Glastonbury 2025

[NorthernBlue]

Fogerty, Young and Kneecap are practically the only performers to catch at this Glastonbury...and the BBC scum are depriving anyone not there of seeing one of them live...and will proscribe what coverage - if any at all - they'll show of Kneecap.

The country's gone to hell in a handcart when censorship like this happens.

That coward Starmer and the BBC are scared about handing Reform something to rally around.

They just want to show their autotuned Brit school artists who they can control and serve up to the masses.

 

[Moomin]

Fogerty, Young and Kneecap are practically the only performers to catch at this Glastonbury...and the BBC scum are depriving anyone not there of seeing one of them live...and will proscribe what coverage - if any at all - they'll show of Kneecap.

The country's gone to hell in a handcart when censorship like this happens.

That coward Starmer and the BBC are scared about handing Reform something to rally around.

I will watch Fogerty at 4.30 today. Legend

 

[davek]

They just want to show their autotuned Brit school artists who they can control and serve up to the masses.

The other performers should have shown more solidarity with Kneecap and told the BBC they'll do a Neil Young and stop them broadcasting their performances, which is within their rights to do.

Some poxy letter of support wont cut it.

Bunch of careerist scabs who want to act 'edgy' but wont put themselves out there for other artists getting a punishment beating from the state.

 

[davek]

I will watch Fogerty at 4.30 today. Legend

Says from 5pm in the schedules?

 

[cronullasharks]

Just flicking through some of it now while I wait for Weezer.

Brandi Carlile - not my thing
Beabadoobe or something - crap

 

[NorthernBlue]

The other performers should have shown more solidarity with Kneecap and told the BBC they'll do a Neil Young and stop them broadcasting their performances, which is within their rights to do.

Some poxy letter of support wont cut it.

Bunch of careerist scabs who want to act 'edgy' but wont put themselves out there for other artists getting a punishment beating from the state.

I can’t say I know much about Kneecap other than the issues in the news. I like one track I heard but haven’t done a deep dive. But if Glastonbury had any balls it would have binned them wet wipes last night and had Kneecap headline. Would have been glorious scenes in all the right wing rags this morning.

 

[thevorpalblade]

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Was saying to missus d just now, if Sky had this they'd have 10 channels running covering the 'kin lot. BBC are their own worst enemy.

That's why I don't get all the cryarsing about Sky. Yes you have to pay for it but when they cover an event it is blanket coverage.

I always think back to watching cricket years ago when the BBC would had one camera at a test match. Playing The Ashes in Australia. You will have to read about 24 later.

Aye, I mean I'm not saying I want Sky to have it but they'd know how to make the most of it if they did, and it'd be a damn sight more professional.
BBC have a golden goose on their hands and crap the bed every year, needs a complete rethink.

The people running the bbc are masters of letting a service go to rack and ruin, then as it needs saving one of their pals shows up, like a white knight, to save the day and line their pockets. Managed decline, asset stripping, fraud.

You cannot compare BBC Vs Sky fairly. The licence fee is fab value but viewers would rather watch for free or pay £100+ per month for Sky.

 

[davek]

I can’t say I know much about Kneecap other than the issues in the news. I like one track I heard but haven’t done a deep dive. But if Glastonbury had any balls it would have binned them wet wipes last night and had Kneecap headline. Would have been glorious scenes in all the right wing rags this morning.

I think it's more to do with the BBC than Glastonbury...although a bigger stage than West Holts is required given their following now.

 

[NorthernBlue]

I think it's more to do with the BBC than Glastonbury...although a bigger stage than West Holts is required given their following now.

Yeah and that’s where Glastonbury is failing now and basically confirms Neil Youngs suspicions that its becoming a corporately run festival.

 

[ste d' indica]

You cannot compare BBC Vs Sky fairly. The licence fee is fab value but viewers would rather watch for free or pay £100+ per month for Sky.

I'm not sure that's really the issue mate, they've got the gig, they've got cameras everywhere, they've got a multi channel platform, they've been doing it for decades. They're just crap at it. Do better is the only argument I'm making.

 

[Cameron Manning]

I think over the past 10 years maybe this has changed. It’s leans more into catering for pop music and crap like the 1975, Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi etc. Didn’t Ed Sheeran and Adele headline a few years back. I mean what’s that about. Just tuned it on and there’s someone on called Myles Smith. It’s comically bad. If I’m out of tune with what music is nowadays then thank god.

I watched Lewis Capaldi last night , never heard of him before to be honest— the crowd were in raptures over him, I read he’d had a hard time over the last couple of years mentally so I’m sorry about that but musically I found him very boring maybe the audience found him great because they were intoxicated one way or the other, or it is because I’m from a much older generation.

 

[thevorpalblade]

Fogerty, Young and Kneecap are practically the only performers to catch at this Glastonbury...and the BBC scum are depriving anyone not there of seeing one of them live...and will proscribe what coverage - if any at all - they'll show of Kneecap.

The country's gone to hell in a handcart when censorship like this happens.

That coward Starmer and the BBC are scared about handing Reform something to rally around.

I'm disappointed at your post.

The 'performers' dictate if their performance is broadcast. Usually they come to an accommodation.

And a public broadcaster, dependent upon Government funding, needs to be careful about what it broadcasts. The Tories have been putting pressure on the moderate press.

Do you upset your paymaster/boss?

YOU can buy or listen to whatever pornographic content you wish (or in this case music), but the BBC is unable to pander your specific needs.

Perhaps you are a Reform support. Or a Tory determined to remove all public services.
The licence fee is £15/month. Not everyone can afford £100/month (like you).

Glastonbury isn't special: I'm here/there/inside. It hasn't been so for many a year.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I don’t think it’s mad. Or about being old. Glastonbury does attract people who lean more towards alternative music rather than commercial. I’m almost 48 but I love plenty of pop or pop/rock music and that bands success makes no sense to me. There’s other bands I don’t like but I know why they are popular. These guys sound like they’ve used AI to generate music and it doesn’t come off very genuine IMHO. Plus the guy seems like a prize pillock.

I don’t reckon it’s mad at all they are being treated with derision, seems the natural reaction to me at such a festival. IKEA PopRock

Well it would appear you're just part of the vocal minority mate.

Like it or not - these fellas dont just get a headline gig at one of the biggest music festivals in the world for nothing. They've proper sent heads west just because a) older generations have 'never heard of them', and b) a lot of harsh derision has followed, not just towards their music but towards Healy himself, who's just a fella living out a dream..

Said it last night and will say it again - Glastonbury is not a place where you 'gatekeep' music and never will be. 100k+ people there enjoyed their set last night and fair play. To me it just sounds like the discourse is, indeed, a bunch of old men yelling at clouds..

Maybe the festival is no longer your bag?

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I think over the past 10 years maybe this has changed. It’s leans more into catering for pop music and crap like the 1975, Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi etc. Didn’t Ed Sheeran and Adele headline a few years back. I mean what’s that about. Just tuned it on and there’s someone on called Myles Smith. It’s comically bad. If I’m out of tune with what music is nowadays then thank god.

Think you're best just not tuning in in future mate

 

[bluelife]

Would agree on Kneecap censorship being wrong if not for the 'kill your local MP' stuff - personally think that warrants pulling and they are lucky to be getting a fee from what is now a very mainstream festival