Glastonbury, Music Festivals & Live Gigs

I further note the Killers did well over an hour and a half, the Chemical Brothers similar, and the Cure were still going after 2 hours Kylie maybe did 75 minutes but she was on in the afternoon.

Most of the shows were really good, I should say.

BBC Scotland viewers (there might be some) will note TRNSMT coverage over tonight, tomorrow and Sunday nights, presented by Edith "yet again" Bowman.

But T in the Park ain't coming back.

Diana Ross doing the Sunday legends spot next year. What next, Tina Turner?

Having headlined back in 2004, today it was announced that Paul McCartney will "get back" to be one of the headliners next year at Glasto.

Taylor Swift is another of the headliners. Inclusivity, much? Perhaps she'll include some Cats numbers, I don't know...

Radio 1's Big Weekend is coming from Dundee this year.

Or not?

Glasto got canned. Live streamed gigs and idiotic group singalongs seem to be where it's at right now.

The weekend coverage starts tomorrow; they're repeating "classic" turns from the past (though not Macca's previous show in 2004). Should be fun to see some of the less familiar ones like Arthur Lee & Love.

I've just seen a rather well produced, extended piece on its cancellation on BBC breakfast.

It's ironic isn't it that after all the fuss about finding a way to celebrate 50 years of it the forces of nature imposed their own acolade.
There was a time when it was desparately uncool, load of compacent hippies with 10 minute tracks about poxy wizards. I preferred Reading, one minute twenty tracks about bashing Thatcher
It's crap now too, Jay-zed or some American women dancing about holding microphones. Or Mumford and Sons for the gazillionth time.
Presented on the BBC by dreary has beens or enthusiastic youngsters eager for a place on daytime TV
I remember looking through the bill last year and counted about five or six artists I'd have been interested in, all were hidden away in the fields.
Didn't I read that those re-runs, (strictly edited by the BBC to exclude anything not culturally or demographically acceptable) will apparently sideline Oasis to some web based effort?

I'm biting the hand that feeds me really as it's all we've got now since the bougiousie and the councils have done their best to outlaw live music in the towns for fear that the residents won't be able to hear Eastenders or because you can't get a wheelchair in the building..
My county is almost dead culturally, the next big thing listed on local websites this time of year usually being something like Dancing on Ice at Christmas in a town 10 miles away

I will tune in to the odd old performance, on endless re-run through the night interspersed with re-runs of fucking Wimbledon and I will take an interest in rumours about next years bill (Mumford and Son) and think back to Sham 69, The Jam, Bethnal, Chelsea, The Pirates, Penetration and The Motors at Reading so many years ago

So the first of 3 collective shows (among many set repeats) last night started with Brian Wilson (okay), then moved to Oasis... for 4 songs... (?!) before more chin-wagging from the dreary Jo Whiley and the tiresomely sneering Mark Radcliffe. "ooh, 1994, that's when the BBC first showed coverage from Glastonbury... including us two..." Bloody hell.

Sky Arts have cunningly chosen to put up highlights from Isle of Wight festivals past this weekend too (though only half-hour chunks, almost not worth the bother).