Every Record Tells A Story
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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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Glastonbury 2014: Hey Ho, Let’s Go…
Attempting to buy Glastonbury tickets has become a national sport. It’s like the National Lottery or Euromillions, but with less chance of winning. Everyone knows someone who has “won”, but it never happens to them. It’s like a slightly crueller version of The Grand National, as many fall at the first hurdle, or like the…
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Foamfoot And Sweet Pickle Salad – The Black Crowes’ Bootleg Recordings
I’m going to take a quick look at some obscure recordings by The Black Crowes, but if your interest in this band has inexplicably yet to stretch to their officially released recordings (and apparently there are one or two people out there for whom The Black Crowes are but an empty page in their life…
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The Ups And Downs of Music’s Message Boards.
Life had its challenges thirty years ago. Picture the scene: across the globe a despot Russian leader creates an atmosphere of fear. A disappointing England routinely exits The World Cup early. And this happened thirty years ago also. But one thing we didn’t have to deal with thirty years ago was the minefield of internet…
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Josh Homme Plays Rare Live Acoustic Show At Meltdown: Royal Festival Hall
For those more used to seeing Josh Homme with his band Queens of the Stone Age from the perspective of a seething, frenzied mosh pit at some of London’s less salubrious venues such as The Forum and Brixton Academy, last night presented a rare chance to see a more dignified acoustic solo show by Mr…
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The Wonder Of Internet Message Boards: Not Just For Lunatics And Trolls
The Internet has irreparably harmed the music industry in just the same way as being a pillock has irreparably harmed Justin Bieber. Illegal downloading has haemorrhaged cash away from artists, meaning record companies can no longer afford to invest as much money and time in developing new bands over the long haul. Revenues generated by…
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Flared Cords And The Truth: The Black Crowes Hit Their Strides
In September 1991 Guns n Roses released their double-double album set “Use Your Illusion”. A week later Nirvana released Nevermind. As GnR peaked and fell into a squabbling decline, by January 1992 Cobain and co topped the US charts and in March had a second hit single with “Come As You Are”. Suddenly, guitar playing…
Every record tells a story 