2019 Headliners

[CaledonianGonzo]

Off to Merry Macccamas tomorrow night.  Hopefully we'll get Mull of Kintyre *and* Wonderful Christmastime.

14 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

We don't need it but come the end of his set you'll be Na Na Na Na-ing with the best of them. 

Would be like the Stones not doing Satisfaction.

[deadpheasant]

26 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

We don't need it but come the end of his set you'll be Na Na Na Na-ing with the best of them. 

Are Blink 182 playing the Other Stage?

[Superunknown]

8 minutes ago, deadpheasant said:

Are Blink 182 playing the Other Stage?

Maybe SOAD-ium?

[doogie]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Would be like the Stones not doing Satisfaction.

... or Bowie not doing Space Oddity

[Quark]

5 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

So to those who went to Mecca last night, how was it? How's the voice, the band, the tunes?

Full house I reckon

4 hours ago, jparx said:

Aye that's a helluva setlist. That final hour on the Pyramid is going to be next level shit.

I'm not sure what people think about this, but here goes - Fuh You is a banger. 

Everyone's entitled to their opinion on this stuff.  Just not that opinion.

[Badlands]

Would Hey Jude be missed if he didn't play it? Of all the acts that don't need to rely on 'a' hit, Macca has to be at the top. I mean, he could do another setlist completely to the one last night and they'd be recognisable to most of the crowd.

Suppose it's a piss break opportunity.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'd miss it. I may be in the minority but it's one of my favourite things The Beatles ever did.

[Hugh Jass]

I'd miss it. There are few things more life affirming than a mass drunken singalong.

Who wouldn't get the feels being part of 80,000 belting it out as one in front of the Pyramid?

Edited December 13, 2018 by Hugh Jass

[henry bear]

It’s always been one of my favourites of theirs too. I know it’s a bit of a Macca cliche, but to be in a huge crowd singing drunkenly along to it is a life-affirming event, and to experience it on the Pyramid even more so. It’d better not be the bloody Strokes now.

[jparx]

I concur with the above here. I'd also miss it.

Yes Macca has many better songs, but in my mind it would be like seeing Radiohead and they don't do Paranoid Android. It's not my favourite song of theirs and it's been done to death, but a Radiohead gig without "rain down" would be missing something.

[jparx]

And forget the na na's, the first half of the song is brilliant.

[Quark]

Familiarity breeds contempt. It's been overplayed and overheard so much over the years, but it's at that level for a very good reason.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Is it overplayed these days?  Beetle and the lads seem to be slowly drifting off the cultural radar.  The White Album reissue came and went with nary a murmur.

That said... it has 130m Spotify streams, but that's pretty paltry vs. something like Shape of You or God's Plan. Even Here Comes The Sun trounces it.

[jparx]

Gets a lot of airtime at the football. I can imagine if you're a season ticket holder for certain clubs (Man City play it a lot I think) it could get grating. 

[Gucci Piggy]

Paranoid Android isn't annoying af, though. Plus they namecheck me in it.

[dentalplan]

Miserable bastards in ere. Cancel your tickets imo.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Paranoid Android doesn't have John Lennon going "Fucking hell" 3 minutes in.

[Brave Sir Robin]

It’ll be wonderful when Macca does it, potentially a proper Glastonbury Moment.

Not so much when some random punter strikes up the umpteenth drunken rendition of it, staggering down the railway line a few hours later...

Edited December 13, 2018 by Brave Sir Robin

[CaledonianGonzo]

That'll be me.

[chatty]

2 hours ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

It’ll be wonderful when Macca does it, potentially a proper Glastonbury Moment.

Not so much when some random punter strikes up the umpteenth drunken rendition of it, staggering down the railway line a few hours later...

Tbf when some drunk randomer starts it staggering down the railway line for the umpteenth time hours later its still gonna be class. 

[chatty]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Is it overplayed these days?  Beetle and the lads seem to be slowly drifting off the cultural radar.  The White Album reissue came and went with nary a murmur.

That said... it has 130m Spotify streams, but that's pretty paltry vs. something like Shape of You or God's Plan. Even Here Comes The Sun trounces it.

They'll be super popular again when the holograms start touring. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

When I'm 64 Hz

Let It Beam

I've Just Seen A Phase

Sgt Pepper's Ghost

 

etc etc

[whitehorses]

I was entirely apathetic to the idea of Macca before, but looking at that set and those vids I’m now super excited. It’s gonna be epic! And will make sure sing HJ the whole length of the railway just to piss @Brave Sir Robinoff 

Edited December 13, 2018 by caballosblancos

[Guest]

I'll be quite happily singing Boy From School, while the day trippers are going mad for Macca.

[Guest]

24 minutes ago, eastynh said:

I'll be quite happily singing Boy From School, while the day trippers are going mad for Macca.

Me too man. Tried my best to get into Beatles and Macca stuff since the announcement and I just can't. I seriously love The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, which you'd think would be a guarantee I'd at least enjoy the Beatles, but massive swathes of their music just turn me right off. There's definitely stuff in there I can really enjoy, but it always turns out to be Harrison or Lennon stuff.