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All holding there phones in one hand and a organic fruit boost in the other …
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
“sorry but you have one job to do for an hour and a half at 10.30pm. There is literally no excuse for being late.”
100% THIS.^
I by no means agreed with everything my late father ever said, but his view was that: pop stars, actors, comedians, any performing artist, they were all simply “music hall persons,” there to entertain the rest of the population, who had what he considered “proper jobs,” in their leisure time.
He could not understand the culture of celebrity or putting these people on pedestals at all.
It’s your JOB, you have one thing to do, organise getting yourself on stage on time.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The Glastonbury website lists the BBC and Guardian as its two ‘official media partners’.
I am sure that the BBC presenters’ nauseating sycophancy and The Graun’s undeserved glowing reviews have absolutely nothing to do with not wanting to upset the apple cart and risk losing their annual free jolly 😉
I used to work on both The Guardian and The Independent and while I was obviously on the racing desk, there was frequent professional and social interaction between departments.
Now the music (and arts generally) journalists were mostly very nice people, but in their heads the performing artists they wrote about – and frankly fawned over – were up there with scientists who develop things like Covid vaccines.
Anyone who thinks racing is the only industry with a sycophantic specialist media should think again – sycophancy is rife in every walk of life.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“The Glastonbury website lists the BBC and Guardian as its two ‘official media partners’.”
The BBC and The Guardian, partners in ‘grime’ – who’d have thought?🤣
“sycophancy is rife in every walk of life.”
And has been throughout human history. It’s one of the main factors in explaining why we are where we are today.
Couldn’t agree more.
I’m now at an age where, on a point of general principle, I refuse to indirectly give these people my money by paying the inflated ticket prices to watch them perform.
Haven’t been to a gig or purchased an “album” (or whatever they’re called nowadays or whatever platform they’re acquired by) in 30 years.
I often think: “What if they staged a ‘Glastonbury,’ or a major other arts or sporting event, or released a movie etc and literally no one attended?”
They all did a “me” and stayed at home and only spent money on food and other life essentials, all bought at the lowest possible mark up?
The shockwaves it would send through the ranks of these highly-paid people would have an immediate seismic impact and possibly be the catalyst for a much more equal society.
But it’ll never happen.
There’s far too much: “I love Lana! Lana is a Goddess! I saved all year for my ticket and walked here from Aberdeen just to see her! Lana’s hair looks amazing! It was so worth the wait! And her voice! I’d die for Lana! This was the greatest moment of my life!” in this world.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Gladders nails it.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Only festivals that I have been to in recent years were all at Tolpuddle, The Martyrs Festival. There are some very strange bands go there, some good some bad.
Last time I went there I had a chat with Jeremy Corbyn.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysI don’t think I’ve ever actually been to one.
I had a dreadfully middle class upbringing, my school was a Comprehensive in name only, streaming was done early and it was really a grammar school within a secondary modern and us A stream kids seldom even saw the rest.
Consequently I fell in with all the Dungeons & Dragons playing set and we spent a lot of time at each other’s houses, rolling 20-sided dice etc and thinking we were terribly rebellious because we listened to heavy rock /metal – Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rush, plus then newer bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Saxon plus journeyman bands few had ever heard of like Budgie.
We all went to gigs and they used to go to “Monsters Of Rock” at Donington but, by then, I had a summer job in a betting shop and racing and betting had become my myopic focus.
After that I drifted away from pure metal into industrial music in the late 80s and 90s, stuff few have heard of like: Skinny Puppy, Front242 and Ministry (plus the better-known Killing Joke).
Then I lost interest altogether.
Gigs and music generally are things I think of as being stuff I was into when I was younger – Glastonbury shouldn’t be for people turned 60 like me.
I last heard Axl Rose on the soundtrack for Terminator 2 when I watched the movie in Greenwich 30 years ago, ffs, how can a borderline coffin dodger like him be headlining Glastonbury?
Answer: Because it’s become a revival event for the affluent grey/silver pound – it’s about as radical and progressive as a dvd set of 1970s Coronation Street episodes.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"There are people who take their very young children to Glastonbury, which suggests it is not exactly “Sex and Drugs and Rock And Roll”.
I once saw the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain perform a cover version of Ian Dury’s song but reworked as “Cakes and Buns and Sausage Rolls”. Which is closer to what Glastonbury sounds like nowadays, although it would obviously have to be vegetarian sausage.
“The sound quality for Blondie is even worse than for Guns N Roses.”
Every year i’ve watched some of it the Pyramid stage acoustics have been rubbish. One would think Eavis and co would’ve sorted it by now. On the other hand Debbie Harry’s voice is pretty cr@p, but to be fair to her she is 78 on Saturday coming.
The night in 1978 Debbie Harry made her debut on Top Of The Pops with that Denis video, Agnetha out of ABBA lost her entire male fan club up and down the land.
A FAR more interesting blonde had suddenly hoved into view.
No one of us had the remotest idea who “Denis,” was, but we were all in agreement he was a lucky f****r.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Lil Nas X, superb stuff. He’s currently on stage with someone dressed as a ten foot high bull, he came in earlier on what looked like the lovechild of a horse and Dougal from The Magic Roundabout and had a giant stork dancing around at one point. God knows what those on hallucinogenics must be thinking.
Solid effort from Elton John, even as someone who wasn’t alive when he did his good stuff, I still knew all but about five songs.
Another one whose voice isn’t what it used to be though, there have been quite a few this year. It happens with age, I get that, but that’s quite a few prime slots filled by those past their peak. I think some younger names will be given top billing next time and I’d be surprised if more than one of the three headline acts is exclusively male.
Looking forward to catching up with some of the sets I’ve missed over the next few days. Presenters aside (seriously, who likes them? They seem to be almost universally slated), the BBC does a good job covering it.
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