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3 minutes ago, Calvin Klein said:
why do they not play anything from their debut album? it's up there with their best stuff
They played one or two when I saw them do an underplay show at Manc Academy once
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/queens-of-the-stone-age/2011/manchester-academy-1-university-of-manchester-manchester-england-73d3d655.html -
Dunno why I managed to leave it so long, bit I saw them last summer at Kendal for the first time in ages... (Went with Jack White in 2014, which was a minor disappointment.)
Really unexpectedly, a few tears fell when they came on and played Motorcycle Emptiness. I was completely in my element for the next 80 minutes or whatever, rain be damned.
Reallyinteresting setlist, Tsunami and Little Baby Nothing amongst the big hitters. Well done to them for the way they go about building their setlists after all these years.
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Got a new pair of walking boots!
Gone for the harder material this time as you can see, but been loyal to the same type of shoe as they were good to me.
I got a different, textile material boot last year, and they were not festival proof at all, my feet were in bad condition after Kendal Calling, an incredibly muddy but much smaller festival than Glastonbury. Glad I made that mistake in a year I didn't have Glastonbury ticket.
They're the top result here if you're in the same budget range as me, and/or want to see other options etc: https://www.mandmdirect.com/01/karrimor/boots -
I love RL so much. This is the most anthemic one they've done since the debut album. Wistful vocals and lifting strings. The Detroit-y sample is gorgeous, and so is the "I felt like I was part of something" line, in that Mike Skinner-style speak-singing. Love love love.
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THE RHYTHM METHOD!!
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28 minutes ago, Memory Man said:
Pretty sure ive seen them mention the festival in an interview and they said something like they’d not do it as the fees are poor and the logistics difficult. Not surprising. I imagine there are hundreds of acts across the musical spectrum that have dismissed it outright on that basis.
It was actually this tweet that made me think of them when I saw this thread.
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Underworld
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Give them their own little part of a field to play for hours on end in, like 1992
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The Lovely Eggs need to play at Glastonbury. Williams Green would be perfect.
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He suffered a life-threatening illness aged 20, which he has not disclosed the details of for fear of being seen as a sympathy case.
I imagine the cancellations are related to it.
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Yaaaaay Bombay Bicycle Club! Came here because of what was said on Radio 1 but see they already had something to say.
Just said "We're working on it.", which is a decent get-out that doesn't make it obvious you're playing...
It's very special to see your favourite songs played at Glastonbury, and both their sets in 2014 were part of that magical one-time-only first Glaston for me. Their songs have a woozy, dreamlike quality which also goes well with the festival. One of the big two stages in the sunshine would be gorgeous, but I have visions of the Park on Sunday night, the early finish night, sunset behind them, the inevitable tears.
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Ever since they welcomed suggestions about how to develop Pangea, I've been wondering what could work well...
Mirrors.
Line the crane with them, make the radome ball into a giant disco ball, bounce all kinds of lights off of them from the outer circle, let the people up close to the centre see the reflection of the masses behind them.
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3 minutes ago, StevieGed said:
Really liking the new Bombay tunes. I hold So Long See You Tomorrow in very high prestige as one of my favourite albums, I caught them touring the anniversary of I had the blues a few months back in November and the nostalgia was saddening to an extent on how many memories those tunes brought back, felt like I should have been waking up the following morning for a 10am lecture! I really like Racing Stripes from what I’ve heard so far.
Id assume that they’ll be at Glastonbury but there’s several stages and time slots they could fill. I’m sure they played a late afternoon Other slot a few years back when they were last on the farm. Sunday up against Taylor on the park would be ideal as I’m planning on Kendrick and Macca Friday Saturday, would be a lovely end to the week!
That's my favourite of theirs too. I'd say from what I heard on Sunday EEHGW is most like that than any of the others.
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On 1/13/2020 at 1:43 PM, Simpo said:
Saw Bombay Bicycle Club preview Friday's new album release yesterday at the Brudenell in Leeds. The songs are sounding really good, it feels like Everything Else Has Gone Wrong will sit well alongside their pre-break albums!
Is It Real was a standout of the unreleased ones, it's a bombastic one so it shined through the never-heard-it-before fog!
Sunday was such a good day, drinking and fun and games round Leeds with good friends, evoked the kind of nostalgia that this song goes for.
I'm a sucker for good transitions between songs, and the way they spun the outro of a new one, "Good Day" into "How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep?" was superb! Watch out for that if you're seeing them.
Hope they don't clash with headliners at Glaston (if they play), although I'd probably see them above everyone except Macca if they did. I think I'll be spending most of this year's fest with my good friend Beth and we both adore them.
Preference: Park headline (never seen a Park headliner) > Pyramid early afternoon > Other Stage late afternoon > John Peel headline.Also they did that BBC Introducing stage slot last time as well (watch here), I'd love a bit of that again.
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14 minutes ago, Johnnyseven said:
Just wondering why they need to segregate people here by how they arrive when they all arrive by public transport?
That's in place for Monday, to get people to their correct exit transport
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2 minutes ago, Quark said:
Nice, got them doing a small gig in Brighton on Wed. How much of the set is new stuff? I've never seen or really listened to them before, so trying to get a feel for how much I'm going to stick out
It was 7 new ones, 5 old ones. It's such a treat to see them up close, I was grinning like a loon.
I'm so looking forward to hearing what their full set sounds like when they tour with The Big Moon, those are gonna be some damn good shows.
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Saw Bombay Bicycle Club preview Friday's new album release yesterday at the Brudenell in Leeds. The songs are sounding really good, it feels like Everything Else Has Gone Wrong will sit well alongside their pre-break albums!
Is It Real was a standout of the unreleased ones, it's a bombastic one so it shined through the never-heard-it-before fog!
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Even found the interview with Josh talking about playing a more esoteric set (need to click 'Click here to Run Flash Player)
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7 hours ago, VCK said:
I was at Leeds that year and QOTSA were awful.
Rage knocked it out of the park though.
They purposefully did an understated set that year, as they knew everyone would be buzzing for Rage, and didn't want to steal their thunder. Still love the special version of Go With The Flow they did though.
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Seems like these are always around and about, but never play.
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1 hour ago, Jay Pee said:
I find the train journey home from Glastonbury surreal. The last few times, i have had a few hours to kill at Bristol waiting for the cheap rattler back north and hid out in the Wetherspoons behind Temple Meads and sank a stack of pints and cheap Jamesons.
its acclimatisation training for adjusting back into the world. Birmingham New Street is a grin as there is always a few dozen people staggering around mid afternoon on Monday looking unsettled and grinning at one another.
The dispersal of like minded people as you get closer to home is a bit shit. By the time i get in the Taxi for the last leg of the journey to the front door i realise that i am “ one of them festival weirdos”. How was the mud mate? I see loads of people left their tents behind! .....eccetera.... ecfuckincetera
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By the time I was on my Manchester to Bolton train coming home from 2016, in yr typical post-Glaston condition, it also had a few people coming home from work. I must have seemed a state, slumped and holding my head, to the person sat next to me. I said "It's been a long week." The feller meekly responded "...but it's only Monday?"
Nicer convo in 2017 walking from coach to train station. "Oh, you been to Glastonbury?" "Yeah" "Oh, I hope you saw Radiohead! Fuckin' amazing on TV!" "Yes! Yes we did!"
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I was just browsing through the (really underrated, especially for first-timers) 'AREAS' section of the official site, and noticed the erstwhile seaside-y newcomers to the festival have won the race to be the first to update their section for 2020!
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/glastonbury-on-sea/
It has a cool drawing, a photo gallery and video of 2019 highlights, and a teaser for what to expect in 6 and a half months.
It's exciting to see wheels in motion for the festival, especially having not been since 2017.-
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24 minutes ago, Sasperella said:
Avalon...? That's bigger than Acoustic, right?
i absolutely cannot keep track of where we think Noel is
An effort was made a couple of years ago to tally the stage capacities here:
Suggests Acoustic is almost three times bigger than Avalon. Anyway, this has the whiff of the big triangle shaped one for sure.
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2 hours ago, priest17 said:
Every cribs post gets an upvote.
Mine were alright. Weren't my best one, but who cares!
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Manics...
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My first gig was Manics in 2004, and it was around the time a section of fans from the foreverdelayed message board started shouting for Sleepflower at gigs. They got called cheeky fuckers, the song got called soft metal shite, and they even teased the first few bars of it...
Then it actually came out for a few tours after that!! To much rejoicing.
So the campaign to bring it back starts now!!!