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Oh I love the weather, and the weather thread. Saturday in South London was so lovely I contemplated getting a ticket for Bearded Theory. Today it’s so awful I’m considering not ever leaving the house again.

‘Kaboom Boxer’ is pretty much my exact reaction when I first heard this band.

12 weeks? Is that enough time for the ground to firm up? I may need to revise the packing list.

I have a little bit of an in with Dexys, and I asked if they would consider introducing I’m Just Looking into the set. It is absolutely one of the best things ever committed to tape. I was greeted with a fairly withering look. If they haven’t played a track in the last year: I wouldn’t expect it at Glastonbury.

I saw them last year in Brighton. The new album has a few decent tunes, so I’m sure there will be 4 or 5 from that. They’d be mad to drop Geno, Eileen, Jacky Wilson and Until I Believe In My Soul, which were all stunning.

The original version of Waiting For You is on Vol2 of the Rarities collection. Chris Martin was 100% correct.

GSH for Elvis & The Imposters?

TWFM is 100% gold. And while Sleep Well Beast & Easy to Find were harder to love I’ve totally embraced Frankenstein and Laugh Track. And, crucially, everything works out brilliantly live.

It was the drumming on Alligator (another classic, the one before Boxer) that initially drew me into The National.

Coldplay stepping aside graciously to allow Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to headline. That’s the vibe I’m getting today.

One of the current band mentioned it to me, the Park was a guess (this was back in November) and no day was mentioned. Vague I know, but that’s all I got. 🙂

Interesting poster, if only for the fact that the one band I have been told will probably play the Park stage, and who I haven’t seen mentioned here at all, are on it. (Dexys).

I’m enjoying the upsurge in chat about Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. They are an absolute force live, and have so many great albums. I was late to them: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus got me started and I think is a perfect place to start. Every album since has also been a masterpiece, and a good few before were too. I hope they get the big gig one day.

I'm working on the assumption that Glastonbury (a) don't have a 3rd headliner, (b) are desperate for ideas, and (c) reading this thread for inspiration. So to reiterate, Emily, thats: Nick Cave, Peter Gabriel or The National. Or Lana.

I know my avatar kind of shows some bias, but could Peter Gabriel get the call? He toured last year. Admittedly nothing in the calendar for 2024 yet. I'd love it if the National or Nick Cave got the gig though. Given that LDR won't be back (probably ever).

mine, ranked from 1->12 Laugh Track - The National Gigi's Recovery - The Murder Capital Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard - Lana Del Rey The First Two Pages of Frankenstein - The National The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We - Mitski Excuse Me While I Vanish - William The Conqueror I/O - Peter Gabriel Javelin - Sufjan Stevens I Inside The Old Year Dying - PJ Harvey Black Rainbows - Corrine Bailey Rae The Last Rotation Of Earth - BC Camplight Chaos For The Fly - Grian Chatten

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are prepping a new album. Wouldn’t the finest live act on the planet make a great Pyramid headliner?

6am London coach it is. Back on Sunday to help friends out. Such a buzz!

Bowie 00 REM 03 Radiohead 03 Cure 19 PJ Harvey 16 Weyes Blood 23 Radiohead 17 Macca 22 Elton 23 Father John Misty 17 (missed every festival between 03 & 16) (Lana would have made it from this year if she’d been on time)

They would win against pretty much anyone for me. And Crystal Palace too as a bonus, pretty much most a local gig 🙂 Do we think Madonna will draw a Macca/Elton sized crowd?

Dua Lipa, Madonna, Gaga & Stevie Nicks would be a statement top line for the festival. But the timing of the Bruce reveal with Emily’s interview does feel like a lock.

I so wish I’d gone as well. What a night it would have been.

Pink Rabbits again.

Loved last night. Will they do a whole new set? From recent gigs, some likely songs for tonight: Eucalyptus, Grease In your Hair, I need my girl, Geese of Beverly Road, Humiliation, Murder Me Racheal, About Today, Light Years, Graceless, Terrible Love, Deep End, Conversation 16, Lemonworld, Available, Turtleneck, Hard To Find, Heavenfaced, Your Mind Is Not Your Friend. Which would be amazing, but I cannot face to the trip to Ally Pally again.

Frequent cryer. This year to the songs of Elton, Gabriels & Weyes Blood. But also I lost a friend not long ago to prostate cancer. His favourite artist was Steve Earle, so after Gabriels I went up to the Acoustic to watch and barely lasted the first verse of the first song before dissolving.