Glastonbury 2024
Discussion
Mosdef said:
Chris Martin is pretty cringey, just trying to squeeze as much diversity on a stage as possible. Seemed a bit excessive this evening.
Would you preferred them to have just stuck with the one armed pianist? Or was the ska brass lot OK? What's an acceptable metric or diversity?mikeiow said:
He was great at the IOW festival last weekend!
Did a similar-but-different daft thing in the crowd, rambling very amusingly about how we were all going to have a good time: loved it!
He’s a chunky boy to be crowd surfing back, but he did it
I liked his reference to 5am in the Temple. Somewhere I found myself a few years back as the sun came up!Did a similar-but-different daft thing in the crowd, rambling very amusingly about how we were all going to have a good time: loved it!
He’s a chunky boy to be crowd surfing back, but he did it
mikees said:
I’ve watched the last 25 glasto headliners , 10 there but a bit old and not now as I’m a bit old and I have say I think that was the best I have seen. It’s different and it’s not the foos but it was good
Interesting how different yet similar Coldplay and Foo fighters go about it.Both really create this huge collective sing a long but Chris Martin is almost like this overly nice Christian rock whilst Dave grohl is going to sing scream and shout and pummel the crowd yet they both end up with the same results.
RowntreesCabana said:
What about the carbon footprint of production and supply?
When you see the amount of old tents and rubbish that is going to get left when everyone goes home, do you really think the people who go care about sustainability?I know they will justify it to themselves that they believe their £20 Argos tent that is now ruined and covered in beer and piss will be collected and donated to the homeless, but the whole lot will end up in landfill.
jules_s said:
SydneyBridge said:
Not sure why MJF is there, but very sad to see him in a wheelchair
Heartbreaking but fair play to him/themSo far my favourites been Paul Heaton, the blonde lass is a good substitute for Jackie. The wife was all confused by Fatboy Slim joining him for Happy Hour, she didn’t know he was in the Housemartins. Every days a school day!
StevieBee said:
Would you preferred them to have just stuck with the one armed pianist? Or was the ska brass lot OK? What's an acceptable metric or diversity?
Sat watching it now and they've just finished Paradise, she's awesome, how TF she manages to play piano like that with one hand is seriously impressive and Paradise sung as a duet sounded amazing. They do put on a good show do Coldplay, they're a band that some love to hate and I've never understood why....
bobbo89 said:
Sat watching it now and they've just finished Paradise, she's awesome, how TF she manages to play piano like that with one hand is seriously impressive and Paradise sung as a duet sounded amazing.
They do put on a good show do Coldplay, they're a band that some love to hate and I've never understood why....
I know why. They're fundamentally unadventurous, making the same record over & over. However, you only have to glance at the crowd to see the joy they bring to so many & that's good enough for me. Music snobbery is a galloping entitlement. I may not like them but who am I to pass judgment on other's tastes? All art is subjective, by definition, there can be no right or wrong to it.They do put on a good show do Coldplay, they're a band that some love to hate and I've never understood why....
Haven’t seen any of it so far. Dua Lipa was known for doing covers years ago.
Good times: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrGwyUWhD-A&pp=ygU...
The original: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjLBB-TMa84&pp=ygU...
Tell me she can’t sing…
Good times: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrGwyUWhD-A&pp=ygU...
The original: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjLBB-TMa84&pp=ygU...
Tell me she can’t sing…
bobbo89 said:
Sat watching it now and they've just finished Paradise, she's awesome, how TF she manages to play piano like that with one hand is seriously impressive and Paradise sung as a duet sounded amazing.
They do put on a good show do Coldplay, they're a band that some love to hate and I've never understood why....
I don't hate Coldplay. I bought their first two albums and I have seen them live (my anecdote from 2003 is true).They do put on a good show do Coldplay, they're a band that some love to hate and I've never understood why....
The Rolling Stones have made a (very) long career out of playing a greatest hits back-catalogue, but the songs are better. The Foo Fighters similar and Dave Grohl engages with the crowd better (in my view).
Coldplay are mostly just a bit bland, and have one or two singlaong type songs.
I have always thought that the other members of Coldplay must have great lives. Very wealthy, but very few people will know or recognise them. As my wife pointed it, they look like the suburban dads of my children's friends (that describes me too and they are my age).
Fair play to them, though. They must be doing something right.
Sheets Tabuer said:
Sophie ellis bexter on bbc2 now killing it
Skepta - Love Me Not live at Maida Vale ft. Cheb Rabi, B-Live & Sophie Ellis-Bextor.https://youtube.com/watch?v=WDqnnKtQycs&pp=ygU...
NorthDave said:
When I watched Coldplay (on TV last night) I was impressed by the spectacle but was left wishing the music was better. It's all just a bit too clean cut for me and the music doesn't have the punch to match the visuals.
Lots of people obviously enjoy it though!
Yeah. When Coldplay first appeared 20+ odd years ago, I thought they were going to be another Radiohead type band. Early success, plenty of plaudits, etc But they've never really moved on; nothing edgy, or experimental. Whenever you watch them you just wish they'd rock out and let go. They can't/ won't.Lots of people obviously enjoy it though!
It's successful, and popular, but bland, middle of road stuff.....
It's quite ironic, that most of the most successful/ popular current acts are all pretty bland.....nothing edgy, all quite safe.
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