Behind the barriers, behold, the Eloi
Glastonbury
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Behind the barriers, behold, the Eloi
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Dominic Cummings in the green jacket
We saw AJ Tracey ("live and direct") earlier. He was ok, lots of geetars for the audience, but he was blown off the stage by a guest appearance from H. He's really good!
Be nice to see him again 😉 I wonder if he's still knocking out microdots?
i watched it on telly, it alllooked a bit low energy.
rubberdingyrapids
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glasto is a good way to play catch up, but pleased to discover i know more current pop songs than i thought i did. e.g. i do quite like griff but she sounds just a bit too much like a lot of other artists out at the moment.
shakahislop
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im backstage with sufi, hmgov got us in, but he just made a pass at billie eilish and now there's a bad atmosphere on the celebrity viewing platform
shakahislop
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standing here on my own now coz sufi's cornered ghetts and is telling him what the ardkore continuum is
Burna boy highlight so far
DJ ez next in Arcadia. Still buzzin off Burna boy and a steak and cheese pie and brocking out like a gammon to Nia Archives
Leo
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Photos of People’s Faces When “Hey Jude” by Paul McCartney Hits
On the Saturday night at Glastonbury, McCartney waited until right at the end to belt out the unofficial British national anthem.
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Yeah, McCartney doing hey Jude is great if you like that sort of thing, but Steve Davis blasting Angel of death while his Iranian mate mimed along to it was my highlight of Saturday night
Mellsman
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I used to live with his grandad
Did he instil a love of trains, tracks, signals, and head mounted GoPros?
Mellsman
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He was / is an art dealer. I remember the trainspotter lad as a toddler.
He's sponsored by Gucci now, my nephew's girlfriend explained when I noted his dapper drip.
shakahislop
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went to see megan thee stallion (it was that or stay with my friends and go to MC Cartney) i found it quite confrontational, honestly speaking. kind of used to it in america i guess but it felt different seeing it in the UK surrounded by quite a lot of 14 year old english girls who know all the words. have already gone on about it at length to mates but found it a thought provoking thing, essentially the sex as power thing, the inversion and exaggeration of the rap suck my dick thing, the surgically massive arses, the combination of all these elements, and also the way that you doubt your impressions of it coz of your position, how you are some geezer slagging off how a black woman presents sex - all of these things meant that i got a lot out of it. its weird to have that feeling of disapproval and to mull over that
shakahislop
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pretty convinced as well that the current iteration of the glastonbury thing has more in common with a pilgrimage than it does with going to see a gig. there's a reason why it's so popular and while i think the music is a component, i think it's also a kind of justifying excuse, that actually the communality of it all, how difficult it is on your body in one way or another, that is what makes people keep going. the parallel to hajj (not that i've ever been) occurred to me on the bus there just because of the similarities in the ticketing process (there are nowhere near enough to go round so people feel lucky when they get one, even if they can afford it no problem), and similarities kept jumping out at me as the weekend went on
shakahislop
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i guess the other thing of interest to me that fits dissensus' interests is the difference between what people are saying about glastonbury when you're there, what the experience is actually like, and the popular discourse around it (on the BBC and in the guardian reviews). they feel like quite different things.
slightly separate to the above, i hadn't thought about it before but it is really striking how some parts of the festival must be really attractive to the BBC simply because they're so visually dramatic, like Arcadia, which is an enormous metal fire-breathing spider, that the festival presumably prevents them from broadcasting. the temple as well to some extent
slightly separate to the above, i hadn't thought about it before but it is really striking how some parts of the festival must be really attractive to the BBC simply because they're so visually dramatic, like Arcadia, which is an enormous metal fire-breathing spider, that the festival presumably prevents them from broadcasting. the temple as well to some extent