Live Concerts
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Caught up with old friends after decades in some cases at Widespread Panic Res Rocks
Then ran into Mike Gordon, Phish’s bassist, and chatted him up a bit. Blurry though it is, glad my wife stole a candid, knowing we wouldn’t ask him for a photo while he’s just trying to enjoy some ice cream.
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Amongst a long list of artists across many many genres this past week at Glastonbury I caught Brian Jonestown Massacre on a very sunny sunday afternoon, perfect settings and a plane was up above drawing a smiley face!
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How was West Holts Stage @hjl360? Any interesting acts over the weekend?
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@Matt it really is. It's crazy just how big it is and you often need a good hour to get between stages due to crowds and needing to stop for the toilet and drinks etc. Not to mention the part of the site where we had our camper van was around a 30-35 minute walk to the festival entrance.
I would say I managed around 2/3rds of all the acts I had written down, but also saw so many I did not plan to. Even having said that though there was still a few stages I did not see anything at!
@Bridger West Holts was awesome, classic large scale outdoor concert setting. Great sound and speaker stacks going right to the back of the crowd so you always heard the music brilliantly. That point actually goes for every stage there, no matter where you stood in the crowd the sound was fantastic, loud and clear. Which in the UK in recent years doesn't always seem to be the case.
It's worth going there just to experience the Pyramid stage alone. Mind blowing just how far back you can go and still have a great time and how huge of a crowd can fit in there.
Some big names I saw were Kaiser Chiefs, Lewis Capaldi, Maccabees with Florence from Florence & The Machine, Busta Rhymes, Alanis Morissette.
Then it all got a bit loose for the party music; MJ Cole, Joy Orbison, Four Tet (twice), Jamie XX, Solomun. Fat Boy Slim's 100th performance at Glastonbury which was one of the best parties I've ever been too, that was at Shang Ri La and I was properly flying by that point. Haven't partied like that in years.
The IICON stage is one of the craziest things I've ever seen, especially late on into the early hours.
My only regret is missing Prodigy, but I'm sure there will be another opportunity! The Kneecap show would have been another great moment but they closed off all routes leading to it almost an hour beforehand as it was so busy and at that point I was relaxing in a tent listening to the great Giles Peterson spin some records.
All in all a truly 10/10 experience, if you ever get the chance to go, do it!!
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Sounds awesome @hjl360. I went in '97 but I am sure it has improved a lot since then!
Do you know if there are any non-camping options to shuttle in each day from a nearby hotel?
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Revising for Saturday
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@Bridger Amazing what you can find on Google. This is the newspaper ad for a small club in NYC called Unganos. I saw the MC5 and Black Sabbath there in the same week. I went to see Black Sabbath on the first night and when they turned the amps on they blew all the fuses in the club. We all went back the next night and saw quite possibly the loudest show I’ve ever seen in my life. They were amazing!
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Amazing experience @Jett129
That was potentially their first US show.
And apparently, they played with Rod Stewart the next night?
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tony-iommi-rob-halford-first-us-shows/
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For those of you Wet Leg fans, tickets for their tour go on sale with Ticketmaster tomorrow. Portsmouth included in schedule plus several in Europe and plenty of towns across the US.
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Saw the Wetties a couple of times in early 2022 after Chaise Longue, and they were an innocent amateur silly uni band, but they were having fun.
Recently saw them at Brixton Academy, and they were a very different band. The lead singer seems to have been crushing it in her CrossFit box and now patrols the stage like Henry Rollins on heat. The band dynamics were super different. The lead guitarist seems even more reserved than before and had very little interaction on stage with the vocalist, when they previously seemed to frolic together.
If I were a betting person, I would not give this current lineup chances of staying together much beyond this summer tour pay days. But hey, what do I know – they could have just been having an “off” night in Brixton.
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What a moment i bet that was
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Slayer in Finsbury Park tonight made me think that's what Metallica wants to be when they grow up.
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@IrishHeart said in Live Concerts:
For those of you Wet Leg fans, tickets for their tour go on sale with Ticketmaster tomorrow. Portsmouth included in schedule plus several in Europe and plenty of towns across the US.
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@Bridger are you planning to pop down?
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Hi @IrishHeart,
No, I would have, but I will be at Stevie Wonder at Hyde Park. Keen to see the Ezra Collective again.
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Bob Vylan did a last minute gig at the 100 Club last night. Tickets went on sale in the afternoon and instantly sold out (300 seat venue). Guttered I missed it.
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Cracking evening yesterday seeing The Black Keys at Alexandra Palace…overlooking the city (of London).
