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I think they got picked up by whilst they were already a band. I think they got spotted and someone from that label thought they were great and managed to get them a deal and a relationship with Domino. They've played gigs as Wet Leg since at least 2019. There's a couple of videos on YouTube I think. But I'm pretty sure Domino wanted a clean slate to work with sort of, so they basically removed any sign of them existing before 2021 and before releasing Chaise Longue. They used to have some songs on Soundcloud which weren't the best in my opinion, but they've since been removed as well.

Their label has definitely helped them get booked for places that they would have heavily struggled to otherwise. They've got the songs to back it up, but I feel like they've been given an easier ride to the top than a lot of bands thanks to their label. Their rise feels very co-ordinated to me, it's very well thought out. But it's insincere to act like they're just making it up as they go along.

Should have clarified, it's basically a live bootleg. But it's the audio from the soundboard at a gig, so it's not perfect, but it's pretty good quality for what's available at the moment.

I've had a bootleg of the album downloaded on my Spotify for a while. It's good, but the best stuff is definitely the singles. Although I think there's a couple more in there that people will enjoy a lot, most notably, "Supermarket", thought that one would be used as a single. The other tracks are good, but not great. To me it feels like they've taken tracks that are fine, but tried to sprinkle the Wet Leg formula on them, e.g. a few innuendos, and a few blatant sexual lines as well as adding a few "woo's" for the sake of it, and they come across as a bit filler to me. The singles are great, there's a couple good ones in there to look out for. Listen out for "Piece Of Shit" and "Loving You". But I'm not a huge fan of "Being In Love" or "I Don't Wanna Go Out". Kitty Empire in the Guardian gave it 3/5 which I thinks a bit harsh, I'd give it a 4, but I agree with a lot of what she says. A bit off topic, but I find Wet Leg's personality and persona in interviews a bit grating. The whole "we're so suprised that we've become so big so quickly, we can't believe it, it's amazing!". It's like come on guys, you're not stupid, Domino have obviously strapped you to a huge rocket powered by money. But the tracks are good, so overall I'm happy. It might not be the biggest, most acclaimed British debut of the past 10 years that some were hoping for, but it's got some fantastic tracks and it's well worth a listen.

Radiohead. But if it's an act that's never headlined before, I'd go Daft Punk, I think they'd be insane.

They're playing 2 dates at festivals in Japan in August, with a supposed tour in October.

If Harry is on Pyramid, I could still see someone like The 1975 doing a secret set as well. I think it's likely that they'll do one actually.

I've made a clashfinder, if anyone's interested in that sort of thing: https://clashfinder.com/m/latitude2022/ It's not perfect, as I'm going off previous years schedules. It's a bit awkward trying to figure it out, as it seems to change significantly each year. Some days have special guest slots which have longer than usual slots, some artists play smaller sets later in the day, and last year you even had comedy on the main stage. So I've done my best to come up with something that seems alright. I wouldn't start completely planning your weekend around it, as some of the stages have slots to be filled. So I've stuck the gaps as TBA's at the start of each day. It'll give you a rough sense of what artists you'll see over the weekend, but if two of your favourite artists clash, e.g. Porridge Radio and KEG, I wouldn't worry about it too much as the TBA's will probably get moved to some other point during the day on that stage.

I'm not a huge fan of the special guest speaker on the Pyramid kind of slot. It doesn't do anything for me at all. David Attenborough just felt like he was promoting his new show. I'm not sure how controversial of an opinion this is.

I think it was easier to get a booking page this time. We got about 8 within 20 minutes, but whenever we put people's details in they either had tickets, were in a transaction, or all the coaches had sold out. We tried almost everyone on the spreadsheet before switching to Thursday about 15 minutes in, but all sold out there as well. When we got tickets in Oct 2019, we got 2 booking pages in 30 minutes, and had a relative get one as well. So 3 in total, with family members trying as well. It definitely seems like the consensus is that people got more booking pages this time round. I feel like we wasted a few crucial minutes putting in people's details that already had tickets, or were in the middle of buying them. It's not anyone's fault though, as we could have been a few seconds too late as someone had just put details in before us and obviously hadn't updated the spreadsheet as they hadn't finished paying yet.

It looks like we've got the full Obelisk lineup, one more to be added on the Friday and Saturday of the Sounds Tent, and two more to be added on the Sunday of the Sunrise. Interesting that the poster says "loads more music to be announced". They might just be saying that cause it rolls of the tongue quite nicely. But I hope there is some more decent music because announcing the day splits has done them no favours in terms of quality. We should get the Alcove announced at some point, unless Melvin and Co. continue to cull stages . I'd like to see them bring back the Lake Stage for us musos. I think they removed the Solas as well in 2021, but to be honest, there wasn't much good stuff on there anyway.

I like your optimism, but I'd be trying on Sunday instead.

Yeah. I think I interpreted it as them saying they'll have a high crossover of fans and whatnot. Like a different version of Sad Girl Summer, as people were saying earlier.

I know there's some percentage, but I think its quite low. It depends how big of a crowd someone like Black Midi get. If they're high up park, maybe 4th or 5th down, against someone like D-Ross or O-Rod, they could get a fairly small crowd. Maybe a couple of thousand? I think most of the Blossoms crowd will be elsewhere, if there's decent competition. So the amount of people who were at Blossoms in the Black Midi crowd could be in the high double digits or low triple digits depending on who they're up against. I was exaggerating saying they'll be about two, obviously I think there'll be more, but I think it will be a low number. Also thought it was funny putting them in the category of "White Boy Summer" along with Blossoms, Declan McKenna and Sam Fender. Which is why I commented.

I think there's going to be about two people on site who are at both Blossoms and Black Midi. One of which might be my sister, who quite likes Blossoms, and as long as there isn't anything else she desperately wants to see, will probably be dragged a long to come and watch Black Midi with me.

It doesn't need a key word. Once you're on the booking page you can refresh it, you'll still be on it. I'm pretty sure once your on it you can even click the page backwards and forwards buttons and you'll still be able to access it fine. You can turn the refresh off when your on the page, but you don't need super fast fingers to disable it before it refreshes again. It will be fine.

I always find the headliner list on the survey a bit odd. They'd never book most of these to play. I don't see most of these playing the festival ever, they're just not the R&L demographic anymore. Like what are they going to do if everyone asks for Blur? Show it to Damon and try and get them to reunite Blur? It's just not happening. When they get back together they'll probably do their own gigs, couple of Hyde Park ones and Glastonbury. They're not coming to R&L, no matter how much people want them.

It's not a bad song, it's just the second worst on the album excluding FH, and I prefer Lift. So swapping it out would marginally improve the album for me.

OK Computer is a 10. But it would be an even better 10, or an 11, if they replaced Electioneering with Man of War, and Lucky with Lift.

I've somehow managed to catch Sam Fender six times. I think he's alright, I'll see him if there's nothing else on. I might see if I can get tickets for his tour as well at some point.

Will we ever get another festival like those again? Looking back some of them are insane. But at the moment there's nothing on that level anymore, is it a thing of the past or could something like them come back at some point?

It's a good tune. It was actually a really great gig, people on here take the piss out of him, and sometimes I do as well. But in my experience at least, the prospect of seeing Jake Bugg is always worse than actually seeing him. I never go in that excited, but at the end of the gig I always end up thinking he's actually pretty good. I'm guessing you weren't actually there though. I don't know what you look like though, so wouldn't have been able to spot you anyway.

The sound at Gorilla isn't great at the front. As the speakers are positioned about a foot in front of the stage into the crowd, it means you can be either behind or in line with the speakers, so you can't hear the vocals that well. But it's only really a problem if you're at the front, otherwise it's a good venue. thewonderwhy has obviously never been to the Victoria Warehouse.

Arcade Fire playing the Albert Hall would be magical. I'd desperately try and get tickets for it.

I didn't think you'd be a Jake Bugg fan.