The Glastonbury Thread (2025) (2 Viewers)

[nuke terrorist]

Don't know I can't play that right now I'm in the pub. I'm talking about BEAK from Bristol ... guitar player from massive attack.

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So that BEAK track sounds like early Soft Machine or Spooky Tooth then it goes into some electronics at the end.
The production / editing is very clever.
Listened to a few other tracks by BEAK.
Lots of Krautrock influences (hate that term) + bits of more of modern bands like Stereolab, Boredoms + maybe Broadcast??
I never liked Portishead or Massive Attack. Chaos UK are my favourite band from Portishead.
Massive Attack, as the best known band from Bristol, deserve a lot of credit for refusing to play Colston Hall in Bristol unless it was renamed (Colston = slave trader).

 

[GO]

So that BEAK track sounds like early Soft Machine or Spooky Tooth then it goes into some electronics at the end.
The production / editing is very clever.
Listened to a few other tracks by BEAK.
Lots of Krautrock influences (hate that term) + bits of more of modern bands like Stereolab, Boredoms + maybe Broadcast??
I never liked Portishead or Massive Attack. Chaos UK are my favourite band from Portishead.
Massive Attack, as the best known band from Bristol, deserve a lot of credit for refusing to play Colston Hall in Bristol unless it was renamed (Colston = slave trader).

you are definitely getting it

 

[Cormcolash]

I watched a bit of Lorde (miming?), then a bit of Wet Leg.
So much to watch I guess, I couldn't watch all of either of them. I know that's disrespectful.

But then I watched Denzel Curry, and I was hooked into that for the whole set. Floridians. People who pronounce the letter "R". It was like being home, but with a massive moshpit.

He played Dublin last week and apparently it was fuckin class.

 

[Cormcolash]

They are a UK band. ooof.

I guess Kneecap is giving the Brits a reckoning that they just don't want to deal with. Living here, they do try (are you from novven oilan or suvven oiilan? is a question I get a lot), but they don't understand what they don't understand.


EDIT: An awful lot of people really liked the Kneecap movie. Including people I wouldn't have expected to like it. Whatever Kneecap are, they are some kind of thing.

The movie is poor fare. Derry Girls standard basically, just poor.

 

[ann post]

Derry girls was outstanding

 

[Kermit McDermott]

St. Vincent sounded really good.

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Not sure if it was completely "live"

 

[ernesto]

St. Vincent sounded really good.

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Not sure if it was completely "live"

What bits do you think weren't live?

Thought she was great

 

[Kermit McDermott]

What bits do you think weren't live?

Thought she was great

She was. Everything just sounded very compressed. All the guitar effects are perfect.
Its probably because they use digital units & software for all these things and everything sounds immaculate.

 

[ernesto]

She was. Everything just sounded very compressed. All the guitar effects are perfect.
Its probably because they use digital units & software for all these things and everything sounds immaculate.

I think a lot of is cleverly programmed gear. Effects loop switching boxes to reduce noise, probably with gates etc

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I went to see her in the Olympia in...2018. It was just her & screens behind.
As far as I know they whole show was run by a laptop with Ableton live or some other program syncing all the visuals, backing tracks, guitar effects pedal changes. She just sang & played guitar.

 

[ann post]

Whatever last record of hers i was trying out i abandoned on a basis of it being too compressed for long haul listening

 

[Kermit McDermott]

The right leaning internet eco sphere already had the knives out for Glastonbury because it's woke, liberal and worst of all, middle class, but they are having a field day over this Bob Vylan guy,
How many people did he kill?

 

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[seanc]

Secure connection failed?

 

[nuke terrorist]

Lowkey on media response to Glastonbury and Bob Vylan. He does great analysis videos like this regularly

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[Kermit McDermott]

YouTube is full of video titles like this lately. I presume they suggest it to the users.

This is THE TRUTH that THEY don't want you to know

What REALLY HAPPENED and THEY don't want you to know

I was SHOCKED

THEY want to silence you

The SHOCKING TRUTH about ________________________

Bruh Bruh Bruh

 

[nuke terrorist]

True. Don't get that either. Get past that and it's excellent analysis.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I find it hard to type a couple of sentences without leaving out a word but that was a catastrophe.

"Take rap OUT of the last 40 years of popular music AND you haven't got much left to get excited about IMO"

That is depressing.
The end is nigh.

 

[nuke terrorist]

That is depressing.
The end is nigh.

Hey I gave up on pop in the days of Phil Collins, Whitney Houston and Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
I gave up on "alternative" before Brit Pop and Green Day.
I'm just used to things being shit.

 

[hydromancer]