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doesnt seem to be one yet so ill start one off.
currently enjoying the mary wallopers on park stage. will be out later but will be back to watch Idles at 10.15
shame they clash with fontaines but ill watch them on catch-up tomorrow. will also try to find the lambrini girls and PJ harvey set on iplayer.
what are you all watching/looking forward to?
My 8 yr old (and me) are looking forward to Jessie Ware and Confidence Man.
Hopefully Idles will do the stick song so I can show that to her as well 🤭
currently enjoying the mary wallopers on park stage.
I've seen them live twice and both times they were great fun.
How are Nothing But Thieves doing a late-afternoon slot on The Other Stage on Sunday. They're better than the 3 that follow them!
I'm with sadex greatly enjoying the Mary Wallopers!
Heilung at West Holts later, then back to Park to finish with Fontaines.
will also try to find the lambrini girls
thought id struck gold when i saw i could start the woodsies stage stream from the start but for some reason it started at 2, lambrini girls were on at 12.45. if anyone finds a stream for me anywhere shout up please 🙂
Think Stornoway are on at four today - will catch up on them and the Mary Wallopers later. 🙂
Looking forward to these
LCD sound system, IDLES, Fontaines DC, Jungle, that’s for tonight on the stages and I’d like to hear/see Amelie lens (dj) but doubt her set will be on radio
Will Fontaines set be on TV? Only band I'm really fussed about seeing today. Away for the rest of the weekend so won't see much this year.
Idles......fontaines DC.....PJ harvey
5 posts in and still no band I recognise
How's that cave working out for you? 😉
Currently watching Dexys murdering Dexys Midnight Runners.
Fun fact. I was in a gym in Brighton once where Kevin Roland was on the rowing machine near me so yeah, there's that.
PJ Harvey. I love you Polly, but lighten up a little.
A bit of banter with the crowd maybe? 😐
She's gone a bit too much of a forest spirit warbler for me these days.
Hopefully I'll have a more positive outlook on proceedings later 😂
Will Fontaines set be on TV?
They're closing on Park so yeah.
Want to catch some of these sets tonight, haven't checked out tomorrow
LCD sound system, IDLES, Fontaines DC, Jungle, and I’d like to hear/see Amelie lens (dj) but doubt her set will be on radio
With the honourable exception of Arlo parks and Anne-Marie the bits I've caught have been fairly dire so far and the line up isn't inspiring me to do anything other than drop in and out.
Just turned on BBC 4 coverage.... Paul Heaton..... diabolical.
Is it legal for them to shoot the people with flags yet?
The lady doing the signing on the Red button stuff is totally awesome 😂
She's doing all the instruments. Very good bugle impression on Pj Harvey's set.
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I've enjoyed the Mary Wallopers but I knew I would. Didn't know Confidence Man but happened across the end of their set. If you'd said Australian electronic dance music duo-quartet I'd have skipped over but that was a lot of fun. Will be watching the rest of it some other time. Watched bits of Vaccines, Paul Heaton (the songs are still good)
Just now on for LCD Soundsystem, and then Idles later. The family are all out and I've told them they must be back for that, not to see it (although daughter wants to) but because otherwise the dog and me will be circle pitting and the living room may not survive.
Will Fontaines set be on TV? Only band I’m really fussed about seeing today. Away for the rest of the weekend so won’t see much this year.
iPlayer is excellent for this - it'll have highlights, a lot of full sets, and on the day live coverage of 4 or 5 stages with the facility to 'watch from start' which helpfully has the actual time on the scroll bar so with a copy of the schedule like https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/the-full-glastonbury-2024-line-up-and-stage-times-you-need-to-know-062724 you can ffwd to see what you want.
@tojv,
I went to see Idles in Munich earlier on the year, I'm 55 and couldn't believe how gentle the 'circle pitting' (whatever happened to moshpit or slam?) was. Your living room will be OK. No sign of toxic masculinity at all.
Your living room will be OK.
Sorry, not TV coverage related. I'll go to the disproportionately cross thread
LCD sound system, Jungle,
Ftfy.😊
Making my excuses for Paul Heaton…..I thought the sound was off. Both he and Rianne didn’t sound as good as normal.
Missus was there and said she enjoyed it. And I’ve seen Rianne a fair bit both with and without Paul, normally excellent.
LCD were superb!
Just flicking through and put Dexy’s (without the Midnight Runners) on and Mrs Binners commented “Jesus! It’s like one of those dodgy pubs you walk past at 3 o clock on a Wednesday afternoon and some old pisshead is murdering something on the karaoke”
😂
Bit behind on LCD Soundsystem, just finishing now but yes, it's brilliant
Give me an excuse to post this again which i'd posted in the fantastic endings thread.
A very biased and personal opinion probably because I'm old and set in my ways but is Glastonbury the most pretentious festival ever?
The artists are oersonal preference obviously but the hype around it does my head in. I know I don't have to watch it but I kind of enjoy getting wound up by it in a perverse way...
I went to see Idles in Munich earlier on the year, I’m 55 and couldn’t believe how gentle the ‘circle pitting’ (whatever happened to moshpit or slam?) was. Your living room will be OK. No sign of toxic masculinity at all.
I saw them at their pre-Glastonbury gig 2 years ago and they were great, and as you say, the 'pit' was really well mannered given how aggressive it could look from the outside.
My 14yr old sad it’s full of old people being watched by old people . Sounds about right really
👆 Well, except for that it's all ages across the board watching all ages across the board, but yeah.
Fairly play to the LCD Soundsystem dummer. From the bits I've seen, he's got through a bottle of champagne and a few tinnies during their set 👊
Is it legal for them to shoot the people with flags yet?
Someone should be wandering through the crowd having at their stupid flagpoles with a pair of boltcroppers. They're a bunch of utter bellends.
Heilung are……….. something. 🍄
Glastonbury at its finest!
Yeah, Heilung. That was a thing.
Quite liked it.
I’m sure Nanny Ogg would approve.
My 14yr old sad it’s full of old people being watched by old people . Sounds about right really
yeah that Olivia Dean - just old and sad
My 18 and 20 yr olds are not feeling the old sad vibe after Olivia and 17 (though the 20 yr old is a bit of a K-pop fan)
im hearing on the grapevine theres going to be a surprise at the end of Idles set. Idle gossip maybe? IGMC......
Fair play to the LCD Soundsystem dummer. From the bits I’ve seen, he’s got through a bottle of champagne and a few tinnies during their set
Amateur. Heiling drummer drank the blood of seven virgins and a crow before even going on stage.
You wouldn't tell him if he wasn't keeping time would you.
At the risk of being the moaning stw music bore.....just not sure an act reliant on a load of dancers and clearly lip syncing is what headlining the Pyramid should be about.....and I quite like Dua Lipa as it goes.
...I'm on to Idles. Never really got them before, but really really enjoying this. Did their guitarist just lose his guitar in the crowd? 🤣
…I’m on to Idles. Never really got them before, but really really enjoying this. Did their guitarist just lose his guitar in the crowd? 🤣
Last time I saw Idles the guitarist lost himself in the crowd! Amazing live band.
As for a special guest, LCD Soundsystem for Dancer would be a good bet.
The wife is watching Dua - I’ve never been so bored by a sexy young lady doing her thing.
Listening to jungle whilst patiently waiting on Fontaines DC, should be a blinder of a set.
Dua Lipa doing a really good performance and certainly the Glastonbury crowd loving it but I wouldn't go to Glastonbury to watch it. But I last went in 2001 and saw Bowie literally a mile away.
Still live music on a Friday night not bad.
Watching this has me looking forward to IDLES at the Piece Hall. Missus isn't impressed though, too noisy for her,
Dua lipa would make a great halftime show at the Super Bowl
Just in from watching 3 live bands in Macclesfield and now watching Idles on iplayer 🙂
IDLES - what a glorious f***ING noise. Joe Talbot is a great front man 🙂
Dua Lipa is truly dull but one of my daughters is a fan so i'll have to watch Idles on catch up
Did catch Bombay Bicycle Club with Damon Albarn earlier - real fun number, Damon and the band looked like they were really enjoying themsleves and so was the crowd
Not watched IDLES yet do they have the EPIC pedal board set up?
Heilung are ace, totally bonkers, but such an amazing live experience, especially in the smaller venues when they were starting out. Now the live performance/ceremonies/gatherings are mind blowingly good and have a vibe like no other gig.
Bloody love idles as well, great performance
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Fontaines D.C. on now 🙂
I’m 100db+ in my living room for the genuine festival experience (minus the porta loos obviously)
IDLES ...just bloody stunning. A joy to watch...
wtf is this $h1t pop act on the pyramid stage? how did we go from jimi hendrix to this??
Saw Idles the last gig before lockdown and they were *ing superb! Watched that tonight with Mrs Binners who doesn’t generally appreciate my taste in that kind of thing, but she absolutely loved it!
I just love seeing music performed by people who absolutely *ing mean it!
I’m looking forward to Sleaford Mods for the same reason
wtf is this $h1t pop act on the pyramid stage? how did we go from jimi hendrix to this??
Time for bed grandad
I recommend everyone check out confidence man, they are flipping ace. Bit of a leap from IDLES mind 🙂
Idles were amazing, I was so hopeful for Flynn to deliver a killer three word election message but thanking his Dad was I suppose better.
Catching end of Dua Lipa now. Glastonbury has evolved, she's not my cup of tea personally but it's the Festival of Music and Performing Arts; this is music from one of the world's biggest current artists and she's as deserving of the headline slot as any crusty alternative artist ever was in the past.
Quite a cheeky little outfit, I don't think I'd be able to carry it off.
Dua Lipa was absolutely superb. Easy to forget how many hits she has had. Impeccably produced set.
If I ever get old and grumpy enough to not recognise a properly impressive act like that regardless of what 'genre' it might be, shoot me.
Class.
My partner managed to fall asleep during never fight a man with a perm. I'm actually impressed as we didn't have it on quietly
Quite a cheeky little outfit, I don’t think I’d be able to carry it off.
Don't do yourself down - she wouldn't look so good in baggies. Maybe.
my better half has just fallen out with me and went to bed in a huff because I said I thought Dua Lipa was miming. Apparently I ‘kept overanalysing everything and ruined it’. I was actually enjoying it ok, just thought it wasn’t a live performance (in traditional sense)
Confidence Man are a good fun bit of pop. We heard them once, possibly on Jools Holland, and both had a "What's this rubbish" reaction.
Then the next day we were both humming the song, then we'd found and added them on Spotify/YouTube!
Apparently I ‘kept overanalysing everything and ruined it’.
I hate people who talk when people are playing music. It's ****ing rude so I'm with your better half.
saw idles 2 nights ago in dublin, bloody excellent as always. fantastic again tonight, really got that charisma for a live show. (will the new national anthem catch on do you think?) 😀
switched over to fontaines as soon as it finished and tbh im a bit bored. love their records but they just dont have that stage presence/charisma that idles do. has grian interracted with the crowd yet? like i say, i love their songs but i probably wont watch the full set on catch-up. might watch idles again tomorrow tho....
@simondbarnes - So do I! I only mentioned it twice, between songs, and then googled it once…
What on earth is Jo Whilley wearing? 😳
Fontaines dc were massively underwhelming. It looked like they were playing a pub in a provincial town on a Wednesday night. Whoever the sound engineer was needs a harsh word or two. Awful!
IDLES..... **** me.....I was welling up at a few points. Power of music embodied. Total convert here. My wife is not punk rock to say the least and she really loved them too.
Popped Fontaines on iPlayer.....I'm a fan of their music, never seen them live before. I'll invoke 'if you've not got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all'. 😳
Re Jo Wiley, is it just me, or does she sound like she's got the plague?!
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Whoever the sound engineer was needs a harsh word or two.Awful!
This in spades. Still....tempo and staying in tune seemed fairly 'optional'...which isn't the engineers fault!
Watching Confidence Man after discovering them on Glasto iPlayer last year, fun energetic Oz pop!
Idles is going to have to wait till MrsRNP is out one night
We put on Dua Lipa for a bit of a laugh and ended up watching every second of it and ended up getting kinda jealous of the whole vibe, looked great fun, what a show. So many upbeat dancy songs (including a bunch of “oh that’s who sung that song” moments).
Watching Fontaines DC now. Skinty Fia was my album of 2022, so enjoying it but after watching everyone have fun watching Dua Lipa their aloof posho pretend working class South Dubliner shtick is actually annoying me. Christ.
lookinh forward to watching Soft Play on Sunday. I never paid much attention when they were called Slaves but the 4 songs they’ve released this past year are worldies, I’d recommend to any punk fans (and IDLES fans - they’re similar but a bit more aggressive and fun with their lyrics).
Fontaines dc were massively underwhelming.
I'm sorry to have to agree, it was a pretty lacklustre performance.
They had more life in them on Later last week, much as I dislike that show - mainly because of that oily little pillock Holland, so I grit my teeth if someone I like is on.
Whoever the sound engineer was needs a harsh word or two.Awful!
This in spades. Still….tempo and staying in tune seemed fairly ‘optional’…which isn’t the engineers fault!
At the beginning of the set you could see Grian gesturing to the monitoring desk at the side of the stage as he couldn’t hear through his in-ear monitors
Heilung are ace, totally bonkers, but such an amazing live experience
Never had a chance to see them, they’re a band I’m very keen to see.
Re Jo Wiley, is it just me, or does she sound like she’s got the plague?!
At the very beginning, she apologised and said her allergies are kicking in, which doesn’t surprise me, she’s out in open countryside, it’s been very dry for ages, and there’s 200,000 people kicking the grass and topsoil into a fine dust - a lot of people are going to be needing antihistamine tablets by the cartload!
I remember a Reading Festival where the air was just thick with red dust, people were covered with it, and a lot of people were buying bandanas and wearing them as masks, because it was so difficult to breathe.
The Quote at the bottom of this BBC article regarding the performances,
Preceding Dua Lipa on the Pyramid Stage were indie disco punks LCD Soundsystem, who were a surprisingly perfect pairing for the sunset.
The New Yorkers leaned into their more emotional material - Home, I Can Change, Someone Great - before closing with a euphoric All My Friends.
Die-hard fans at the front of the audience were whisked back 20 years to the band's heyday, while younger afficianados were simply awed by their longevity.
“Imagine how many parties they’ve been to,” said one next to me. “Imagine how many drugs they’ve taken.”
“Unbelievable.”
Brillant 🙂