Entertainment For Lively Minds
It's back! The Word's Legendary Glastonburycast!
Posted by David Hepworth on 27 June 2009 - 8:10pm.
Once again via the miracle of the cocoa tin and the long bit of string we bring you Mark Ellen, Kate Mossman, Caitlin Moran, Andrew Harrison and Fraser Lewry LIVE - or maybe recorded - from Glastonbury 2009. Click below to stream.
Just one question...
... what's with the flak-jacket, Mr. Harrison? Didn't realise Glastonbury the Badlands of Somerset...
He heard
Brooce was there
Live from Dadstonbury
At Camber Sands caravan park
new
Is the man on the far right Paddy Maguire from Shameless?
The same
The very same.
Coming soon
to an episode of Psychoville...
Fleetwood Mac - the happy years! Captured for posterity.
Carry on guys and go your own way!
Pigeons In Flight
What's John Shuttleworth doing at the front in the flak jacket?
Danm, beat me to it
the resemblance is utterly uncanny. Perhaps you could wangle a Yorkshire Tea podcast sponsorship off that?
"Save the whale, won't you save the whale?
"Stop the slaughter/Don't you think you ought to save the whale."
or maybe...
Touch me up!
My thoughts exactly! Look at them... I had no idea that the images above their respective columns in the back of the mag had been quite so excessively airbrushed! : )
Airbrushed?
I think you'll find in one case it's strictly Estée Lauder and Clarins.
As frontman for the Mighty Troos, he has to keep up appearances.
(Sawayayetellum.)
Kate Mossman looks like...
she just stepped out of a head shop / boutique in Haight Ashbury in 1967.
Has an eagle
impaled itself in Caitlin Moran?
Gawd
The Scissor Sisters have let themselves go a bit.
It Is, Isn't It?
And while we're at it, why has Ellen got his arm round Peter Frampton?
Frampton
Harsh
But fair
Maybe
But could be John Jones from Oysterband.
The thumping was a little irritating..
..but not quite as much as C Moran.
Her very presence
deters me from listening. That & the fact that this has been the most irrelevant and piss-poor Glastombury in the history of the event. When Spinal Tap are the only act that seem to make any sense at all then you know you are in trouble.
'irrelevant' to what exactly?
Musically irrelevant
I know it's a great event, but I wish the media would stop pretending it is all about the (mainstream) music on show. It was either GaGas - superficial or Crosby, Still, Nash and Youngs - past it. Either bands trading on past glories (Blur, Specials) or modern artists lifting wholesale from the past (all of them). So, musically irrelevant. Dull, dull, dull.
My personal opinion
is that the likes of CSN&Y and Sprigsteen have got a hell of a lot more relevance to mainstream popular music than most of the faddish mayfly acts that appear at each year's Glastonbury.
Why are "the kids" so bloody dull?
Where is the music that will scare me half to death in my middle age the way previous generations were shocked by the Beatles, the Pistols. Christ, even Culture Club were more out there than this bunch.
All we seem to get now is well mannered flop fringed indies, squeaky mockerney girls singing through their noses, or next generation Coldplays. I don't like much of it, not because I don't understand it, not because it's threatening, but because for the most part, it's not very good, just pale retreads of stuff that's gone before.
If you think Springsteen is dull, fair enough, personal taste and al. But he has every reason to be dull - he's at the age where he should be readying himself for a bus pass and an early night with a piping hot mug of cocoa and a hob nob. But he's still making a noise. More than can be said for the squadron of Tarquins.
I appreciate Glastonbury isnt necessarily representative of what's coming up from the street as I believe they say, but bloody hell. It's all a bit tame isn't it?
I misread the third paragraph,
and thought you rather boldly stated that Springsteen was of an age where he should be readying himself for an early night with a piping hot mug of cocoa and a hobo.
Not being a gentleman of mature years myself, I presumed you were just letting slip some secrets of middle age. Then I read it again, and was a little disappointed!
Some dads might have professed themselves shocked...
by Lady Gaga's attire (to set an example for the children), but deep down they were thinking 'nice buns'.
I think the dullness arises from
the fact that being in a band is now just one of a range of media career choices open to bright young things. They don't actually care about music or have anything to say.
I think that's taking it a bit far...
I'm sure they care about music and think they have something to say, but the harsh reality is that a great deal of the 'next big thing' acts out there just aren't very good.
There's no next big thing...
Popular music is dead & the Glastonbury audience have been dancing on its grave all weekend.
Of course
Of course there is a next 'thing'. It's just not playing the two main (stream) stages at Glastonbury.
Frankly, if I've heard of it, it's probably already over, and I suspect it is the same for most of us here. It doesn't mean that there isn't something going on somewhere.
Somewhere more interesting than on BBC2 or BB3, something exciting is happening. We just don't know about it.
I agree, that's what I'm saying...
A next 'thing,' sure. But not a 'next big thing.' Not another Jackson or Springsteen. Not another U2. 'Pop' music as a potent cultural force is dead. It is so fragmented as to be meaningless & what we are watching is the last gasp of the old guard and the rise of the well-drilled career 'act.' They come and go & they expect to. They are as passionate about and committed to their art as a call-centre operative. The exciting stuff happens far away at the fringes... I wish the media would stop pretending it is happening at Glastonbury 'cos it isn't.
Good post Molesworth.
We moan about Indie Landfill because we CARE!
Kids should be experimenting, searching out a real underground, trying to shock their parents with their look or the music they are into. It's all part of growing up and finding an identity.
I said on another post I said that I cannot imagine the "youth of today" reaching our age and discussing music with such a passion.
Will the Word magazine's blog in 2039 be buzzing with posts declaring the huge impact of Scouting For Girls and The Enemy on popular culture? Somehow I doubt it.
Would you do that in your own house?
"Kids should be experimenting, searching out a real underground, trying to shock their parents with their look or the music they are into. It's all part of growing up and finding an identity."
Kids being kids, I imagine a lot of them will do the exact opposite of what anyone prescribing "Kids should..." says. I suspect the generation gap is, like, so last generation.
I think the 'heritage acts'
are on the promotional treadmill just like everyone else & if Glastonbury wasn't televised I doubt they'd bother to turn up. I wish they hadn't. Whatever they had to say has already been said. They're topping up their pensions now.
From where I was stood.......
and, personal opinion not withstanding, the reception for Dizzee Rascal and Kasabian deemed them to be relevant and, most importantly, fun
Caitlin Moran
I just realized seeing that photo that she used to present a goddawful "yoof" music programme on tv a while back, she was damn irritating on that. I think I remember her interviewing Iggy once, does anyone remember the name of that show?
I think...
...you're remembering Naked City (which also gave us Johnny Vaughan).
That's the one!
Thanks Paolo!
Neil Young...
maybe you had to be there.
Patrick....
you did.
*does smiley face thing*
At the first mention of summer festivals...
...I can feel my allergies marshalling. In my early 20s I would return from Reading, a wheezing, malnourished mess, with a face like a rotten orange. A long weekend at Glastonbury would invariably end with Saint John’s Ambulance men prying a copy of Ritual de lo Habitual from my cold dead hands, before stretchering my body away in a Tibetan death poncho.
Last night I attempted to replicate the Glastonbury experience by listening to the podcast while lying in my sleeping bag on the floor of the study. Earlier in the day I had enjoyed an American Imperialist breakfast consisting of a can of Coke and a fun size Twix – probably more authentic than the mooted African cuisine partaken of by Fraser.
When the podcast ended I was somewhat surprised to hear voices still emanating from the headphones next to me. Was the dubiously out of date Copella apple juice I had consumed a few hours earlier causing me to hallucinate the voice of Caitlin Moran?
On closer investigation it was the Word Glastonbury Podcast (Slight return), which in the tradition of over-egged live performances comes replete with false ending / encore / special guest appearance. A prelude to the massive leaving the stage to sup vodka from the plastic udder of an abstract cow designed by Jeff Koons.
"Designed by Jeff Koons"
This is surely the purest expression of contempt yet posted on these boards.
A podcast of Pure Joy
Loved it.
Lord Ellen is a dispenser of sunshine
And Fraser's "I found the lamb tagine disappointing" was practically Wodehousian
Off to start a blog called "Threadbare Poncho"...
Gratuitous 'cheap dig' comment
The Magic Numbers 'share a joke' with Roy Orbison.
Left To Right
Paul McCartney, Peter Frampton, Miriam Margolyes, John Shuttleworth, Uncle Disgusting
Miriam Margoyles?
Surely it's Ruby Wax?
McCartney?
Sinden, surely, dear boy, Sinden.
Nimmo!
"
Spot On!!
It's Nimmo alright - Sinden was fat.
I'll tell you what,
old techy bod is a big unit, isn't he?
I'll think twice before being naughty on the blog in future...
Mark Ellen's got a long reach
to get his arm around Andrew Harrison's shoulder like that.
As well as
two right hands. Is there no end to his talents?
It's his collection...
of Ventolin inhalers that has me intrigued.
And why is Ms Mossman
standing on one leg?
Is it not a Uzbek sign of mourning?
This photo will be analysed as closely as the Abbey Road cover in years to come
Neil Young's T-shirt
Neil Young's t-shirt is the Aboriginal Flag.
More info here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_flag
Harrison, Lewry and friend
http://www.comedy.org.uk/images/library/comedies/180x200/i/it_aint_half_...
Andrew Collins
is the friend
Madness
Bit late to this party, but first reaction to the photo was that Andrew Harrison looks like he's auditioning to join Madness.....
Oh you flatterer.
Hang on.... Chris F? Hmmmmm!
Mark
Looks like someone just told him Kasabian are better than Neil Young.