Glastonbury 2002

Chaps

As well as watching it for free, it only takes a minute to go to the loo.

Regards

Mick

Just caught Isacc Hayes on Glasto - absolutely fantastic !!! Not a big fan but the guy and his band really appeared to be enjoying themselves . Caught a bit of BRMC - better live than on record - now going to see if I can last until 2a.m. to catch the rest !!

The bit I saw seemed to be.

Alex

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I switched back to BBC2 just in time to catch the end of the coverage. I was so sorry for poor John Peel, having to smile politely at the inane remarks of his co-presenters.

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BBC2 got away lightly – BBC Choice had a pair of idiots called Adam and Joe who were absolutely bloody useless. I thought the blond haired girl with the strong northern accent on BBC2 was quite funny, and obviously Peel was true to form.

As for music, well there was some really good stuff in amongst the mainstream bollocks. The ones that did it for me were Belle and Sebastian, White Stripes, Faithless, Doves, Groove Amada (with Richie Havens!), Air, that bizarre Japanese orchestra lot, and the mighty Isaac Hayes. Quality stuff.

There were far too many OAPs wasting the later slots, Rod Stewart and Roger Waters are so far beyond their sell by date they fail to work even on a ironic level. Oh, I hate the bloody Stereophonics – how can they keep up that degree of blandness?

I think the TV presentation was a little screwed up, I’m sure I saw the same tedious performance by No Doubt on about 4 different occasions (though telling their songs apart is pretty challenging), yet I only saw Belle & Sebastian the once.

Tony.

Adam & Joe rock -- witnesss their classic late night C4 show and the utterly brilliant spoof post-pub cable TV clip show ("We trawl German cable TV channels for all the dirty bits so you don't have to and then assemble it into a handy 30 minute wankfest complete with ironic voiceovers") on E4.

You're getting old Tony

Matthew

My vote goes to Ian Brown. Oh dear. Who booked him?

Apart from that (and Adam and Joe's compering) I enjoyed most of it

is Lauren Laverne. She can be quite funny, also pops up on Xfm sometimes (unfortunately, always with some untalented no-mark co-presenter)

And Mercury Rev are quite good.

I saw a bit of his preformance on the telly and thought it was pretty cool. The all-girl orchestra, dressed as school girls, was a nice touch. Obviously he is past his best but I do feel he has regained his dignity from the low-point of the 80's. I totally agree about Stereophonics though!

Lauren Laverne was of course in Sunderland's Riot Grrrl/Punk-Pop band Kenickie

Matthew

Ferox

'Goodbye nightclub, hello countryside' and 'vertigo' are both available on LP.

Get thee to yer dealer!

Groove Armada - "Vertigo" is the one you want, excellent stuff.

Roger Waters was very disapointing, his voice just could not cut it.

Stereophonics, I bought their first album and thought it was OK, but they are blandness personified.

Issac Hayes was Ok, His drummer looked bored to death though.

I think Michael Eavis had a two-pronged strategy for preventing people getting in without paying this year:

1. Build a bloody big fence
2. Put on a bloody bad line up