[Closed] Kanye @ Glastonbury =

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.

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

yes, but if you watch it you will see it is more of a shared sing along that Kanye professing to owning the track - there's only a portion of the track, he only 'sings' a few of the line and lets the crowd sing the rest, and hints of Freddie's voice are mixed in at points.

See here at 1:30:10, lasts until 1:31:40 - a whole minute and a half.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02tkpw9/glastonbury-2015-kanye-west#group=b007r6vx

and soil & pimp sessions

I caught that on TV, I think it was the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.

well there you go - they are freakin awesome live in a club - although you need hearing protection...

I think Kanye's a bona fide genius, and nearly went to the Pyramid for the Sat night closer but I was lured away by Clinton and P-F. It was a good call - I've just watched some of Kanye's set on iPlayer, it looked like bad karaoke.

ken west lost his way when his mother passed away after a complication with cosmetic surgery. She was his manager and pretty much kept his ego in check I guess.

I went to see Kanye and was left feeling bored, deflated and a little angry at the "greatest rock star" comment. The first song was amazing, loads of energy the lighting was novel and great to look at and the song was a knock back for his haters. Then it sort of just fizzled out, lacking in any conviction or direction. Kinda like he was making it up as he went along. The crane was a great idea and lifted me (no pun intended) briefly. I wanted to leave half way through but had too much hope that something spectacular was just around the corner but it never came.

I really loved his first two albums and then stopped listening to him after the third album. So I'm not familiar with the more resent songs but love the older stuff he did. I really wanted him to do well but, for me the performance was average at best. The crowd around me seemed to like it though, mostly made up of a young crowd (late teens to early 20's), being on the turn of 30 I felt a bit old. They were singing along, smiling and dancing most of the way through the gig. Although I didn't feel there was as much energy or excitement from the audience as some of other acts I watched (Catfish and the Bottlemen, Slaves, Lionel Richie, Chemical Brothers).

As above - I left after about 40 minutes, as were quite a few others - there was a steady stream leaving as I did. He started amazingly but went really downhill with the auto-tune stuff - really dreadful. I'm 47 and thought I'd give it a go although it's not my kind of thing really. Interestingly, neither is Pharell Williams but I went to see him (my 6 yr old at home asked me to so I could film 'Happy') and I thought he was pretty amazing - one of my stand-outs for the weekend, along with Rival Sons, Slaves, Frank Turner and F+TM