The Prodigy, Pulp, Rod Stewart, proper artists with timeless hits. Artists that are still listened to 30+ years on, and will carry on being listened to. Actual artists.
Kneecap & Bob Vylan, dogshit that won't be played in 30-40 years from now, and are getting attention purely from shock value. In the bin.
Speaking as someone that performs in multiple bands and works in the music industry.... I can't stand Glastonbury, due to the fact they don't pay a good 95% of performers. The usual approach is to offer zero fee and a couple of free tickets, with the expectation that additional band members purchase their own tickets at face value. In some instances, they are given direct access to purchase these. In other instances, they need to have somehow procured tickets themselves, competing against other ticket buyers.
It's very common to find scenarios where a band is booked (say a six piece), they have 1 or 2 free tickets, then somehow they have to find additional musicians to plug the gaps from musicians that are already going. When they're often playing 4-5 sets already at all hours of the day, this is hardly an easy task.
Smaller festivals do at least pay people and offer entry and often guest list, even if the pay is sometimes nominal.
Sympathetic to everything said but a lot forget that unlike commercial festivals, Glasto is primarily a fund raising festival - last year £6m given out to charities. Bands benefit from exposure, being able to promote themselves as having played Glastonbury if helpful and sales/stream counts have traditionally been boosted. It’s tricky circumstances considered…
Prodigy best set of the festival but the live guitar is unnecessary, is so low in the mix and everything that sounds like guitar is synth or samples anyway I cheered when he threw it at the drummer and walked off, bloody good catch too!
Just watching The Progidy. I tend to to love their better known songs, but not so much the lesser ones. A bit more lively than Neil Young A very good set.
No just a combo of her backing track also having her vocal and the vocoder on her vocals, makes it hard to differentiate the live mic and the backing track
Yeah she wasn't miming outright but, but she was singing to a vocal track with her live microphone dialled down low. No band either, so everything's pre-recorded apart from a slither of live vocals and her hyping up the crowd. I get that her songs rely on heavy vocal effects but I've seen other acts deliver that and sing live. It makes you wonder what the 'live' part of her act actually is.
Every day there’s been coverage of every minute of the main stages live on IPlayer, I wanted to watch Louis Dunford yesterday, 11.15 on the other stage yet coverage didn’t start until much later and no option to wind back.
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Kneecap & Bob Vylan, dogshit that won't be played in 30-40 years from now, and are getting attention purely from shock value. In the bin.
I cheered when he threw it at the drummer and walked off, bloody good catch too!
I tend to to love their better known songs, but not so much the lesser ones.
A bit more lively than Neil Young
A very good set.