Glastonbury

She looks like Toyah Wilcox doing a Stars in their Eyes cover

The live band is andrew starting a song on his laptop and drinking a beer whilst Jason does his bit.

So yes, it's the same.

I love them though. Seen them many a time.

Just seen Avril Lavigne getting interviewed. I was Not expecting that voice.

Shania Twain singing harmonising the chorus from Feel like a Woman is a bit odd.

SZA riding an ant is peak spinal tap

The whole stage set is like peak spinal tap meets starlight express.

Wtf are those columns meant to be?

I’m enjoying this SZA set but there’s a fixed camera they keep using pointed directly front on at the stage and it really makes it look like she’s in a tv studio for some reason

I don’t recognise any of the songs but good stuff.

Tried some of The National and they remain a band that just does nothing for me. I don’t know why, I’ve liked bands broadly like them before and all my friends love them, I just bounce right off them.

I like The National, got all their records and that, but can definitely see why people bounce off them. Took me a few listens before they clicked for me

Not immediate for sure

Yes, girl fight, then with bob vylan followed by their new song with the mandolin, Brilliant.

Not watched it yet, but saw them a couple weeks back and they were on form - whether you like them or not, you can't deny they put on a passionate show and offer an alternative to (pretty much all) the other acts there over the weekend.

I don't really like watching it on TV, at least not when it's live as I get sad I'm not there. The only set I did watch was The Breeders (who I also saw last week) and thought they put on a good show.

Tried to watch a bit of Kasabian, they were like a poor covers band version with Serge jumping around in a stupid yeti suit.

Will check that out. Emily Eavis' response to "same old headliners" was telling and reflected exactly that. There ain't many new acts coming through to grab people. Did like Apollo Junction at the IW though - played every stage over 6 years, finally making an afternoon slot on the main stage. Nothing particularly new, but did it very well and were well received.

He's genuinely amusing. 


“This is a song about my feminist zeal – it’s called ‘I am Joe Talbot'”


And his earlier comments about IDLES


“The last thing our increasingly puritanical culture needs right now is a bunch of self neutering middle class boobs telling us to be nice to immigrants; you might call that art, I call it sententious pedantry.”

Zisssou - You should check out No Teeth from Newcastle. They might work for you if FWF and Viagra Boys do

no-teeth.bandcamp.com/album/decadence-in-breeding


I think a lack of new headliner level acts is effecting every festival these days. Certainly Download looks more or less the same every year, Reading has been rotating a handful of top slot acts too.

I wonder if the move to more personalised consumption is to blame. In the past if you were a metal guy you bought Kerrang and they put Metallica on the cover and because every metal guy bought Kerrang Metallica were known or liked by all metal guys but if you’re a band coming up now you might not have that mass exposure even within your genre. You might have 400m TikTok views or something but if someone isn’t on TikTok then they’ve probably never heard of you. So does a promoter gamble on that audience turning up or just book Slipknot again because everyone has heard of Slipknot.