Mardy

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.

Pretty sure I've seen them every time they've visited Glastonbury; 08, 10, 13, 19

Not seen him live, so can't comment on that, but it's a very very good record. Shame he's on so early, cos the album is redolent of evening woodsmoke and campfires, passing around a smoke, with big skies above and a string of bulbs over the way. The tunes drifting across the space from something in the next field. It's ...expansive.

There's a 'A Little Sole' gag in there if you do a bit of work for it.

Vote for me to replace EE as chief booker. My first policy for a better today and brighter tomorrow? Don't let Primal Scream onsite ever again, let alone anywhere near a f**king stage. I'll lay good money it was Bobby f**king Gillespie who's responsible for editing that Wikipedia page.

It's not as clear cut as I first reckoned. They're a very strong sub, no doubt, but an out and out copper-bottomed no-qualms headliner? Not so sure. Given that the demographic of Glastonbury skews towards that vintage, they might just swing it, but it's far from a guaranteed banker. Can see it being a bit of a damp squib amongst the wider attendees. The fans that like them, properly love them, but there are large swathes of people utterly indifferent/unaware of them, or who only know one song. Not sure I'd take the risk were I booking the festival.

Yeah, lot of truth in this. I'd like it to be more exciting, with less dodgy guitar bands from 15 years ago, less Radio 2, less 2009 indie disco, less beige all round really. Kick out the jams motherf**kers, and the ditch the past glories.

It's got a swing to it I like. The roll to go with the rock. It feels less measured, more free, spontaneous and experimentally joyful in places. I think that's my problem with the recent stuff. It feels a bit careful, like a beautifully rendered painting, when sometimes you want a bit of mess, a scribbling outside the lines.

Can we retrospectively cancel Johnny Cash for singing about murder, please? And lets not have that nasty Nick Cave back for heaven's sake edited, damn - beaten to it by @M42

My spicy take: Nocturama massively underrated in the NC canon.

Suddenly this year's poster doesn't look so bad.

2016 way worse for than 2007 for me. I was 9 years older and didn't have the stamina, youthful exuberance and drugs to see me through in the same way. It seemed manageable in 2007, but 2016 was just brutal.