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That's true, and Bonzo Dog still holds up pretty well. But a great deal of "funny" music is utterly, absolutely dire. Like Mitch Benn - they're not really trying to do the music properly.

It was absolutely cracking!

Despite her hailing from my neck of the woods in SE Lancashire, Victoria Wood's songs were terrible Or at least, they are terrible. I remember laughing in the 80s, but can't stand them now.

Fuck saying something is fine because there is a market for it. Artistic judgements have nothing to do with popularity. *Superhans picture about Nazis and Coldplay*

John Peel Tent Hot Chip 95 Doves 235 The Streets 55 Sigur Rós 130 Jazz World / West Holts Rodrigo y GabrieIa 40 (-10) Kool and the Gang 240 Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 255 The Mothership Returns (George CIinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The FamiIy Stone) 175 Earth, Wind and Fire 235 Justice 830 JaneIIe Monáe 280

Another strong surge has just started in Manchester in the last few days, after a fairly sustained (if slow) drop off. It wouldn't surprise me if hospitalisations go up again a bit in a few weeks. But I'd be surprised if it hit 2k, at least not in the next month.

If I had to guess why the hospitalisations don't seem to be following cases at all now it's because we're looking at overall cases. They're rising in children, where the risk of hospitalisation is much lower than teenagers and older. That case/hospitalisation ratio difference more than makes up for the extra cases. But it is a guess, I've not done the analysis, but it should be doable - we have the data.

Don't you see that this is Starmer trying to fight his own party?

We have so many other issues that the Tories have caused which are pushing people towards poverty and lower living standards but the Labour leader decided that the priority was to change a few rules.

He was supposed to be Corbyn in a suit. Just as committed to transforming society, but good at politics. Turns out, he's rubbish at politics and just as right wing as the Corbynites warned us. He's fucking shit.

Arse

Very tempted to wait to snipe with the hilarious line "Gone Iver"

John Peel Tent Hot Chip 95 Doves 255 The Streets 120 Sigur Rós 100 Jazz World / West Holts Rodrigo y GabrieIa 115 Kool and the Gang 210 Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 225 The Mothership Returns (George CIinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The FamiIy Stone) 155 Earth, Wind and Fire 220 Justice 810 JaneIIe Monáe 290 The Park Bon lver 128 Grimes 35 (-10)

John Peel Tent Hot Chip 115 Doves 250 Jarvis Cocker 50 (-10) The Streets 120 Sigur Rós 100 Jazz World / West Holts Rodrigo y GabrieIa 105 Kool and the Gang 210 Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 215 The Mothership Returns (George CIinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The FamiIy Stone) 159 Earth, Wind and Fire 210 Justice 755 (+10) JaneIIe Monáe 300 The Park Bon lver 150 Grimes 93

I'm in for Manchester.

I was in the medical tent twice the last festival I remember the bottles being there.

I'm not liking the SA.

I have to say with Sleaford Mods, I didn't like them at first, and although I don't remember a specific incident where they won me over, I've never been on the fence about them, I used to think they were shit, then one day I thought they were brilliant.

They're not.

I just got to use the new reaction at last!

The dance Vs metal size debate is pretty interesting and says a lot about how mega acts are increasingly a thing of the past. Although I've not checked that deeply, I'd say it's a pretty fair bet that no dance acts have sold anything like as many records as the likes of Metallica or AC/DC. Moving down, even Slayer have sold as many as Moby. Having said that, there are anomalies, David Guetta has sold more than both. But dance music has a reach way beyond the big artists, it's the sheer amount of music being produced and consumed where dance music is king. At Glastonbury, we have Silver Hayes, The Glade, Arcadia, Block 9 and Shangri La, all containing multiple dance music venues, plus all the dance at The Park and the various bars. I know Glastonbury is huge, but it's not even a dance festival as such. Metal, even at its peak has never been anywhere near as pervasive as dance - and for the most part, the music you hear in all those venues has been produced by a massive variety of artists - it's the long tail where dance wins.

You're not arguing that dance music is on its way out too are you?