Category: Live Reviews
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Soundgarden Play Superunknown In Entirety “For Last Time”: Joined by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready
Returning – this time second on the bill – to a stage they headlined two years ago when they first reformed, Soundgarden unveiled something a little different at Hyde Park yesterday. Having supported Black Sabbath throughout the latest stretch of their world tour, Soundgarden’s lead vocalist Chris Cornell addressed the crowd basking in the sun…
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Black Sabbath at Hyde Park: Review
London may have its faults: There are too many people, too many drugs, loud parties, late night revellers… It also has its faults. It’s expensive: The Connaught bar sells beer at £65. Per glass. Yes, that isn’t a typo. It is busy, the average life expectancy of a cyclist is roughly equivalent to that of…
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A Recovering Lemmy Braves It Out As Motörhead Play Hyde Park
Let’s face it, even if he had lived fast and died young, he’d never have had a good looking corpse, so it’s just as well Lemmy has been as good at Grim Reaper-dodging as anyone. Having left Hawkwind ostensibly not because of musical differences but because of drug differences (they took weed, Lemmy took speed),…
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Kasabian Set Glastonbury On Fire With Barnstorming Set To Close The Festival: Review
There’s something rather loveable about Kasabian. Perhaps not the most hotly anticipated headliner of the weekend thanks to all the fuss about Metallica, they nevertheless conjured the most electric of atmospheres to round off a memorable weekend. Unashamedly appealing to those who enjoy dancing whilst holding pints of beer on top of their heads, Kasabian…
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The Horrors Provide A Darker Alternative To Dolly’s Ray of Sunshine – Live at Glastonbury
Despite the odd torrential downpour, Glastonbury 2014 has revealed many pleasures: More stages than Berlusconi has mistresses. Cases of trench foot down 38% on last year. You could have a great time here without seeing a single band. No sign of an under-performing, yet overpaid England football team. The circus acts are brightly coloured and…
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Royal Blood – John Peel Stage Live at Glastonbury
There was devastation of biblical proportions at the Glastonbury Festival yesterday. It was carnage. No, not the walkways and campsites of the festival goers, or even the revolting shirt worn by one of my friends all day yesterday. No, I refer to the memorable finale to Royal Blood’s set, a band who raised the roof…
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Jack White – Live at Glastonbury: Saturday – Pyramid Stage – Exclusive Photos and Review
Fresh from having smashed a 20 year old record for vinyl sales with latest release Lazaretto, Jack White today played a superb set at Glastonbury. Lazaretto’s all-singing all-dancing “ultra-vinyl” record smashed vinyl sales records with 40,000 first week sales, backing White’s own mantra, “Your Turntable’s Not Dead”. The ultra vinyl record plays from the inside…
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Robert Plant – Live at Glastonbury – Pyramid Stage: Exclusive Photos and Review
It’s possibly the nearest we’ll ever get to seeing Led Zeppelin play Glastonbury. Greeting the crowd with “Welcome to a sojourn of Country and Eastern music” Robert Plant appeared relaxed in a trademark loose shirt. The Led Zeppelin songs Plant rolled out for his Pyramid Stage Glastonbury performance included “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “Black…
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Metallica + Glastonbury = Glastallica: Exclusive Photos and Review
It says something of Metallica, and the heavy / thrash / metal / rock (delete according to taste) genre they represent, that much of the pre-Glastonbury Festival talk was about whether they were an “appropriate” act to take the Pyramid (or indeed any other) Stage. Were they really The Thing That Should Not Be…
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Arcade Fire – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – Pyramid Stage
Arcade Fire – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – Pyramid Stage There are several things we have come to expect from an Arcade Fire show: 1. A segment inexplicably involving oversized Paper Mâché heads. 2. A guest slot from a local act. 3. A cover version (The Roundhouse “Reflektors” show last year had The Clash covered…
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Parquet Courts Stoned and Starving at Glastonbury: Friday – The Park Stage
After the rain-enforced break that threw Jimi Goodwin offstage, on came four punks / stoners / who knows? in the form of Parquet Courts. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Parquet Courts were perhaps one of the most highly anticipated bands to play Glastonbury this year. They arrive fresh from a brief tour of the UK…
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Jimi Goodwin Defies Glastonbury Storms – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – Park Stage
Jimi Goodwin’s set was cut short yesterday due to electrical storms that magically transformed Glastonbury from a grassy paradise to a, well, muddy paradise. But despite this, Goodwin was not to be deterred and after the worst of the thunder and lightning had passed, he came back onstage and sang to the die-hards in the…
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Courtney Barnett – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – The Park Stage
Well, it had to happen in music eventually. For years we Brits have had to smile through gritted teeth as Australians beat us at everything, especially sports we had taught them to play. Cricket, rugby, tennis (although we have come good on that one recently) – you name it. Even their football team looks like…
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Drenge – Live At Glastonbury: Friday – John Peel Stage
As thousands flooded out of The John Peel Stage having enjoyed a funk-filled set from Jungle, it was the turn of Drenge to restore parity into Glastonbury and demonstrate just how rock n roll sounds stripped back to its most simple of deadly weapons: guitar and drums. Drenge take rock back to basics and deliver…
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The Kaiser Chiefs Kick Off Glastonbury 2014
Being the opening act at Glastonbury is not a job for everyone. It has rained all night and everywhere you look festival goers are nursing sore heads and, possibly depending upon how debauched the previous evening in Shangri-La, other body parts too. But this is not a time to be gentle. The rain might be…
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