BBC Glastonbury

[Homer]

On 7/31/2020 at 4:57 PM, Gilgamesh69 said:

So REM, Macca, and Swift/Gaga/Eilish to headline next year? Nice

REM were touted as potential Other headliners by this website a few years ago.

[henry bear]

Watching the 1999 REM set on YouTube now - fantastic watch, better than I remember, and a reminder that it’s sad they’re no longer together 

[Suprefan]

Reading gonna have a go at this. I never wouldve thought Billie Eilish is already a “classic” 🤔

[Ryan1984]

1 hour ago, Suprefan said:

Reading gonna have a go at this. I never wouldve thought Billie Eilish is already a “classic” 🤔

Billie had the biggest daytime crowd ever seen at Reading last year.

[Calvin Klein]

On 8/3/2020 at 4:08 PM, Stokesy10 said:

Does aaaaaanyone know how to get the full Bowie video? Most of it is on YouTube in individual tracks (some have now been taken down). I've watched it a few times but I'm desperate to watch it again with some friends soon who've yet to see it. Any advice massively welcome. I'd buy the DVD off Amazon if I could afford to, but no chance any time soon!

Thank you x

I could send it to you if you want. 

Just PM me

[Stokesy10]

1 hour ago, Calvin Klein said:

I could send it to you if you want. 

Just PM me

Hi Calvin, I managed to find it in the end, thank you for the offer though, kind Sir.

[Miyn]

22 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Reading gonna have a go at this. I never wouldve thought Billie Eilish is already a “classic” 🤔

They really got their ass smacked this year for having an appalling ratio of men to women on the line-up, only 20% of the acts listed on the main poster have at least one female / non-binary member:

It seems like to try and mask that, they've put acts that played BBC Introducing and called them "classics". I'm not sure anyone would describe Olivia Nelson, who subbed BBC Introducing last year a "classic" Reading and Leeds set.

Edited August 14, 2020 by Miyn

[CaledonianGonzo]

Counterpoint:  Nirvana is the only classic set to ever happen at Reading.

[zero000]

2 minutes ago, Ddiamondd said:

Nah, Radiohead in '09 was the best show of the In Rainbows era (and arguably not bettered since). Muse '06 has a fair claim to being their best performance ever, full stop. Billie and Biffy both made significant leaps up the pop culture ladder at Reading too.

Two things can be true: Reading has less classic moments than Glasto, but it doesn't have only the one.

Bang on. Probably the best time I've ever seen Radiohead and *whispers* , better than their performance on the Pyramid in 2017.

[CaledonianGonzo]

13 minutes ago, Ddiamondd said:

Nah, Radiohead in '09 was the best show of the In Rainbows era (and arguably not bettered since). Muse '06 has a fair claim to being their best performance ever, full stop. Billie and Biffy both made significant leaps up the pop culture ladder at Reading too.

[henry bear]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Counterpoint:  Nirvana is the only classic set to ever happen at Reading.

Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts, 1987, begs to differ

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, henry bear said:

Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts, 1987, begs to differ

Meat Loaf getting bottled in 1988 is the connoisseur's choice.

[gooner1990]

14 hours ago, Ddiamondd said:

Nah, Radiohead in '09 was the best show of the In Rainbows era (and arguably not bettered since). Muse '06 has a fair claim to being their best performance ever, full stop. Billie and Biffy both made significant leaps up the pop culture ladder at Reading too.

Two things can be true: Reading has less classic moments than Glasto, but it doesn't have only the one.

Radiohead in 2009 bored me to death! 

[Gnomicide]

21 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Meat Loaf getting bottled in 1988 is the connoisseur's choice.

Bonnie Tyler overcoming the bottlers to have the whole field singing It's A Heartache was the real moment. 

[Suprefan]

On 8/14/2020 at 9:12 AM, Ddiamondd said:

Nah, Radiohead in '09 was the best show of the In Rainbows era (and arguably not bettered since). Muse '06 has a fair claim to being their best performance ever, full stop. Billie and Biffy both made significant leaps up the pop culture ladder at Reading too.

Two things can be true: Reading has less classic moments than Glasto, but it doesn't have only the one.

 You didnt see then in Mexico City that year. ( I sure did and Kraftwerk opened ) 🧐

[Homer]

Watching Grimes back - such a kickass set
 

 

[priest17]

On 8/14/2020 at 5:03 PM, CaledonianGonzo said:

Counterpoint:  Nirvana is the only classic set to ever happen at Reading.

Yeah, the good sets all happened in Leeds

[reflekting]

Arcade Fire in 2010 was a bona fide classic Reading set. 

[Calvin Klein]

17 hours ago, Homer said:

Watching Grimes back - such a kickass set
 

 

This one followed by LCD Soundsystem (with a bit of running on the mud inbetween). An all time Glastonbury evening.

[kingcrawler]

3 minutes ago, Ddiamondd said:

Oh yeah that was a banger. Go back to it all the time. The cinematography on this is stellar, especially during Power Out > Rebellion.

 

I was just getting into Arcade Fire around that time but watching that set on TV is what really made me a fan, a phenomenal set. Power Out into Rebellion is always a highlight of Arcade Fire sets when they do it but it's especially good in that video, goosebumps every time when it kicks into Rebellion after that wall of noise. I'm not sure there's a better live act around at the moment.

[dentalplan]

On 8/14/2020 at 5:00 PM, Miyn said:

It seems like to try and mask that, they've put acts that played BBC Introducing and called them "classics". I'm not sure anyone would describe Olivia Nelson, who subbed BBC Introducing last year a "classic" Reading and Leeds set.

It’s not ‘masking‘, it’s learning.

[DJL]

Semi-related but has anyone ever come across a decent quality live video of Daft Punk Alive?

[fatyeti24]

1 hour ago, DJL said:

Semi-related but has anyone ever come across a decent quality live video of Daft Punk Alive?

The 2006/7 tour was never recorded professionally, deliberately so, but there are fan made ones online.

[DJL]

3 hours ago, fatyeti24 said:

The 2006/7 tour was never recorded professionally, deliberately so, but there are fan made ones online.

Thank you, I had a feeling that was the case. I've never found a particularly decent one though. Thanks anyway

[zero000]

21 hours ago, DJL said:

Semi-related but has anyone ever come across a decent quality live video of Daft Punk Alive?

I think there’s some pro shot stuff from their wireless set in 2007 around somewhere. Not a full set however.