Glastonbury 22

[Whaleblue]

KL. Was hoping to love. Not getting it.

Crown of thorns? Hmm.

 

[Weekender]

Me neither.

 

[monkfish]

Avoiding Kendrick like the plague.

Watching Herbie Hancock's set. Wow. What a set of musicians they are. Also the oddest trumpet I've ever seen.

Trumpet was odd looking to me as well, seemed like it had no mouthpiece.

 

[Whaleblue]

Glastonbury is for the Radio One generation now. There's the odd thing of interest going on during the day but the Sunday night headliners are just like X factor style.

It would be horrendous if otherwise.

 

[ToTo Man]

I think KL would be better if he could find a way to incorporate more profanities into his lyrics...

 

[flapland]

Trumpet was odd looking to me as well, seemed like it had no mouthpiece.

Thought the same earlier but had seen Wynton Marsalis use something similar. So did a bit of a research.

https://www.monette.net/bb-trumpets stunning instruments but I suspect £30k if not more.

 

[kensalriser]

I think KL would be better if he incorporated more profanities into his lyrics...

You fxxxxing think, bxxch?

 

[Somafunk]

Bicep are the broadcast highlight of the festival for me, bonobo were also good but real shame the chemical brothers couldn’t make it due to covid

I can listen to “that one” Kendrick Lamar song (dunno what it’s called though), so he’s obviously not my taste in music.

 

[robs]

Bicep actually very good.
Just did a little stage hopping and KL and PSB both still not doing it for me

So much easier pressing the button rather than walking between stages...much as I loved the experience of being there back in the day...

"ASEEEEEED"!!

 

[Aethelist]

He thinks he's Jesus. You're just not getting it.

 

[RickyC6]

Pet Shop Boys are quite wonderful! What a crowd.

 

[Gerard124]

Macca's set now up on iPlayer

 

[Aethelist]

Stayed up till 1am watching that live (sic) last night. Highlight of the weekend.

 

[Gerard124]

Stayed up till 1am watching that live (sic) last night. Highlight of the weekend.

Me too with the volume cranked, fab!

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

Macca's set now up on iPlayer

Yep, and all two hours and forty-five minutes of it, not just two hours which the beeb said it was in the EPG, thus throwing lots of recordings out last night.

 

[robs]

Just saw a panning shot of the front row of the Bicep gig. Every single one of them on mobile phones.....either selfies or texting or...
..sad.

 

[kensalriser]

Just saw a panning shot of the front row of the Bicep gig. Every single one of them on mobile phones.....either selfies or texting or...
..sad.

Through the entire festival, the number of people on shoulders filming themselves singing along. I know we probably all did embarrassing stuff when young, but that's next level cringeworthy vanity.

 

[Tony L]

Anyone who didn’t get what Kendrick Lamar was doing absolutely needs to go back and watch the last ten minutes of the set. Just stunning. Shocking. Real next-level art. Politically absolutely bang on (as I’d expect from him).

PS All his stuff is very heavily coded, he’s scary intelligent. It took me months as a dumb white guy with no understanding of the culture to understand what To Pimp A Butterfly was actually about, and even now I probably only understand about 70% of it (I actually had to find online explanations as I couldn’t understand it unaided). It is unquestionably one of the best albums of this century.

 

[Euan]

Saw a bit of Lorde earlier. Disappointed she'd taken her makeup off and she didn't do "Hard Rock Hallelujah."

 

[robs]

And so it's all over..

A few new (to me) bands to explore - excellent!