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Hmmm. not entirely sure about that (and I love Caribou deeply). There's a whiff of 'put a donk on it' about that track

I didn't get a ticket last year, first time since 2007 and it was...fine. Got over the initial disappointment and moved on. Didn't watch it on telly cos I'm never that fussed about watching music on TV, it always fails to capture the essence of it. And I'd never rewatched sets I was at when I got home anyway, so I definitely wasn't going to start watching sets I wasn't at. I'll be honest I can't remember what I did last year over Glastonbury weekend. Just got on with my life I guess. Was surprisingly painless. And decided against trying in the resale this year. Having broken the habit, much easier this year, things can exist without me being there. I'll live, the festival will continue. Current plan is to try on T-day this autumn and if that doesn't work, not bother with the resale.

My cousin shat in a lad's sleeping bag in Kidney Mead in 1995, cos he'd sold us sh*t drugs that didn't work.

Two words, my friends, all run and hide from the sheer self-unaware nepo baby to outdo all other nepo babies that is Baxter Dury. Even on a farm that has cows dropping fresh sloppy cowpats all over the shop for 10 months of the years, he'll still stink the place out.

Giving it a spin now, first song she appears to be pastiching LDR. Guess that's Antonoff's touch, but it's not been as explicit as this before, really.

Hehehe, Man alive, Arcade Fire in 2024. Petition to rename Worthy Farm as 'The Elephants' Graveyard'.

One for @CaledonianGonzohere. Sure you're all over this already, but this is an absolute cracker of a record. Right up your street, I reckon. https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish

yeah, that line 'Both Del Rey and the festival saw a peak in the mid-2010s' is so far off the mark. NFR, which I'd argue is the start of her Imperial phase, is 2019.

I think she's f**king amazing and from NFR onwards has absolutely stepped up a gear. Some of my favourite records of the last decade.But I also think she's way better on record than live, and that's absolutely fine. There are artists who are phenomenal live and mediocre recorded. She's the opposite. Almost no acts can do both equally well..

Bastards. I've had to buy another new A4 jotter just to keep the list of Keane apologists up-to-date.

Misunderstood, I think. I think this is a genuinely great piece of writing. Saw him give a spoken word performance and it was superb. Musically, in the main, i can take them or leave them, and his memoir is grim as all giddy up. But there's something about them that makes me glad they exist. I do fear he's all gone a bit 'you can't say anything these days' though. But man, this article. I'll forgive a lot for this. https://thequietus.com/articles/32133-lias-saoudi-fat-white-family-liam-gallagher-knebworth

there's a twickets site for nl, isn't there? dunno if it's any good though

Fascinated as to whether those Moby tickets will shift or not. I've no idea if he's still that much of a draw.