I agree. That's why we go to lots of live music. The only people/bands I haven't enjoyed live were Wizzard (works Xmas do) who did just 40 mins cos that's all they were "contracted" to do, Midge Ure unplugged, and Elton John (even though we got free tickets) who is well past his sell by date.
that's still no excuse for posting lulu on the music thread elt.. yip,fair point brad. i have had a plastic bottles full of piss explode all around and on me at these events. aye, good craic.
Just got back from Glasto. Watched Biffy then came straight home as couldn't be arsed with Ed. Most the line up isn't my thing but it's very different watching it live. There is some great dance stuff on cool stages there that you won't see on telly (look up 'Arcadia Glastonbury' on YouTube). I've been to the last 10 Glastonbury's and I've never seen piss thrown. The crowd is generally very good. Unlike V and Reading/Leeds where all sorts gets chucked about.
Rather than Ed, Sheeren his sheep on stage I think these guys should have have been the headliners... The Wirzels.... " I am a cider drinker........ I likes it all of the time.... O R O R A, O R O R A .." Perfect ....
We were at kneb. Never witnessed piss being chucked around. In fact in all the gigs weve been to incl glasto 93-98 inc, weve never witnessed it. The only place i saw it was King Kurt at Klub Foot but that was part of the show. Prob just finny.
aye, but have you ever been when beloius some where supporting? think that's what kicked it off. with hindsight i am surprised it was only bottles of piss. never had it at T in the park or the smaller ones right enough.
I wouldn't be at a Belious Some gig. Ive got taste. Despite admitting to watching King Kurt but that was never about the music, more about the craic. Some one lobbing their piss at finny sounds like an everyday occurrence to me. Part of what being finny is all about. Ive also attended hundreds of scooterist rallies and events and no-one ever lobbed piss about and a bunch of more depraved and reprobate deviants than your average scooterist is hard to find.
deffo agree with that last part. someone else on here was at the very same gig, cant mind his name, a nurse. he will confirm. i too wouldn't normally attend that pish but i do like watching as well as listening to a band. out of the gazzilion gigs i have attended, one of the best was michal jackson which couldn't be further from my musical taste. superb show.
They used to be called bands, then they were groups. Now they are bands again. What could be simpler?
I'm sorry Loz but Joe Loss was a band Glenn Miller was a band. The Beatles on the other hand are or were a group the Rolling Stones are still a group, so why change the Status Quo
Yes broke. You are old. Rather than worry about whether the music is any good or not, you are more concerned with terminology. A sure sign of decrepitude and infirmity.
You are right, broke. Back before electricity was invented, people like Glenn Miller fronted bands, and then, at the dawn of civilisation, the popular music of the day was created by groups (this was to distinguish small collections of screaming individuals playing very loud instruments from the older forms). These days, no one remembers what bands used to be as there is almost no record of the original bands in the fossil record. With the term "band" now available, more modern collections of screaming individuals are now know as bands, and the older more sedate examples, beloved of old fogeys everywhere, are still called groups. I hope this is clear but if it isn't, nurse will be along to distract you presently.
You can't call that stuff (shit) they play in Glastonbury music bootsam, where's the likes of Henry Mancini, Jack Parrnel, Mantovani and so on.
Well, theyre probably in the beds next to you in your retirement home. Although I am beginning to suspect it may be more akin to a One Who Flew Over 'type' of home. In which case Nellie Melba and Vesta Tilley are probably there too. I believe the BBC still have episodes of "The Good Old Days" for you to peruse. Although dear old Roy Castle is no more. Hes now known as Roy Ruin.
I think groups died out in about the mid 70s. They've been bands for the last 40 years, probably. Which makes me wonder if you should be allowed out on a Ducati at your advanced age?
Radiohead were superb (though you have to enjoy that sort of miserable idiom). Foofighters very overrated, much as I like Dave Grohl as a bloke. I just find their music extremely uninteresting. I turned it off and went to bed.
