Glastonbury 2011
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nanook rubs it....
Watching it unfurl on the telly, from the comfort of my faux leather bean bag...no expense spared....they showed U2, I thought 'fuck me bono looks knackered'...they finished the set and they then showed footage from earlier of Primal Scream....this did Bono no favours, as Primal Scream appeared to be everything U2 weren't....lively, energetic, and enjoying themselves. U2 in contrast appeared , when juxtaposed with Primal Scream , to have gone through the motions with the sole object being to survive and 'win over' the crowd....yes the Edge and Bono exchanged a canny wink walking off stage...now nothing, I repeat nothing is wrong with them feeling smug at not being the target of an apocalyptic demise in front of thousands of mud monsters....but they just, to me, looked jaded.
I saw them, yes I am big enough to admit that, in the 1980's and they were bloody excellent........tonight they were possibly twenty years too late to blow Glastonbury out of the water. Then they were interviewed and old bono said he was afraid to move due to the wet stage...and I felt a bit of a shit for just assuming he was an old codger...instead of an old codger recovering from a back operation....
But ultimately the plastic poncho'd bods in the field are the true critics....watching a festival on TV is comfy, and the kettle was preferable to a piss soaked portaloo, but the mud magic is lost in the transmission. So if the crowd who saw them liked them....then U2 did their job. I got a text from a friend raving about radiohead and saying they would've made the effort in the dry, but couldnt be arsed to walk knee deep in mud to see Bono...twenty years ago they would have crawled through a rat infested sewer...we all get older.
I saw them, yes I am big enough to admit that, in the 1980's and they were bloody excellent........tonight they were possibly twenty years too late to blow Glastonbury out of the water. Then they were interviewed and old bono said he was afraid to move due to the wet stage...and I felt a bit of a shit for just assuming he was an old codger...instead of an old codger recovering from a back operation....
But ultimately the plastic poncho'd bods in the field are the true critics....watching a festival on TV is comfy, and the kettle was preferable to a piss soaked portaloo, but the mud magic is lost in the transmission. So if the crowd who saw them liked them....then U2 did their job. I got a text from a friend raving about radiohead and saying they would've made the effort in the dry, but couldnt be arsed to walk knee deep in mud to see Bono...twenty years ago they would have crawled through a rat infested sewer...we all get older.
ska invita
back on the other side
you may be right, but i think its more a case of bbc programming taste
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I didn't see U2.
Instead I went and chilled at Arcadia and found a good spot for Midnight show and Stanton Warriors.
Met some peeps who dragged us off to Unfair ground. Fucking love that place. I got to meet Bez which was awesome. An old life's ambition fulfilled.
Off to bed now. Night night.
Instead I went and chilled at Arcadia and found a good spot for Midnight show and Stanton Warriors.
Met some peeps who dragged us off to Unfair ground. Fucking love that place. I got to meet Bez which was awesome. An old life's ambition fulfilled.
Off to bed now. Night night.
i was mildly peeved that they showed jimmy cliff. again.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Of course it's not the same as being there, but I'd given up watching well before the end. And I am, despite the dreadfulness of one, some or all of the members of U2, a fan. But it was really obvious how their stuff is divided in two for me - pre and post Joshua Tree (with a few exceptions). Most of the rest of it is a bit wank. So much toss served up last night - Elevation, Get on your boots, Vertigo, Mysterious ways. Yeah, they have to play a lot of songs from Achtung Baby cos it sold 20 million copies or whatever but no real surprises. Would have liked "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" or "Electric Co", "A day without me" - or "40". That'd have been good. It just felt disappointing, and they looked old and a bit like it was professional. You don't have to charge around onstage to look like you're enjoying yourself.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
They are in the middle of a £120 million grossing tour - they've done this show 200 times. The Pistols appearing at the Lesser Free Trade Hall it ain't.
I don't relly understand the preoccupation with some in this thread for the main stage - 70%+ of the people at Glastonbury were elsewhere on the site when U2 played.
I don't relly understand the preoccupation with some in this thread for the main stage - 70%+ of the people at Glastonbury were elsewhere on the site when U2 played.
handy1
A certain Man U fan ; )
Yeah, we just said 'jesus, he looks a right old fucker', then glanced at each other
I ain't laughing at the folks suffering in the mud, as I'm likely to be wallowing in it myself at beatherder next week.
Seeing the "old fucker" on Monday night
Hollis
bloody furious
Shame upon them, I say.
ska invita
back on the other side
according to the radio THE EDGE doesn't have any effects pedals on stage anymore, and has a lackey who knows all the parts so wel that he presses them for him in the wings. U2 inspire zero emotions in me either positively or negatively, as does that story, but i guess if you love or hate them it probably reinforces your opinion of them.
Of course its a disaster if the pedal-presser fucks up:
Of course its a disaster if the pedal-presser fucks up:
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Dallas Schoo.
ska invita
back on the other side
jimmy cliff is fine by me - its just the dominance of guitar based bands and pop music that usually makes me switch off all tv festival coverage...
Hollis
bloody furious
it's just that he plays every year, and he's always the concert bbc4 show, over and over. other than the rain, it's the exact same show too...
editor
hiraethified
Here's the latest Guardian update to "the most popular acts appearing at Glastonbury 2011, according to internet buzz."
Yeah! Now that's what I call rock'n'roll!
Yeah! Now that's what I call rock'n'roll!
editor
hiraethified
Some more pics on the Guardian site:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gal...-mud-in-pictures#/?picture=376107517&index=15
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gal...-mud-in-pictures#/?picture=376107517&index=15
editor
hiraethified
That last pic (above) makes me miss Glasto.
ska invita
back on the other side
im no cyncic - good for you
luckily ive got it on video for prosperity for you
has anyone got hte link for that vidoe of a fella freaking out at a us festival on his own, then more and more people join him to dance? love that
aye, thats what its all about.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
ska invita
back on the other side
yes yes yes 
Thanks a lot - love that to bits
Thanks a lot - love that to bits
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Yeah, that's an ace clip. Haven't watched it yet but I bet it's the one I remember.
