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SomeoneListeningIn

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  1. Also funny that The Prodigy and Blink are seemingly gonna clash lol, wonder how many people bought tickets expecting to be able to see both.
  2. Yeah think it'll be like the old coheadline format
  3. Yeah never gonna be a festival for me anymore but that's an excellent lineup and reminiscent of equivalent lineups they used to bag 15 or so years ago.
  4. Just want to follow up on this because I actually think it's a pretty f**ked up and I don't want it to go unchallenged and ignored. At best it’s embarrassing. At worst there’s gross misogynistic and racist undertones in your post. You’ve just lumped together a load of women of colour that have had varying degrees of commercial and critical success and insinuated that that success can only be attributed to a bunch of higher ups in suits pulling strings in the background. How you can listen to Arlo Parks’ latest release and not be able to distinguish it from Raye’s latest, for example, is laughable and suggests to me that you haven’t actually listened to these artists but chosen to lump them together based on some very very questionable assumptions. It detracts from their artistry and the effort that they’ve undoubtedly put into their careers. It’s embarrassing for you to comment and judge these individual’s art on an online forum when you clearly don’t know anything about them or how their careers have flourished. I’d love to see you create music and lyrics that resonate with so many. Maybe the fact that your screenwriting gets so beaten out by the studios is because it’s actually just sh*t.
  5. Agree with both of these, especially your last point which goes back to what I originally said - it's so tedious. You basically insinuated this about TLDP before too.
  6. I first heard about them on the day they released Nothing Matters because a friend of mine tweeted it. Thought it was class straight away and you could see that the initial response was overwhelmingly positive - that was the first time so many people had ever heard of them (unless you were active in the London gig scene). Obviously now the amount of people who are listening to them is way, way higher than that, but it was clear from the start to me that they had a sound that was resonating with people. I saw them play at midday at Glastonbury, they had a decent crowd for the time of day and it was a great show. Think they had 2 songs out by then but I remember walking away thinking the whole set was solid and they're clearly talented songwriters/performers. I think they've been picked up as a result back of all this stuff. Those in the industry will be able to see that they're really resonating with people and so will obviously want to be involved. Obviously now in the run up to their album release the marketing has been mad, (Graham Norton, Brits/BBC Sound of etc.) and it looks like Nothing Matters is gonna be in the top 40 this week. But fundamentally what they've built from an artistic standpoint has been completely organic. If you just have a problem with capitalism interacting and influencing the music industry then I'm with you, but that shouldn't detract from their art and performance.
  7. I can hear some similarities in sound between Florence + The Machine and TLDP. Also a lot of 70s music. Wet Leg, literally nothing. Everything about their songwriting style is so different.
  8. They just don't sound like Wet Leg at all, I don't know what you mean by that. You're right that they don't sound like the other artists you listed either, or at least the ones that I know.
  9. So what does the term 'industry plant' actually mean to you then. I understand having a problem with big labels and their marketing tactics, but industry plant sounds way more sinister and orchestrated than that. If you actually took time to look up The Last Dinner Party and their story you'd see that they became pretty prolific and talked about in the London indie scene over 2022/2023 because of their live show. Obviously they got signed as a result, released their first single which got more of a push than most artists are as lucky to have, but a song doesn't become that instantly popular without it actually being good. They obviously have a sound that's struck a chord with people, as is evident from their notoriety on the scene before they were signed and the success/popularity of the singles released after they were signed. They wrote those songs and curated their live show themselves. They've had a great push from their label to get them where they currently are, yeah, but not all music has to be the most ground breaking thing in the world to be considered good. They're completely different in sound other than being in the wider genre of indie music. Wet Leg are way more post-punky, TLDP are much more glam rock in sound. Part of what I find tedious about these conversations is it's more often than not brought up about female artists/bands. Not saying anyone here is doing that, it's just a trend that is quite clear to observe across wider online discourse.
  10. How on earth are The Last Dinner Party anything like Wet Leg?
  11. But do you really think Wet Leg (for example, because you named them before) have a team of songwriters sat in a room orchestrating the perfect indie hit? Or do you think it's possible that they wrote their songs organically themselves (albeit jumping on a sound that is popular and is pretty replicable) and then got picked up by a label and benefitted from a big marketing push?
  12. I find most talk about 'industry plants' so tedious and cringey.
  13. Anyway, The 1975 always have and always will be bigger than Foals/Biffy. They were bigger from the get go and have always maintained more popularity than the others ever got. I agree the time for them to headline Glasto might have passed - partly due to Covid and also Glasto choosing AM over them last year. But they're still a possibility, maybe as a backup one year when Plan A falls through.
  14. I dunno if you can say What Went Down was what f**ked it for them, some of their biggest songs were on that album. If they'd done another that was as successful as that and Holy Fire then I could have seen it, but that double album thing they did in 2019 was the nail in the coffin.
  15. Foos don't have a song as universally popular as Mr. Brightside, so no. The Killers are very much on the pop rock side of the genre, Foos aren't that poppy really.
  16. I'm sure all three would make themselves available if they got the call. I just can't see The 1975 getting the call before Dave or Fender, especially after Healy has somewhat tarnished his public image over the past year or so.
  17. Even if The 1975 are about, they're not gonna be picked over Sam Fender or Dave next year.
  18. Maybe, but so far there's been a 2.5 year gap between each of his solo releases, which would mean a new album late this year/early next if he carries on at the same rate.
  19. Still, pretty wild that you rarely have a trio of headliners to be excited about. Turn off the KLF records and listen to something new.
  20. Ah sorry, I thought you were talking about Pyramid headliners. I guess you mean headliners on any stage?
  21. You can't seriously be complaining about boring bookings and then in the next sentence suggest that Kasabian was a rare example of a creative headliner??
  22. No way she'd be a headliner. They wouldn't book her as one, anyway.
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