Glastonbury 2020 ... now 2022

[Philplop]

Skyedriver said:

the guitar player has a 7 string Schottmuller, what's the tuning on that? Used to a 5 string bass but not 7 string lead?

Like a 5 string bass, 7 string guitars have an additional low B string.

[Polly Grigora]

petemurphy said:

Polly Grigora said:

Anyone see The Jesus And Mary Chain and Primal Scream, what songs, any good?

Heard one track by each of them at youtube and they both sounded good

Saw Jesus Mary chain they played all their “hits” was a great selection although didn’t feel the tent had much atmosphere

Mmmm am jealous, would have loved to have been there if only for them, can only hope that they can all be found on youtube

Thank you

Deep One Perfect Morning?

[Adam.]

Polly Grigora said:

Anyone see The Jesus And Mary Chain and Primal Scream, what songs, any good?

Heard one track by each of them at youtube and they both sounded good

JAMC were great

Stayed for first 5 tracks of PS before giving up and heading to Pyramid, I wanted Screamadelica but got the rock stuff which I don’t like (bar Swastika Eyes that they opened with). Will watch back on iPlayer

[Skyedriver]

Philplop said:

Skyedriver said:

the guitar player has a 7 string Schottmuller, what's the tuning on that? Used to a 5 string bass but not 7 string lead?

Like a 5 string bass, 7 string guitars have an additional low B string.

Thank you, I have trouble with 6 sometimes.

[J8 SVG]

Somewhat inevitably tested positive for Covid today - not hugely ill, just a sore throat and means they can't force me into the office this week!

Wonder which of the hundreds of interactions transmitted it..

[Polly Grigora]

Adam. said:

JAMC were great

Very good then

There aren't so many that keep going for so long and stay good

Adam. said:

Stayed for first 5 tracks of PS before giving up and heading to Pyramid, I wanted Screamadelica but got the rock stuff which I don’t like (bar Swastika Eyes that they opened with). Will watch back on iPlayer

Screamadelica for me too

Was the man off his head?

Edited by Polly Grigora on Wednesday 29th June 09:29

[PurpleTurtle]

J8 SVG said:

Somewhat inevitably tested positive for Covid today - not hugely ill, just a sore throat and means they can't force me into the office this week!

Wonder which of the hundreds of interactions transmitted it..

As did my neighbour, who was hugging me at the Ultimate Power Ballads disco at Williams Green at 3am on Monday.

So far I am negative. I noticed a lot of people on site had 'the Covid cough', it's kind of inevitable that it will be a superspreader event but I guess we have to live with it now.

[Adam.]

Polly Grigora said:

Screamadelica for me too

Was the man off his head?

hard to tell as he looks like a walking corpse even when sober

btw the full JAMC set is in iplayer

[Polly Grigora]

Adam. said:

Polly Grigora said:

Screamadelica for me too

Was the man off his head?

hard to tell as he looks like a walking corpse even when sober

btw the full JAMC set is in iplayer

Much appreciated

Dont know much about iplayer but something in the back of my mind tells me I've been there before

Is iplayer only for UK access?

Something from the past tells me that it wouldn't work for me from outside the UK

Can sort a VPN if need be

Can videos be downloaded

TIA

[Adam.]

Pretty sure it’s U.K. only but easily defeated by VPN

No download but there is a lot of Glastonbury in there to view

[Polly Grigora]

It worked, thank you

[Gary C]

silobass said:

Just watching Paul McCartney now and I have say, he's bloody brilliant, I'm really enjoying it.

Oh come on, he was was utter garbage.

Time to give it up Paul, your voice has long since left the building.

[PurpleTurtle]

Gary C said:

silobass said:

Just watching Paul McCartney now and I have say, he's bloody brilliant, I'm really enjoying it.

Oh come on, he was was utter garbage.

Time to give it up Paul, your voice has long since left the building.

I disagree.

I was there in person and his singing voice was fine, just his between song patter was a bit rambling granddad, but he is 80 years old, pulling off a 2.5hr set at one of the world's biggest festivals

I can take or leave The Beatles, I'm not some uber-fan, but I've seen him live three times in the last 15 years and always found him and his band thoroughly entertaining.

I know music is subjective and you're free to like/dislike whoever you feel, but 'utter garbage' is a bit of a stretch. That enormous crowd he pulled would disagree.

[Double Fault]

Gary C said:

Oh come on, he was was utter garbage.

Time to give it up Paul, your voice has long since left the building.

Ooof...bad enough on YT.....glad I wasn't there!

[Adam.]

I was there, he was the biggest disappointment of the weekend.

Of course the crowd was massive, he is headlining pyramid on Saturday and he is Paul McCartney.

But this is Glastonbury not a PMC gig, so don’t fk around and play the hits.

It was 1/3 Beatles and 2/3 boring solo stuff no one knew

Should be 75% / 25% ratio.

Dreadful (voice was fine)

[Double Fault]

Agreed……..festival crowds want the hits, not the new stuff.

[Gary C]

PurpleTurtle said:

Gary C said:

silobass said:

Just watching Paul McCartney now and I have say, he's bloody brilliant, I'm really enjoying it.

Oh come on, he was was utter garbage.

Time to give it up Paul, your voice has long since left the building.

I disagree.

I was there in person and his singing voice was fine, just his between song patter was a bit rambling granddad, but he is 80 years old, pulling off a 2.5hr set at one of the world's biggest festivals

I can take or leave The Beatles, I'm not some uber-fan, but I've seen him live three times in the last 15 years and always found him and his band thoroughly entertaining.

I know music is subjective and you're free to like/dislike whoever you feel, but 'utter garbage' is a bit of a stretch. That enormous crowd he pulled would disagree.

Fair enough

but his vocal range is shot and off pitch.

[kerplunk]

Blatter said:

worldwidewebs said:

Biggest issue these days is the ever increasing numbers of flag-wkers

Found them very distracting at the bigger stages as they invariably blocked your view of whoever was performing. No thought for the other audience members……...

It's diabolical and has been for years. For the headliners you basically have no direct view of the stage unless you're close to the front, let alone the performers standing on it - just a curtain of flags. When Macca played Here Today we couldn't work out what was going on, I could see a handrail on the side screens so my best guess was that he'd gone over to one of the platforms on left/right of the stage as sometime's happens. It wasn't until I re-watched it on iplayer last week (fantastic btw!) that I realised what was actually happening (the hydraulic brightly lit platform raising him up on the stage). We would have had a clear view of that from where we were standing if it wasn't for the f-ing flags. Same for the graphics on the rear of stage screen - made invisible by the flags.

It's like a new take on the emperor's new clothes fable - people reluctant to call it out for how it is because 'it's glastonbury' and special. It needs sorting and it needs to come from Emily or Michael but I fear Emily thinks it 'looks pretty' and doesn't care.

Edited by kerplunk on Wednesday 6th July 13:42

[PurpleTurtle]

Adam. said:

I was there, he was the biggest disappointment of the weekend.

Of course the crowd was massive, he is headlining pyramid on Saturday and he is Paul McCartney.

But this is Glastonbury not a PMC gig, so don’t fk around and play the hits.

It was 1/3 Beatles and 2/3 boring solo stuff no one knew

Should be 75% / 25% ratio.

Dreadful (voice was fine)

38 songs.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/paul-mccartney/2022...

19 of them (50%) I would classify as well known Beatles/Wings/solo songs

Can't Buy Me Love
Got to Get You Into My Life
Getting Better
Maybe I'm Amazed
Love Me Do
Dance Tonight
Blackbird
Lady Madonna
Something
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Get Back
I saw Her Standing There
Band On The Run
Let It Be
Live And Let Die
Hey Jude
Helter Skelter

What do people expect, a full Beatles set? They split up in 1970, having been a band for 'only' 10 years.

Paul McCartney has had a prolific recording career for the intervening 52 years since The Beatles split up, including (checks Wiki) .... 26 solo studio albums!

What's he supposed to do, ignore all of that and bang out Yellow Submarine for the millionth time?

I thought it was a well balanced set that encompassed his entire recording career, with about half of it dedicated to he relatively short period of time he was in The Beatles, notwithstanding that being the bit that made him famous, hence a heavy lean on it.

The Bootleg Beatles were on the Acoustic Stage on Sunday if anyone really wanted to see a Beatles tribute act. Or, of course, Noel Gallagher was on before him

No Frog Chorus though, that was a disappointment!

Edited by PurpleTurtle on Wednesday 6th July 15:16

[kerplunk]

I thought it was great, only a few songs I didn't know (but my beatles-mad gf kept me well abreast of what they were )

I'd say you've been quite ruthless with your list of well known songs there - no Junior's Farm? I Wanna Be Your Man? Carry That Weight?

Must be an age thing? *shrugs*

Time and again though you get people expecting performers to do something different at glastonbury (because 'it's glastonbury') to what they've been doing on tour and are disappointed (special guests apart).

Edited by kerplunk on Wednesday 6th July 16:28