Glastonbury 2022

Whoever went to Glastonbury for the main stage headliners? I was there all of the 90s and half of the 00s and in all those years i think i saw three main stage headliners: Carter USM (92), The Cure (95) and Gorillaz (2010). It's really not important. There is so much going on that it really doesn't matter who's headlining the pyramid.

I hate this box ticking exercise of seeing 'legends' before they die. "Saw the Stones last week, yeah they were shite but hey..at least i saw them". I'd rather go see someone i love / an up and coming act / stumble upon something random and quirky than just tick an act off a list. Noel Gallagher and Thom Yorke were right in that documentary shown last week when they talked about 'Glastonbury Moments'. It's nonsense. I was never at any of them (apart from Orbital in '94) but i created and shared many of my own that had absolutely nothing to do with main stages and the tv coverage. The coverage has always been uniformly crap in presenting a represenation of the festival itself. At least when John Peel was hosting you could feel his disdain for a lot of the acts shown rather than towing the 'Everything is brilliant isn't it?' line that the other hosts are so fond of.

Like Stillill42 said, there's loads of good music being made out there, it's up to you to keep up with it or discover it. Admittedly, most of my favourite things will never see the inside of a festival (in Ireland anyway) but the 'mildly interested in' will usually get in the gates!

If i could thank this a million times i would.

So it's just the 'being there' factor that matters not the quality of the music??

The organisers must be laughing up their sleeves 😙 a licence to print money

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wah ?

Fontaines doing a great job... Not really my bag but am enjoying them live.. live from my living room that is... Re headliners..you'll be ernget agreement..I walked away from Radiohead in 2017...as fan i thought their set was so so boring.. plenty loved it.. that's the beauty of glasto and festivals in general..you can always walk away and find something to suit you... If yer stuck with bbc at home well obviously youre stuck with whatever is on if you don't have the iPlayer.. thought Paul's band were great and he was possibly let down by sound engineering.. he pulled off a lot of the solo tunes imo.. a pal who is there said it was fantastic..

Fair play to the guys/gals with the "This is our fuppin' shpot" flag. First spotted it at supergrass on Friday, and they've managed to get to great spots on the stages over the weekend 🙂

The "this is our fuppin' shpot" one is on an Irish flag. Quality Fr Ted reference there....

She is 78, voice sounds shook. Shows how good McCartney voice was last night he being 80.

No sign of Amyl & The Sniffers on the iPlayer

hopefully show up at some stage. Amy is a force of nature on stage

Edit: Found them under John Peel stage feed.

Ross sounds better than I thought she would at her age tbh.

I was just thinking how wobbly her voice is. Just about getting away with it and the crowd singing along

I think her voice is very flat. McCartney is two years older and his voice was ten times better

She’s in danger here of losing the crowd, as not that many people actually know the words here….

edit: What a save….

Not just flat - completely out of tune for much of the time.

She was obviously miming at the Jubilee gig.

Not that unusual - Springsteen has been doing it for years; https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bruce-springsteen-uses-teleprompter-in-performances-does-it-matter/2012/03/30/gIQAQTXGlS_story.html