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Glastonbury worst I've seen!

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Ontobetterthings · 28/06/2025 14:02

Anyone else? I tuned in last night and couldn't believe how bad it was! 1975 was headlining and it was so middle or the road.

Maybe I'm getting old but the music was awful!!! So bland. Im early 40s 🤣

What are your thoughts?

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whynotwhatknot · 28/06/2025 23:23

charli is awful miming everything

Sloozy · 28/06/2025 23:23

WooleyMunky · 28/06/2025 17:42

All of the great artists are old or dead.
Glastonbury as an event has to keep going as a cash cow, but it is hard to justify ticket prices for the line-ups they have now.
And the odd 'controversial' act sticking on some balaclavas and an Irish flag is about as middle-class as it gets. Kneecap probably shop at Waitrose.

Probably not.
Good luck finding a Waitrose in Northern Ireland…

ExtraOnions · 28/06/2025 23:20

I’m in my 50s … Teen DD wanted to watch ChariXCX, and I’m quite enjoying it, reminds me of my racing days.
Also watched Pulp, Wunderhorse, Blossoms, The 1975, Franz Ferdinand, Busta Rhymes … and many others… I’ve enjoyed it all…

Tomorrow, it will be Rod Stewart, and The Prodigy.

greatvisuals · 28/06/2025 23:18

TiredArtTeacher · 28/06/2025 23:04

Doechii is amazing; I’m glad I switched over to her. So much energy!

She the one!

Gutted I'm missing her live

Tangfastic71 · 28/06/2025 23:16

whynotwhatknot · 28/06/2025 15:14

very poor lineup apart from alanis and a couple of others- the headliners arfe not good at all compared to previous years first time i wont be watching any hl

id be disppointed if were there

I could be highly entertained at Glastonbury if there wasn’t a single music act on. But I love culture and not everyone does so I get it.

Usernamenotavailable19 · 28/06/2025 23:10

GanninHyem · 28/06/2025 15:26

Bob Vylan is excellent. Suspect MN is absolutely not his crowd though.

Is that the loser who chanted “death to IDF”
can’t believe people pay a fortune to watch this cringe fest

OneMintWasp · 28/06/2025 23:07

Gloriia · 28/06/2025 14:41

She is allegedly an acclaimed songwriter yet her songs consist of fuck fuck fuckity fuck.
Maybe a new style poet like The Matt Healy.

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Nah there's a lot more to her songs than fuck fuck fuck. Try listening a bit more and being less offended by a swear word!!

Tangfastic71 · 28/06/2025 23:07

Gloriia · 28/06/2025 14:10

I'm older than you but even so used to enjoy watching it even if the music wasn't my thing but now it's just overhyped, politicised woke bollocks with average singers. Obviously the Eavis family are laughing all the way to the bank but it really has had its day.

We can only wait in excitement for what profound crap Kneecap will spout later today.

Do the owners seriously think their 'the world shouldn't have borders' banners are a good idea when they are surrounded by a massive effect perimeter fence?!

They don’t profit from it though so not sure what you’re talking about? It’s always been a political festival and what you see on TV is less than a tenth of what’s there.

EdnaTheWitch · 28/06/2025 23:07

I would have 100% agreed with you up until 6:30pm tonight when Pulp provided 45mins of sheer bliss ❤️❤️🙏🙏

Giggorata · 28/06/2025 23:06

Really enjoying Neil Young!
Liked Beth Gibbons earlier on.

TiredArtTeacher · 28/06/2025 23:04

Doechii is amazing; I’m glad I switched over to her. So much energy!

Pinktruffle · 28/06/2025 23:00

Charli XCX is shit. I know she uses autotune as a gimmick but it really looks like she's miming (I know she isn't) and she doesn't have enough stage presence

guestusername · 28/06/2025 23:00

Was good seeing Lewis Capaldi

Ezra Collective are my favourites so far

Neil Young utterly dreadful. Pretty much everything else I’ve seen so far not too far behind NY in the dreadful stakes

As mentioned elsewhere, this is the first year I don’t have FOMO

TeenLifeMum · 28/06/2025 22:53

We’re in our 40s and have said actually this year there’s loads we’d have enjoyed. We went a few times in our 20s. Seeing Alanis in Cardiff next week so I’ll get my festival experience. 1975 wouldn’t have been my pick but there’s so many options I’d just go somewhere else. Comedy tent on a Sunday morning with a bacon bap and coffee was always one of my favourite places

Focusispower · 28/06/2025 22:52

Last time I went was 2007. Occasionally get FOMO but It’s all a bit too mainstream and performative for me - and headliners generally tend to be shite these days. I do think that it would be entirely possible to have a totally awesome time checking out all the small stages and new music though, but I prefer doing that at smaller more friendly and safer festivals like Green Man (which has my heart for sure) and End of The Road.

Hiiiti · 28/06/2025 22:47

Charli XCX lively.

greatvisuals · 28/06/2025 22:47

NiMaithLiomDeLuain · 28/06/2025 22:11

I think a lot of the people commenting on Kneecap aren't familiar with Irish culture and don't realise perhaps how different Ireland is the Britain due to collonialism. Kneecap regard their home as occupied land, they see their language being restricted, their culture being restricted. They fought and won a court case against the British government on the grounds that they were discriminated against because of their nationality and their politics just this year. You just have to look at all of the bollocks over signs in Belfast when it comes to the Irish language in NI to see why Kneecap see their use of the Irish language as a form of resistance to British rule, why they want to resist British rule when their culture is being actively suppressed.

Obviously coming from what they see as occupied land, being from a nationality who were starved by their occupiers, whose culture was made illegal they are going to feel some kind of kinship with other people also under occupation.

It's really not a simple situation of Kneecap are cunts, the end.

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Agreed.

Also, Kneecap played Glastonbury last year and they went down a storm. They played 'Get yer Brits out' to a field full of Brits and no-one got offended.

People are allowed to be angry about their past and present oppression, and they are allowed to be angry about other people being oppressed.

suerte1998 · 28/06/2025 22:45

RitaAndFrank · 28/06/2025 14:02

It’s the first year I don’t have any FOMO whatsoever 🤣

Same

Freda69 · 28/06/2025 22:45

Dodgy sound for Needle and the damage done and Harvest Moon - shame!

Periodicnamechanger · 28/06/2025 22:39

Well it’s in darkness for me at home. Someone has pulled the plug.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/06/2025 22:38

Pedallleur · 28/06/2025 22:26

I'll watch Nile Rodgers but then Rod goes off. No doubt some young women in short skirts will be involved. He played there in 2009(?) and his string section were all women and dressed as schoolgirls. It wasn't a good look.

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There should probably be a bingo card:

Unnecessarily tight trousers.
Shirt unbuttoned too low.
Hips gyrating/other "sexy" dance moves 🤢.
Young women old enough to be his granddaughter on stage for him to do said dance moves in front of.
Voice as rough as burnt toast.

ScribblingPixie · 28/06/2025 22:38

Enjoying Neil Young too. I don't recognise any of the songs so far, but it sounds so good on a hot night.

Johnbrown · 28/06/2025 22:36

love Neil young. would love to see Joni Mitchel , but think she isn’t too well.

RedRiverShore5 · 28/06/2025 22:36

Enjoying it here too, I have seen him a few times before and this is the stuff I like, DS is there but I doubt he is watching it.

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