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Yep, to my earlier point. I left a few songs into the Dylan set and had a lovely evening out in London. I have a video of one of his old classics being butchered which I sent to my dad (a massive Dylan fan from back in the day) and he was aghast.

I agree with the sentiment - I do think women get a harder time about it - especially towards the twilight of their careers - than men do. However it's funny to bring Dylan and Neil Young into it. I saw them both 4 years ago in Hyde Park and I was alarmed at their joint top billing, because I feared that Dylan would go on first and I'd have to suffer through him to get to Neil Young. I am a fan of Dylan's albums from his heyday, but now his live shows are something to be endured and only celebrated by his hardcore fans, whereas Neil Young is still a powerful live act and can still provide the "Holy sh1t!!!" moments. His Glasto 2009 set was an all-timer. I guess my point is, plenty of people (myself included) have publicly said that Dylan is a dire live act now. And nobody is asking Neil Young to hang up his hat, because he's still rockin' in the free world (sorry).

This whole discourse is funny when referring to the Chicks because of course they stuck their neck out during the George W Bush presidency and attacked him about Iraq, leading them to be pilloried and excommunicated from the alt-country fold. They took a break from music for a while, and eventually changed their name from the Dixie Chicks partly because of this, but mostly due to the negative associations (Dixie = the Confederacy = racist heritage). So I am all here in agreement with wider country music rightwing issue, but the Chicks shouldn't be lumped in (if indeed this was the intent, I'm not sure it was). EDIT TO SAY: Acid_Haze just beat me to the same point. Chapeau!

I saw him at the O2. He hobbled around and for a sizeable portion of the show, he was on a piano on a platform that drifted across the stage. When he was on his feet he really only "danced" by stiffly moving his arms around. Kind of reminded me of James Brown's Glasto set in 2003. I can sort of believe that he doesn't feel like he's got another run of big stadium gigs in him.

Fully on board with this - horses for courses and all of that. And a lot of it is down to circumstance - what you've seen earlier that day, whether you managed to find your mates again, whether your feet are hurting, if there are w*nkers talking through the whole set etc. In 2013 there were some hooray henrys right next to us for the whole Rolling Stones set - it was too packed for us to move anywhere - and they gibbered and talked over the whole thing - even "Wild Horses" - and chatted down the phone to people "yah I'm at glaaaastonbury at the Rolling Stones yah" - so I reckon other people would have had a classic top 5 gig experience, we certainly did not.

Was going to leave this alone, but what a completely irresponsible take. As several people remarked below, there are vulnerable people in our lives who would appreciate not contracting this virus as it's still killing 50+ people a day. Selfish attitude not to test, it's like sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending there's no problem, when there is still definitely a problem and it is still definitely killing people who would otherwise still be with us. A "festival cold" does not spread like wildfire and kill people. Really selfish. (I await the troll-like responses with dread. )

I hate to say this sounds a bit like my experience with Springsteen in 2009 - a near-three-hour set with a lot of "here's something off my folk album" before you got to the singalongs... it was asking a lot and I remember my legs KILLING halfway through. Mind you that year he was in contention with Neil Young (utter barnstormer of a headline set) and followed by Blur on the Sunday (EPIC) so it's all perspective I guess.

Did he.... look like Carl Cox? Like, was it credible? If not then big brass balls award goes to him, and even harkens back to the big-balls blag-the-door moment in Human Traffic which resulted in the main character meeting... Carl Cox.