The 2013 'comfort of my own home' Glastonbury thread

[maxxi]

okay just got in - so missed the stones - but am quite enjoying the Strypes - is that wrong?

[????]

I dunno Jah, have I seen better? Yes. But I agre with the BBC it,s the way they can be the biggest rock and roll band in the world but also like mates playing the blues in their shed. I enjoyed it. midnightvRambler highlight for me and I don,t like that song much.

[malumbu]

Oy red devil. When you are 16 you think there are rules to music.

You had to be a hippy, punk or rocker at that time. We used to call liking funk etc discobating. A short time later hate mod music, even thought there was always a 60's style RnB band supporting the new wave acts doing the rounds.

A couple of years later you start to realise that some of it is quite good (mod, disco etc), and as you get older musical tastes broaden. As a 16 year old I can't imagine that in later life I'd be going to the Cambbridge Folk Fest (don't go now as the line up is dull and not at all radical) and listening to Bob Harris Country.

If I had a tape player I'd get out one of my C60 compilations and find a suprisingly wide (and soemtimes shocking) mix of chart music from my teen years. Just couln't pogo to Chic that was all.... or worse still headbang.

Now some should be confined to the bin such as soft rock, pop rock, Rainbow, Europe and I will never like Meatloaf until my dying day, even if I can apprecate him.

So back to Glarstoow. Bit underwhelmed really but I'd rather watch the tennis or be outside. Tried to get my head around Public Enemy, who I really should have seen at Brixton in the late 80s. And some group jumping around at 9 were very watchable. Listening to Porishead is like listening to the Cocteau Twins. For a year or so etherial and birlliant. Now sadly leaves me cold.

I think it is more probablay about the Beebs coverage, and the line-up outside some of the main bands, looked pretty good.

Sad that Costello was rather flat, after seeing so many good gigs, including headlining Glastonbury (around 40000 people at the time) in 1984. Perhaps should have done another stage.

Off to the Devonshire Road Nature Reserve Fest later (only ?4 after 5pm) - do join me.

[DovertheRoad]

The sheer amount of BBC coverage this year has actually been quite confusing. I spent most of yesterday flicking between BBC 2,3 and 4, highlight shows, live bits but never quite hitting the spot. Then I realised that the BBC were running a special red button Connect service for Virgin Tivo customers that's basically a constant all day live feed from each stage. Brilliant!

[MrBen]

Agree with Jah on the Stones last night. They manage their exposure so tightly that its either a carefully crafted Scorsese film or doc or an official DVD release. Their myth and place in history is perhaps at odds with the current reality? They still put on a great show but in a strange way a live feed like this almost bursts the bubble. Apart from Mick's incredible 70 year old dancing the rest of them looked detached - going through the motions until the encore.

And Kenny Rogers today looks like a space monkey.

Edit: I've just realised it's a perma-smile.

[dbboy]

Can't wait to see Bobby Womack tonight at 10.30pm live from Glasto on BBC4)

[Jah Lush]

Not half. Thanks for the heads up dbboy.

[red devil]

Seconded. If there are any forumites at the festival, could you please pull the plug on any power cables just as the Mumfords are about to take to the stage. Thanks in advance...

[ianr]

> Portishead sounding just brilliant

Nugger. I'd have watched if I'd known they were on, or even Beth Gibbons on her own. I don't suppose anyone's got a recording ...?

[StraferJack]

Portishead set here:

http://youtu.be/hu_Oivuf09Y

Silence

Mysterons

The Rip

Sour Times

Magic Doors

Wandering Star

Machine Gun

Over

Glory Box

Chase The Tear

Cowboys

Threads

Roads

We Carry On

Read more at http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/festivals/portishead-at-glastonbury-2013-review#xtSsWixYKut0A0VG.99

[Jah Lush]

How the fuck do the Trust Fund Wurzels get to headline over Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. That is just so wrong.

[????]

I don,t want to get too Louisa on us but I reckon we'll over half of the young British acts interviewed that I,ve heard are privately educated. Nice people, some talent from some but depressingly upper middle class

[Jah Lush]

And so's the audience. They're only people who can avoid the fecking tickets these days. Cunts!

[????]

This could be epic. fantastic start.....now who is that on keyboard?

[Jeremy]

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> I don,t want to get too Louisa on us but I reckon

> we'll over half of the young British acts

> interviewed that I,ve heard are privately

> educated. Nice people, some talent from some but

> depressingly upper middle class

Not really surprising. It's so hard for new bands to make any money now, you really need a bit of cash behind you just so you can get out there and go on the road.

[HonaloochieB]

Best song/performance of a festival that I didn't attend or even watch that much of on the television (and I've got colour) just heard it on Radio BBC6 (DAB, I'll have you know) Nick Cave & TBS's 'People Ain't No Good'.

Beautiful.

[Jah Lush]

Nick Cave's set was a definite highlight of the weekend for me Mr B.

[*Bob*]

Did anyone who hasn't been knocking around for 25+ years get anyone's vote at this years Glastonbury festival of contemporary performing arts?

[Otta]

I saw Bruce Springsteen last night at the Olympic park. I think I may be a convert. If you ask me who I prefer out of the stones and the boss, I'd have always (and probably still would) say the stones. However, based on this weekend's evidence, iof you offered me a ticket to see one or the other live, I'd take Bruce every time.

The E Street Band are wicked!

[El Pibe]

I only really caught 'gl' this year in snippets on radio 6 when cooking.

Portishead sounded good.

Erm, that's about it.

I caught in passing on the tele, a flash of Bjork having stepped through the magical fountain of rejuvenation, as she played a mishmash of colplay and mumford and sons classics with a reformed Sugarcubes, minus the character, under the name 'of monsters and men'

Quite freaked me out I must say.

[Jah Lush]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Did anyone who hasn't been knocking around for 25+

> years get anyone's vote at this years Glastonbury

> festival of contemporary performing arts?

I rather liked Jake Bugg. There you go.

[TillieTrotter]

The Strypes were pretty good too.

[Jah Lush]

They sound like the Yardbirds did in 1963. Not sure if that's a good thing. Still, they're only school kids and maybe in a few years time they'll sound like the Yardbirds did in 1966, which is a much better prospect.

[TillieTrotter]

I like your take on it Jah.

[????]

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