Glastonbury

The cure, like smiths, capture teenage angst - perennial - even in social media gen.

if the audience are more subdued is that less alcohol than saturday.

haven't seen if the cameras have picked out any politicians/mps/royals in the audience ... they were just focussing a Corbyn look a like, in a British AmY zulu costume.
 
I'd guess a lot of the crowd have never heard of them or know very few of their songs.

Add the fact he's barely interacted with them and there's not much for them to get excited about.

Feels like a very flat end to Glastonbury.
 
Well, if you want crowd interaction should have turned over to Janelle Monae, she just got some audience up to dance and it got a bit surreal :p
 
Robert smith is never one to blow his own trumpet and seems some what humbled by how big the Cure are and he has never been a man of many words only in his songs. The set up to now I think is brilliant.
 
He still sounds great, actually he sounds amazing live, but they could've put a CD on and it wouldn't really have been any different :p

Edit: And the crowd wake up when they recognise a song.
 
The Cure played a cracking set. They covered the whole range from gloom to elation. Amazing sound and Robert Smith was even working the crowd at the end. Friday I'm in Love has to be the most joyful pop song ever, but for me The Forest is their masterpiece. Great stuff.
 
I've just been watching Christine and the Queens. She's an amazing performer and one of the few artists that really makes an effort to communicate with the audience.

I never realised 'Girlfriend' was her song, I always thought it was some old 80s pop song. Great tune.

And 'Tilted' is so mesmerising and catchy. She looked better with long hair.

 
Cern said:
but for me The Forest is their masterpiece. Great stuff.
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I'm not a big Cure fan, outside their best known hits, but I'm not going to argue with that bit. The Forest made such an impact on me that I can still remember the room I was in when I heard it for the first time at university in 1981. Ok, and the girl who played it to me. Her name was Nadia, my girlfriend's room mate that year. Haven't seen her since 1981 but I'm still grateful for her introducing me to such a great piece of music.

I must confess though that the only set I've watched/listened to all the way through this year is Kylie's. Not because she's a great singer (she most definitely isn't, especially live) and not because I can't hear her name without thinking about the Agent Provocateur advert..... <drifts off for a moment>. No, because I actually rate her extended body of pop work far higher than Madonna or Beyoncé. And I think 'Can't get you out of my head' is one of the best pop songs ever penned; such a catchy tune. Not that she wrote it, but it's hard to imagine the tune without her fronting it now. Anyway, it was just right for a sunny Sunday afternoon, IMO.

She should never have married Scott though.
 
Merlin5 said:
Christine and the Queens.

And 'Tilted' is so mesmerising and catchy. She looked better with long hair.
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One of the best routines I’ve ever seen was her performance on Jools Holland of Narcissus is Back, like Tilted, but even better.

Can’t find a clip of it anywhere though. :(
 
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One of the best routines I’ve ever seen was her performance on Jools Holland of Narcissus is Back, like Tilted, but even better.

Can’t find a clip of it anywhere though. :(
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I've just done an extensive search for it, and like yourself I came up with nothing. I found details of the Jools Holland episode from 2016 on the BBC website when she performed Narcissus but it's unfortunately not available anymore.
 
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Merlin5 said:
I've just done an extensive search for it, and like yourself I came up with nothing. I found details of the Jools Holland episode from 2016 on the BBC website when she performed Narcissus but it's unfortunately not available anymore.
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I think they still have her Tilted & a Prince track medley on YouTube from that episode, still cracking though.
 
My summary of acts I saw:

Great
  • Rhythm of the 90s - hands down the most relentlessly entertaining live act I've witnessed. Set was shorter than two years ago (only 1h15) but a bit more refined, male vocalist has grown in confidence and when out the blue bust out Vanilla Ice in the middle of Let me be your Fantasy I actually saw someone's jaw drop in amazement, it was so weird from someone who basically looks like a slightly fatter Jack Whitehall!
  • The Killers - not quite as good as 2017 due to the atmosphere but still a great show with sing-a-long anthems and Brandon doing his showman piece. Nice cameos at the end, but a bit annoyed they cut the set short by 15mins especially given how little got played from their last two albums (surely they could've squeezed in say Run for Cover and Here With Me or Battle Born?)
  • Kylie - massive crowd, great vibe, everyone getting into it

Good
  • Pale Waves (secret William's Green set on Thursday, not the official set billed at John Peel tent) - let down a bit by vocals being off in first few songs but still entertaining. Listened to them quite a lot in the months leading up so I can imagine people who don't know the songs would probably rate this lower.
  • Two Door Cinema Club - new material a bit hit and miss but the guitar sound was bang on point and reminded me what I fell in love with back in 2011. "This is the Life" in particular was ballistic (although sounds naff on iPlayer - something has got lost in the recording mix because the guitars were majestic live)
  • Liam Gallagher - seemed moody and not in a good way, solo material got very little reaction..... HOWEVER - plenty of Oasis in there and crucially Columbia got played which I have been waiting absolutely ****ing years to see played live despite seeing both Oasis and NGHFB several times. Don't think I've ever been happier to hear the opening chords of a song, went around high-fiving everyone. If I split his set by Oasis/Solo it would be half Great, half Average, so I've settled in the middle.
  • Gerry Cinnamon - I still can't decide if he is just a bit of a chancer as he basically has a small set of chords used repeatedly and a foot bass drum. However he does entertain and it was a good crowd/atmosphere
  • Jade Bird - basically delivered what I expected, definitely a talent, good voice. Does have a very annoying teenage girl laugh though.
  • Miley Cyrus - big surprise for me, wasn't intending to watch this but she gave it some energy and seemed to have a decent voice. Also some guy near me had a hidden massive grey gym ball with "WRECKING BALL" scrolled on it, got it out at an appropriate moment and punted it high and long onto people's heads down the hill, was one of those random shared chuckles you will remember for years.
  • Bastille - great sort of band to put on in the afternoon sunshine
Average
  • Reef - just a good solid performance, interacted well with the crowd, but ultimately they are a one-hit wonder band
  • Circa Waves - decent energy for a lunchtime set, nice having a proper band playing. Ask me another day and I might upgrade them to "Good".
  • The Vaccines - having seen them two or three times before, this was their weakest showing
  • The Charlatans - Tim Burgess has no stage presence at all. "I've been good at predictions lately... I predict the next song will be Plastic Machinery" zzzz. They have some good songs and guitarists were fine but the set wasn't really long enough so there was no Tellin' Stories or How High. Would have much preferred Snow Patrol.

Meh
  • The Magic Numbers - have seen them at 4 different festivals and this outing was poor. Way, way too much new material and a couple of really ****y extended guitar outros with flashy lighting, it was like a really poor man's Pink Floyd. The crowd was really not engaged at all. Such a shame as they have some great material and are a really good live act when on point.
  • Vampire Weekend - Small crowd, not really my sort of music, didn't seem to do anything out of the ordinary. One of those occasions where you'd be happier just listening to a CD of someone else.
  • Fontaines DC - came expecting Sam Fender (somehow missed news of his cancellation) so was always going to be let down. To be fair they had plenty of energy but vocals were drowned out. I can see why they would appeal to people who have a heavier taste in music than I.

Edit: Regarding that photo, it is obviously just a tiny segment of the site, probably a shot of one of the staff or pre-erected campsites, something like that so not necessarily fake just highly misleading. Would be interested to know where they got their 99.3% statistic from as not even sure how they can measure it. One of my friends didn't bring his tent home, but he didn't just leave it there pitched either, it was bagged up and put with the rubbish (as it was finally broken after about 10 Glastos).
 
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