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Post by Dougs on Jul 2, 2024 17:14:18 GMT
Each to their own and all that. I suspect it's because I'm not hugely familiar with their stuff.
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Post by puddleduck on Jul 2, 2024 17:32:02 GMT
Another year as a Love the Farm Steward finished. It really felt they got the clashes wrong this year leading to huge bottlenecks and closing off fields more often than I've seen before. My feeling is the online ticketing brings the age demographic down and leads to far more people seeing the same things. What sort of shifts did you have to do for that? It's 3 x 8 hour shifts, but that can be smaller. They move around each year, but this year's were the best ones. Had a Tuesday shift for 4 hours just stopping people setting up tents in punter fields before 8am Wednesday opening. Then it was Thursday 8pm - 3am and Saturday 8pm - 3.30am. It is brutal, and on top of then trying to go big on non work days the body gets seriously broken by the end 😁 Always have a great time though 😎 |
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Post by simple on Jul 2, 2024 18:10:38 GMT
I’ve seen Biffy be incredible and rubbish but I’ve not kept up with their later albums and they’ve largely retired the first three from what I can tell.
Back to the highlights, The Gossip are such a force. I think I’ll be hard pressed to find many acts among the highlights who went this hard.
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Post by Vandelay on Jul 2, 2024 18:45:13 GMT
Watched Avril Lavigne this afternoon. What a fun show. Plenty of classic hits played and the crowd clearly loved it.
Also seen Soft Play, after seeing them mentioned a couple of times here. Lot of energy and good mix of stuff. James was pretty good too. Not a band I remember much about. Sit Down is obviously their best song and didn't really know anything else, but liked a lot of what I heard.
Watched Dua Lipa the other day as well, which was also a really good show. Was surprised how many tunes I knew too.
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Post by dmukgr on Jul 2, 2024 18:56:25 GMT
Enjoying Yard Act currently.
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Post by cubby on Jul 2, 2024 19:24:51 GMT
Why was a baddie in one of Liam Neeson's Taken movies doing the singing for James?
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Post by simple on Jul 2, 2024 21:04:26 GMT
He’s a baddie in Nolan’s Batman films too
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Post by dfunked on Jul 2, 2024 21:08:41 GMT
Vandelay getting away with it is a cracking song, but also the only other song of theirs I recognise from the setlist.
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Post by retro74 on Jul 2, 2024 21:29:17 GMT
James are a pretty underrated band IMO. Laid, Come Home, Sit Down all good songs. Always liked She’s a Star too
I was at the rugby league Grand Final at Old Trafford in 2014 when James performed before the game and Tim Booth came into the crowd and sung amongst the St Helens fans, it was awesome
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Post by Dougs on Jul 2, 2024 21:30:20 GMT
Laid is a cracker imo.
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Post by retro74 on Jul 2, 2024 21:34:38 GMT
I agree, I’ve not seen all the Glasto set but I don’t think they played it did they? |
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Post by cubby on Jul 2, 2024 21:36:44 GMT
I fancied a girl at uni whose favourite band was James, so naturally I tried getting into them for a bit. But when that didn't go anywhere my therapist said not to see her no more.
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Post by retro74 on Jul 2, 2024 21:39:40 GMT
I fancied a girl at uni whose favourite band was James, so naturally I tried getting into them for a bit. But when that didn't go anywhere my therapist said not to see her no more. You should have tried getting into her for a bit |
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Post by Lizard on Jul 2, 2024 21:42:58 GMT
Was the girl ecosse?
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Post by simple on Jul 2, 2024 21:53:45 GMT
Finally giving Heilung a go. This could so easily be some super cool psychedelic hippy pagan thing or some weird neo-nazi primitivist shit.
Real Attila Csihar vibe from the chanted vocals either way.
It could also be a particularly curious Eurovision entry.
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Post by cubby on Jul 2, 2024 22:00:35 GMT
I made it through half of their set and I'm predisposed to watching a lot of neo pagan stuff due to people I know.
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Post by simple on Jul 2, 2024 23:52:54 GMT
I lasted about 20 minutes. I thought it was very impressive just not quite what I needed to either watch properly or have on in the background while reading.
Opted for Dexys instead, who were fine.
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Post by gamingdave on Jul 3, 2024 9:45:15 GMT
What sort of shifts did you have to do for that? It's 3 x 8 hour shifts, but that can be smaller. They move around each year, but this year's were the best ones. Had a Tuesday shift for 4 hours just stopping people setting up tents in punter fields before 8am Wednesday opening. Then it was Thursday 8pm - 3am and Saturday 8pm - 3.30am. It is brutal, and on top of then trying to go big on non work days the body gets seriously broken by the end 😁 Always have a great time though 😎 Was tempted to try and volunteer this year after not getting tickets, but was worried about when the shifts would be, and what sort of knock on effect that would have. Wouldn't want to miss out on the late nights with mates due to a shift - or worse, sleeping so I could do the shift. But they sound like good hours. A full on Friday and Sunday with some bands during Saturday daytime. |
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Post by Vortex on Jul 3, 2024 14:11:53 GMT
Kim Gordon is 71 ffs.  I knew that Kim Deal was 60, but jeezo, way to make me feel old(er). |
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Post by rhaegyr on Jul 3, 2024 14:18:12 GMT
Fucking hell, I was listening to Sister driving in to work today!
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Post by simple on Jul 3, 2024 14:22:07 GMT
Gordon’s backing band looked like they’d be about 71 combined. Only saw one song on youtube but its made me excited to watch the full set tonight.
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Post by zisssou on Jul 3, 2024 14:30:47 GMT
My girlfriend is still pissed at me for taking her to see Thurston Moore. It was basically over an hour of him dicking about on the guitar. He nearly went full Sonic Youth before dicking about for another 10 minutes.
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Post by puddleduck on Jul 3, 2024 17:19:39 GMT
It's 3 x 8 hour shifts, but that can be smaller. They move around each year, but this year's were the best ones. Had a Tuesday shift for 4 hours just stopping people setting up tents in punter fields before 8am Wednesday opening. Then it was Thursday 8pm - 3am and Saturday 8pm - 3.30am. It is brutal, and on top of then trying to go big on non work days the body gets seriously broken by the end 😁 Always have a great time though 😎 Was tempted to try and volunteer this year after not getting tickets, but was worried about when the shifts would be, and what sort of knock on effect that would have. Wouldn't want to miss out on the late nights with mates due to a shift - or worse, sleeping so I could do the shift. But they sound like good hours. A full on Friday and Sunday with some bands during Saturday daytime. 2 years ago the pattern was Thursday, Saturday, Monday morning which was OK. Last year was the worst, that was Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. |
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Post by simple on Jul 4, 2024 9:07:10 GMT
Kim Gordon is 71 ffs. I knew that Kim Deal was 60, but jeezo, way to make me feel old(er). Got curious since people I know went to see them last night. Turns out Kim Gordon is older than Angus Young. Which feels very incorrect. |
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Post by Vortex on Jul 4, 2024 9:15:03 GMT
How old is thurston then? I assumed he was kind of closer to 'our' age.
Ok, maybe not, just checked and he's 65 so also old.
Fuck's sake.
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Post by zisssou on Jul 4, 2024 10:31:22 GMT
And his wife is half his age.
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Post by Danno on Jul 4, 2024 12:16:44 GMT
How old is thurston then? I assumed he was kind of closer to 'our' age. Ok, maybe not, just checked and he's 65 so also old. Fuck's sake. Sonic Youth formed in '81 iirc |
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Post by simple on Jul 4, 2024 12:47:02 GMT
Gordon had a career as a proper artist pre-SY as well, didn’t she?
It is still weird that she’s older than my mam though.
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 5, 2024 15:04:10 GMT
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Post by simple on Jul 5, 2024 15:39:14 GMT
I saw that article earlier. What a cretin.
On the other hand, Kim Gordon’s set is excellent so do try and catch it while its still up on iplayer.
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