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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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Bridport · 28/06/2025 15:07

85 helicopters a day last year.
Even bloody Holly Willoughby arrived by chopper this year as though she's dropping in to play a storming set on the Pyramid stage.

DiamondThrone · 28/06/2025 15:05

Bridport · 28/06/2025 15:03

In recent years I lived near Glastonbury and I can't tell you how sickening the number of helicopters are in an era where we're all trying to cut emissions.

The Somerset sky is like the Vietnam Helicopter Evacuation during Glastonbury weekend.

Oh god, every celebrity who flew in should have that shoved back in their face when they try to lecture us about sustainability and climate change!

Bridport · 28/06/2025 15:05

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

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Especially given that asleep is the alternative.

DiamondThrone · 28/06/2025 15:04

hellotomrw · 28/06/2025 15:01

Id love to see the below all on the line up this year:
prodigy
charlie xcx
wolf alice
deftones
neil young
alanis morrisette
blossoms
lola young
raye
biffy clyro (seen before but they are so good)
yann tiersen

Without even checking closely, I can tell you that nearly all of them are!

Some were on yesterday.

Crinkle77 · 28/06/2025 15:04

I agree. A lot of music today is bland. Completely forgettable and I doubt will still be played on the radio in 30/40 years time.

tsmainsqueeze · 28/06/2025 15:04

The thought of using those toilets ....

Cursula · 28/06/2025 15:03

I think if you’re not actually there, all you get is what the BBC show you. That’s highly curated/edited and not a fair representation.
I enjoyed Biffy Clyro, Loyle Carner so far.

Bridport · 28/06/2025 15:03

In recent years I lived near Glastonbury and I can't tell you how sickening the number of helicopters are in an era where we're all trying to cut emissions.

The Somerset sky is like the Vietnam Helicopter Evacuation during Glastonbury weekend.

crumpet · 28/06/2025 15:03

I did enjoy seeing Peter Capaldi owning the stage with Franz Ferdinand

bluesinthenight · 28/06/2025 15:02

DiamondThrone · 28/06/2025 14:23

All oldsters though. The youngsters I've seen, like CMAT and Self Esteem, have been great.

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I had only vaguely heard of CMAT but never listened to any of her music. I was absolutely captivated by her. What a rising star. Her singing was phenomenal and her stage presence was brilliant - she seemed so authentic but totally connected with the audience and her music. I definitely want to see more of her and hear more of her music.

ColourThief · 28/06/2025 15:02

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).

Totally agree with you.
Using woke as an insult says all I need to know about a person tbh.

Figgygal · 28/06/2025 15:01

Lewis capaldi was a remarkable return - how he managed to control the fear his tics would take control last time I'll never know.
The Peter capaldi reveal with Franz ferdinand was hilarious
I'll look up Alanis morrisette but otherwise meh

hellotomrw · 28/06/2025 15:01

Id love to see the below all on the line up this year:
prodigy
charlie xcx
wolf alice
deftones
neil young
alanis morrisette
blossoms
lola young
raye
biffy clyro (seen before but they are so good)
yann tiersen

DiamondThrone · 28/06/2025 14:58

Gloriia · 28/06/2025 14:30

Yes caught a bit of self esteem last night singing 'fuck fuck fuck fuck' on a loop <yes im an ole giffer>. Very talented songwriter..

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It's lucky that singers in the punk era never swore, isn't it? 😉

RampantIvy · 28/06/2025 14:57

Now when the Cure were on a few years ago, I was deeply envious of everyone that was there to experience them live.

That set was utterly brilliant wasn't it.
I thught the Pet Shop Boys were excellent as well.

Mikart · 28/06/2025 14:57

I'm in my late 60s and am enjoying it. Wet Leg, Self Esteem, CMAT, Blossoms, Jarel Ngonga, Gracie Abrams, Inhaler and Franz Ferdinand....and that was just yesterday.
But we regularly go to gigs, arent stuck in 1979 and listen to new music

DiamondThrone · 28/06/2025 14:56

theriseandfallofFranklinSaint · 28/06/2025 14:40

Were En Vogue singing live?

I thought they were, until one of them started and the way she moving her mouth made me really not sure! If they were, they were amazing.

Wait, I thought that was my satellite connection/TV going wrong! Her lips weren't quite right, were they?

Anyway, I thought they looked great.

Pinkpupsx · 28/06/2025 14:56

The 1975 were so shit and Matt Healy is an utter tosspot. Lewis Capaldi on the other hand, what a legend. I feel emotional just thinking about how far he has come and what an unbelievable talent he is.

KellyJonesLeatherTrousers · 28/06/2025 14:54

Agree the headliners this year are poor. But for me, Self Esteem more than made up for it, she was outstanding. Ooh and yes En Vogue were definitely miming at points in their set, very odd mix of live and mimed.

CollaterlieSistersSister · 28/06/2025 14:54

Alanis was fantastic.

Great to see Lewis Capaldi back, got a bit emosh.

But mainly I’d have loved to have seen the Taskmaster live show.

MauriceTheMussel · 28/06/2025 14:53

I remember being a little kid, car windows down on the way home from school and seeing all the hippies that had hitch-hiked in from god knows where to get to the Festival. It felt like something then.

Now all these celebrities helicopter in and people go en masse to the beautiful region and kind of treat it like a Disneyland. I can’t find the words, nor pinpoint my feeling, but.. it’s just not the vibe of Avalon. It’s a real place. Not a vacuum for people to go to for a few days and then shit on the countryside the rest of the time from their cosmopolitan pedestal.

Laganlove · 28/06/2025 14:52

I’d hate to be there! Opposite of fomo

Abhannmor · 28/06/2025 14:50

Well it is Glasto. A nice familiar comfort blanket innit? People aren't splashing that kind of money to be challenged about anything. It was probably quite radical in
1970.

RabbitsRock · 28/06/2025 14:48

Have only seen a very brief clip but the show with the aerobatics etc looked really good

kirinm · 28/06/2025 14:45

Gloriia · 28/06/2025 14:39

'It's a condition of their licence. I was there in 2000 when loads of people jumped the perimeter. It felt overcrowded to the point of dangerous. The perimeter fence is a sensible evolution for a festival the size of Glastonbury.'

Of course it is a health and safety issue but can they really not see the irony of having banners saying no borders?! Oh hang on, health and safety and overcrowding issues must only apply to Tarquin & co at Glastonbury.

The two things aren’t even vaguely similar