BeebRock II - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else

OK it’s official, IDLES rule.

Dig out Inhaler on the John Peel stage earlier, they did a good set.

Billie Eyelash😂

She's got some label machine going on behind her. But this headline act from Billie, and I wish her all the best, it's brutal. Better than kanye I'll give her that, but my gosh it's awful. Our poor kids! I look at longitude line up and am so sad for them all

When I reflect upon my life I will look back on the moment when I researched v..n then turned off Eyelash O'Connell and turned on FOALS as one of the better decisions of my lifetime.

Reckon us boardsies are too old to see her appeal as she obviously has one. From the 15 mins I endured crowd that were there were loving it.

Mindfulness on the main stage fcuk me. I've tried several times to find the foals but that must be online? Certainly not normal tele!

I think that's fine with online and all, but the mainstream are watching the tele. And Billie God love her and whatever that awful sh1te on bbc3 is, it's not reflecting well on anyone!

That was a tough watch....echoes of Kanye from a few years ago.

The sound came across brutal on TV, I'm assuming it was better there...she has a huge following by the looks of it but not my cup of tea.

MACCADAY!!

I wonder who he might have on stage with him. Certainly be worth a watch, with NG on beforehand, in a weekend of slim pickins

I was getting frustrated with the first half of their set, I have quite a few of their albums and I still didn't recognise some of the songs. It's Glasto lads, play the feckin' hits! At least they got it together towards the end, even if the backing singers were turned up to 11.

Elsewhere, Crowded House were surprisingly great. I did like them back in the day but hadn't listened to them in years, but Neil Finn was in great form (plus he sounds identical to Murray from Flight of the Conchords) and he had both his sons in the band and towards the end his grandson dancing on stage as well - lovely stuff.

Sam Fender was decent, obviously had a lot of fans in the crowd which created a good atmosphere. I don't know his stuff but he reminded me a bit of the Maccabees - straightforward indie rock but done with real heart.

Once the live stuff was over I watched Fela Kuti from Glasto 84 on the iPlayer - highly recommended. He had about 100 people onstage with him, so slightly less than at an Arcade Fire gig 🙂

You know that would be a great way for him to come on stage - with a Zimmer frame and then when he reaches centre stage 'fling' it away and grab a guitar and start rockin! a great retort to the naysayers who say he's too old🙃

Kurt Cobain did something similar at Reading back in the day. Came on in a wheel chair as I recall.

Dunno if any of you saw Yves Tumor earlier - I'd never hear of them but musical chaos and wtf am I looking at. Prince would have very much approved as did the crowd.

Imagine if Prince headlined Glastonbury. I watched a bit of it last night, saw Robert Plant and Alisson Krauss, they were great. Then I saw that Sam Fender guy and it was some the blandest music I've heard in a while, like a tamer killers if that's possible. They then showed a song from TLC which wasn't bad. Didn't stay up for Billie Eilish as I am an hour ahead and I had work this morning but looking at what people are saying on here it looks like I didn't miss much. Heading to a festival myself for a day in two weeks time, Muse and Incubus are headlining, can't wait.

If you don't like Haim, you don't like life, unreal they are.

Worlds apart from that nonsense last night.