Music Glastonbury 2024

Yeah not great. Either something up with her mic or it’s intentionally like this. Either way doing her a disservice.
 
Really scraping the barrel with this one. Never a headliner
 
I think I'm too old for modern music (SZA) it's just so samey and dull

I hadn't heard of her so gave it a go. Nah

Moved to justice
 
Redlambs said:
There has been a lot of audio sync problems this year, and it doesn't help that the BBC coverage gears the sound to the TV audience so it always sounds delayed and flat.
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You’ll have to explain that one. The BBC optimise the sound for the TV audience which makes it sound… worse?

Or are you talking about bad sound when watching on the iPlayer?
 
Certain acts don’t suit massive venues never mind headlining Glastonbury. You can get away with it if you’ve a big enough discography with some big hits.

i was shocked they didn’t get Springsteen this year
 
Biden vibes from the crowd

Absolutely dead. Generally the first time in my life I’ve never heard of the Sunday headliner at Glastonbury
 
Pogue Mahone said:
You’ll have to explain that one. The BBC optimise the sound for the TV audience which makes it sound… worse?

Or are you talking about bad sound when watching on the iPlayer?
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Err, yes? And yes? Not really sure why you think I've said anything incorrect, but feel free to educate me.


Also the in ear monitors seem to be having issues all across the park too. Not that some performances aren't just bad of course, but there's been clear issues in a lot of the sets.
 
100 said:
Certain acts don’t suit massive venues never mind headlining Glastonbury. You can get away with it if you’ve a big enough discography with some big hits.

i was shocked they didn’t get Springsteen this year
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I very rarely enjoy sets on the big stages. There are some exceptions. The Chemical Brothers were immense when they headlined Rock En Seine last year. However, The Strokes utterly bombed the night afterwards. Their set was awful and there were droves of fans moving on after they played some of their bigger hits.

Generally, I tend to find that you have a better time on the secondary stages or under the tents/marquees. The atmosphere is always better in those enclosed tent/marquee areas, since it traps the sound. You tend to find that you're surrounded by bigger fans of those acts performing, since it's more limited for spacing. At the big stages, you just get everyone flocking there regardless of if they're big into the bands/acts or not. You end up with little pockets of atmosphere here and there. It's less concentrated.
 
Superunknown said:
I very rarely enjoy sets on the big stages. There are some exceptions. The Chemical Brothers were immense when they headlined Rock En Seine last year. However, The Strokes utterly bombed the night afterwards. Their set was awful and there were droves of fans moving on after they played some of their bigger hits.

Generally, I tend to find that you have a better time on the secondary stages or under the tents/marquees. The atmosphere is always better in those enclosed tent/marquee areas, since it traps the sound. You tend to find that you're surrounded by bigger fans of those acts performing, since it's more limited for spacing. At the big stages, you just get everyone flocking there regardless of if they're big into the bands/acts or not. You end up with little pockets of atmosphere here and there. It's less concentrated.
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Agreed. It’s one of the benefits outside of hipster bragging to seeing acts at early stages of their career. Always find the tents best value at festivals
 
Choice of watching SZA with my daughter or The Two Towers with my son. Shadowfax won out.
 
Castia said:
Biden vibes from the crowd

Absolutely dead. Generally the first time in my life I’ve never heard of the Sunday headliner at Glastonbury
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This is what happens when you try and “force“ a headline booking.
After last years three headliners were all male(s) there were lots of complaints that there were no female headliners.
So this year they’ve decided to force two female artists into headline spots that they’re simply not yet worthy of. It’s almost as if they went “we have to find a 30 something female, with lots of YouTube views”…
Absolutely no disrespect to Dua Lipa and Sza but fecking hell come on Eavis. I mean they’d have been better off putting Avril or Paloma in that headline spot ahead of Sza. Sza hasn’t got that global recognition and she’s had like three albums. Don’t pick your headliners based on streaming hits!
 
That Coldplay pic. What's the point if you're right at the back. Looks like muck.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
Worst Glastonbury ever from the sound of things
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It sounds like they massively underestimated the fact that it’s mostly millennials attending and millennials are currently going absolutely mental for 2000s nostalgia music and a lot of that music was on smaller stages which didn’t have capacity for them while popular zoomer acts that are doing insane numbers on Spotify right now that were given the bigger stages struggled to draw crowds.
 
Pexbo said:
It sounds like they massively underestimated the fact that it’s mostly millennials attending and millennials are currently going absolutely mental for 2000s nostalgia music and a lot of that music was on smaller stages which didn’t have capacity for them while popular zoomer acts that are doing insane numbers on Spotify right now that were given the bigger stages struggled to draw crowds.
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Is that what it sounded like?
 
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