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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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WoolwichWitch · 28/06/2025 22:35

I’ve just looked through the entire line-up for every stage and area….and it’s not for me. Probably 10 or so artists I’d say ‘yeah, I’m up for watching them’ but wouldn’t pay to see otherwise. Nobody I could get excited about.

I don’t think it’s about getting old (although I am old). I thought the music was generally not for me when I went as a bright young thing in 2002/3 (I forget!). I spent a lot of time in a tiny tent that was playing UK Hiphop or drinking my boredom away in a backstage bar full of coked up record execs.

Rock and roll!

TheHateIsNotGood · 28/06/2025 22:35

Neil Young must be in his 80s by now. Like him, love him dislike him - what will you be doing in your 80s?

Freda69 · 28/06/2025 22:34

Notouchingmybhuna · 28/06/2025 22:17

Is it my old TV or does Neil Young sound absolutely dire?

I’ve got hearing aids which Bluetooth to the TV and he sounds really good. But he’s doing a lot of the grungey stuff which not everyone likes.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 28/06/2025 22:34

Blodtheplod · 28/06/2025 22:16

What on earth is going on with the sound?

I watched Haim earlier on and was really disappointed with their voices live compared to their videos. It was odd, because their playing came over fine but I kept thinking their voice mikes weren’t properly connected. Or maybe I’m just old and deaf.

JaneJeffer · 28/06/2025 22:32

I’m enjoying Neil but if you don’t know his music you probably won’t enjoy it. Perfect festival music IMO

Braygirlnow · 28/06/2025 22:32

WoolwichWitch · 28/06/2025 20:57

There have been a few performances I’ve enjoyed, but in general it’s just SO BLAND. It feels like an extended Jools Holland show with a dash of BBC Introducing shite thrown in. It’s just not exciting to watch on telly, and the last time I went (20 odd years ago) it was bland and commercial as fuck even then,

All the Free Palestine stuff puts me off massively, too. Pissed white guys in bucket hats who can afford £400 a ticket waving the Palestinian flag… oh, just fuck off.

(Ezra Collective are making me smile with their tribute to teachers and youth workers, though 🥰)

Yeah, Genocide is sooo lame.

Nitgel · 28/06/2025 22:31

I'm liking neil young. Also liked nova twins

suburburban · 28/06/2025 22:30

YourWinter · 28/06/2025 22:28

Just watching Alanis on catch-up and she is still really good. I’ve downloaded John Fogerty too. It’s baffling and quite unforgivable that the BBC didn’t show The Searchers playing their last ever live performance. Nothing else of interest to me this year.

thqts a shame. I would have liked to have seen them

last year it was much easier to watch each act separately on i player

WoolwichWitch · 28/06/2025 22:29

OonaStubbs · 28/06/2025 22:27

People who talk about Glastonbury as a music festival are missing the point. It is so much more than that. Glastonbury is a revolutionary space outside of the capitalist system. It is what every day life would be like if it wasn't for the bastard Tories.

Are you serious? Please say this post is sarcasm

Traybake99 · 28/06/2025 22:28

JustSawJohnny · 28/06/2025 22:08

In the same way The Pistols did - the right wing press are just foaming at the mouth about everything they say and do now. The Daily Fail have all but claimed Mo is a member of Hezbollah!

I can't see the band, considering the amount of cash that is likely to roll in after the attention re the court case, changing tack now. Any press is good press, right? THAT is my point.

I do think Mo and the others are likely to get dragged back to court repeatedly now because part of notoriety is being watched. There will be many more 'complaints' and the court case shows that complaints are being taken seriously.

Also, I gave my opinion on their politics at no point so you can shove your assumptions.

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I'm not sure what assumptions you are referring to?
I don't see them doing or saying out of the ordinary in order to court controversy. It appears to be more of a case of right wing press/English people being outraged by views that are in stark contrast to their own. The same people are equally outraged by Maggie/Lizzie in a box etc but it is clearly a widely held view in lots of areas of the UK.
In order to drag them to court they would need to be committing offences- pretty sure wearing a bally and not supporting the uk or isreali government aren't offences ( however they phrase it).

On a wider point Belfast is a very political place and a lot of people are increasingly able to respect views that significantly diverge from their own. It is something that England seems to be getting worse at.

YourWinter · 28/06/2025 22:28

Just watching Alanis on catch-up and she is still really good. I’ve downloaded John Fogerty too. It’s baffling and quite unforgivable that the BBC didn’t show The Searchers playing their last ever live performance. Nothing else of interest to me this year.

TheHateIsNotGood · 28/06/2025 22:28

OH nooooo - Neil Young is tanking according to all here - I thought he 'went out to grass' years ago. At least he's alive and tries and his songs live forever and nothing will ever take that away.

Kneecap - it's hard to see if they are truly anarchic (not that the Pistols actually were) and when it all quitens down I'll give their tunes a listen.

Anyways - it's not Anarchy in the UK - just a fucking break from the mediocrity that nearly all seem subscribed to.

suburburban · 28/06/2025 22:27

I think the crowd have gone to bed or a toilet stop

OonaStubbs · 28/06/2025 22:27

People who talk about Glastonbury as a music festival are missing the point. It is so much more than that. Glastonbury is a revolutionary space outside of the capitalist system. It is what every day life would be like if it wasn't for the bastard Tories.

Braygirlnow · 28/06/2025 22:27

NeartoNewquay · 28/06/2025 14:04

Yes I agree. Enjoyed En Vogue and was looking forward to Neil Young but his set isn't going to be televised apparently.

I'm watching him now...

PandoraSocks · 28/06/2025 22:27

TheHateIsNotGood · 28/06/2025 21:43

I gave up on Glastonbury once CND took it over, although my sentiments ally with them - it wasn't supposed to be about political causes and headlining Judy effing Tzuke was the turning point for me.

That's when I started describing Glastonbury as a "Worthy Cause" and left it to the day's 'movers and groovers'.

The odd occasion when I watch a bit - Christine and the Queens are the only stand out. Alanna will always be great with or without Glastonbury.

Christina and the Queens was stunning. That was a couple of years back I think? Or three? 😬

Pedallleur · 28/06/2025 22:26

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/06/2025 22:19

There just don't seem to be many good headliners any more.

Just wait until Rod croaks his way through Maggie May tomorrow 😬.

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.

Notouchingmybhuna · 28/06/2025 22:24

Pedallleur · 28/06/2025 22:23

But he is a legend (apparently). Not a Glastonbury headliner imo. Put him on his own terms in a theatre or arena and he is excellent. His recent tour with Crazy Horse was superb but if you don't like him then you won't like this set.

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I love him. Have done for years. Really disappointed with this 😐

JustSawJohnny · 28/06/2025 22:23

Notouchingmybhuna · 28/06/2025 22:22

The crowd ain’t exactly going wild 😆

Maybe not for the headliners but there were circle pits during Denzel Curry earlier.

For RAP!

Pedallleur · 28/06/2025 22:23

Notouchingmybhuna · 28/06/2025 22:18

Time he retired….

But he is a legend (apparently). Not a Glastonbury headliner imo. Put him on his own terms in a theatre or arena and he is excellent. His recent tour with Crazy Horse was superb but if you don't like him then you won't like this set.

Notouchingmybhuna · 28/06/2025 22:22

The crowd ain’t exactly going wild 😆

keeperofdarktails · 28/06/2025 22:22

kirinm · 28/06/2025 14:33

It has always been highly political. Don’t people feel embarrassed using the term woke as an insult?

The crowd is too big for me nowadays and it’s a bit TikToker friendly now but I have a tiny bit of FOMO. I am watching Brian Wilson from 2005 though as haven’t found anything else I like (watched a bit of Alanis and En Vogue last night).

"Don’t people feel embarrassed using the term woke as an insult?"

They don't know what they don't know, so they probably don't know they should be embarrassed, imo.

Profpudding · 28/06/2025 22:20

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/06/2025 22:19

There just don't seem to be many good headliners any more.

Just wait until Rod croaks his way through Maggie May tomorrow 😬.

I saw him playing in Australia 15 years ago and thought he should retire there. He could hardly bloody walk up and down the stage. He could never sing

Alleycat321 · 28/06/2025 22:19

Absolute rubbish tonight.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/06/2025 22:19

There just don't seem to be many good headliners any more.

Just wait until Rod croaks his way through Maggie May tomorrow 😬.