Glastonbury live thread

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Anyone watching? I thought I’d make a thread we can drop in and out of to chat about what’s on.

Texas are playing right now. What an absolute bloody delight to see Sharleen Spiteri, looking exactly like herself at 55, giving it all. Her voice is still amazing. Rock on!

Johnny Marr!!

They really are!

Johnny.

OMG

I thought I was the only person on the planet who knew about that!

I'm loving Lizzo live. Having recovered from Lewis.

I was about to give up on The Pretenders then they brought Johnny on!

Loving the BBC GnR explainer: '... 80s excess, Appetite for Destruction, killer riffs, biggest debut, Use Your Illusion, more riffs, um, all goes a bit, um... Chinese Democracy! Um... do we mention Duff's liver exploding? Or the whole Izzy Stradlin thing? Or the... no, Ok, stick with the 80s riffs! rawr! Will they turn up on time? Who knows? Rick Ashley can play Patience? Excellent...'

I heard Howard Jones fancies it next year
The stereophonics had a concert on bbc two a while ago from Cardiff and they did all the hits. It was great
Must be disappointing if you go along and they try the new numbers out or are not on top form

@LunaNorth - if you know you know right

Smash Hits 4 eva

(black type joke there)

Wonder if Johnny enjoyed Rick.

Johnny is so cool.

Johnny should have enjoyed the Blossoms!
They did him proud.

@VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji
I'm ok with a few new ones but it's like Kelly Jones was in his own world and was just going on and on by himself 🤣. My cousin in law said she's never seen them so that and they're normally really good. I'd always wanted to see them as well so felt really let down.
Another one is we saw Ben Howard and his first album really helped me through a tough time and meant a lot to me. He'd unfortunately rejected the whole thing and played none of it 🤦🏻‍♀️

And according to Wiki
JAmes D-B from the Manics, learnt to play guitar by learning how to play Appetite for Destruction with the curtains drawn in his parents' front room.
So they could get him on with Rick!

Ha ha, has there ever actually been a performance of Ruddy Big Pig?

I remember Smash Hits running a competition to finish the lyrics to Ruddy Big Pig.

As far as I know, Rick could only remember ‘A ruddy big pig came down our street…’

Someone needs to tweet him…

I remember someone suggested "a ruddy big pig came down our street, he was grooving to Rick Astley's funky beat". I can't remember last week but I remember that!

Enjoyed Lizzo but Rick/Blossoms have been the highlight so far. Utterly random and yet somehow perfect.

Lol at ruddy big pig, god I loved Smash Hits. I used to write for 'serious' music mags in the 90s and SH was always sneered at, but it was The Best. Anyone remember Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft?

Yay Dave Grohl onstage with the Pretenders!

Grohl!

Dave Grohl drumming for Chrissie now!

I still try to make the lyrics up to this day 😂

That drum kit looks in danger of falling to bits.

Smash Hits was amazing before SAW acts took over.

I remember Markunpronounceablenameofbigcountry :)