Itsallaguess wrote:Well there was lots that I enjoyed, and I mentioned Supergrass in an earlier post as being an early highlight for me, but on your particular point above, I think it's worth mentioning that there's been a growing element of that type of thing in Glastonbury itself, which seems to have become much more prevalent in recent years, where there's barely a set goes by without the music being put well aside for a time whilst political views are forcefully expressed in front of an audience that, like you and me, often turned up and tuned in to experience musical joy, and not a regular streams of political and social-justice rants to a captive audience...
Err - Glastonbury has always been political, what's changed is the influx of Waitrose types who think it is "just about musical joy". In the 1970s and 1980s it was practically the AGM of CND.
Whinging about Glastonbury used to be done so much better in The Good Old Days, at least the whingers had some idea of the history and context, the whingers these days know nothing.
I suspect that the Waitrose parents who took their tween daughters to Olivia Rodrigo probably didn't expect to be in the middle of a crowd singing F*ck You with Lily Allen aimed at the US Supreme Court. And let's face it, Allen is not exactly Malcolm X, and to older eyes it all feels a bit smug-ooh-we're-using-the-naughty-word. But it's not aimed at people like me, and I'm happy if it works for them. Interestingly they've redacted it from the full-length set on iPlayer but have put it out on YouTube.
As a reminder, you can get setlists here, it's amazing all the stuff that goes on that you never hear about, the Sugababes and Mcfly are two of the more surprising appearances but I'm sure both had right good singalongs :
https://www.setlist.fm/festival/2022/gl ... 4ee4a.html
This old geezer is still making albums and basically hasn't stopped. Some more trivia for you and yes it's during The Beatles but he also wrote.................