[Closed] Kanye @ Glastonbury =

Best bit of the TV coverage of Kanye West was the silence between that terrible Radio 1 DJ with green hair and him appearing on stage. Closely followed by the random punter crashing the stage. The TV then got turned off.

Back in my day....

I love auto tune me.
At least it's only a 14 hour set.

Utter tosh.

Usually love watching Glasto but been fairly underwhelmed so far.

edit: Jesus Walks = [s]much[/s] better.

Ha ha that my night that did....well that and the amount of **** ups Kanye is doing. Jesus take him out for a walk for **** sake.

If this is his attempt at beating jay z glasto set he's sadly mistaken.
I'm sure he doesn't give 2 ***** huge set fee and just him and one pal on stage...

I can't understand all this bitchin'. He's the number one artist in the world according to - er - well him actually.

He didn't get piss bottled?

Has he just left.

what a tit

Is he going to bungee jump into the crowd?

I hope Noel Edmonds is driving the crane!

Hopefully without a bungee

My word saturday night at Glastonbury isn't great last night seemed better you can't beat the super furries.

Thought the first half hour or so was great, it then went a bit shit, now its starting to get good again.

What I don't get is that Pharrell who is probably the world's no 1 artist was on during the day and this muppet gets a headline.

Still the crowd seem to know some of the words so someone must listen to this sh**.

Clearly the crowd hate him. They're hardly making a sound.

What the actual sh*t, bohemian rhapsody intro??!!!! He really cannot sing can he, I would rather Confused.com Brian, genuinely....

H8ers gonna h8

Crowd seem to be enjoying it. Wish I was there.

Kanye @ Glastonbury = dropping a massive bollock!!

There's other choices here people. Who cares, there's space for all music, you don't need to listen.

Personally I'm loving The Mothership Returns - George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic & The Family Stone right now, funking the shit out the place! 🙂

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e84mxj/live/c66dgw

The auld dudes are dishing up a masterclass!

I completely agree, when I switched on the box to find him voicing the lyric douchebag in an r2d2 like voice, that's when i revoked my bbc license and asked for a refund.

I switched it off after fifteen mins, found Deadmou5 on BBC3, loved it and now looking forward to Chemical Brothers tonight, plus whatever else I hear on the Radio during the day.

I thought it was utterly compelling viewing. Still can't decide whether is was actually any [i]good,[/i] but glad I bothered to watch it. Fascinating. He is clearly batshit mental, and that didn't do George Clinton any harm (he was similarly worth watching and undoubtedly [i]good[/i].)

I thought it was utterly compelling viewing. Still can't decide whether is was actually any good, but glad I bothered to watch it.

Yeah, same here...it was all a bit mad wasn't it? Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. My fb and twitter feed was full of people whinging about it...don't really get it. There are seventy three different streams of stages live on the web and a mere press of the red button gets a choice of other stuff, plus the Beeb3 and Beeb4 programmes.

The crowd seemed to like it, although I'm hearing this morning of a mass exodus from the Pyramid arena halfway through which would probably coincide with the autotune/vocoder stuff, which tbf, was a bit shit. Why the bloody hell does Justin Vernon need to sing through one of those things anyway??

I thought it was utterly compelling viewing. Still can't decide whether is was actually any good, but glad I bothered to watch it. Fascinating.

+ another 1 to this.

I just had to keep watching. Just him and those lights were strangely hypnotic.

I had no trouble turning off Florence on Friday though.

Best act I've seen so far were Slaves yesterday.

Not sure that really worked as a headline act. Couldn't quite back up his egomania with show to match.

BBC subtitles where fantastic.... 😆

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I don't think rap comes across well when it's performed live anyway. I've seen quite a few in person and on the telly and even the really good ones were pretty hard to listen to.

Watched one song.. Can you call it singing?
Out of tune, strutting shite.
Makes you wonder how some people get so far in the music biz

Fish Sticks!

Pharrell who is probably the world's no 1 artist

not totally alone

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thought the first half hour was genuinely AMAZING.

I really wanted to love it but he pretty much lost me by the end (although the crane bit was great)

thought he missed some big open goals, and parts of it were too noodly and self indulgent without really working.

am bemused by the amount of people who appear to have watched the whole thing, bitching and moaning throughout like they were chained to their telly.

on which note i think it'll hold up better than some headline performances; not many get a divisive reaction like that. People will still be arguing about whether this was shit or not for years to come. does anyone remember that time Travis headlined? or mumford and sons? or the stereophonics? Or coldplay? No. Four bands that cannot be accused of being massive ego driven gits, and all as interesting as dishwater. Give me Kanye making an arse out of himself and forgetting the words to a shit cover of bohemian rhapsody any day. 🙂

So, Kanye's a bit marmite? I've not heard many say that his set was okay, quite alright - most seem to have either loved it or hated it. That sounds like a job well done. And lets be honest a lot of people had made their minds up they weren't gonna like it long before he walked on stage. That he didn't give a flip for the haters and made no efforts to engage with the "floating voters" was absolutely right, imo. If you were the sort of person that would enjoy a headline set from Kanye then I don;t think you'd have been disappointed, and if you were the sort of person that would send Emily Eavis death threats on twitter for having booked him, then I hope you really hated every second and it ruined your weekend.

On another note, disappointed (on the telly coverage, I know sometimes you get a skewed impression and it might be different in the [s]room[/s] field) with one act I expected to enjoy - imho Lemmy and the boys are now utterly past it - Motorhead looked and sounded very old, and very tired.

I liked the lights. But musical tastes aside the delivery was odd it just seemed like rather than playing to the crowd he was just making them look at him. It was like looking through the window while he made pop video rather than a performance from a stage to an audience

I can listen to his over produced tunes on the radio, and enjoy it, though I wouldn't buy anything. The problem is that his voice doesn't work on stage, he can't sing live and that was a let down.
Some of the reporting from Glasto this morning came from the audience who also felt disappointed. He expected the audience to sing along, but they didn't know the words, he kept disappearing from the stage for one reason or another etc.

The final nail for him came at the end with the greatest living rock star comment.
In which world does the guy live?

it was like looking into his ego for a whole hour. I'll leave no further comment on it but I have yet to hear anyone praise it for anything other than it's spectacle and to my mind that's damning with faint praise.

There have been controversial acts booked in that slot before but both JayZ and Beyonce absolutely killed it with really involving sets of actual hits, filled with humour and inclusiveness.

Kan*e - whatever. I'm sure he's happy, he'll have got his fee and will have created a Twitterstorm. Job done I'm sure.

Bloody hell, there's some right old grandad comments on here 'call that singing?' 'Call that music?'
You really don't realise that sort of bollocks has been said since jeez, probably before Bill Haley...
I love Kanye West albums, but watching a festival performance on TV and then commenting how crap it is, sad. Really pathetic.
The crowd were going mental from the short amount I watched.

Sorry DD if its the old Dezb cliches being spouted but hey, er **** off 😀

didn't see it, but I do find it odd that Greenpeace still associates it's self with this event. Kanye west and his ilk are all about self interest, conspicuous consumption and flaunting wealth.

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I have a line DebZ!!! I have a line!!!

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Bloody hell, there's some right old grandad comments on here 'call that singing?' 'Call that music?'
You really don't realise that sort of bollocks has been said since jeez, probably before Bill Haley...

Didn't see him, but just watched this -

To quote one of the youtube comments "AIDS was the second worst thing to ever happen to Freddie Mercury" 😀

There have been controversial acts booked in that slot before but both JayZ and Beyonce absolutely killed it with really involving sets of actual hits, filled with humour and inclusiveness.

As I said, even on a large screen with all the best surround sound, I just couldn't get it. Plenty of other options though.

Kanye west and his ilk are all about self interest, conspicuous consumption and flaunting wealth.

who are 'his ilk'?

other Glastonbury headliners like U2, the Rolling Stones et al? you might have a point

U2, the Rolling Stones

them too, but as long as there's free tickets knocking around and an eco tent.

The rap crap. 😆

Didn't see him, but just watched this -

Dear god that us awful.

 

commenting how crap it is, sad. Really pathetic.

Didn't see him, but just watched this -

Dear god that us awful.

I like the bit about 27s in where he's doing a John Redwood after forgetting the lyrics (to one of the worlds best known songs)

The singing was so poor I thought maybe it was one of those dubbed versions

Im glad I went to Download. Didn't see one pair of Hunters Wellies!

Didn't watch any of it so don't have an opinion either way but can't see the point in people getting worked up over the 'greatest living rockstar' business and strutting.

Come on people, the whole overblown ego/arrogance/confidence thing is an integral part of the persona/act. It's just his schtick. His USP. I'm sure if you chatted to him one to one over his cornflakes he'd say 'course it's crap and I cringe when I have say this stuff but it keeps attention on me and brings in the cash'

[i]is an integral part of the persona/act. It's just his schtick.[/i]

I dunno.. I've seen a few clips of him talking and he does seem a right dick.
Doesn't effect my opinion of the music in the slightest though.

Best bit ive seen is someone waving a giant flag with a still from a certain naughty video on it.

IoW was better than Glasto this year, truly glad I missed out on Glasto and went to the IoW, I enjoyed everyone I saw on the main stage, which was everyone listed, bar the first band on on one day.
That included Pharrell, who I did enjoy, despite having no interest in his music; he put on a great show and engaged with the audience, although I could have done with a little less overt advertising by Adidas...

is an integral part of the persona/act. It's just his schtick.

Or to repeat something I read elsewhere regarding the Trump: 'chumming the media with the trash of his personality' which seems to explain a hell of a lot of celebrity culture...

I dunno, I quite like his music and the stageset/stagework was pretty damn good but is there not some mandatory minimum amount of live music, in a live music set?

Probably not. Sleaford mods (who I really like) just use a laptop and a space bar

I liked the part of Mark Radcliffe's intro where he pointed out that an anagram of 'Kanye West' is 'Sweaty Ken' 😆

I heard someone say today that Kanye west looked like he was throwing shapes in a microwave 😆

I like the video of him falling on his arse trying to freestyle rap on a radio show.

Great producer. Shit live act.
Pharell is good at both though.

It's also an anagram of ****eyest.

he kept disappearing from the stage for one reason or another

I'm trying to find a possible link between having a massive, massive ego, and periodically needing to do something in private...

672 Parcans apparently. Entire rig left at working height. Because it had more talent.

Car crash tele and strangely compelling. I thought he was going to stomp off in a huff. He was not happy in that cherry picker.

Just watched the set on BBC iplayer and it was pretty OK.

As anyone who has seen rap live can testify, it is pretty hard to do live, and he held the huge audience well the whole way through the set, which is no mean feat.

If he was genuinely sh1t then the crowd would have given up on him.

He is a rapper/wordsmith, not a singer. He often uses a vocoder to sing but doesn't try to hide it - it's not like auto-tune where people are pretending to be decent singers. If a vocoder was good enough for Herbie Hancock...

He repertoire includes a lot of fairly awesome sounding productions with some pretty good lyrical content. It may not be your thing but he has a lot more talent than someone like Kylie, who can do no wrong according to this forum.

All of these guys have ego problems - basically because they are followed by a lot of ass-kissers - and they don't live in the real world anymore - he's been sucked into that alternate reality that KK inhabits.

A lot of people here showing their age...

He deserves some props for that set and the number of peoples attention he held...

A lot of people here showing their age...

So people disliking something is suddenly an "age-thing" is it? Get a grip.

So people disliking something is suddenly an "age-thing" is it? Get a grip.

no - it does seem to be so - people get stuck liking what they did as kids - in the old days of HMV, etc you only had to go in to the shops on a Saturday to see what the middle-aged people were buying.

[quote=TurnerGuy dijo]..he held the huge audience well the whole way through the set, which is no mean feat. ...

I was under the impression that a large percentage of the crowd left during his set? I didn't watch it (not my thing) and am not sure if leaving early is the done thing during the last set to avoid the rush...

[i]So people disliking something is suddenly an "age-thing" is it? Get a grip.[/i]

It's definitely not - but the way people are expressing their dislike certainly is!
"Call that singing!" etc!

was under the impression that a large percentage of the crowd left during his set

Here's a screen grab from iplayer from the final few minutes of his set - still an awful lot of people there...

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And I wonder what Freddie Mercury would be like trying to rap...

I don't the whole woo haa about him headlining - he's popular so he gets booked to headline...there's plenty of other things on so go see (or red button) one of those and stop creating ****ing pointless petitions.

At the same time I think most of the stuff he has done is absolutely shite. This is not age related as I like plenty of less mainstream hip hop acts who I would happily watch. I also think he is a complete cock - if evidence is needed on this then watch his whole Beck Grammy fandango. What a muppet.

Here's some acts I would have seen if I was there:

gaslamp killer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02txxfr/glastonbury-2015-the-gaslamp-killer#group=b007r6vx

gregory porter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02txvmc/glastonbury-2015-gregory-porter#group=b007r6vx

sbtrkt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02tvt4c/glastonbury-2015-sbtrkt#group=b007r6vx

alabama shakes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02tstld/glastonbury-2015-alabama-shakes#group=b007r6vx

and soil & pimp sessions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02txwt0/glastonbury-2015-soilpimpsessions#group=b007r6vx

took the wife to see S&PS in a smallish club in london - risky as she hates noodly jazz, but she liked this 'death jazz' set. You know those adverts where the guy is in front of the large speaker with his hair blown back from his face - it was like that for the whole concert...

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And I wonder what Freddie Mercury would be like trying to rap...

Probably alright- can't think if he ever did it "properly" but stone cold crazy came pretty close. Can't think of a kanye song he couldn't stroll, anyway, though he never had the power to be a chuck d or similiar with throw-weight in the words.

Thing is though, if Freddie tried it in practice and it didn't work, he wouldn't do it in front of an audience.

I most definitley don't think its a thing against rap - in fact if anyone saw Kate Tempests set from one of the other stages it was a masterclass in the art of rap, and shows how well accepted it is

The problem was that Ken West's gig was Crap not Rap!

(Ps. It's worth saying that once upon a time Ken was q genuinley exciting up and coming new rapper, it seems he's just completley and utterley lost his way)

As the OP my initial post was really a reflection of the bits of his set that I saw all being done through autotune (or vocode, is that the same thing?!), hence the "Brian the Robot" picture.

I'm all in agreement of different strokes for different folks, and I'm sure my own musical tastes won't be the same as everyone elses and that's cool, it's the way it should be. But......I do think that someone who's natural singing voice, should be able to do so a hell of a lot better than the Bohemian Rhapsody intro bit I heard from a de-vocoded Kanye.

[i]and soil & pimp sessions[/i]

I caught that on TV, I think it was the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.
Well, maybe not as bad as Robbie Williams, but close.