[Music] Glastonbury Festival 2023 - the thread

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Excellent

If you read social media they’re this week’s arch enemy. No less than Jamie Carragher thinks they just should have played their hits .

I saw Arctic Monkeys in Sheffield on their last tour and the general vibe coming out was that their new music wasn't great.
Pithily summed up by the bloke who shouted "your new music's shit" at some point during the gig.
Each to their own, anyway. I've met a few people who thought they were great on their current tour.
Obviously, since I didn't bother to see them on it, I've decided they're wrong.

 

[Wozza]

Just catching this as well. Surprisingly good. I can’t quite work how it would ever have come about. Were Blossoms thinking it’d be cool to do a Smiths set and then thought ‘better get Rick Astley in then’. Bonkers

Back story here.

Rick Astley on The Smiths' covers band with Blossoms: "I don't want to tread on that history"

Rick Astley has spoken out about his upcoming The Smiths covers shows with Blossoms, admitting he "doesn't want to tread on their history."

www.nme.com

They played a couple of dates in 2021. Was only just post-Covid really. Remember wearing a mask.

Jonny Marr peeved because he knows The Blossoms... and they didn't mention it to him. Oops.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

That wolves flag seems to be at Glastonbury every year. I remember seeing it when I went for the first time in 99.

Do you reckon it's the same people?

 

[jackalbion]

As promised my review of the weekend like @The Fits says saw so much that wasn’t televised, there must be 100+ stages of various different music around.

Arrived on Wednesday after spending an evening in Weymouth and getting the 6am train to Castle Cary, got into the site just before 10 and managed to set up before an unrelenting rain storm, before unrelenting heat, not really much to see on Wednesday so had an early one.

On the Thursday in previous years Ive usually gone to Williams Green for the two secret sets, but due to Mel C and Bastille sending a massive Nuclear Strike to it last year it’s been replaced with Car Henge and no secret sets. I managed to find a shady spot to watch about half of Grove at the Greenpeace stage. In 2019 I discovered the Crow’s Nest stage that seems to curated by the labels Moshi Moshi and Heavenly Records and the only way you can find out the lineup is by walking up a very steep hill to see the Chalk Board with the times on who is on. On the lineup was Syd Minsky Sargeant (Lead singer of Working Men’s Club) who was doing a first ever performance of his solo project. It was a bit shaky performing the songs for the first time, but it was decent stuff that reminded me of some of Thom Yorke‘s solo stuff. Katy J Pearson was on after, which I was very pleased to catch as she’s been one of my favourites over the last few years, a lovely set which was packed to the rafters as the sun went down. I managed to catch a bit of DJ Absolutely Sh*t and something at San Remo before heading to bed.

On Friday I got up nice and early to walk to the park stage to catch Adwaith who are a welsh language indie band who were a bit more post punk than I expected which was a good thing. Then I walked over to a mental the Hives set at the other stage, which brought a lot of energy for 1 in the afternoon. I then headed back to the park to see Los Bitchos who I was really impressed with live, really good guitar tunes and a great vibe for a hot afternoon. Quickly followed by a Billy No Mates set which I thought was really good, it’s a real shame that she got so much flack off people, hope she doesn’t give up music. I caught a bit of Unknown Mortal Orchestra from the back while having some Pizza who sounded really good but I had to leave to get a good spot for the worst kept secret of the weekend Foo Fighters. A really good set that I felt like covered all basis and just quickly rattled through the hits as well as chucking a few songs of the new album (which I thought was surprisingly decent). Stood next to a huge group of Mackems who wanted a picture with the flag as they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. My personal set of the weekend followed which was Young Fathers. The energy, the stage set up everything, was amazing. The songs are very powerful and combined with the magnificent sunset it set it up as the best I’d see of the weekend. I then headed back to catch Arctic Monkeys, it was absolutely packed and me and my brother failed to get anywhere near a decent spot to watch. We gave it about 15 minutes before, despite this probably being the popular boring opinion, thought it was crap and then left. We had camped near the Woodsies stage and heard Hot Chip sound checking in the morning so headed over there. I had consumed a lot of alcohol at this point so everything was enjoyable and Hot Chip always put on a good show. After this I headed over to the IICON stage to see Four Tet which was absolutely RAMMO, so I didn’t hang around for too long as we could hardly get into the stage, thought this happened with most stages in that area this weekend it’s probably due an expansion judging by the popularity.

Saturday was another early start to see everyone‘s favourite “Industry Plants” The Last Dinner Party (funny how this accusation seems to be thrown at women only bands a lot (Wet Leg, Picture Palour)) at the Woodsies (formerly John Peel) tent. If they are industry plants, the industry certainly know what they are doing as all their songs were great and a majestic live performance. Wunderhorse we’re on after this on the same stage (another band with famous connections, but are all male, so couldn’t possibly be industry plants) and they were also very good, the song Purple is an absolute banger, perfect for a festival. I managed to meet @Pogue Mahone just before this and saw him sneaking into the Woodsies to catch Working Men’s Club who put in a great performance, with a lot of songs off the new album which I think is absolutely fantastic. Another highly anticipated one for me seeing the Murder Capital next, they played all their bangers at full whack, another great set. Shame next as we enter hour 5 in the Woodsies stage, a great list of bookings on the Saturday this year on that stage. Sheer chaos from the South Londoners, loved the tear away trousers. Followed that up with Rick Astley and Blossoms doing the Smiths which I had 0 expectation for but luckily for me at this point I was, what would be best described as binned, and I have to say it was the perfect act for being absolutely hammered, belting out smiths songs. I then watched about 45 mins of the Prentenders on the hill, forgot how many bangers they have, A secret set on the Strummerville stage was next for the Murder Capital who did a much more slow and brooding set with the quieter tracks, some of which I’ve never heard live before. I think they only repeated one song, the performance of On Twisted Ground was magical. Managed to catch Soccer 96 up at the Crows Nest after this who I had no idea who they are but I loved them, they brought out Alabaster DePlume for a couple of tracks who I missed earlier in the weekend, which was a nice treat. Following this I watched Fat Boy Slim on the hill, really good laser show as seen from far away. I headed back to the Crows Nest at Midnight for ANOTHER secret set by Lynks, which described by himself is a “masked drag monster“, which is always a good laugh. Lots of very funny songs about being in your mid twenties to thirties really, although he only had one back up dancer due to a limited ticket allocation. Then I head to the South East corner to try and watch Scalping. It was pretty chaotic try to get there, but I knew Scalping would be half full so I made sure I was persistent. Thanks to two poorly kept secret sets from Fred Again and Basement Jaxx it meant the whole area was full to capacity. I just ignored the “SOUTH EAST CORNER FULL, PLEASE SEEK ALTERNATIVES” signs and just kept on walking, eventually managing to get in. I managed to actually catch a bit of the Fred Again set (I don’t really get the hype tbh) and Basement Jaxx. Scalping we’re great with their driving heavy drone, and another set which was one of my favourites. They were delayed starting so the set didn’t finish until gone 4am. I tried to get into Two Shell‘s secret set afterwards for the end of their set on the Platform 23 stage which is made out of two decommissioned tube carriage but the queue was far too long, then had a kebab and went to bed.

Finally on Sunday (if you’ve managed to read this far well done) I was out and about early with Bacon and Egg roll in hand to watch The Love Buzz at 11.15, an Irish pop punk band who were good fun and nice blokes when I had a chat with them at 4am at Arcadia. I was woken up mainly by some screaming blokes who pitch their tent bizarrely on Saturday night and proceeded to inhale nos and scream ”WHAT THE F*CK” from about 7am until 10am before mysteriously disappearing with tent by the time I went back to my tent at just before 2pm, just another bizarre Glastonbury experience. A very Irish flavour early on at Woodsies as they were followed up by CMAT, one of my sets of the weekend as a few tears were shed by her, as I don’t think she could believe how many people turned up, another great performance that deserved to be televised. The Big Moon were next and that was a really good set from a band I always seem to manage to miss. I managed to hot foot across the site in 15 minutes after that to catch Weyes Blood, her voice is amazing, and I loved the Adam Curtis Visuals behind on the screen. Next up was my second favourite set of the weekend which was “Scandanvia‘s Worst Band” Viagra Boys. If you havent watched it on iplayer yet I can’t recommend it enough. If Shame was Chaotic this was absolutely feral, people seemed to have waited and prepared all weekend for this set. Confetti Cannons, some bloke crowd surfing with cans of whipped cream, inflatables, umbrellas, babies being thrown in the air, all in the middle of the mosh pit it was magnificent. After that I headed to the Billy Bragg curated Leftfield to watch the end of Tom A Smith and Brighton band Lime Garden who were great, they’ve already sold out Prince Albert so the only way is up. I finished up my last trip to the crows nest for a quick late Hak Baker set where he played for almost an hour before he was stopped, really good singer song writer. I had a gap at this point so thought I’d give Thudercat a go, not for me really, so I walked down to the other stage to catch the end of the war on drugs who I was very impressed with. Final act was swerving the huge Elton crowd to watch Queens of the Stone Age. Josh Homme has been through a lot recently with cancer treatment and very messy divorce so it was great to see a barnstorming set from them. With some great classics off Rated R like In The Fade and Songs for the Deaf like God is on The Radio. I finished the night but finishing up all my alcohol with a Shy FX and Hybrid Minds set at Arcadia before traipsing over to watch Henge (most bizarre act I saw all weekend) and Dutty Moonshine Brass Band.

Great Weekend watching 36 sets I think, so much to see and do and I even missed a lot of stuff I wanted to see. I wish I saw Rina Sawayama watching it on iplayer, and had to pick between Jockstrap and others and it was too hot to walk to the Park stage. I’ve seen Black Country New Road 5 times since they lost Isaac so I knew what the set would be like, so didn’t mind missing it. Sophie Ellis Bextor was brilliant according to my mum who went to that, so very disappointed I missed that. Glad I missed the Lana Del Rey Car Crash though, I really like the new album and she is clearly very talented. A shame she is constantly a complete idiot. If Steele gets an England Call-Up he owes me a pint, that 6m flag was hard to carry, and I almost lost it in the Queens of the Stone Age Pit.

Sorry for the ridiculously long post as well.

 

[AmexRuislip]

As promised my review of the weekend like @The Fits says saw so much that wasn’t televised, there must be 100+ stages of various different music around.

Arrived on Wednesday after spending an evening in Weymouth and getting the 6am train to Castle Cary, got into the site just before 10 and managed to set up before an unrelenting rain storm, before unrelenting heat, not really much to see on Wednesday so had an early one.

On the Thursday in previous years Ive usually gone to Williams Green for the two secret sets, but due to Mel C and Bastille sending a massive Nuclear Strike to it last year it’s been replaced with Car Henge and no secret sets. I managed to find a shady spot to watch about half of Grove at the Greenpeace stage. In 2019 I discovered the Crow’s Nest stage that seems to curated by the labels Moshi Moshi and Heavenly Records and the only way you can find out the lineup is by walking up a very steep hill to see the Chalk Board with the times on who is on. On the lineup was Syd Minsky Sargeant (Lead singer of Working Men’s Club) who was doing a first ever performance of his solo project. It was a bit shaky performing the songs for the first time, but it was decent stuff that reminded me of some of Thom Yorke‘s solo stuff. Katy J Pearson was on after, which I was very pleased to catch as she’s been one of my favourites over the last few years, a lovely set which was packed to the rafters as the sun went down. I managed to catch a bit of DJ Absolutely Sh*t and something at San Remo before heading to bed.

On Friday I got up nice and early to walk to the park stage to catch Adwaith who are a welsh language indie band who were a bit more post punk than I expected which was a good thing. Then I walked over to a mental the Hives set at the other stage, which brought a lot of energy for 1 in the afternoon. I then headed back to the park to see Los Bitchos who I was really impressed with live, really good guitar tunes and a great vibe for a hot afternoon. Quickly followed by a Billy No Mates set which I thought was really good, it’s a real shame that she got so much flack off people, hope she doesn’t give up music. I caught a bit of Unknown Mortal Orchestra from the back while having some Pizza who sounded really good but I had to leave to get a good spot for the worst kept secret of the weekend Foo Fighters. A really good set that I felt like covered all basis and just quickly rattled through the hits as well as chucking a few songs of the new album (which I thought was surprisingly decent). Stood next to a huge group of Mackems who wanted a picture with the flag as they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. My personal set of the weekend followed which was Young Fathers. The energy, the stage set up everything, was amazing. The songs are very powerful and combined with the magnificent sunset it set it up as the best I’d see of the weekend. I then headed back to catch Arctic Monkeys, it was absolutely packed and me and my brother failed to get anywhere near a decent spot to watch. We gave it about 15 minutes before, despite this probably being the popular boring opinion, thought it was crap and then left. We had camped near the Woodsies stage and heard Hot Chip sound checking in the morning so headed over there. I had consumed a lot of alcohol at this point so everything was enjoyable and Hot Chip always put on a good show. After this I headed over to the IICON stage to see Four Tet which was absolutely RAMMO, so I didn’t hang around for too long as we could hardly get into the stage, thought this happened with most stages in that area this weekend it’s probably due an expansion judging by the popularity.

Saturday was another early start to see everyone‘s favourite “Industry Plants” The Last Dinner Party (funny how this accusation seems to be thrown at women only bands a lot (Wet Leg, Picture Palour)) at the Woodsies (formerly John Peel) tent. If they are industry plants, the industry certainly know what they are doing as all their songs were great and a majestic live performance. Wunderhorse we’re on after this on the same stage (another band with famous connections, but are all male, so couldn’t possibly be industry plants) and they were also very good, the song Purple is an absolute banger, perfect for a festival. I managed to meet @Pogue Mahone just before this and saw him sneaking into the Woodsies to catch Working Men’s Club who put in a great performance, with a lot of songs off the new album which I think is absolutely fantastic. Another highly anticipated one for me seeing the Murder Capital next, they played all their bangers at full whack, another great set. Shame next as we enter hour 5 in the Woodsies stage, a great list of bookings on the Saturday this year on that stage. Sheer chaos from the South Londoners, loved the tear away trousers. Followed that up with Rick Astley and Blossoms doing the Smiths which I had 0 expectation for but luckily for me at this point I was, what would be best described as binned, and I have to say it was the perfect act for being absolutely hammered, belting out smiths songs. I then watched about 45 mins of the Prentenders on the hill, forgot how many bangers they have, A secret set on the Strummerville stage was next for the Murder Capital who did a much more slow and brooding set with the quieter tracks, some of which I’ve never heard live before. I think they only repeated one song, the performance of On Twisted Ground was magical. Managed to catch Soccer 96 up at the Crows Nest after this who I had no idea who they are but I loved them, they brought out Alabaster DePlume for a couple of tracks who I missed earlier in the weekend, which was a nice treat. Following this I watched Fat Boy Slim on the hill, really good laser show as seen from far away. I headed back to the Crows Nest at Midnight for ANOTHER secret set by Lynks, which described by himself is a “masked drag monster“, which is always a good laugh. Lots of very funny songs about being in your mid twenties to thirties really, although he only had one back up dancer due to a limited ticket allocation. Then I head to the South East corner to try and watch Scalping. It was pretty chaotic try to get there, but I knew Scalping would be half full so I made sure I was persistent. Thanks to two poorly kept secret sets from Fred Again and Basement Jaxx it meant the whole area was full to capacity. I just ignored the “SOUTH EAST CORNER FULL, PLEASE SEEK ALTERNATIVES” signs and just kept on walking, eventually managing to get in. I managed to actually catch a bit of the Fred Again set (I don’t really get the hype tbh) and Basement Jaxx. Scalping we’re great with their driving heavy drone, and another set which was one of my favourites. They were delayed starting so the set didn’t finish until gone 4am. I tried to get into Two Shell‘s secret set afterwards for the end of their set on the Platform 23 stage which is made out of two decommissioned tube carriage but the queue was far too long, then had a kebab and went to bed.

Finally on Sunday (if you’ve managed to read this far well done) I was out and about early with Bacon and Egg roll in hand to watch The Love Buzz at 11.15, an Irish pop punk band who were good fun and nice blokes when I had a chat with them at 4am at Arcadia. I was woken up mainly by some screaming blokes who pitch their tent bizarrely on Saturday night and proceeded to inhale nos and scream ”WHAT THE F*CK” from about 7am until 10am before mysteriously disappearing with tent by the time I went back to my tent at just before 2pm, just another bizarre Glastonbury experience. A very Irish flavour early on at Woodsies as they were followed up by CMAT, one of my sets of the weekend as a few tears were shed by her, as I don’t think she could believe how many people turned up, another great performance that deserved to be televised. The Big Moon were next and that was a really good set from a band I always seem to manage to miss. I managed to hot foot across the site in 15 minutes after that to catch Weyes Blood, her voice is amazing, and I loved the Adam Curtis Visuals behind on the screen. Next up was my second favourite set of the weekend which was “Scandanvia‘s Worst Band” Viagra Boys. If you havent watched it on iplayer yet I can’t recommend it enough. If Shame was Chaotic this was absolutely feral, people seemed to have waited and prepared all weekend for this set. Confetti Cannons, some bloke crowd surfing with cans of whipped cream, inflatables, umbrellas, babies being thrown in the air, all in the middle of the mosh pit it was magnificent. After that I headed to the Billy Bragg curated Leftfield to watch the end of Tom A Smith and Brighton band Lime Garden who were great, they’ve already sold out Prince Albert so the only way is up. I finished up my last trip to the crows nest for a quick late Hak Baker set where he played for almost an hour before he was stopped, really good singer song writer. I had a gap at this point so thought I’d give Thudercat a go, not for me really, so I walked down to the other stage to catch the end of the war on drugs who I was very impressed with. Final act was swerving the huge Elton crowd to watch Queens of the Stone Age. Josh Homme has been through a lot recently with cancer treatment and very messy divorce so it was great to see a barnstorming set from them. With some great classics off Rated R like In The Fade and Songs for the Deaf like God is on The Radio. I finished the night but finishing up all my alcohol with a Shy FX and Hybrid Minds set at Arcadia before traipsing over to watch Henge (most bizarre act I saw all weekend) and Dutty Moonshine Brass Band.

Great Weekend watching 36 sets I think, so much to see and do and I even missed a lot of stuff I wanted to see. I wish I saw Rina Sawayama watching it on iplayer, and had to pick between Jockstrap and others and it was too hot to walk to the Park stage. I’ve seen Black Country New Road 5 times since they lost Isaac so I knew what the set would be like, so didn’t mind missing it. Sophie Ellis Bextor was brilliant according to my mum who went to that, so very disappointed I missed that. Glad I missed the Lana Del Rey Car Crash though, I really like the new album and she is clearly very talented. A shame she is constantly a complete idiot. If Steele gets an England Call-Up he owes me a pint, that 6m flag was hard to carry, and I almost lost it in the Queens of the Stone Age Pit.

Sorry for the ridiculously long post as well.

Fantastic precis of your experiences at Glastonbury
We're slowly watching all on the iplayer.
Loved Gabriel's and of course Fat Boy Slim sets.
Have viewed the usual suspects.
Liking the Courtineers.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I said that to the wife yesterday when catching up on the Royal Blood set. Sure they did a kit reveal before.
Off to see them and Muse today, be a treat if they did it today.

Axl Rose made them seem bad with his Nan calling you in for tea voice and Sammy Lee/ Neil Warnock fusion look.

Slash was incredible.

I was there on Sunday, excellent afternoon / evening

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I’m off to see them and Muse in MK today too, looking forward to seeing Royal Blood more than I am Muse

I like both Muse & RB, and I was impressed by The Warning too.

P.S. I was there

 

[Beanstalk]

As promised my review of the weekend like @The Fits says saw so much that wasn’t televised, there must be 100+ stages of various different music around.

Arrived on Wednesday after spending an evening in Weymouth and getting the 6am train to Castle Cary, got into the site just before 10 and managed to set up before an unrelenting rain storm, before unrelenting heat, not really much to see on Wednesday so had an early one.

On the Thursday in previous years Ive usually gone to Williams Green for the two secret sets, but due to Mel C and Bastille sending a massive Nuclear Strike to it last year it’s been replaced with Car Henge and no secret sets. I managed to find a shady spot to watch about half of Grove at the Greenpeace stage. In 2019 I discovered the Crow’s Nest stage that seems to curated by the labels Moshi Moshi and Heavenly Records and the only way you can find out the lineup is by walking up a very steep hill to see the Chalk Board with the times on who is on. On the lineup was Syd Minsky Sargeant (Lead singer of Working Men’s Club) who was doing a first ever performance of his solo project. It was a bit shaky performing the songs for the first time, but it was decent stuff that reminded me of some of Thom Yorke‘s solo stuff. Katy J Pearson was on after, which I was very pleased to catch as she’s been one of my favourites over the last few years, a lovely set which was packed to the rafters as the sun went down. I managed to catch a bit of DJ Absolutely Sh*t and something at San Remo before heading to bed.

On Friday I got up nice and early to walk to the park stage to catch Adwaith who are a welsh language indie band who were a bit more post punk than I expected which was a good thing. Then I walked over to a mental the Hives set at the other stage, which brought a lot of energy for 1 in the afternoon. I then headed back to the park to see Los Bitchos who I was really impressed with live, really good guitar tunes and a great vibe for a hot afternoon. Quickly followed by a Billy No Mates set which I thought was really good, it’s a real shame that she got so much flack off people, hope she doesn’t give up music. I caught a bit of Unknown Mortal Orchestra from the back while having some Pizza who sounded really good but I had to leave to get a good spot for the worst kept secret of the weekend Foo Fighters. A really good set that I felt like covered all basis and just quickly rattled through the hits as well as chucking a few songs of the new album (which I thought was surprisingly decent). Stood next to a huge group of Mackems who wanted a picture with the flag as they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. My personal set of the weekend followed which was Young Fathers. The energy, the stage set up everything, was amazing. The songs are very powerful and combined with the magnificent sunset it set it up as the best I’d see of the weekend. I then headed back to catch Arctic Monkeys, it was absolutely packed and me and my brother failed to get anywhere near a decent spot to watch. We gave it about 15 minutes before, despite this probably being the popular boring opinion, thought it was crap and then left. We had camped near the Woodsies stage and heard Hot Chip sound checking in the morning so headed over there. I had consumed a lot of alcohol at this point so everything was enjoyable and Hot Chip always put on a good show. After this I headed over to the IICON stage to see Four Tet which was absolutely RAMMO, so I didn’t hang around for too long as we could hardly get into the stage, thought this happened with most stages in that area this weekend it’s probably due an expansion judging by the popularity.

Saturday was another early start to see everyone‘s favourite “Industry Plants” The Last Dinner Party (funny how this accusation seems to be thrown at women only bands a lot (Wet Leg, Picture Palour)) at the Woodsies (formerly John Peel) tent. If they are industry plants, the industry certainly know what they are doing as all their songs were great and a majestic live performance. Wunderhorse we’re on after this on the same stage (another band with famous connections, but are all male, so couldn’t possibly be industry plants) and they were also very good, the song Purple is an absolute banger, perfect for a festival. I managed to meet @Pogue Mahone just before this and saw him sneaking into the Woodsies to catch Working Men’s Club who put in a great performance, with a lot of songs off the new album which I think is absolutely fantastic. Another highly anticipated one for me seeing the Murder Capital next, they played all their bangers at full whack, another great set. Shame next as we enter hour 5 in the Woodsies stage, a great list of bookings on the Saturday this year on that stage. Sheer chaos from the South Londoners, loved the tear away trousers. Followed that up with Rick Astley and Blossoms doing the Smiths which I had 0 expectation for but luckily for me at this point I was, what would be best described as binned, and I have to say it was the perfect act for being absolutely hammered, belting out smiths songs. I then watched about 45 mins of the Prentenders on the hill, forgot how many bangers they have, A secret set on the Strummerville stage was next for the Murder Capital who did a much more slow and brooding set with the quieter tracks, some of which I’ve never heard live before. I think they only repeated one song, the performance of On Twisted Ground was magical. Managed to catch Soccer 96 up at the Crows Nest after this who I had no idea who they are but I loved them, they brought out Alabaster DePlume for a couple of tracks who I missed earlier in the weekend, which was a nice treat. Following this I watched Fat Boy Slim on the hill, really good laser show as seen from far away. I headed back to the Crows Nest at Midnight for ANOTHER secret set by Lynks, which described by himself is a “masked drag monster“, which is always a good laugh. Lots of very funny songs about being in your mid twenties to thirties really, although he only had one back up dancer due to a limited ticket allocation. Then I head to the South East corner to try and watch Scalping. It was pretty chaotic try to get there, but I knew Scalping would be half full so I made sure I was persistent. Thanks to two poorly kept secret sets from Fred Again and Basement Jaxx it meant the whole area was full to capacity. I just ignored the “SOUTH EAST CORNER FULL, PLEASE SEEK ALTERNATIVES” signs and just kept on walking, eventually managing to get in. I managed to actually catch a bit of the Fred Again set (I don’t really get the hype tbh) and Basement Jaxx. Scalping we’re great with their driving heavy drone, and another set which was one of my favourites. They were delayed starting so the set didn’t finish until gone 4am. I tried to get into Two Shell‘s secret set afterwards for the end of their set on the Platform 23 stage which is made out of two decommissioned tube carriage but the queue was far too long, then had a kebab and went to bed.

Finally on Sunday (if you’ve managed to read this far well done) I was out and about early with Bacon and Egg roll in hand to watch The Love Buzz at 11.15, an Irish pop punk band who were good fun and nice blokes when I had a chat with them at 4am at Arcadia. I was woken up mainly by some screaming blokes who pitch their tent bizarrely on Saturday night and proceeded to inhale nos and scream ”WHAT THE F*CK” from about 7am until 10am before mysteriously disappearing with tent by the time I went back to my tent at just before 2pm, just another bizarre Glastonbury experience. A very Irish flavour early on at Woodsies as they were followed up by CMAT, one of my sets of the weekend as a few tears were shed by her, as I don’t think she could believe how many people turned up, another great performance that deserved to be televised. The Big Moon were next and that was a really good set from a band I always seem to manage to miss. I managed to hot foot across the site in 15 minutes after that to catch Weyes Blood, her voice is amazing, and I loved the Adam Curtis Visuals behind on the screen. Next up was my second favourite set of the weekend which was “Scandanvia‘s Worst Band” Viagra Boys. If you havent watched it on iplayer yet I can’t recommend it enough. If Shame was Chaotic this was absolutely feral, people seemed to have waited and prepared all weekend for this set. Confetti Cannons, some bloke crowd surfing with cans of whipped cream, inflatables, umbrellas, babies being thrown in the air, all in the middle of the mosh pit it was magnificent. After that I headed to the Billy Bragg curated Leftfield to watch the end of Tom A Smith and Brighton band Lime Garden who were great, they’ve already sold out Prince Albert so the only way is up. I finished up my last trip to the crows nest for a quick late Hak Baker set where he played for almost an hour before he was stopped, really good singer song writer. I had a gap at this point so thought I’d give Thudercat a go, not for me really, so I walked down to the other stage to catch the end of the war on drugs who I was very impressed with. Final act was swerving the huge Elton crowd to watch Queens of the Stone Age. Josh Homme has been through a lot recently with cancer treatment and very messy divorce so it was great to see a barnstorming set from them. With some great classics off Rated R like In The Fade and Songs for the Deaf like God is on The Radio. I finished the night but finishing up all my alcohol with a Shy FX and Hybrid Minds set at Arcadia before traipsing over to watch Henge (most bizarre act I saw all weekend) and Dutty Moonshine Brass Band.

Great Weekend watching 36 sets I think, so much to see and do and I even missed a lot of stuff I wanted to see. I wish I saw Rina Sawayama watching it on iplayer, and had to pick between Jockstrap and others and it was too hot to walk to the Park stage. I’ve seen Black Country New Road 5 times since they lost Isaac so I knew what the set would be like, so didn’t mind missing it. Sophie Ellis Bextor was brilliant according to my mum who went to that, so very disappointed I missed that. Glad I missed the Lana Del Rey Car Crash though, I really like the new album and she is clearly very talented. A shame she is constantly a complete idiot. If Steele gets an England Call-Up he owes me a pint, that 6m flag was hard to carry, and I almost lost it in the Queens of the Stone Age Pit.

Sorry for the ridiculously long post as well.

But what rating did the kebab get Jack?

 

[Mr Bridger]

I like both Muse & RB, and I was impressed by The Warning too.

P.S. I was there

Muse & RB was great, but the shit show off a bar was awful.
The tills weren’t working so made everyone go round the back which was so overcrowded.
That’s the problem when a venue is cashless.

 

[jcdenton08]

Long shot, but my friend in the States is desperate to watch EJ’s set. Is there a way of doing this anywhere online without going down the VPN/iPlayer route? Thanks

 

[chimneys]

Long shot, but my friend in the States is desperate to watch EJ’s set. Is there a way of doing this anywhere online without going down the VPN/iPlayer route? Thanks

Over 10 minutes' long final song Rocket Man is on BBC You Tube channel if that helps sate him/her!

 

[herecomesaregular]

As promised my review of the weekend like @The Fits says saw so much that wasn’t televised, there must be 100+ stages of various different music around.

Arrived on Wednesday after spending an evening in Weymouth and getting the 6am train to Castle Cary, got into the site just before 10 and managed to set up before an unrelenting rain storm, before unrelenting heat, not really much to see on Wednesday so had an early one.

On the Thursday in previous years Ive usually gone to Williams Green for the two secret sets, but due to Mel C and Bastille sending a massive Nuclear Strike to it last year it’s been replaced with Car Henge and no secret sets. I managed to find a shady spot to watch about half of Grove at the Greenpeace stage. In 2019 I discovered the Crow’s Nest stage that seems to curated by the labels Moshi Moshi and Heavenly Records and the only way you can find out the lineup is by walking up a very steep hill to see the Chalk Board with the times on who is on. On the lineup was Syd Minsky Sargeant (Lead singer of Working Men’s Club) who was doing a first ever performance of his solo project. It was a bit shaky performing the songs for the first time, but it was decent stuff that reminded me of some of Thom Yorke‘s solo stuff. Katy J Pearson was on after, which I was very pleased to catch as she’s been one of my favourites over the last few years, a lovely set which was packed to the rafters as the sun went down. I managed to catch a bit of DJ Absolutely Sh*t and something at San Remo before heading to bed.

On Friday I got up nice and early to walk to the park stage to catch Adwaith who are a welsh language indie band who were a bit more post punk than I expected which was a good thing. Then I walked over to a mental the Hives set at the other stage, which brought a lot of energy for 1 in the afternoon. I then headed back to the park to see Los Bitchos who I was really impressed with live, really good guitar tunes and a great vibe for a hot afternoon. Quickly followed by a Billy No Mates set which I thought was really good, it’s a real shame that she got so much flack off people, hope she doesn’t give up music. I caught a bit of Unknown Mortal Orchestra from the back while having some Pizza who sounded really good but I had to leave to get a good spot for the worst kept secret of the weekend Foo Fighters. A really good set that I felt like covered all basis and just quickly rattled through the hits as well as chucking a few songs of the new album (which I thought was surprisingly decent). Stood next to a huge group of Mackems who wanted a picture with the flag as they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. My personal set of the weekend followed which was Young Fathers. The energy, the stage set up everything, was amazing. The songs are very powerful and combined with the magnificent sunset it set it up as the best I’d see of the weekend. I then headed back to catch Arctic Monkeys, it was absolutely packed and me and my brother failed to get anywhere near a decent spot to watch. We gave it about 15 minutes before, despite this probably being the popular boring opinion, thought it was crap and then left. We had camped near the Woodsies stage and heard Hot Chip sound checking in the morning so headed over there. I had consumed a lot of alcohol at this point so everything was enjoyable and Hot Chip always put on a good show. After this I headed over to the IICON stage to see Four Tet which was absolutely RAMMO, so I didn’t hang around for too long as we could hardly get into the stage, thought this happened with most stages in that area this weekend it’s probably due an expansion judging by the popularity.

Saturday was another early start to see everyone‘s favourite “Industry Plants” The Last Dinner Party (funny how this accusation seems to be thrown at women only bands a lot (Wet Leg, Picture Palour)) at the Woodsies (formerly John Peel) tent. If they are industry plants, the industry certainly know what they are doing as all their songs were great and a majestic live performance. Wunderhorse we’re on after this on the same stage (another band with famous connections, but are all male, so couldn’t possibly be industry plants) and they were also very good, the song Purple is an absolute banger, perfect for a festival. I managed to meet @Pogue Mahone just before this and saw him sneaking into the Woodsies to catch Working Men’s Club who put in a great performance, with a lot of songs off the new album which I think is absolutely fantastic. Another highly anticipated one for me seeing the Murder Capital next, they played all their bangers at full whack, another great set. Shame next as we enter hour 5 in the Woodsies stage, a great list of bookings on the Saturday this year on that stage. Sheer chaos from the South Londoners, loved the tear away trousers. Followed that up with Rick Astley and Blossoms doing the Smiths which I had 0 expectation for but luckily for me at this point I was, what would be best described as binned, and I have to say it was the perfect act for being absolutely hammered, belting out smiths songs. I then watched about 45 mins of the Prentenders on the hill, forgot how many bangers they have, A secret set on the Strummerville stage was next for the Murder Capital who did a much more slow and brooding set with the quieter tracks, some of which I’ve never heard live before. I think they only repeated one song, the performance of On Twisted Ground was magical. Managed to catch Soccer 96 up at the Crows Nest after this who I had no idea who they are but I loved them, they brought out Alabaster DePlume for a couple of tracks who I missed earlier in the weekend, which was a nice treat. Following this I watched Fat Boy Slim on the hill, really good laser show as seen from far away. I headed back to the Crows Nest at Midnight for ANOTHER secret set by Lynks, which described by himself is a “masked drag monster“, which is always a good laugh. Lots of very funny songs about being in your mid twenties to thirties really, although he only had one back up dancer due to a limited ticket allocation. Then I head to the South East corner to try and watch Scalping. It was pretty chaotic try to get there, but I knew Scalping would be half full so I made sure I was persistent. Thanks to two poorly kept secret sets from Fred Again and Basement Jaxx it meant the whole area was full to capacity. I just ignored the “SOUTH EAST CORNER FULL, PLEASE SEEK ALTERNATIVES” signs and just kept on walking, eventually managing to get in. I managed to actually catch a bit of the Fred Again set (I don’t really get the hype tbh) and Basement Jaxx. Scalping we’re great with their driving heavy drone, and another set which was one of my favourites. They were delayed starting so the set didn’t finish until gone 4am. I tried to get into Two Shell‘s secret set afterwards for the end of their set on the Platform 23 stage which is made out of two decommissioned tube carriage but the queue was far too long, then had a kebab and went to bed.

Finally on Sunday (if you’ve managed to read this far well done) I was out and about early with Bacon and Egg roll in hand to watch The Love Buzz at 11.15, an Irish pop punk band who were good fun and nice blokes when I had a chat with them at 4am at Arcadia. I was woken up mainly by some screaming blokes who pitch their tent bizarrely on Saturday night and proceeded to inhale nos and scream ”WHAT THE F*CK” from about 7am until 10am before mysteriously disappearing with tent by the time I went back to my tent at just before 2pm, just another bizarre Glastonbury experience. A very Irish flavour early on at Woodsies as they were followed up by CMAT, one of my sets of the weekend as a few tears were shed by her, as I don’t think she could believe how many people turned up, another great performance that deserved to be televised. The Big Moon were next and that was a really good set from a band I always seem to manage to miss. I managed to hot foot across the site in 15 minutes after that to catch Weyes Blood, her voice is amazing, and I loved the Adam Curtis Visuals behind on the screen. Next up was my second favourite set of the weekend which was “Scandanvia‘s Worst Band” Viagra Boys. If you havent watched it on iplayer yet I can’t recommend it enough. If Shame was Chaotic this was absolutely feral, people seemed to have waited and prepared all weekend for this set. Confetti Cannons, some bloke crowd surfing with cans of whipped cream, inflatables, umbrellas, babies being thrown in the air, all in the middle of the mosh pit it was magnificent. After that I headed to the Billy Bragg curated Leftfield to watch the end of Tom A Smith and Brighton band Lime Garden who were great, they’ve already sold out Prince Albert so the only way is up. I finished up my last trip to the crows nest for a quick late Hak Baker set where he played for almost an hour before he was stopped, really good singer song writer. I had a gap at this point so thought I’d give Thudercat a go, not for me really, so I walked down to the other stage to catch the end of the war on drugs who I was very impressed with. Final act was swerving the huge Elton crowd to watch Queens of the Stone Age. Josh Homme has been through a lot recently with cancer treatment and very messy divorce so it was great to see a barnstorming set from them. With some great classics off Rated R like In The Fade and Songs for the Deaf like God is on The Radio. I finished the night but finishing up all my alcohol with a Shy FX and Hybrid Minds set at Arcadia before traipsing over to watch Henge (most bizarre act I saw all weekend) and Dutty Moonshine Brass Band.

Great Weekend watching 36 sets I think, so much to see and do and I even missed a lot of stuff I wanted to see. I wish I saw Rina Sawayama watching it on iplayer, and had to pick between Jockstrap and others and it was too hot to walk to the Park stage. I’ve seen Black Country New Road 5 times since they lost Isaac so I knew what the set would be like, so didn’t mind missing it. Sophie Ellis Bextor was brilliant according to my mum who went to that, so very disappointed I missed that. Glad I missed the Lana Del Rey Car Crash though, I really like the new album and she is clearly very talented. A shame she is constantly a complete idiot. If Steele gets an England Call-Up he owes me a pint, that 6m flag was hard to carry, and I almost lost it in the Queens of the Stone Age Pi
Sorry for the ridiculously long post as well.

Blimey that sounds like a lot of walking! Do you do much moseying around not chasing bands you knew were on? I did a few Glastonbury's like that (working out how to avoid clashes, finding secret sets) but some of my best experiences other times were slow wanders and catching circus, cabaret and comedy and not much music all day. These became my favourite areas. One of my favourite late night experiences was lying in the grass watching the dancing girls in the raised cages, amongst some fire breathers, for 15 minutes. Mesmeric, artistic and sexy . Girlfriend got a bit annoyed by it though..

 

[jackalbion]

But what rating did the kebab get Jack?

6 Salad and Sauce let it down

 

[jackalbion]

Blimey that sounds like a lot of walking! Do you do much moseying around not chasing bands you knew were on? I did a few Glastonbury's like that (working out how to avoid clashes, finding secret sets) but some of my best experiences other times were slow wanders and catching circus, cabaret and comedy and not much music all day. These became my favourite areas. One of my favourite late night experiences was lying in the grass watching the dancing girls in the raised cages, amongst some fire breathers, for 15 minutes. Mesmeric, artistic and sexy . Girlfriend got a bit annoyed by it though..

I did manage to squeeze in just the 44,580 Steps on Sunday.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Lizzo is quite clearly an utter star.
Box office

fantastic voice- could knock out some of the old R&B classics wish she would not do so much swearing/bitch act she is miles better than that.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Blimey that sounds like a lot of walking! Do you do much moseying around not chasing bands you knew were on? I did a few Glastonbury's like that (working out how to avoid clashes, finding secret sets) but some of my best experiences other times were slow wanders and catching circus, cabaret and comedy and not much music all day. These became my favourite areas. One of my favourite late night experiences was lying in the grass watching the dancing girls in the raised cages, amongst some fire breathers, for 15 minutes. Mesmeric, artistic and sexy . Girlfriend got a bit annoyed by it though..

We always used to sack off one evening and go an wander around Shangrila, Lost Vagueness early evening catching all manner of different things and then into the late night areas. For 3 years there was this futuristic dystopian Japanese area which was lots of little Japanese style alleys and bars and stuff...that was great fun...Fish and Tits was an interesting bar if topless mermaids are your thing. NY Downlow was always mad as well.

 

[Wozza]

We always used to sack off one evening and go an wander around Shangrila, Lost Vagueness early evening catching all manner of different things and then into the late night areas. For 3 years there was this futuristic dystopian Japanese area which was lots of little Japanese style alleys and bars and stuff...that was great fun...Fish and Tits was an interesting bar if topless mermaids are your thing. NY Downlow was always mad as well.

They don't show THAT on the Beeb...

 

[jackalbion]

They don't show THAT on the Beeb...

Which is a shame, because a few I saw really deserved the Television coverage (CMAT, The Last Dinner Party, Wunderhorse, Adwaith (although I think 6 Music recorded their set)) and The Hives set was fantastic.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

They don't show THAT on the Beeb...

What if you press the red button?

 

[AstroSloth]

Queens of the Stone Age set now up on iPlayer.

What an incredible show they put on, the new songs sound like they've been a part of setlists for over a decade they blend in so well.