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I know i'm getting old but Glastonbury really...
I know i'm getting old but Glastonbury really...
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First Aid Kit best by far.
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I thought Crowded House were pretty good.
Don't really like rap much. Find it repetitive dross about "injustice", climbing out of the "ghetto" and all that. It's all been done to death, imo. The bloke with the crown of thorns - not sure what "message" he was trying to get across.  |
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jesus and mary chain ,very good, worth a watch, still on i player
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Glastonbury is now a rite of passage for thousands of weed smoking middle class kids on a gap-year, attending cos they've heard about it and fancy living rough in a tent, eating over-priced food, and using chemical toilets for the "experience"
The older performers will be generally unknown to them, but the atmosphere overcomes that drawback. |
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Looks like my swerve of the jumped-up jamboree paid dividends -
- although - when I went to the Pub - they have Paul McCartney on their Televisions Thought - Yes, I will sit down to listen to some WINGS songs - Band On Th Run etc  Instead - As stewarts says - We got a load of Acoustic Carp that nobody has ever heard ... - With one particularly forgettable nonentity having been - "written for my wife, Nance"  I would imagine the Divorce Papers will be appearing any day soon. |
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With a back catalogue like what he's got, he could've played bangers till the following morning.
No need for anything obscure. |
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think i'd rather watch bob ross sing and diana ross paint.
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sacrilege
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Glastonbury like betting in running, only the fools pay.
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Anybody see Bob Vylan? That was a great little cameo and my fav so far having got through about 50% of things now.
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I am one of you older guys, mid 70's and all that and don't forget all this started under our watch in 1969 at Woodstock. Joan Baez my favourite. Well it has moved on from that although it still commands huge crowds and looks great. Like all concerts there is the rough with the smooth because we are all different but I think the drugs and weed and drunkenness is largely behind them. Over 100,000 of all ages and it looked like, and from what I have heard from a couple there, they had a great time. I don't like a lot of the modern music, rapping and all that but there is still a lot to like.
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but his tendency to intersperse with the usual profanities was off putting to me at least
followed by: a huge @rsed black woman Missee something who appeared to shout vile swear words and **** whilst her similarly large @rsed backing singers thrust these thong clad mammoth sized backsides towards the audience every ounce of fat wobbling away like some giant jellymoulds. You're a class act stewarts rise. |
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Watched a bit of Macca while I was doing some cleaning and his voice has pretty much gone. He should definitely give up the solo songs like Blackbird as his voice is cracking (that is not the word meaning great!) and stick to the ensemble stuff where it doesn't show so much.
Diana Ross was just plain awful. She was out of tune the whole time, painfully out of tune sometimes. I felt sorry for her excellent backing singers - how do you work with a lead singer who doesn't have any idea what note the next word will be? |
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noticed post event the bbc held off adding his performance to iplayer, suspect a fair bit of autotune was being applied before it got released
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although in fairness id imagine that autotune prob wouldn't have saved diana ross
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Whoever coined the phrase "Miserable old gits"?
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so something was poor and you can't say so? they'd both lost it vocally, you can dream of days gone by if you like but the fact was they were terrible even with assistance from backing singers, legends yes, good on the day, no
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yes the old saying going to the well too often comes to mind .
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Elsie, I guess those who paid to go to see Diana Ross, at 78 years old, didn't go there expecting a 30+ at the top of their game. I really regret not going to see Frank Sinatra the last time he came to London. I knew he wasn't in his prime but I sorely regret not being there.
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i enjoyed seeing both, would have loved it if they were brilliant, just weren't, not saying he or diana were ever going to be as good as when they were 30, legends rarely are, nor am i saying i didn't want them to be up on stage, i did
friend of mine saw pmc the day before in their warm up gig in frome, massive fan, said he was pretty good although he struggled at times, that was in a small venue with a smaller band, but he also said the glastonbury show was poor and his voice was off, he like me still enjoyed seeing him |
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watch back brian wilsons glastonbury, that one was so off tune it was ear bending, yet loved as a legend and people forgive it, but you'd just like them to still have the nuts, just don't and the backing can't hide it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIWCI1xK7sA
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Wow, what's better than standing in a field in the rain, listening to an eighty year old millionaire taking the p!ss out of the morons who turned up to see him?
''While regular dopes shall think themselves accursed they were not there. And hold their manhoods cheap that they missed Macca the cracker, croaking Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da in the mud amongst the dandelions and stinkweed. On that memorable day.'' Hamlet 2022 |
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more henry V
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These are but wild and whirling words, Doctor.
I liked Elbow singing their main hit and Gallagher singing. Missed the Pet Shop Boys but live gigs are all about atmosphere to me and just being there. |
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more henry V
Sure was. |
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Brigust, never watch your heroes on the way down. Frank Sinatra was a very pale imitation is his final years.
I was a huge fan of Martha Reeves who had an absolutely belting voice in her pomp. I saw her in one of her later appearances on Jules Holland's Hootenany and she was terrible - out of tune and her voice was weak and cracking. She knew it and was very humble and grateful for the applause that she knew she did not deserve. The trouble is that performance is now how I remember her. |
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Tom Jones still has a great voice , and he must be in his 80s.
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yes, sang live on stage with stereophonics a couple of years ago and was brilliant
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Diana Ross and Macca, I honestly cannot think of anything worse than listening to those two.
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they were not on at the same time slippy
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I disagree Cant. Perhaps it is because I am no spring chicken myself and know what Frank was like at his best. Lester, Frankie we all get older but that is something to factor in. Just because people are getting older doesn't mean I wouldn't go to watch them, given the chance. And to say she didn't deserve any adulation is to not understand at all. She is 78 years old and tried her hardest to put on the best show she could. That deserves applause. We cannot all be judged, at home and abroad, only on our exploitations of our youth. If she was claiming to be as good or better than before then that is different but she wasn't. And if those watching and attending were expecting that then that is their lookout.
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although "im still waiting for a yesterday" and "hey jude im coming out" might be worth hearing
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When they get past a certain age and they can't sing properly, its time to retire.
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MACS Dilemma ...
A somewhat appropriate Winner of the First race at Chepstow. |
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“Flat, sharp or whatever, you can tell EVERYBODY watching Diana Ross is having the best time,” said one person.
Another added: “People need to f*** off with their high expectations from a 78-year-old woman or an 80-year-old man [Paul McCartney] singing live at Glastonbury. Seriously f*** off and go watch your heavily autotuned ‘singers.’” A third person wrote: “I don’t care that her vocals are not on point… it’s Diana Ross mate… LEGEND!” The Independent. |
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Just think yourself lucky to be in the presence of greatness ffs....Not my scene but these people are living legends.
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There were plenty of football legends in the 70s, you wouldn't pay to watch em for 90 mins now. Everybody should retire once they can't do their job well.
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Glastonbury is now just one huge commercial enterprise. The oldies headline cos their fans are old and rich and will pay for glamping and vip access. Thats all it is these days
Poor younsters have no chance of seeing the really good acts.. which are always young. Sad commercialism |
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I used to go to knebworth donnington when 21 to see great roch acts in thr 1980s.
Would not dream of going now at age of 55. Thats being a real saddo. Old people should not go to glastonbury The real sad thing will be mummy and daddy taking their poor teenage embarrassed kids there. |