Matt - Ed Banger Records

No big surprise, but Oneman just said he's got 3 sets lined up for Glastonbury "so far"

Depends when in the summer, Junction 2, Waterworks, Wide Awake and GALA are all decent festivals.

This will likely be the same place as last year no? Burgess Park if memory serves me correctly

Zig and Zag headline set confirmed

Did anyone here go to Drumsheds this weekend? Any first impressions? Looked like nightmare to get in and apparently absolutely roasting inside. Going to the Bugged Out night in a couple of weeks so hoping the teething issues are sorted before then.

Seen a load of videos of The Strokes from yesterday and they sound comically bad, band are relatively tight by Julian is just all over the gaff, absolutely woeful.

Well they've got a site up that way already haven't they? Possibly relaunching that.

They've relaunched the outdoors event space recently haven't they? Would guess it will be a new venue if anything, or maybe they've miraculously sorted things out at Printworks and will be opening again for another season.

My mate went to the "secret" Skreamzim rave thing, it was through a door by one of the other stages in Shangri-La apparently, massive queue so you couldn't miss it (his words, I wasn't there) think he queued for about 30 mins, spent an hour in there (it was a long thin room, looked like the inside of a few shipping containers) he said it was rammed and hot and nobody had painted their faces (he had)

I'm sure The Who's return was a last minute thing if memory serves me correctly? But yeah, I think if some of these bigger bands were ever happy to take the step down the line up, or over to the Other stage then why not. Muse felt a bit of a naff novelty in 2016 when they played, and don't think any of their recent output has changed that. I guess there's not too many bands that can fill stadiums these days, so probably can't discount too many bands really.

You would think for Muse to headline again they would need to have a big new album, and I don't think people care enough about them now for that to happen.

Let's be honest though, they could have come out and smashed it and they would have still got pelters on here.

Possibly, all I know is that Elton has been rehearsing Lose Yourself in preparation for his show on Sunday.

Eminem is going to be one of his guests according to something I was told today

If anyone is splashing the cash on their bagged wine this year, the Bagnums from Le Grappin are all really good. Alternatively St. John do wine a box up to 10l of their very tasty house red or white.

I love ambient music and the Eno Fred Again... project is absolute shite.

Not a single mention of the album Fred Again released on Friday?

I had tickets for the squid soup show on the Wednesday but I'm now going to be in hospital watching my daughter get hauled out of the sunroof.

But I guess that begs the question who is it for? And I really don't think it's a deliberate rejection of perfect sets, I think it's just 3 mates having a bit of a laugh, no need to intellectualise it beyond that - but it really does just sound like a few coked up dudes at a house party throwing up tunes from their ipods.

I don't think his back catalogue will have much of an impact on how long he's big for personally. His star will burn very bright but for a short period of time in IMHO.

Yeah I watched the Coachella live stream this morning while I was getting ready for work, music wise it was absolutely not my cup of tea at all, I was just left mostly thinking how Skrillex would be a nightmare to go B2B with as he is always fannying about on the mixer when someone else is trying to play. As Aiden alludes to above, musicality is probably not the audiences key motivations when going to watch those 3 play together, it feels very much like the sort of thing people feel the need to be at and to experience, rather than enjoy the music. Which is broadly why I think the Fred Again star will burn brightly but for a relatively short period of time, once the dust settles on this last 12 months it will be interesting to see where he sits in the scene.

There's not a hope in hell that Fred Again is headlining the bloody Pyramid in the future.

Feel like the modern day Burning Man is full of Silicon Valley tech bros these days, knew a couple of people who went a few years back and it was just completely full of w*nkers who spend $10k a day on silence retreats.

Saw a Twitter thread yesterday saying that yer man Fred Again tried to get out of paying some strippers by offering to give them some exposure on his Instagram. Heard some other rumours just in general by a couple of ITK people that he is a bit of a prick in general.

I had more fun watching Overmono than I did watching Bicep, think Overmono have the better tunes if I'm being honest.