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Kid Kapichi sounding good on first listen

Red Rum Club at the top of my list from todays releases. Also planning on giving Royel Otis a listen from last weeks.

Enjoying the new Cast album - good return to form. Have listened to TANGK twice and its not hit the spot yet. Some good moments within it - hoping it will grow with a few more listens.

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Here’s my top 10. 1. The Royston Club - Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars 2. Andrew Cushin - Waiting For the Rain 3. The Lottery Winners - A.R.T. 4. The Lathums - From Nothing to a Little Bit More 5. Creeper - Sanguivore 6. QOTSA - In Times New Roman 7. Blur - The Ballad of Darren 8. NGHFB - Council Skies 9. The Coral - Sea of Mirrors 10. The Murder Capital - Gigi’s Recovery

New IDLES album confirmed for release on 16th Feb. First couple of months next year are shaping up to be big!

Spent the past couple of days catching up on last weeks releases. King Nuns latest is excellent. Andrew Cushins (supported NGHFB last year) debut also sounding really good. Also repeatedly had the debut from Heavy Lungs (if you like early IDLES you’ll like these) which has woken me up again this morning!

The Cribs have jumped to my number 1 act to see tomorrow. I saw the Coral a few weeks ago at Brighton Beach so although I was planning on seeing them again tomorrow, I’m buzzing that The Cribs are there to replace them.

The Cribs have just been added for tomorrow in place of the Coral.

Irrelevant of how many streams or sales an artist has had, if they show the amount of contempt and unprofessionalism to their fans and the festival as LDR showed this weekend, it is a non starter to debate whether she is suitable to headline the Pyramid. Unfortunately for her, there were another 3,000+ acts at Glastonbury as opposed to it being the LDR show. Her behaviour and attitude only goes to show they got it spot on putting her where they did.

Definitely prawn!

Viagra boys just played the set of the weekend!

I'm at the other end if the spectrum (although appreciate I'm likely to be in the minority!) Loved the first album, didn't get on with Ants From Up There at all, but the new songs are a lot more instantly memorable for me. Although the vocals are completely different, still has the same BCNR style associated to them.

Agree with this. Feels like a huge drop off (certainly in terms of Common/Castle headliners) from the last couple of years. Don't get me wrong - there's some decent acts playing that I'd like to see, but not enough across the weekend to justify getting tickets. That along with the car parking (or lack of) hassle I think is going to make a lot of people think twice about going - especially those like me who would have brought young families. Really do think that the festival has dropped the ball this year, which is a shame as its always been the highlight of my festival season.

So with the lack of an onsite car park this year, how easy do you think its going to be to park up somewhere? A case of rocking up on the day and hoping you get in the park and ride or can anywhere be pre booked? Can imagine it will be carnage trying to park thousands more cars in public car parks! Will be my 4th time at Victorious but I've always either parked onsite or got a hotel, but coming down with the kids this time so on my best behaviour!

Assuming the other 2 headliners are shared, I’m putting my £1 on Kasabian and TDCC, but by choice Ashcroft would be top of my list by far. Just hope we find out a few more names soon!

Assuming he plays, I hope Ashcroft is on the Saturday or Sunday as I wont be there on Friday. That alone would pretty much justify my ticket for the day. Personal tastes of course but when I compare RA to JK there's no comparison. Kasabian don't excite me at all-seen them so many times and would much rather see someone that I either haven't seen at all or seen for a while. Two Door Cinema Club are very active this year - really wouldn't surprise me to see them headlining.

No-it’s superb!

Gaz Coombes album really hitting the spot today. Fantastic return.

1. Suede - Autofiction 2. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia 3. Frank Turner - FTHC 4. The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not The World 5. October Drift - I Don't Belong Anywhere Honourable mentions - Jamie T, Editors, Wet Leg, Embrace Disappointment of the year - Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire Track of the year - Jamie T - The Old Style Raiders Gig of the year - Red Rum Club, Islington

Red Rum Club at the Garage in Islington. Superb gig - struggle to find a better live band out there than RRC, they deserve to be much bigger than they are.

Yep, seeing them in St Albans - ticking off another new venue. Glad to hear sales are strong for the tour, they deserve their music to be heard by a lot more people!

It's awesome, really strong throughout. Glad someone else has picked up on it! First album was great as well but they got unlucky with the time it was released, this should hopefully see them further up the bill at a lot of festivals next year.

That was fun - eventually managed to get 4 standing for the Emirates on the Saturday. £86 per ticket.

What a bizarre take…