Do you think the inclusion of US Rappers at Glastonbury over the past few years

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Is to put some colour in the audience?

99.9% Middleclass white is fine for sponduliks but not good for credibility.

[Classic Jorge]

The audience wasnt really staunchly middle class tory voters until they started ticketing the whole thing like mad and got rid of all the holes in the fences.

[redgunamo]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

TV audience maybe?

Thousands walked away from his performance it appears.

Whereas Lionel rocked it

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[redgunamo]

I didn't watch it.

[Classic Jorge]

It seems more lifestyley to me, it'd lost most of its edge by 2000 and I only went one other time after that.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Takes a certain type of person to throw caution to the wind and perhaps subject themselves to 4 days in a tent in perhaps ****, wet conditions.

Thing is Glastonbury is f**king huge now and to be deemed off as cutting edge and relevant they still need to book the big acts.

Once you go beyond the heritage acts like The Who and Stones from recent years what ‘normal’ guitar bands could you get – Radiohead, Blur …

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

they have forgotten the joy of the wielded axe.

This is what he have sunk to. A man shouting unpleasantries into a microphone backed by a tape of someone else's music. :-(

It makes me sad.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Watching new age travellers riot in 92 or rival drug gangs from Liverpool and Bristol tear into each other is not most peoples idea of fun.

[Peter]

The sheer volume of other things you could be doing while there is going to work against any headliner

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Not some c**t who sings/raps with autotune. Jay Z was good a few years back though. Unfortunately Kanye West hasn't had a decent album for about 8 years and has morphed into some kind of weird c**t, so much of what he did on the stage was ****.

[Classic Jorge]

92 was a particularly good one I remember, I had blagged AAA passes for the first time and impressed my girlfriend with all manner of worldy knowledge.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

The sun shone and it was an ecstasy enhanced weekend of excellence.

Sunday night was rough mind you.

[Classic Jorge]

It's such a shame Old Dirty ******* died and they pretty much packed it in after that.

[Classic Jorge]

I remember them kicking TF footballs into the crowd and me going over on one and knackering my ankle

[Berni]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

:-)

[Classic Jorge]

Radio 1 is bound to put the stank of accessible, provincial, middle of the road ****ness on anything really.

[IUFG]

And also 2/3 years ago . . .Paterson and Fehlmann were a pair of self indulgent ****s who appeared to take no notice that half the crowd disappeared to the bar during their disjointed set.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/glastonbury/10912208/The- 100-best-Glastonbury-performances-ever.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/glastonbury/10912208/The-100-best-Glastonbury-performances-ever.html)

in at number 2 :cloud9:

[Classic Jorge]

You knows I'm ghetto

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

know f**k all about music. Why book tickets to a show where you have no idea who is playing? Why? Because you are going for the festival, not the music.

[redgunamo]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You are correct on the footballs, kicked loads of them into the crowd as they were generally promoting their new album at the time.

http://meccalecca.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/teenage-fanclub-thirteen-front.jpg


I seem to recall Stereo MCs also playing.

[redgunamo]

which is the whole point of rap in the first place. Yet the money involved had to come from somewhere.

[Classic Jorge]

Not bad for an IT bod from Bradford

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A sublime show again with very pleasant weather.

Orbital are a superb festival act.

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=4034 301&rid=173&S=acb845e42cc4c31182f8900fbcd9279c (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=4034301&rid=173&S=acb845e42cc4c31182f8900fbcd9279c)

[Classic Jorge]

[:hehe:]

:hehe:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I was about 25 nailing a 19 year old bird from Maida Vale.

Good times J.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Famous black artists one and all, r. Not a flow between them.

Can you have 'a' flow, btw? I'm not asking you because you're, you know, one of them, but because you seem to know about this stuff.

[7evens]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a2y4sz6iJk

[Billy Goat Sverige]

young black kids making beats on Cubase or some other piece of software and putting it on pirate radio. Now they're top of the hit parade!

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

Hence they need Flow and so on.

Whoever "Flow" may be.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Cubase you say?

[IUFG]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That is to say, we rehearsed in my dad's garage.

The acoustics were f**king horrible.

[Supermac1976]

https://youtu.be/8UWV9XNXJVY?t=4m2s
:hehe:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I saw the once great Sasha do a set using this very software a few years back.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Rock, baby.

[redgunamo]

In fact, so is almost everybody else that isn't dead.

There's money in it, see.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A piss poor cover of Smoke on the Water and god knows what else.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We only performed our own material, actually.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Go on, how bad were you really?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

later did lots of session work with Hawkwind. He became their tour manager, I believe. Anyway, he was a bloody good musician and carried the rest of us with him.

I'm sorry this doesn't fit your narrative.

If it helps, I played in a 'punk' band before that, whose single gig lasted just long enough for half a rendition of our signature tune 'Gob on you' before fighting in the 'audience' caused teachers to clear the hall. :-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I used to go and see Hawkwind regularly.


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[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Until 10 years ago I had a tape of us playing 3 tracks. It was remarkably good, if you like amateurs playing heavy rock.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It was Hawkwind in a 12 hour 6pm - 6am psychedelic extravaganza at Brixton Academy.

And there in the middle of it was I.

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