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Post by webm@ster on Jun 2, 2004 0:53:43 GMT -5
The full Glastonbury line-up has scarcely been announced, and already the sound of dissenting voices can be heard. There are complaints that Friday-night headliners Oasis are apparently not going to perform any new material, despite a two-year gap since the release of their last album, Heathen Chemistry. There are derisive sniffs that 2004's biggest act, Paul McCartney, no longer constitutes the musical cutting edge to which Glastonbury should aspire. [....]Given the grumbling, it will be intriguing to see how McCartney's set-closing performance of Hey Jude is greeted by the Glastonbury audience. As a euphoric mass singalong? As one of those legendary "Glastonbury moments" when worries about the outside world and the state of the festival toilets briefly evaporate, to be replaced by an fleeting few seconds of transcendent happiness? Or with disappointed yells of "No! This no longer constitutes the musical cutting edge! We demand to hear avant-garde, techno, grime and free jazz!"? Time will tell. As for Oasis, going by the standard of their last three albums, the paucity of new material in their set counts as a small mercy. In fact, if Eavis could inveigle Noel Gallagher into signing a document agreeing that Oasis play no material whatsoever dating from after 1995, then Friday night would look even more promisingIf you can't find anything you like at Glastonbury, you clearly hate every aspect of popular music in 2004. You may perhaps be better off staying at home. full article : www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1229473,00.html |
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Jun 2, 2004 5:00:28 GMT -5
This no longer constitutes the musical cutting edge! We demand to hear avant-garde, techno, grime and free jazz rofl, thats what u get when journalists are bored..... a record-breaking demand for tickets and this bloke is going: is glasto festival going down  |
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Post by BubblyBubbles on Jun 2, 2004 14:06:26 GMT -5
Who cares if they don't play new songs...I mean, hello? It's Oasis! They could just stand up on stage and do nothing and I'd die happy. And how does Paul McCartney not constitute as the musical cutting edge? So he's a little old...so what? These journalists are crazy.
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Post by maketradefair on Jun 2, 2004 16:07:24 GMT -5
its all a pile of crap. jounalists would write anything for a few quid.
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Post by webm@ster on Jun 2, 2004 21:26:14 GMT -5
Thought I'd copy and post this from the L4E newsroom
comments section !
billy | 06.02.04 - 9:36 pm |
there's been no good music in the the last 2 years easy. U2 and Oasis both on break (please new albums soon...need the sounds of talent in my head, and how about touring together?) there can't be anything worth paying actual money for at a festival. Festival gigs are overrated now that music is crap. And if there's a feeling that the state of music ISNT in bad shape? I got three letters for you.. M-T-V. (Killed more great music faster than OD's and suicides combined.)
And then the big closing act is "Hey Jude?" If we can get Paul to not play anything post Wings...or maybe even post John Lennon it'd do us a favor. Personally, if Oasis belched the alphabet on stage it'd be the best thing to happen to music since All That You Cant Leave Behind(U2 plug). Oasis has yet to dissappoint me with their music, and anyone who can't see that we are in dire need of these genious musicians throwing anything they have at us anything at all, well, then, BE HERE NOW all the way!!!
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Post by globe on Jun 3, 2004 16:59:50 GMT -5
Thought I'd copy and post this from the L4E newsroom comments section ! billy | 06.02.04 - 9:36 pm | there's been no good music in the the last 2 years easy. U2 and Oasis both on break (please new albums soon...need the sounds of talent in my head, and how about touring together?) there can't be anything worth paying actual money for at a festival. Festival gigs are overrated now that music is crap. And if there's a feeling that the state of music ISNT in bad shape? I got three letters for you.. M-T-V. (Killed more great music faster than OD's and suicides combined.) And then the big closing act is "Hey Jude?" If we can get Paul to not play anything post Wings...or maybe even post John Lennon it'd do us a favor. Personally, if Oasis belched the alphabet on stage it'd be the best thing to happen to music since All That You Cant Leave Behind(U2 plug). Oasis has yet to dissappoint me with their music, and anyone who can't see that we are in dire need of these genious musicians throwing anything they have at us anything at all, well, then, BE HERE NOW all the way!!! That bloke should get a job with The Guardian... |
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