Glastonbury 2024

KevIRL

Idles were brilliant.

Thelonious Monk

Watching it here but god who even goes to that, at this hour, at Glastonbury. So much choice you could be mad out of it in some tent somewhere with banging techno and great vibes. Each to their own I guess.

RINO87

WHich iplayer channel for Fontaines? Using el dodgo boxerino.....just has 5 Glastonbury channels, but they're not split up in the usual stages.

Dua Lipa was enjoyable, but enough of that now!! She is only lovely tho.....and great to see a star as big as her with sone humility

Eoinbmw

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There is a band right there all night!

RINO87

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I thought the only bit that was a suspect was when she was out in the crowd on the mini stage thing...looked a lot like miming there

LowOdour

I switched back over to Dua Lipa, and seemed she was doing a for TV performance...odd so quickly back over to Idles.

Curious, did she bring up Palestine in the performance?

SteelyDanJalapeno

Idles was an immense show, they're energy and presence is something else.

Fountaines did well, not sure if it's his style or not but his energy usually failed to match the band, also think they had a meteoric rise to fame, maybe before they were ready, but look to be turning a corner a bit now

AndyBoBandy

wait what…… she didn’t do the Barbie song……

Feck that…

RINO87

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Take the smallies to it before ya send them off to bed so you can go lose your mind!!

Ken Tucky

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Balls didn't realise Fontaines were on tonight too

After Sleaford mods, there isn't a lot too see on the TV for me

Man Vs ManUre

Just imagine how great the 1975 wuda been headlining tonight!! Dua Lipa was good tho, way better than artic monkeys last year.

showpony1

It was funny the BBC presenters were hyperbole wondering "how Dua Lipa remembered all that Choreogrpahy!" and then asking Fontaines DC were they nervous and how thought it went.

They were speaking as if these bands just stepped on stage at Glasto with a fresh show/set and saw how it went for first time and aren't polished tour acts.

showpony1

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jaysus going to the friday night superstar headliner at the pyramid stage instead of being out of it in a sweaty tent to techno, madness!

as you say though each to their own :D

blowitupref

Sugar babes with some decent tunes and less boring than Dua Lipa. With a name like Siobhán Donaghy she has to have Irish connections?

Paul Heaton as good as ever. The Mary Wallopers are made for live festival like this.

showpony1

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Sugababes looked class there its mad even an act like that have like a 10 piece band :D if only we could have actually heard them at ATN they had huge sound issues could barely hear them.

Paul Heaton very good - wouldn't mind seeing him pop up at a festival here but i don't think theres enough of his demo really at any irish festival so its always going to be St annes etc.

Goldengirl

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Yeah .couldn't watch that .

Fontaines DC excellent..proper live music,

And followed up with PJ Harvey replay on BBC Four ..sublime!

Goldengirl

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Yes.

They have toured all over the world .

But hey Dua Lipa has all her dancing down 🙄

geographica

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No unfortunately and a suspicious lack of Palestinian flags on camera in the crowd

geographica

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No she wasn’t, she had two backing singers picking up the slack

geographica

Untrue, she had a full band.

Mrs Shuttleworth

Dua Lipa was definitely miming. It fell apart and very noticeable towards the end of the set when understandably she looked very tired. The "all killer no filler" approach didn't work, the set needed better pacing. A ferocious amount of pop hits but more suited to the fitting room of H&M/Zara than a Glastonbury headliner.

wazzzledazzle

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Both parents are Irish

wazzzledazzle

PJ Harvey was brilliant

That weird scrambled eggs song was pretty cool. Can’t recall name of act

Was looking forward to seeing what Dua lipa was like live….. good dancer, crap at miming. I’m not her target audience though. I’d be disappointed if I was at that live.

Paul Heaton was good.

Thought sugababes were really good. Mutya would bate the head off ye.

Looking forward to Coldplay tonight. They are usually excellent live. Thankfully won’t be a hint a mime

wazzzledazzle

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she was very much miming(threw the odd few lines out)to the point she forgot to mime some lines at times.

Wooderson

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She wasnt.

There were even mistakes made. Kevin and Dua laughing as they had to repeat a bit.

Hannibal_Smith

I enjoyed Dua Lipa, I did wonder about the miming too. Is there a new way of performing? With the likes of these solo artists with a lot of dancing involved is there a heavy leaning on the backing singers? So when it comes to the artist it looks like they're miming but they are actually carrying off part of the tune? There was a small nod to the Barbie song, wonder why she didn't play it...maybe it didn't go with the whole theme. The crowd seemed to have a blast anyway.

ETA: Loved Paul Heaton. His voice is amazing. Lovely to see Norman Cook join him too 🥰. I saw Heaton on one of these Sunday Brunch shows before and he said about only paying small venues so the ticket prices aren't too much for the fans or something?

wazzzledazzle

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I checked 3 times during one of her opening songs and she was definitely miming part of the song. Others she did sing a bit. More emphasis on the show rather than the actual performance. Wasn’t the worst but not my cup of tea ☕️

Cushtie

Thought the first half of Dua Lipa was a bit boring, almost too polished and rattling off the numbers, not really a festival show, Very fast paced, Was a bit better second half with a bit more crowd interaction. Overall enjoyable and seems a quite likeable person.

Thought she was miming in places too though.

Pj Harvey was very good.

Shank Williams

I find Idles more contrived then Dua Lipa in many ways- just can’t warm to them

Ken Tucky

There is nothing more contrived than polished production pop music. God awful in my opinion. Coldplay actually gone down that route too.

I can understand you not warming to Idles, I'd say many would be with you in that but I don't find them contrived in many ways. Just organised chaos