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Pretty sure more than a few blondes normally go, but I'll be dipping in & out, viewing from the sofa.

Any recommendations as crucial viewing?

Pixies on Saturday should be good and I'm looking forward to Metallica too.  I shall probably have the program on in the background for most of it.

Watch The pigs swilling around in the mud.  ;D

Bit embarrassing, didn't realise Blondie and Debbie were American!

Elbow, don't get it, dull.

^^^^ this.

Glasto always lets me see bands I like off the radio for the first time on screen. This year it was the Crystal Fighters, love their stuff, what a bunch of weirdos.

Kaiser Chiefs. How did that happen?

Wonder if they'll do their...er...absolutely brilliant version of Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Seriously. They did one.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TngtslwNHw

It's somehow offensive to Motown, Indie and Ska at the same time.

I'm not a massive Kaiser Chiefs fan but they do put on a very good show.  One band I just don't get are Arcade Fire yet everyone raves about them.....

Arcade Fire are fantastic, particularly live.

Looking forward to seeing them again on Sunday, live in Dublin, supported by the Pixies.  Pretty much a dream line up for me!

Not sure my review of Glastonbury day 1 will be popular

- TV. Mark Radcliffe gets to top up his pension by presenting it again in his faux-blokey Mancunian style, whilst in the interview room someone called Greg and a woman i don't know struggle to string two sentences together. The main anecdote to demonstrate how much fun Glastonbury is is how the camera pointed at a security man not prepared to join in with a hands in the air thing and then he did it. They go to a woman in a very annoying estuary english accent who tells us, from the middle of a field, that someone had turned their spare tent into a toilet. Meanwhile the 10pm BBC2 show has Jo Whiley without a clue what is going on, missing prompts and grinning inanely. Radcliffe meanwhile tells us he never gets tired of the view from "up here". which you wouldn't, as you are being put up at the bbc's expense whilst everyone else sleeps in mud

the bands

- Elbow. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Guy Garvey comes on looking like a supply teacher (geography) and proceeds to sing 15 identical songs in a dull monotone whilst the rest of the band look half-arsed. the bass player who doubles up on the small keyboard appears to fall asleep at one point. They then encore with the one everyone knows but get the crowd to sing most of it. He asks for them to harmonise, and they do it better than the band itself does. they leave the stage no doubt to more mercury prize nominations for producing boring music to achingly trendy art students who don't really like them but have to because its fashionable

- Arcade Fire. Dreadful, boring. I divert myself by trying to work out if they have more people on the stage than there are in the crowd watching them. its close. as one commentator described "Arcade Fire are a bit like a one-man band on a jobshare"

- Kaiser Chiefs. School run mums choice Ricky off the voice bounces around for 90 minutes unaware that all the school mums are watching on the telly and the girls he is preening for are caked in mud and wearing cagouls

- Blondie. Brilliant, she still has it allowing for the reediness in the voice nowadays. classic songs

- Foster the people. stupid name, catchy tunes

- Interpol. How are things on the west coast? Mighty fine from where i sat

- Rudimental. Congratulations to the deity who cut their set short with an electrical storm. Proof that there is a God

- Lily Allen. nice legs, nice pants. she was on stage with four backing singers in dog masks dancing in front of giant baby bottles. Odd. Bonus points for managing to libel sepp blatter, apparently. She walked out on greg someone and unknown woman in post set interview, but still doesn't do mock outrage as well as her dad

- paolo ntini. good show, not my thing but undeniably a good set. not sure he's quite got the clout for mid evening on a main stage though. bit too "nice"

- Jungle. never heard of them, not my thing but enjoyed it actually. will check them out more

Not a big music person at all so my opinion means nothing as i am more likely to set fire to £50 notes than ever attend Glast but didn't get Arcade Fire either.  Didn't come across as a headline act to me for a Friday night.  At times i was waiting for security to get on the stage as it looked like there had been an invasion from the crowd several times.  Several of the 'band members' on stage looked like 1980/90s WWE superstars with their face paint.

lol wp Tighty

sums up a lot of what I caught yesterday.

Add, Lauren Laverne still hot!  :) imo

rodrigo y gabriela , terrific

Today, can only get better...

Robert Plant, Jack White & Metallica...

Hope they show Seun Kuti son of Fela Kuti, love Afro Beat.

Metallica on at 9:45 tonight.

- Rudimental. Congratulations to the deity who cut their set short with an electrical storm. Proof that there is a God


Made me chuckle...love Elbow though :)

Jack White ROCKS  ;applause; ;applause;

As I said on facebook - billing should deffo be the other way round - I've never got Arcade Fire but the Pixies are obviously awesome.  Been trying to watch them on red button but had to give up as it was so jumpy.  Anyone know where I'll be able to watch the full set later?

Jack is the epitome of cool <3

Should be on BBC Glastonbury site later. tis Good imo  :)

day 2 100% better already.

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was tremendous

Metallica set so far has been awesome, but it is annoying Julie and I that they are playing all their songs half a beat faster than the recorded tracks!

neighbours gonna hate me, Metallica & Mogwai at full volume  :)

Really enjoyed Arcade Fire and Jake Bugg on the telly box.

Home and clean.
Not seen any of the TV footage as yet. It was wet, basically 3 huge cloudbursts with some cool pyro thrown in that cut the site power for about 20 mins. Was most surreal. Poor old Rudimental in the middle of their biggest tune. The site stood up amazingly well and you could of been welly free on Sunday really.

Metallica were amazing, a proper greatest hit set played almost at recorded speed. They drew a massive crowd far bigger then I expected and they seemed to retain most. the sing along to One in particular was most impressive. Don't know if they showed the walk on vid? But worth a watch on You Tube check out "Glastalica" It's by Julian Temple which is a nice touch.

Away from the main event Roodrigo Y Gabriela, Jack White, Jurassic 5 (note to De La Soul that's how you do Old Skool) Subways and the Black Keys all performed far above expectations and there were some high expectations. Skrillex? I tried, but I just don't get it where is the payoff? Lights were pretty though. Paulo clean and sober is just not as good, sorry. Lily entertained, Robert Plant disappointed more due to who he was not on stage with rather then anything he did. It wasn't all fun, fun, fun Interpol, George Ezra, Kooks, 1975 (wtf) all tried to bore me to Death.

Jagwar Ma were a pleasant surprise as was Kelis. Dolly drew a huge crowd and she is good at what she does, don't particularly like what she does but it was what it was. She was no Al Green or even Kenny Rogers.

Away from the main areas, Roni Size and Dynamite were perfect post Metallica madness. Find of the weekend was Addictive.tv go see them it has to be live the interaction between sight and sound is perfect. Craig Charles was excellent, he loves his life that boy.

Massive Attack were miss of the weekend to see Kasabian (they were on last, and the wife's band of the weekend,so attendance was compulsory), but Kasabian were better then expected, I understand they have a new album out and we needing telling once or twice.

Lots of small site changes this year and all enhanced the festival. Eavis delivers again.
6 great days. One more year please.

enjoyed days 2 and 3 more than day 1, as a TV watcher

what was with dolly and goldfrapp miming? is that acceptable do we think?

Not a Metallica fan, but it was a good show from a fairly important band in their genre. Not sure who the people were at the back of the stage, but was amused by their resolute failure to bang their heads, clap their hands or sway from side to side in time to any beat of any song over the whole two hours. Impressive

not so impressed that metallica appeared to have two songs, each of which lasted over an hour. or maybe that was just my imagination


If I see Gemma Cairney presenting again in the near future, just shoot me. Horrendous.

Dolly mimed? She was so out of breath, changed lots of words etc is was a very good pre record if so.
Bloody gonna have to watch it back now.

It's on the slower tunes where you can see it - given away by the fact she was out of breath when talking to the crowd after a quick song then perfectly into a quiet song. She's done it at her concerts for years.

Sounds like you had a great experience and I'm just a tad jealous, one of these days Ima get off my lazy ass.

Not surprising that music so divides opinion I guess but I'm gonna have to turn down my miserometer as the Interpol performance was my fave performance ainec from my perspective.

Conversely, Metallica just completely pass me by but I love Korn, in fact the only time I actually like Metallica is when I listen to Korn's version of 'One' - which I'm sure you'll agree is that rare thing where the cover surpasses the original to such a degree that you forget who did the original :-)

I watched a couple of vids and to my uneducated eye it didn't look like she was miming.  If she was she's bloody good at it, and if she would have sounded like shite singing live then it's all fine and dandy imo (wish macca had thought of it for the Olympics)

Interpol are a great recording band, but I have to agree with Nakor and say that when I saw them live they were pretty yawn-inducing

Nirvana you are of course right it is all subjective. For me that is what Glasto is all about, hanging around with good people hopefully who are gonna drag you outside your usual listening matter.
I bang on about The festival far too much and would encourage anyone to go, do it, register and in October let fate decide, always a warm welcome for anyone beside our camp fire if.no body else in your circle fancies it.

As far as Interpol specifically go, it all seemed a bit by the book, I guess I just expected more if I am standing up to my ankles in shit and wondering when I am next gonna keep my arse dry in the loo I expect more then "hello" and then little interaction, it wasn't dreadful, unlike the 1975.

I guess you've captured it there. Definitely like the fact that it gets you listening to people you wouldn't normally get to and so much of it is great, horizon broadening stuff.

Interpol played so much from old Albums which kinda delivers exactly what most 'fans' want as it awakens so many old emotions.. I might have got carried away :-)