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The only band to watch at Glastonbury Moe is The Stranglers,they will steal the show,mark my words!
The only band to watch at Glastonbury Moe is The Stranglers,they will steal the show,mark my words!
Can’t imagine them sans Cornwell.
Do you think that he’s been adequately replaced?I’ve not been to a festival since Reading 78, but if I was at Glastonbury I would try to see
Gorillaz Willy Nelson Muse Shakira Seasick Steve Jackson Browne (acoustic stage pref.) Ray Davies Paloma Faith Mumford & Sons Delphic The Drums George Clinton Jerry Dammers Toots & Maytals Nick Lowe Al Stewart Richard Thompson Judy Collins
I would run a mile from
Dizzee Rascal and Hot Chip.
The only band to watch at Glastonbury Moe is The Stranglers,they will steal the show,mark my words!
Can’t imagine them sans Cornwell.
Do you think that he’s been adequately replaced?Hugh was irreplaceable Peter,but the band have moved on and can still write brilliant songs and perform them live! They are awesome! "Get a grip on yourself" could be the song to kick off with followed by "Time to die"! Just remember the worlds greatest Bass player is still in the band after 35yrs!
I saw The Stranglers live in 1977. Mental !
They were joined by naked women on stage and when some audience members climbed on stage at the band’s invitation, the Glasgow Apollo bouncers set about them; whereupon Jean-Jacques Burnel (an average bassist and karate black belt ), swung a roundhouse karate kick at one overweight penguin suited thug and knocked him spark out. Classic stuff.
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Oh, and without Cornwall… nah !
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I saw The Stranglers live in 1977. Mental !
They were joined by naked women on stage and when some audience members climbed on stage at the band’s invitation, the Glasgow Apollo bouncers set about them; whereupon Jean-Jacques Burnel (an average bassist and karate black belt ), swung a roundhouse karate kick at one overweight penguin suited thug and knocked him spark out. Classic stuff.
: Oh, and without Cornwall… nah !
33 yrs ago J,J was an average Bassist Himself,but you listen now,the intro to Hangin Around and No More Heroes,it doesn"t get any better.He is now the highest graded Shotokan Karate instructor in the country too,it just shows you how we all achieve our levels of ability given time!
I’ve not been to a festival since Reading 78, but if I was at Glastonbury I would try to see
Gorillaz Willy Nelson Muse Shakira Seasick Steve Jackson Browne (acoustic stage pref.) Ray Davies Paloma Faith Mumford & Sons Delphic The Drums George Clinton Jerry Dammers Toots & Maytals Nick Lowe Al Stewart Richard Thompson Judy Collins
I would run a mile from
Dizzee Rascal and Hot Chip.
Agree about dizzy rascal but disagree about Hot Chip, saw them at V-Festival and thought they and the atmosphere they generate were brilliant. Also saw muse and stranglers there. Muse obviously top class, but despite liking a few of their tunes, wasnt that impressed with the stranglers live. Think a pub grade cover band could have outplayed them…
Quite like Seasick Steve also btw…I’ve not been to a festival since Reading 78, but if I was at Glastonbury I would try to see
Gorillaz Willy Nelson Muse Shakira Seasick Steve Jackson Browne (acoustic stage pref.) Ray Davies Paloma Faith Mumford & Sons Delphic The Drums George Clinton Jerry Dammers Toots & Maytals Nick Lowe Al Stewart Richard Thompson Judy Collins
I would run a mile from
Dizzee Rascal and Hot Chip.
Agree about dizzy rascal but disagree about Hot Chip, saw them at V-Festival and thought they and the atmosphere they generate were brilliant. Also saw muse and stranglers there. Muse obviously top class, but despite liking a few of their tunes, wasnt that impressed with the stranglers live. Think a pub grade cover band could have outplayed them…
Quite like Seasick Steve also btw…I bow to your having seem HC live but I thought they were awful on Jools a few weeks back.
Maybe you just can’t get the full appreciation on TV?My boss saw Hot Chip a while ago and said they were brilliant. Hope The Drums are better live than they are on cd; bought Summertime on recommendation and it just sounds like a series of songs where the record sticks. Are Arcade Fire touring again? I so want to see them again. I have just cleaned my car out and found an Oysterband cd that has been missing for rather a long time so I’m happily listening to it. Sun is shining; got a few days off work..apart from the fact that I’ve got prickly heat and look like the Elephant Man life is good!
Must be Moe, check http://www.oxegen.ie. They’re lined up. Hot chip well worth checkin out live.
I am a regular Oxegen goer but want to visit Glastonbury.
Is it worth the Guts of 500 Quid that i spend if i go next year?
Lauren Lavern… ahhhhhh !
Mark Radcliffe, though a good presenter, always struck me as being the the poor man’s John Peel. I think he tries to mimic Peel’s inimitable style.
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At a time when women like Jordan, Kerry Catona and Paris Hilton are constantly making the headlines [along with lots of money], Lauren Laverne is like a breath of fresh air..and, boy is she eloquent and so, so funny. She’s particularly good in The Culture Show as well. I feel the prescence of John Peel is around when she and Mark Radcliffe are presenting the show. Just about to watch the highlights, having missed a lot of it this weekend. Of the acts I did see, I was rather taken with Vampire Weekend and, although I don’t particularly like them, the Dead Weather did a typical Jack White turn; didn’t like the music much but couldn’t take my eyes of him.
Lauren Lavern… ahhhhhh !
For you, Himself, a little footage of Ms Laverne in a former life, fronting her band Kenickie at a Reading Festival some time in the late 1990s;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOI-eOOd … re=related
One of the most treasured possessions in my record collection is the original 7" of Kenickie’s debut EP
Catsuit City
on the Newcastle indie Slampt. Short, snotty, knowing and at times far more hilarious than anything made by a group of then 16-year-olds has any right to be, this track, "SK8 BDN Song", is pretty representative (and still makes me giggle 15 years on);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOI-eOOdMfA
Mark Radcliffe, though a good presenter, always struck me as being the the poor man’s John Peel. I think he tries to mimic Peel’s inimitable style.
Perhaps, perhaps, though arguably Radcliffe had a greater initial impact on me than Peel did, as he was the controller of Piccadilly Radio in Manchester when I was around 10 years of age and could pick up Piccadilly on my little MW tranny better than Radio 1.
He delighted in getting his DJs to ignore the then typical Radio 1 playlists as much as possible. Even after Jennifer Rush’s "The Power of Love" had been number one for five weeks, he reasoned that it was more interesting to play Easterhouse’s "Whistling in the Dark", Johnny Clegg’s "Scatterlings of Africa", Pierce Turner’s "Orange Coloured Sun", and so on. Commercial suicide, of course, and he was soon sacked by nervous radio bosses intent on reinventing Piccadilly as a Fab FM station, but goodness me it was fun to listen to.
His own teatime show had a rotation of opening theme tunes. How many commercial stations do you know would tolerate one of their number playing this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Divj-x_BFc
at 6pm once a week?
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