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Lol!! That's a bad typo to make 😄

I don't really think of them as Britpop though. Britpop was more the indie scene that got popular Blur, Oasis, Pulp and the like.

Yes we had a really well behaved crowd as well but that's probably because she has that respect now. I just notice almost all folk acts I see are good at the patter and I think it must come from learning it when you are on the way up and not well known and you have to exude some authority over the almost feral crowds ie when they were support acts etc.

Although with the exception of Noel Gallagher I can't think of a single Britpop artist who is pro-brexit and the age group that grew up with Britpop (which is very definitely my age group) are most certainly not the ones who voted for it. If we were going to argue that any musical movement was responsible for it surely it would be more Beatles/Stones/The Who generation. Obviously bought the hype that Britain was the best ever. I agree that Brit pop brought back a little of that belief in British exceptionalism but I think I have always seen it a bit more tongue in cheek etc. Ironically Britpop has a big following in Europe. I have a 22 year old colleague in Barcelona who listens to more Brit Pop than me.

Love when you get a night like that. It's such a bargain when you get 3 great bands.

Is her guitar tech still helping her take her guitar off and on or is her back recovered now? I think folk artists get good at the patter because when you are doing gentle songs in this day and age you need to be good at winning over crowds who are used to chatting and staring at phones.

And isn't that the beauty of Glastonbury summed up there. 2 people can go and have equally amazing but totally different experiences. I left the Stones and went to Chase & Status and can confirm they were brilliant!

Yes if you look at my clashfinder before Glastongury it looks impossible and that's because it is. I just tend to make sure that I have plans for if it's raining and I want to be indoors, if I'm tired and want to just sit in front of one stage for a run of acts, If I'm hungry what the best thing is near the best food. I usually have 2 or 3 must sees and roughly 150 like to sees that I can choose between. I have a lot of playlists etc in the run up to Glastonbury so even amongst the lower down acts I usually have tried to listen to a song or 2 and have an idea as to whether they will be for me or not.

Yep fair do's to those who do it and do it happily but my seething resentment if I was watching something I thought was shit when something I knew I'd love was on would be too much for anyone to bare. I don't go to Glastonbury with fixed plans but I go with a plan for every situation. I meet up with lots of people there and go with my husband but even with him if we have strong opinions on what we want to see we go our separate ways and meet up afterwards.

I'll be honest I don't remember much Level 42 (a little too young for them - how nice it is to be able to say that!!) but I might give them a listen based on your review!

But for every negative there is a positive as well so it's a tricky situation. There's a lot more support and communities for people now for example victims of sexual assault can much more easily speak to people who have been through the same as them and can through anonymised accounts feel more comfortable telling their story. I think the trouble is we have created a very complex and difficult world that needs much more international cooperation and nuanced laws but the people making the laws don't even understand the technology.

True. I'll be honest I don't think we are able to handle the world we have created for ourselves. It would be good to trust people to do the right thing but not enough people do that. I just think when you decide to make a law you have to see what the positives and negatives will be, whether it could work practically or not before you make these decisions. I mean in my example I know all the basic info that I would need to create a twitter id about loads of people. Aunts, uncles, cousins etc. If I really wanted to vent about something what would stop me setting up an id as them and potentially getting them into trouble instead. In terms of whistle blowers what measures would you have to have in place before you could trust what someone says? We all know that these days you do have to investigate a little more and not take things posted on social media at face value.

Yes it's very uncomfortable. I understand that many trolls use anonymous accounts and can do real harm to other people and their mental health and of course that is wrong and something should be done about it. I often see celebrities talk about people using anonymous accounts and hiding their opinions behind fake identities and think how lucky they are to be able to say all of their opinions without any fear of any consequences. I used to work for a company that had a very strong social media policy which basically said you couldn't say anything about a client that could bring them into disrepute. Given that they had huge numbers of clients in all sorts of industries it would have made it very difficult for me to comment on a lot of political or environmental issues without there being a chance that someone could interpret me as having a go at a client and possibly getting fired. There are many whistle blowers that only feel comfortable exposing truths about their industry because of anonymity.

That's the one!!

Interesting title for a dissertation but to convince me I need to read the full argument.

Now this is either a sign that Level 42 are utterly amazing or that your girlfriends taste doesn't chime with mine at all. I'm not a huge Cure fan but I don't think many acts have sounded better than them on the Pyramid Stage over the years.

Ouch! Think you may need wrapping up and keeping safe. Maybe one of those plastic orbs??

A lot of my personal favourites from he last 25 years haven't made the list. It is as always fairly male centric but it's not the worst list.

Or the most god awful vegetarian lasagnes!! Things have come on a long way since I became vegetarian but yes when I go places where I can have anything it can feel a bit like too much choice. I remember going to hotels in the 90's that had no veggie option and wanted to charge me the same money for a 3 egg omelette or a stir fry (the only options that they could come up with) as they were charging other people for steaks.

It's why I am glad I don't go to Glastonbury with a crowd and even if I ever did I would just go off on my own to what I want to watch and arrange to meet later. It's bad enough if you have to berate yourself for your own choices but if you ended up at something you don't enjoy when you really wanted to be at something that looks epic later on tv then I'd be so annoyed.

Yep I have lots of vinyl that is still in the plastic wrapping but I have bought most of my collection in the last 2 years (it's where my gig ticket money has gone!) and with work being busy, recovering dogs in playpens taking up most of my living space etc I just don't get time to listen to the vinyl versions (I have streamed all of them extensively) I buy my vinyl mainly to support the artists anyway. Food at Glastonbury though mate you just need to bite the bullet (or preferably something more tasty than a bullet) If you are unsure, just buy some of the smaller side dishes from more places but it's too good to be missing although I get what you mean about agony of choice. As a vegetarian of over 30 years I can find myself deeply conflicted when I have menus with more than 2 options.

Yes so was I. Big fan of theirs as well. So much so that my husband has a Mcvities rich tea biscuit t-shirt and we frequently say that our dogs take us for rich tea biscuits!

Yes saw that news how awful for them as if musicians haven't had a shit enough time. Seems to have been a tiny vinyl run and despite looking regularly I have not seen it being restocked yet. A shame as it's in my top 3 albums of the year so far.

Master of understatement.

I'd love to have gone to see him in Manchester but sadly the timing of the gig was awful for me. I am hoping he might be doing another tour. I don't suppose he was selling the vinyl on his merch stall??