the same trait is applied elsewhere in life - politics for example - it’s exposed as being quite controlling and sinister. And unfortunately it’s all too common.

Agreed

[Woodinblack]

4 hours ago, Ramirez said:

 It’s like we can’t accept that something we don’t like might hold emotional value to someone else.

 

Is that true, I can accept that something might hold emotional value for someone but that doesn't stop it being bad? I mean I understand that people like oasis, I don't know why, but they clearly do, and that is ok. I am a lot more tolerant of other peoples music over 35 than I was before 35.