The Glastonbury TV Thread

im hearing on the grapevine theres going to be a surprise at the end of Idles set.  Idle gossip maybe?  IGMC……

Fair play to the LCD Soundsystem dummer. From the bits I’ve seen, he’s got through a bottle of champagne and a few tinnies during their set

Amateur. Heiling drummer drank the blood of seven virgins and a crow before even going on stage.

You wouldn’t tell him if he wasn’t keeping time would you.

At the risk of being the moaning stw music bore…..just not sure an act reliant on a load of dancers and clearly lip syncing is what headlining the Pyramid should be about…..and I quite like Dua Lipa as it goes.

I think we are a decade or so past that being a concern at Glastonbury.

She’s great, putting on a good show. It’s exactly what Glastonbury should be.

…I’m on to Idles. Never really got them before, but really really enjoying this. Did their guitarist just lose his guitar in the crowd? 🤣

…I’m on to Idles. Never really got them before, but really really enjoying this. Did their guitarist just lose his guitar in the crowd? 🤣

Last time I saw Idles the guitarist lost himself in the crowd! Amazing live band.

As for a special guest, LCD Soundsystem for Dancer would be a good bet.

The wife is watching Dua – I’ve never been so bored by a sexy young lady doing her thing.

Listening to jungle whilst patiently waiting on Fontaines DC, should be a blinder of a set.

Dua Lipa doing a really good performance and certainly the Glastonbury crowd loving it but I wouldn’t go to Glastonbury to watch it. But I last went in 2001 and saw Bowie literally a mile away.

Still live music on a Friday night not bad.

Watching this has me looking forward to IDLES at the Piece Hall. Missus isn’t impressed though, too noisy for her,

Dua lipa would make a great halftime show at the Super Bowl

Just in from watching 3 live bands in Macclesfield and now watching Idles on iplayer 🙂

IDLES – what a glorious f***ING noise.  Joe Talbot is a great front man 🙂

Dua Lipa is truly dull but one of my daughters is a fan so i’ll have to watch Idles on catch up

Did catch Bombay Bicycle Club with Damon Albarn earlier – real fun number, Damon and the band looked like they were really enjoying themsleves and so was the crowd

Not watched IDLES yet do they have the EPIC pedal board set up?

Heilung are ace, totally bonkers, but such an amazing live experience, especially in the smaller venues  when they were starting out. Now the live performance/ceremonies/gatherings are mind blowingly good and have a vibe like no other gig.

Bloody love idles as well, great performance

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Fontaines D.C. on now 🙂

I’m 100db+ in my living room for the genuine festival experience (minus the porta loos obviously)

Idles rule

IDLES …just bloody stunning. A joy to watch…

wtf is this $h1t pop act on the pyramid stage? how did we go from jimi hendrix to this??

Saw Idles the last gig before lockdown and they were ****ing superb! Watched that tonight with Mrs Binners who doesn’t generally appreciate my taste in that kind of thing, but she absolutely loved it!

I just love seeing music performed by people who absolutely  ****ing mean it!

I’m looking forward to Sleaford Mods for the same reason

wtf is this $h1t pop act on the pyramid stage? how did we go from jimi hendrix to this??

Time for bed grandad

I recommend everyone check out confidence man, they are flipping ace. Bit of a leap from IDLES mind 🙂

Idles were amazing, I was so hopeful for Flynn to deliver a killer three word election message but thanking his Dad was I suppose better.

Catching end of Dua Lipa now. Glastonbury has evolved, she’s not my cup of tea personally but it’s the Festival of Music and Performing Arts; this is music from one of the world’s biggest current artists and she’s as deserving of the headline slot as any crusty alternative artist ever was in the past.

Quite a cheeky little outfit, I don’t think I’d be able to carry it off.

Dua Lipa was absolutely superb. Easy to forget how many hits she has had. Impeccably produced set.

If I ever get old and grumpy enough to not recognise a properly impressive act like that regardless of what ‘genre’ it might be, shoot me.

Class.

My partner managed to fall asleep during never fight a man with a perm. I’m actually impressed as we didn’t have it on quietly

Quite a cheeky little outfit, I don’t think I’d be able to carry it off.

Don’t do yourself down – she wouldn’t look so good in baggies. Maybe.

my better half has just fallen out with me and went to bed in a huff because I said I thought Dua Lipa was miming. Apparently I ‘kept overanalysing everything and ruined it’. I was actually enjoying it ok, just thought it wasn’t a live performance (in traditional sense)

Confidence Man are a good fun bit of pop. We heard them once, possibly on Jools Holland, and both had a “What’s this rubbish” reaction.

Then the next day we were both humming the song, then we’d found and added them on Spotify/YouTube!

Apparently I ‘kept overanalysing everything and ruined it’.

I hate people who talk when people are playing music. It’s **** rude so I’m with your better half.

saw idles 2 nights ago in dublin, bloody excellent as always.  fantastic again tonight, really got that charisma for a live show.  (will the new national anthem catch on do you think?) 😀

switched over to fontaines as soon as it finished and tbh im a bit bored.  love their records but they just dont have that stage presence/charisma that idles do.  has grian interracted with the crowd yet?  like i say, i love their songs but i probably wont watch the full set on catch-up.  might watch idles again tomorrow tho….

@simondbarnes – So do I!  I only mentioned it twice, between songs, and then googled it once…

What on earth is Jo Whilley wearing? 😳

Fontaines dc were massively underwhelming. It looked like they were playing a pub in a provincial town on a Wednesday night. Whoever the sound engineer was needs a harsh word or two. Awful!

IDLES….. **** me…..I was welling up at a few points. Power of music embodied. Total convert here. My wife is not punk rock to say the least and she really loved them too.

Popped Fontaines on iPlayer…..I’m a fan of their music, never seen them live before. I’ll invoke ‘if you’ve not got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all’. 😳

Re Jo Wiley, is it just me, or does she sound like she’s got the plague?!

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Whoever the sound engineer was needs a harsh word or two.Awful!

This in spades. Still….tempo and staying in tune seemed fairly ‘optional’…which isn’t the engineers fault!

Watching Confidence Man after discovering them on Glasto iPlayer last year, fun energetic Oz pop!

Idles is going to have to wait till MrsRNP is out one night

We put on Dua Lipa for a bit of a laugh and ended up watching every second of it and ended up getting kinda jealous of the whole vibe, looked great fun, what a show. So many upbeat dancy songs (including a bunch of “oh that’s who sung that song” moments).

Watching Fontaines DC now. Skinty Fia was my album of 2022, so enjoying it but after watching everyone have fun watching Dua Lipa their aloof posho pretend working class South Dubliner shtick is actually annoying me. Christ.

lookinh forward to watching Soft Play on Sunday. I never paid much attention when they were called Slaves but the 4 songs they’ve released this past year are worldies, I’d recommend to any punk fans (and IDLES fans – they’re similar but a bit more aggressive and fun with their lyrics).

Oh and Confidence Man are great fun, I was working at Kendall Calling last year and caught them having not heard them before. Kinda weird but really good.

Fontaines dc were massively underwhelming.

I’m sorry to have to agree, it was a pretty lacklustre performance.

They had more life in them on Later last week, much as I dislike that show – mainly because of that oily little pillock Holland, so I grit my teeth if someone I like is on.

Whoever the sound engineer was needs a harsh word or two.Awful!
This in spades. Still….tempo and staying in tune seemed fairly ‘optional’…which isn’t the engineers fault!

At the beginning of the set you could see Grian gesturing to the monitoring desk at the side of the stage as he couldn’t hear through his in-ear monitors

Heilung are ace, totally bonkers, but such an amazing live experience

Never had a chance to see them, they’re a band I’m very keen to see.

Re Jo Wiley, is it just me, or does she sound like she’s got the plague?!

At the very beginning, she apologised and said her allergies are kicking in, which doesn’t surprise me, she’s out in open countryside, it’s been very dry for ages, and there’s 200,000 people kicking the grass and topsoil into a fine dust – a lot of people are going to be needing antihistamine tablets by the cartload!
I remember a Reading Festival where the air was just thick with red dust, people were covered with it, and a lot of people were buying bandanas and wearing them as masks, because it was so difficult to breathe.

The Quote at the bottom of this BBC article regarding the performances,

Preceding Dua Lipa on the Pyramid Stage were indie disco punks LCD Soundsystem, who were a surprisingly perfect pairing for the sunset.

The New Yorkers leaned into their more emotional material – Home, I Can Change, Someone Great – before closing with a euphoric All My Friends.

Die-hard fans at the front of the audience were whisked back 20 years to the band’s heyday, while younger afficianados were simply awed by their longevity.

“Imagine how many parties they’ve been to,” said one next to me. “Imagine how many drugs they’ve taken.”

“Unbelievable.”

Brillant 🙂