My Glastonbury 2024 Review + the Joy of the Unexpected Penguin
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Yes Dua Lipa has strong songs. I found her voice live not as strong. Her stage performance and dance routines seemed all ripped from Beyonce. Just a tad less perfect than Beyonce'. I found her performance slightly underwhelming and not very original. But I think her first 2 albums have some great dance hits.
Dua Lipa was great. Bought her latest album on the back of it. These Walls is an absolute class song wonderfully crafted. Likewise bought the latest Justice album. Very excellent.
Big fan of Janelle Monae too after seeing her Glastonbury set on TV in 2011.
Andy, dude, so well put my fellow drummer.
We hate knowing how a movie we haven't seen ...
is going to end.
It renders plot changes useless.
Any suspense or excitement or sadness or thrill or joy is watered down if it exists at all as you take it in.
🎉An excellent summation of what killed Rock N' Roll. Pro Tools, Quantizing, pitch adjustment .. imagine pitch adjustments on Daltrey, Morrison... 30 minute versions of Dazed and Confused by Zeppelin...its the suspense of ... the off moment, note, beat , transition......
.Now where do they go? The brilliance that follows in adjustments together as musicians in conversation in front of 60,000...THATs what blows off the top of my head.
But it takes a disciplined listener too.
The dopamine will happen guys.
or it won't.
But the very fact that you took the journey means you know how t listen to music.
Not a product.
KEEP ON THIS CHANNEL KIDS.
You won't be disappointed.❤
Shania Twain has had serious vocal issues due to contracting Lymes Disease sometime ago. She has done well to get back to performing at all I think.
Didn't watch a single second of Glastonbury. Seems to be all pop stuff these days.
Glastonbury is all corporate now. More police than Pot & LSD dealers 😂
My 63 year old cousin went for the first time this year. He intends to go next year.
My niece was going on about The Last Dinner Party. Watched them and they definitely lived up to the hype.
I know that this is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek video. It however alerted me to the fact that I absolutely dread a world without Michael J Fox
Sounds like an absolute borefest 😆
I confess liking a few Dua Lipa songs !
The beige-core at Glasto was quite good.
Andy i will suggest to vinyl monkey to check tbis vid out.He was very anti Glastonbury this year much like myself.Great vid. Mick.
Coldplay were outstanding. Proper connection both in the field and with the TV audience. Great communication and songs.
Bottom's up Andy.
Andy, this is a stellar review! I really don't know the history of the festival but now want to learn more. I looked up the Coachella lineup and didn't see all that much, to contrast.. Interesting I would not expect Dua Lipa to perform with a live band, quite a surprise... And its just so disappointing that Janelle Monae did not follow up scifi epics with anything great and went a crap-pop direction with the horrible Yoga shite. And sad for Shania that she got a bunch of work done on her face and trouble with singing. With you on the state of computer takeover of music in a negative way now... But great to see the penguin emerge... there may be a penguin-filled response in the future, I'll shroud that in some mystery...
Hi Andy, agree with you about your music creating process! My latest album was recorded at Abbey Road in 2022 using your suggested process, real people, live recording, Beatles Piano, Beatles Organ, Beatles recording desk for the drums etc. I too have my own studio where i create stuff :-)
I haven't bothered with any of the Pyramid stage headliners, Coldplay did two, maybe three good albums then meandered, saw them in 2002, Chris Martin is a great front man, he knows how to work a crowd, I'm just not interested anymore. I may watch their set, just for Michael K. Fox.
I did try The National, boring as fuck, could only stand half an hour of them.
Sets you MUST watch Andy, for absolute in your face rock, two bands that totally ripped it up, LCD Soundsystem and Nothing But Thieves, both were brilliant.
Two others who both commanded the stage, firstly, Michael Kiwanuka, this guy is a genius, he has produced three albums of the highest quality and his set was brilliant, you must, MUST watch him.
Secondly, and I think you would love these girls, The Last Dinner Party, their debut album is one of my top five of the year so far, a brilliant mix of opera, theatre, pop and rock, uniquely British and can get a crowd singing. Please watch them, they are an absolute MUST.
Unexpected Australian Penguins. That’s a great band name if ever I heard of one.
Reflects the very poor quality of music that is around these days, total and utter rubbish.
Cyndie Lauper and Shania Twain both had major ear monitor issues. If you watch it again you can see it.
Very unfortunate for them because people just think they sucked
You are Johnny Morris and I claim my five pounds.
Hardly 'Jazz on a Summers Day' 😂
Pink Floyd?
BURMA!
Pink Floyd??
shania twain didn't impress me much 🤣
LCD Soundsystem were good
I saw sleaford mods in Brooklyn about 6 y ago. I thought for sure they would have a backing band bc their songs are so simple and they’d wanna impress the NYC crowd. But nope. Just the backing tracks on a laptop, basically just the singer / rapper doing karaoke to his own stuff. And the crowd ate it up! It thought it was a extremely sad and boring
Great video Andy. Thank you. I've been a prog rock fan since 1973 ,I was 12, before I knew what prog rock was. In middle school we named our football team "Yes" ...won the title. I watch your videos to learn about bands I may have missed over the past 50+ years. Need to check out Colleseum and that Italian stuff. So great, Thank you.
Dexys were great and I like the cut of Kevin Rowlands jib. Always have.
I'm bowled over again. Masterful.
Though there is so much positivity in the video, I have to mention my enjoyment at your two-word summation of "wheeling out the legends" problem, as "nostalgic necrophilia". Sheer poetry.
Any thoughts on Keane?
Penguins!!! My worlds colliding, I've loved penguins since I was 8 and planned to be a penguinologist 😆
The world needs more penguinologists.
It would have been a great career, but the most excitement would have been in Antarctica? could you play drums with all the layers required?
It looks like you missed Aurora.
Shame on you.😊
People say they want to hear new music until the time comes when they have to make the effort to listen it, and then they'll go and find something else to do instead. I used to spend an hour or more a day listening to new music, sharing my own and interacting with other creative people. In the end I just got tired, which I think is what happens to most people, but well-done to those who want to keep trying.
It does take effort!
It plays off in my little world at least. Finding new, good artists and music is very rewarding.
PJ Harvey
Turns out Penguins can fly after all.
Coldplay were outstanding. Proper connection both in the field and with the TV audience. Great communication and songs.
When you’re not impressed by the music but by the performances… that’s just a nice way to say the music sucks…
If you wanted guitar bass and drums - IDLES!! Proper rock and roll performance. Totally on it.
Nicely reported Andy!Happy 4th of July🎉... Tenuous!
Voice of Baceprot was fun. How about a Bloodstock review? You'll get some guitars & drums there.
Shania Twain's voice has changed, she's acknowledged it, some kind of issue but its not been revealed exactly what.
Cindy Lauper is on her last tour, announced her retirement at least from touring.
80's Vocalists, Bruce Dickinson, Alison Moyet, Billy MacKenzie were all in their own way top tier singers.
Worst Glasto set, The Zombies, it was like an OK 'dad rock' band in a local pub.
Best, Many, But Gong/System 7 collab at Glade is a stand out one (the Gong Lead singer was ill, sadly terminal, and could not make it, so they improvised and as former member Steve Hillage was performing with System 7 already on site, they kind of merged).
Re: Tems .. I only found a couple of her Glastonbury 2024 clips on my RUclips, but there are two "tiny desk concerts" out there that give a nice sampling, like 4 or so tracks each of Tems' work (and each has several million views). I'll continue to track Tems, thanks for the tip.
Music is escapeism as a coping mechanism ,and real life is escapeism from music.😁
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day Andy ❤😊
I'm all the way over here in California, don't really know where Glastonbury is. (England, yes I know that much). So forgive my ignorance, please. But is the Glastonbury Festival something different from the Glastonbury Faire? (Fair?). I thought it would be all about survivors from Fairport and Pentangle and Steeleye Span and the Albion Band....
I saw a lot of Cyndi Lauper in the 80s, she was ok... she was everywhere, ya couldn't escape it. But I never thought of her as a great vocal talent. Then sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s, sometime, I saw her on Howard Stern and she did an acoustic song or two... that lady had pipes.
The thing is. People are always expecting a Oasis reunion. Or the bloody beatles re union.
As a 46 year old dad.
With 2 teenage daughters.
Pop rules my household. So dua lipa is known to my ears. But having seen her playing live with a band was a revelation.
Musicianship elevates a performance. To the next level..
And this coming from someone who was a teenager during the britpop,grunge era.
That reminded me of Pingu! That was a very trippy kids show.
Sorry Andy, I know I'm just a miserable old boomer who pines for real authentic music played by real musicians. But, after watching an hour of this substandard pedestrian pop dreck I turned off and sought refuge in a Bowie compilation on my headphones.
This will be interesting.....far too many Prog and Jazz/Rock bands on stage, I thought!!!!😂
In all seriousness I want to see bands, go for it and play challenging music and not bloody singalongs, provocative outfits and dancing and vacuous warmed over 'easy' music.....
I hope this will be an 'Andy Rant'!!!!
Noname had a terrifc backing band I thought.
Re: Dua Lipa .. she took a fair drubbing from the critics not that long ago, quite a bit about her dancing skills, or relative lack thereof. But I saw an interview where she said she intended to take that criticism to heart and practice and work harder (and that video showed her practicing and her efforts seemed well-placed and sincere), so I'm glad your impression was a fairly good one
The Streets was once a collective from Birmingham, Mike Skinner's style was taken from Crispy and S.K. He once had a very interesting written piece on his original website (after signing with locked on) discussing the early days.
Listen to B. Howard when she was in Alabama Shakes.
Watched some of Idles set, out of curiosity . Nice moves. Musically, it felt hypnotically neanderthal. Being bludgeoned by their one note/two note grooves, reminiscent of The Fall.
You've just validated what I've been saying for quite some time now I feel like all art whether drawn or musical or poetical is created subjectively but it's always been viewed objectively whether it's a paint or a song or a musical score we humans are very judgmental if you don't play like McLaughlin and you play more like Keith Richards somehow your inferior when music as well as any other form of Art is there to invoke emotion and to tell the story to take you on a ride that's why I prefer free jazz over culture jazz because of the emotion the spontaneity of the music the jam that's what we had in the 70s and arguably late 60s were performers would take a 6 minute song go out on stage and turn it into a 20 minute song like the Allman Brothers they were free jamming rock and roll they didn't care about giving you the same song that's on the recording everybody had their moment in the Sun they painted a different picture at every venue they could play the same song night after night and it'll be different night after night that was the beauty of the music how did they feel that night what were trying to portray in their music you can always go back and listen to the record and hear the song note for note perfect I'd much rather listen to an imperfect Shania Twain then a lip syncing Don Henley or Beyoncé I am a human and I want to embrace Humanity in all its imperfections which makes each reflection unique and beautiful it is truly our imperfections that's our true beauty and inspiration thank you again for saying what I've been thinking for a very long time with Auto-Tune I know things have their place but at least leave the computers away from the live performance I'll still want front roast seats to the worst performance of The Rolling Stones and I'll be happy as a pig in sloth keep up the good work don't get discouraged
I enjoyed Glastonbury 25 years ago when you could get a ticket for £75 two weeks before it started and the bands were still culturally significant. The food prices were too much and we starved but it was a good vibe. I would never go now. Its a pure middle class activity
The one thing I miss with the TV coverage is a lot of the smaller stages. They should at least add Avalon stage to the coverage.
Caught the Tems set too and enjoyed very much.
And I mentioned this on my FB. Do pay attention ! 😂
Little Simz was my stand out discovery. Stellar performance. She did have a guitarist and bass player too who also appeared part way through the set, although maybe they weren’t plugged in. Don’t think that was the case mind
I think Justice was my overall favourite set.
Why does it always rain on me?
I thought the line-up seemed rather dull. I watched acts that I already like - Aurora (who was excellent) and Heilung, who are possibly an ideal band for ley line-centric Glastonbury mysticism. I know people who like Idles and Fontaines D.C., but they don't do much for me. The decision to have SZA headlining Sunday seemed ridiculous. I just thought, did the big act drop out and SZA is all you could get at short notice?
And penguins!? You could be the new Rod Hull.
Allegedly Taylor Swift was sought, but was not interested.
wait - so you're telling me that you didnt go, however you're giving a review on it judging by the 5% of it that is actually broadcast on the TV? thats hilarious
90 hours of live performances are available to watch from the five stages at Glastonbury. So that's everything of significance.
Yeah my point still stands, that's a very small percentage of what you can hear
How is that Name of this Nigerian Musician spelled?
Thames? Please tell me, I want to check her out.
Tems
@@narosgmbh5916 Thank you very much!
He said bottom. Heh-heh.
He did, but never once around the time he was talking about Dua Lipa. Which he did a bunch. Very surprising. (And of course your point -- Heh-heh -- too!)
Glastonbury isn't about the music, it's about being there and experiencing it in the moment. Went there in 90 and 92...the crusty days.
Why not bringing in a few of this great American JAM-BAND's , it is great festival music !!!!!! the most 80 band's are boring anyway that so called NEW WAVE ???? booooooring .
Another great video. However I kinda don't quite agree with some of your thoughts.
A. Coldplay. For me that was an absolute pathetic stunt (Michael J Fox) to pull at the heart strings because they are, as you said middle of the road sing along rubbish for the masses and it makes me depressed that so many people still like them.
B. I think if there is more in the spectacle and performance that the music then that is a major problem. I don't care about visuals, blokes looking good with guitars or sexed up girls shaking their arse. For me it's the music and it should 85% be about that.
C. The only reason some of the mainstream rubbish performs with a band (I. E. Dull Lipa) is because I'd they don't they won't be seen as a real artists and people would complain that they were just miming, as some were. Dull Lipa wouldn't have had people think she was so legitimate if she's just come on a sung and shook her arse to a backing tape. And sorry but she's bog standard "another sexy woman singing artist". She didn't write the song that way originally, the band would have made it good.
D. The old shit is to try and get the oldies to still go and the cack like Dull Lipa is too appeal to the non music lovers that will literally listen to any old shit and they have to perform with a band or people will start saying how Glasto has changed into radio music for the masses rubbish. Which it is doing. IMO
E. As someone who is really fussy with vocals I for one would think even a band or artist I loved was awful if the singing wasn't good. Bad vocals put me right off to the extent I prefer instrumental music. And I agree with people moaning about it. If you can't sing anymore don't do it. It's embarrassing.
I don't think modern mainstream music for the masses is any more dead than it ever has been. It's been dying for about 30 years. They're is always shit and always fantastic. It's nothing to do with instruments or computers. I mainly listen to contemporary electronic music and it peaks my interest far more than "bands" these days. Modern "bands" just sound average, bland, same as the next one and most of all, unoriginal. There is nothing out these days that is better than bands from 20-30 years ago and before.
A few good artists both instrument and electronic are great but I don't think it's any worse than it has been for the last 30 years.
I think music from computers is far more interesting by far right now. And I don't think it'll be beaten, for me, by actual band music any more. Electronic and computers are the final instruments that will be invented to make music and it will take over instruments more and more.
If musics interesting it's interesting regardless of how it's produced.
Lastly, this year's line up was the worst, most mainstream mftm line up there has ever been and it will only get worse when all the old bands are dead.
Glasto has always been about the experience of going which is lucky coz there's less and less good music there every year.
Anyway all my opinion.
Your top 30 prog vid was fantastic and epic!!!!
Ta raa