Glastonbury reviews thread

[Eddie Strohacker]

Surprised not to see one so far?

Radiohead, the most Marmite band ever. I love them & thought they smashed it last night. Royal Blood, brilliant too -once upon a time, my lot rehearsed in the same studios as them & we could often hear them through the walls. They conquered the world, we fell apart.

Anderson Paak is a talent, enjoyed his thing on & off the drums. Caught a bit of the Pretenders, not sure if they were a bit meh or it's all so familiar that it lacks impact now. Looking forward to Warpaint tonight & Songhoy Blues. Liam Gallagher's new stuff I've not heard, so I'll give it a spin, can't be worse than his last try.

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Digging the Squeeze tune with the Kazoo guys.

Favourite tweet so far:

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I try & try to like the National but can't get into them. Like magnolia to me, just inoffensive noise.

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Liking the Amazons, they're new to me.

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Pretty sure Jo Whiley's got a picture of an old hag in her attic.

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Love Dave Grohl, couldn't name a single Foos song. But, why shouldn't there be a place for a global rock phenomenon who are also a bunch of nice guys? No shortage of too cool for school aholes in music, bring it on, no matter they don't speak to me, I can appreciate the vibe without loving the music.

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castex said:

Radiohead were exceptional. Music as art.
Tonight is the polar opposite yet somehow just as satisfying.
God I love music.

Just reflecting on this. Radiohead a returning Glastonbury legend with a 25 song set, as introverted as ever but by common consent tearing it up & tonight a band debuting as headliners interacting heavily with the crowd & smashing it just as much. What a broad church music is, literally everyone welcome.

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Lucas CAV said:

Got to say, the Foo Fighters are putting on a great show - hard to dislike even if you are not a fan (I'm not)


Radiohead though... sorry, I've spent over 20 years totally missing the attraction of their music so I thought I'd give them another go - watched the whole set...

Jesus, the Emperor really is bk naked still -

For me, the Foos aren't saying anything with their lead lines Chuck Berry wasn't saying 50 years ago. Horses for courses

But proper showmen.

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MiniMan64 said:

Which just goes to show you can never keep everyone happy!

Not everyone likes every band shocker? It was a great show, I couldn't name a single song & my Foos time is over until the next time they pop up in front of me on telly. Musical equivalent of a British gold medal in Olympic clay pigeon shooting to me: GO ON, GO ON, GO ON...who?

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Bayy Gibb knocking it out of the park in the grandad slot right now. What a career he's had.

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macp said:

whoami said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Am listening to Chic. Damn good.

Brilliant show.

Jeeeeeeeeesus the bass player blowing my mind !

Jerry Barnes. He's something else, even if he is channelling Bernard Edwards genius bass lines.

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Vague recollection from a Chic documentary that Nile Rodger's Strat has played on something like $2 billion worth of records!

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That Chic set was something else. Bring back disco!

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King Gizzard & the lizard wizard are a band I like enormously. Bit of them on the Iplayer.

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MitchT said:

What an anti-climax.

It's like watching an hour of Messi only for him to get subbed off for Ricky Van Wolfswinkel.

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He has a reputation as a good egg in general. I looked up his ridiculous child's guitar & it turns out it's a scaled down Martin LX1 & they do a signature model from which he donates all the profits to East Anglia hospices.


Posted for balance.

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Athlon said:

Chic should have closed the festival, they were pure class, (and I don't really like them but wow!)

I remember last time Chic played Glasto, it was slick & entertaining. This time though, apart form the sheer force of the players, Niles was heartfelt between the songs which definitely added a dimension, chatting about his cancer & getting involved with the Grenfell thing. I mean he's never had a reputation as a dick but it never hurts when you're a globally recognised music star but are still willing to be human before your fans. Good on him.

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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

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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?

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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.