Glasto eh?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

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[Billy Goat Sverige]

:hehe:

[Berni]

What was it he was supposed to be doing?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There's this bloke called West who's apparently all the rage. f**king hell. And some bint, a redhead, she's currently terribly popular.

f**king hell.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Berni]

As you know, I don't really understand these matters.

Pulled pork sandwich for breakfast was it?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Which is fine, there have always been silly little pop records, but there was generally some proper stuff as well. If Friday and Saturday's headline acts are the biggest things out there at present, then God help us.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Why do I agree to these things?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Berni]

his workforce. Like that lad who founded Port Sunlight.

[Rich]

as though he was about to keel over.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Constructed from The Jam through a reasonable expanse of his solo career. It is always a moment of pure joy to hear Above the Clouds.

Go as far as to say a small tear welled in the corner of my right eye.

From what I saw of the rest I enjoyed The Waterboys doing Whole of the Moon, I wondered what exactly Kayne West was doing so I turned over and found Suede who were excellent though to be fair the set was like 1992 all over again.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The texture never got quite right. I think my thermometer might have been overreading.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Even Lionel Richie tore the place up.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You would.

Musically she is exactly what the mute button was invented for.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

Loved some of the Waterboys stuff but didn't really cop a lot of the rest.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Mind you, dear old Lionel had quite the afternoon of it. :hehe: wd lionel.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

They have gone down the route in recent years of having the globally huge artists such as U2, Stones, Springsteen and whether you like them or not you can see why they are so successful. I do recall U2 getting a lot of stick at the time but in reality it was a masterclass, just song after song after song that every f**ker knew.

They changed things around a little with Jay Z and Metallica, both worked to a degree.

Florence and the c**ting Machine? f**k off. One of the main acts had the Libertines on just before, I am surprised any f**ker was still in the main field by the time the main act came on. Kanye West. Shocking.

I’m not really sure where they go now tbh.

I would imagine what Eavis really wants for next year is Friday Night a one-off and legendary reformation of The Jam, Saturday night a one-off and legendary reformation of The Style Council and finish off Sunday night with Weller.

That is what I would do anyway.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Did you in your weekend leisure manage to catch AA Gill in the Sunday Times.

He visited what I think is your favourite current restaurant and needless to say he probably does not agree with your views.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

can see they're just going through the motions for the cheque at the end of it all.

As for next year, he needs to get Prince on the main stage :cloud9:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Adrian Anthony often likes to take a stand against prevailing thought.

What can I tell you? I like it. :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Basically, my point is that modern music is ****.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

One man's meat etc.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I quite like Raspberry Beret.

[Luis Anaconda]

AA Gill is a massive egotistical **** with his head up his own arse.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

ie. new bands.

There are some excellent modern bands but not Pyramid Stage fillers.

I was about to list said bands then realised they are all or mostly bands that have been in existence 20 years or so.

:-

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Given the almost universal acclaim with which Nieves' cooking has been rewarded, the Michelin star won last year, and the glowing reviews from the likes of Coren and, perhaps toughest of them all, McLoughlin, his claim that 'flavours clashed' seems to me a little willfully obtuse.

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Oddly, I usually agree with his findings.

[Berni]

on the album. Music these days is based on single success. There isn't the time or space afforded to anyone to write album tracks that are slow burners or to explore new directions. Actually, what you have now is much more akin to the Pre-Beatles musical world, with performers singing other people's songs and the band on the way out.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Say for example the 3-4 that are rolled out each year by the BBC for Masterchef.

Each and every one of them also come across as a " massive egotistical **** with his head up his own arse".

Apart from the bint maybe.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Mind you, I am suispicious of your musical tastes since I heard you'd been listening to those ****ers with torches strapped to their heads.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

wd everyone.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Don't exist anymore actually.

Brilliant live act though you have to be utterly out of your bin and barely in management of your faculties.


I have broad and eclectic tastes in music which fit with my overall persona as a veritable social chameleon.

[Berni]

bigger, it's simply what that market wants that has changed. The immediacy of being able to (legally) download the song you want means that there is no patience for the idea of waiting around for some bunch of self-indulgent longhairs to dump out their latest musical offering that is 80% dross and may have the odd nugget of genius in it. The dross is simply discarded before it reaches the public. It really isn't to do with illegal downloading.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm surprised at having to explain this to you more than once.

My time is important. Do not waste it.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

to pay as much for dross as we did for the stuff we actually liked. We don't have to do that anymore and we don't want to. We would rather pay solely for the songs we do want and that means neither the industry nor the public has any patience for allowing groups to 'find their voice' or somesuch ****.

The group and album bubble was an aberration in the history of music industry and is now over. It just happens to have been an aberration that has coincided with our lives.

[Berni]

Bloody fellow didn't even give it a proper try imo. Can't trust someone like that.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That's why we had The Who, Led Zep, The Stones, U2, and all the other bands that we still revere 40 years on from their heyday, and now kids have Kanye West and Florence wotsit.

It's dead. The whole thing is moribund.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[IUFG]

[Berni]

For every one of those you mention, there were 10 or more absolutely terrible bands who were foisted on an unwilling public and who had loads of cash splashed on them. That's a very inefficient business model.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

No Super Furries either from what I could see but they rolled out the Chemicals (or Chemical) last night despite us watching them last year.

I was unaware Leftfield played.

[Red N White Army]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Now you have Kanye West and Florence wotist. Congratulations.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Can't be doing with viewing this sort of stuff on a laptop.

[Classic Jorge]

I remember when it used to be interesting.

[Red N White Army]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It's not a term I am very familiar with and to be f**king about with cables etc on a saturday evening. Good lord.

[redgunamo]

[Red N White Army]