OV9

Vic Reeves club singer.

He's still standing (just)

But walking like one of the Thunderbirds

That was fucking brilliant…

QOTSA showed everyone how it should be done. Leagues ahead of any of the pyramid headliners.

Wasn't just me who couldn't understand any of Elton's lyrics then. Checked twitter - nope, wasn't just me.

JonMad wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:34 am Wasn't just me who couldn't understand any of Elton's lyrics then. Checked twitter - nope, wasn't just me.

He still had a Dacia on his mind.

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 12:47 am QOTSA showed everyone how it should be done. Leagues ahead of any of the pyramid headliners.

Haven't listen to QOTSA in years but I saw them and Eagles of Death Metal live back in the day. Josh Homme is a great live performer.

Gabriels were amazing (he guest sang on Eltons Set as well but with his group is soooo much better!)
Teskey Brothers / Yusuf were perfect for a sunday afternoon - amazing musicianship and vocals
GnR - could barely hear what was being sung
Lana Del Rey - My 12y/o daughter idolises her and she was a massive disappointment - had plenty of time to get ready for a 10.30pm set and fucked it up - would have been great had she turned up on time
Texas were great on Friday - did what they were supposed to do at a festival and did the singalong croud pleasers / newer stuff
Rick Astley - Holy Shit was he ever good, who knew he could drum / play guitar and still sound as good as ever - give the man the legend spot on sunday next year! Or get him and a bunch of 80's / early 90's groups for a collaboration to fill the slot

Lots still to check out over coming days while it's still on iPlayer

I watched Rick Astley yesterday simply because it was on in between live sets. Bloody hell he was good and Higway to Hell was a highlight.

I last saw Texas live at V98 so, God, 25 years ago! and they were every bit as good, another band who deserve to headline.

Elton was great for a 76 year old, he was better than GnR, and it's a bit weird that Axl Rose at 61 is almost the same generation as Elton. I think of them as very different age groups, like 30 years apart, as if Elton is my parent's age and Axl is from my generation.

Need to catch up with QOTSA and Rick Astely, because I've always enjoyed Josh Homme's live performances, he knows how to work an audience.

ZedLeg wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:53 am

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 12:47 am QOTSA showed everyone how it should be done. Leagues ahead of any of the pyramid headliners.

Haven't listen to QOTSA in years but I saw them and Eagles of Death Metal live back in the day. Josh Homme is a great live performer.

I kind of went off them a bit after he kicked a photographer in the face a few years ago. However, it seems he was in a mess at the time and booked into rehab, and apologised at least. And he's also called out Jay-Z for being a bit of a cnut, so he goes up in my estimation for that.

But I wasn't ever going to watch Elton John so it was a no-brainer. They really were incredibly good. Riding that line of heaviness between hard rock and metal perfectly.

I also caught some of Shame's set yesterday - whilst I'm not a fan of all their stuff, it was fantastic performance from them as well.

Yeah I think it was when he started to spiral and the singer from EoDM went all alt right that I stopped listening to them tbh.

He's a tremendously talented musician though.

QOTSA was one of those performances that is so tight and with so much energy that even if you knew none of their songs before the gig, you'd leave as a massive fan. Really good headliner material. Josh Homme also gives pre-rehab James Hetfield energy, back when he was really sweary at gigs.

Now listening to Fatboy Slim's set - it's awesome! Full-on party-rocking big beats with loads of different callbacks to tunes from the late nineties hits through to TikTok viral tunes. Also live guest vocals too. If I'd dropped and turned up for that set, I'd be grinning all the way into 2024.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... atboy-slim

He's dropping early nineties bangers now

Watched part of royal blood, now watching qotsa, both would have been better headliners than any of the three actual headliners.

But what do I know, Elton got the biggest audience figures of any glastonbury act ever.

Does it even matter who the actual headliners are? They sell the entire festival out in a couple of hours every year anyway.

Wish theyd archive all the previous ones on iPlayer, see if the ones I watched in the mid to late 90s as a teen developing my own tastes in music were as good as my rose tinted specs seem to think they were.

I'm going to Truck festival again this year after 5 years off (after 9 years going in a row). It used to be a nice little 2 night festival with a few decent bands I was looking forward to Royal blood and Everything Everything...

The line up app has just come out, both are playing late Sunday night. Balls, Sunday was always the left over night for the stragglers - not the main night.. I don't know about the rest of you, but at 42 years old I won't be doing 3 days drinking in a row and taking 2 days off work for a festival.

Irritating.

I'd happily take two days off work for a festival but my boss is a cvnt and he always wants me to work.

The show security doing a fully choreographed dance along to Never Gonna Give You Up