Jello Biafra - 67 yesterday.
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - One of my favourite albums of all time.
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A real oddity here ; a very young Martin Scorsese and a very stoned Robbie Robertson listening to Tupelo Honey by Van Morrisson.
Their drummer is the main appeal tbh. He’s decent. Without him they’d be a failed boyband.
I enjoyed a decent chunk of the album that got big and a couple of their earlier songs. Tried their newest album and it was shit. Lot of their earlier stuff was quite shit.
Saw them live at the co-op in December for £17 as I got a same day ticket on resale and they were very good tbf to them, definitely worth more than what I paid for the ticket. Did get a little samey though as their “hits” are all samey with the drop just coming at different points in the song. Nothing inherently wrong with that though as plenty of bands have one gimmick that works for them.
I don’t mind the mingling of different genres and think, on occasions, they do it well (other bands are definitely better at mixing genres though). To me they seem like musicians who don’t want to be good at metal/have their big break be based in metal but are better at metal than any of the other genres they try mixing in so they keep dipping their toes a little into it, but not committing leading to a lot of shit output. Their best stuff is when they let the drummer do his business.
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I saw Thievery Corporation for maybe the 10th time last night. It was characteristically brilliant but they did something i’ve never seen them do before. Half way through they took a small break and came back to sit in circle and do some stripped down almost acoustic versions of some of their more popular normally upbeat songs. It was incredible.
They didnt do this one like that, but this is the feel
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That’s a very interesting take and one I had not heard before.
I’m heavily into a lot of genre-melding bands (Muse, Royal Republic, Dirty Loops, The Prodigy, The Blackout, a bit of Don Broco, NIN, QOTSA) but their take is quite unique.
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Speaking of Muse the new song Unravelling rocks heavily.
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Very good song!
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Just heard it. Certainly does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK0bFsn8Jmc
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My brother lives close enough that his kids used to get free tickets from their school, but they’ve got the stage where they just bail entirely and go back to Wales the week of the festival because the community gets impossibly jammed.
Now that is some real boomer behavior
Used to be one big mud bath. 
It’s the absolute antithesis of what it once was. I started going in the early eighties when Eavis used to allot a couple of (free) fields to the travellers , Hell’s Angels , and other assorted fuck-ups. It was pure anarchy and it was fucking great , the police weren’t even allowed onsite then ! I’d absolutely hate it now.
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The good old days. Somehow get to Bath cram into and old crapped out Bedford van. Smoke something smelly. Sing in the rain 
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Is it the done thing to hate everything about Glastonbury now? Fucking hell, can’t people just go and enjoy the music or just ignore it all if it’s not your thing?
Or has it just become a vehicle to spout your views on Israel/Palestine, Trump, Reform etc?
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Is that a Liverbird I see on the flag …at the front of the crowd…in front of Self Esteem…
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Is this the telegraph complaining about gentrification?! 
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Holy Shit!! Iron Maiden at London Stadium last evening!
I’m still stunned from what an incredible show that was! It’s a miracle I still have a voice left today!
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Just had the misfortune of watching a couple of minutes of Rod Stewart at Glastonbury.
Wanker