Glastonbury reviews thread

[PorkInsider]

Eddie Strohacker said:

rscott said:

MitchT said:

PorkInsider said:

I thought the point was that he doesn't use backing, apart from when there's someone else on stage with him?

Am I wrong, or due a parrot maybe?

There was more going on in some of his tracks than he was doing himself. I'd sooner have seen some more people on stage actually doing those bits.

Not what he's said today on Twitter:-

https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/8792645203001...

Sheeran said:

Never thought I'd have to explain it, but everything I do in my live show is live, it's a loop station, not a backing track. Please google x

What he does is the same as KT Tunstall on this track, only you can see her doing it. In her case, she used a pedal called an Akai Headrush. It literally records what it hears & loops it over & over. If you're deft enough with decent timing, you can use it to build up a song, live. No idea what pedal Ed uses but it;s buried in a very expensive Pete Cornish board with a nice Ipad display built in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGT0A2Hz-uk

That's what I thought. I'm not a huge fan of either of them but credit where it's due.

Sometimes when ES performs Bloodstream live he gets the first bit of sampling/looping slightly out and it's noticeable, like here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2iynl2

Usually he nails it though and in this clip you can see (a bit) more of the pedal board and what's going on with it: https://vimeo.com/138329433

[JLC25]

Bloody hell. What a shame next year is the year off eh?

Although with LiveNation purchasing IOW festival, and it being the 50th anniversary and it being pushed back to the Glasto dates now, I've got a feeling we could be seeing something very big from them!

[technodup]

Glastonbury is like my worst kind of nightmare, a BBC sponsored MOR bawbagfest in a st stained field with hundreds of acts but literally none I would pay to see (with the possible exception of Goldie's 92-94 rave set).

That said I just watched the Killers and they were quite good.

[aka_kerrly]

Any or many DJ Shadow fans around here ?

Quite enjoying the set but he seems plagued by power problems which is a shame. Perhaps the graphics display behind the stage which whilst rather impressive if somewhat warped at times could be toned down to feed more power to the amps.

[toastyhamster]

Didn't "get" The National, sorry, tried really hard to like them.

Barry G, looks and sounds ok on TV but replayed on radio this morning by Evans sounded like an out of tune choirboy, guess you have to be there.

Foo's - highlight for me, should have closed the festival, Under Pressure!

Radiohead, suicide music, not for me, sorry, some good stuff off OK but not enough for the set

Royal Blood, excellent, never heard of them prior, stumbled on their set, very good

Katy Perry - ok I guess, kids liked it more than me

Catching up with Jools (ok), Pretenders (great!) , will do Royal Grammar later in the week.

Ed? Meh, not a closer for me but neither were Coldplay in my opinion

Liam G - trying really hard to hate him but it was a tight set that I watched all of. Just needs a duet with Damon

[Lucas CAV]

toastyhamster said:

Didn't "get" The National, sorry, tried really hard to like them.

Barry G, looks and sounds ok on TV but replayed on radio this morning by Evans sounded like an out of tune choirboy, guess you have to be there.

Foo's - highlight for me, should have closed the festival, Under Pressure!

Radiohead, suicide music, not for me, sorry, some good stuff off OK but not enough for the set

Royal Blood, excellent, never heard of them prior, stumbled on their set, very good

Katy Perry - ok I guess, kids liked it more than me

Catching up with Jools (ok), Pretenders (great!) , will do Royal Grammar later in the week.

Ed? Meh, not a closer for me but neither were Coldplay in my opinion

Liam G - trying really hard to hate him but it was a tight set that I watched all of. Just needs a duet with Damon

Liam's singing was terrible !

[Halmyre]

Eddie Strohacker said:

rscott said:

MitchT said:

PorkInsider said:

I thought the point was that he doesn't use backing, apart from when there's someone else on stage with him?

Am I wrong, or due a parrot maybe?

There was more going on in some of his tracks than he was doing himself. I'd sooner have seen some more people on stage actually doing those bits.

Not what he's said today on Twitter:-

https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/8792645203001...

Sheeran said:

Never thought I'd have to explain it, but everything I do in my live show is live, it's a loop station, not a backing track. Please google x

What he does is the same as KT Tunstall on this track, only you can see her doing it. In her case, she used a pedal called an Akai Headrush. It literally records what it hears & loops it over & over. If you're deft enough with decent timing, you can use it to build up a song, live. No idea what pedal Ed uses but it;s buried in a very expensive Pete Cornish board with a nice Ipad display built in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGT0A2Hz-uk

A higher-tech version of what Eno and Fripp were doing forty-odd years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frippertronics

[Eddie Strohacker]

Halmyre said:

A higher-tech version of what Eno and Fripp were doing forty-odd years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frippertronics

Fripp always reminds me of Penfold from Dangermouse. Looping tech has been around in one form or another since the fifties, what we have today are simply developments of reverb circuits. My old dad used a WEM Copycat in the sixties that boiled down to a loop of cassette tape running across four tape heads & replaying the signal to create a reverb that you could alter to suit. Looping is that taken on to the next stage. In the hands of someone creative enough, I.e. Ed Sheeran, KT Tunstall etc.you get a one man band who conquers the world. Good innit?

[Parsnip]

While not really Glastonbury related, saw this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-CCx8XH4Mw in Edinburgh last year - pretty cool what can be done with a few pedals and a loop station.

[Halmyre]

Parsnip said:

While not really Glastonbury related, saw this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-CCx8XH4Mw in Edinburgh last year - pretty cool what can be done with a few pedals and a loop station.

I was just thinking about him! Saw him in the Best of Fest show in the Spiegeltent.

[Parsnip]

Halmyre said:

Parsnip said:

While not really Glastonbury related, saw this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-CCx8XH4Mw in Edinburgh last year - pretty cool what can be done with a few pedals and a loop station.

I was just thinking about him! Saw him in the Best of Fest show in the Spiegeltent.

Likewise - went to the main show (360 allstars I think it was called) off the back of it.

[offspring86]

Watched bits of it from the comfort of my sofa.

Foos were good, much better than Milton Keynes last year. Dave moves around a lot so having on his throne last year was a disappointment.

Chic were incredible. Just hit after hit and my god do they sound good! Having them close Sunday would have been perfection.

Liam Gallagher. Boring, monotone and like a statue on stage. Watched his entire set, I've always been perplexed by his popularity. His band were tight though.

Ed Sheeran. I managed about 15 minutes before switching over. He's very good but there's not enough variety to keep me entertained for an entire set. He needs a full band behind him to liven it up.

Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes. Awesome to see something heavy among the pop and indie. Bags of attitude with tonnes of energy and a proper entertainer. Really looking forward to their London gig in December.

The Killers. I caught the first couple of songs before having to head out with friends. Great sound with loads of charisma.

[PurpleTurtle]

As many have said, Radiohead are so marmite. Personally I loved their first three albums, but I feel like they got to the end of OK Computer and said, "right, we're not going to play the music business game anymore, we're off to do this different thing instead". I personally find everything they've done since incredibly irritating, to the point of unlistenable. Many of my fellow music snob mates have berated me over the years for not 'getting' them - I get them alright, I just don't like them any more. I smugly point out that they closed the set with 'the hits' from The Bends and OK Computer, rather than some wrist-slashing dire from Amnesiac.

I've seen The Foo Fighters live several times so it was just another Foo Fighters gig to me. Very enertaining, I like Dave's crowd interaction, would've preferred to see them on the Sunday though as the festival closer. I'm not an Ed Sheeran fan per se, but I thought he did very well as one bloke, a guitar and a loop pedal, I was entertained by it.

Chic were the band of the festival for me. Nile Rodgers is so cool, I just find his guitar tunes so eminently good - they make me want to dance the moment I hear them.

[conkerman]

+1, I can't abide Radiohead. I think It is probably more specific, Thom(!)s voice is like fingernails across the blackboard of my soul. He bloody ruined the end of the UNKLE album he was on.

The rest of my musical taste would suggest I'd be a radiohead fan, and I do try to listen to an album a year to see what the fuss is about.

[lockhart flawse]

Radiohead - watched all their set on TV. I own 5 Albums. I admired their set but can't say I enjoyed it and they never looked like they were enjoying it much. I only ever saw Ed O'Brien smile apart from Thom at the very end. It all seems very tightly controlled, too intense (Johnny) and generally lacking in spontaneity and Thom Yorks's emotional bandwidth is so narrow he never seems able to open his mouth properly and actually sing so a lot of the tunes are lost in a sort of amorphous moaning. Lighten up chaps and let the light in - all we get at the moment are degrees of shade.

And they should have played The Bends. Really good version here when they weren't so precious (and the drummer had hair).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUSVonB3gwg

Edited by lockhart flawse on Tuesday 27th June 14:21

[Eddie Strohacker]

I love the eternal Radiohead debate The fact that they change direction so often & make music that challenges you to get it is exactly what I like about them. For me there's nothing in the straight ahead Gonzo rock of the Foos, although they give good show, I freely admit, but I sat through the whole of the Foos & at several points thought - hang on, that's a Chuck Berry/Scotty Moore riff and it was.

it's Radiohead all day for me, something new every time.

[stuartmmcfc]

Caught up on a couple of more so far today.
London Grammar. I know a few on here love them but I really did think it was boring old background dinner party tosh music for the middle classes, not keen so turned it off after a couple or so tracks.
Cinematic Orchestra. Background dinner party tosh music for the middle classes but I actually quite liked them.
Funny the fine line that personal taste treads.

[GC8]

Lordbenny said:

Killers smashed it with All These Things and Mr Brightside....Brandon said that 'you do the John Peel stage twice in your career, once on the way up and once in the way down'.....I feel this was a big of a swan song for a fantastic band. The crowd were amazing....must admit I had tears in my eyes singing along with my teenage daughter. Those two songs in particular bring back so many many memories singing along in the car.

They headlined the Pyramid stage ten years ago on the Saturday night. Good, but far too quiet - I was near the farm and I struggled to hear them over the people around me.

[GloverMart]

GC8 said:

Lordbenny said:

Killers smashed it with All These Things and Mr Brightside....Brandon said that 'you do the John Peel stage twice in your career, once on the way up and once in the way down'.....I feel this was a big of a swan song for a fantastic band. The crowd were amazing....must admit I had tears in my eyes singing along with my teenage daughter. Those two songs in particular bring back so many many memories singing along in the car.

They headlined the Pyramid stage ten years ago on the Saturday night. Good, but far too quiet - I was near the farm and I struggled to hear them over the people around me.

I read somewhere over the weekend that the last time they played Glastonbury, they suffered so many sound problems that Brandon Flowers vowed never to come back again. Good that he had a change of heart, but that might have been the set you were on about.

[Eddie Strohacker]

GloverMart said:

GC8 said:

Lordbenny said:

Killers smashed it with All These Things and Mr Brightside....Brandon said that 'you do the John Peel stage twice in your career, once on the way up and once in the way down'.....I feel this was a big of a swan song for a fantastic band. The crowd were amazing....must admit I had tears in my eyes singing along with my teenage daughter. Those two songs in particular bring back so many many memories singing along in the car.

They headlined the Pyramid stage ten years ago on the Saturday night. Good, but far too quiet - I was near the farm and I struggled to hear them over the people around me.

I read somewhere over the weekend that the last time they played Glastonbury, they suffered so many sound problems that Brandon Flowers vowed never to come back again. Good that he had a change of heart, but that might have been the set you were on about.

I was there that night. So quiet + so many people that we schlepped off to see Roy Ayers on the jazz stage.