have had this song in my head for the last few weeks after watching the latest Rob Scallon/Andrew Huang once a year album made in a day thing they do.... (at ~5:50 and 22:30 in this video is where they do this song)
jump Hey, thanks to your post I thought i'd check Ghost out, and turns out I really dig em. I remember when they came on the scene about ten years back and totally dismissed them after checking out one of their early songs.
I glad you're enjoying them! They are fun live too if you ever get a chance to see them.
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@Rambler I don't normally like watching Glasto on the telly, it's always an odd experience watching a gig on TV. I did put it on during my morning workout and watched Self Esteen, Bob Vylan and Skunk Anaise since I know/seen them before which helps with the awkward medium transition. Skin wins best costume of the festival!
@Rambler you should be intimidated by her, as cool as she is she is as equally scary! I always go to gigs early to see the support band so every now and then the main band are in the crowd to watch the support act and I’m never sure on what the etiquette is. I’ve got no interest in a selfie with them but maybe I should say hi to them and I’m a fan of their work?
Bob Vylan is a great name but it’s a drummer and a rapper with both members being called Bob. There’s always that moment when you’re talking to someone about them and they refer to them as him so you’re left with just ignoring what they said or being pedantic.
Yeah there’s always something to check out with Glasto but I what I like about gigs is the electricity in the crowd which is always lacking on the tube.
If you’re looking for suggestions on what to watch on the iPlayer there’s Wolf Alice who are a fierce live act but are let down by their producers always emphasising they are an indie band when recording an album, Yves Tumor I saw last week supporting NIN are really cool as the front man is experimental art rock yet the rest of the band is cool rock which makes for an interesting combo, Idles are (rightfully) the hottest band in the UK at the moment, Amyl & The Sniffers I saw a few days ago supporting Green Day are a nutty fun pub rock band, Ghetts is one of the best rappers in the country, Black Midi are one of the most interesting new acts around at the moment, St Vincent is cool but I can see her not working on a big stage, Inhaler I can see getting big in the future.
Also don’t bother with Paul McCartney, there’s no Frog Song so it’s a complete waste of time!
@Rambler As long as you aren't pro-royal family/tory/racism/police then Bob Vylan is brilliant. They are getting proper big at the moment too, they use to play in the back of pubs on the toilet circuit not too long ago but after a couple of big support slots with Biffy Clyro and The Offspring and making it onto the major fests line ups they have just announced they are playing 1k+ venues on the next tour. I'm always happy seeing DIY bands break through.
There's been abit of drama with Wolf Alice, they are touring America atm and are coming back to the Uk just for Glasto but their plane was cancelled. So my twitter has been filled with updates of where they are in the count down to their slot. They got into the country less than 3 hours before they were meant to start playing.
I've just had a look on iplayer and Yves is on the Hidden Gems tab. I was hoping to see Turnstile as I want to see what kinda reaction the hipsters and hippies give them but they aren't on it or they have not played yet.
Billy Nomates is playing as I remember getting a gig alert she was playing Glasto. Glasto has 50+ small stages which don't get tv coverage so she probably ended up on one of those as I can't imagine they'd put her on one of the major stages this year.
Picked up Gorillaz self titled on Vinyl, saw it flipping through the records and couldn't not pick it up. Essential album. Also means I'm now 2/3 for albums from the "young skywake musics trillogy" of albums that actually ended up being pretty good even in retrospect. Gorillaz Selftitled, Spiderbait - Grand Slam, Outkast - Stankonia. Stankonia is the one I'm missing, if I ever see it I'm picking it up
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@skywake I always preferred Demon Days as their pièce de resistance myself but the first album is great too. It's weird that what started out as an indie band with cartoon characters has slowly been drifting to becoming a hip hop mix tape for indie fans.
I'm seeing them next week at a day festival along with Idles, Pusha T, Turnstile, Self Esteem, Yves Tumor etc so whoop whoop.
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Hard to pick which one is better in my mind and I think most of their discography is pretty damn solid. But super young teen me was obsessed with those three albums. Or at least some select singles on those few albums. I never actually picked up the CDs because I wasn't yet at the point where I was buying proper albums for some reason. I mostly just got "hits" compilations
And the only one I ended up getting on CD was Stankonia, WAY later. The rest I "acquired" on the high seas and/or just played on Spotify. So those albums in particular, has some meaning picking them up on Vinyl now. Something about revisiting your super early music taste when you were first figuring out what that was. Also super nostalgic
Though I probably won't be picking up Creed or Linkin Park any time soon......
@Rambler Pusha T mostly sticks with his own stuff rather than including the odd Clipse tune in his setlist so no Gridin'.
I'm in two minds about when people go solo and play music from their original band, if you ask Bjork to play music from that pop group she was in it would be mental however then someone like Jack White how's output as a solo artist is fudging amazing but has half the setlist be The White Stripes/The Raconteurs songs which in some ways is annoying as you don't get to hear his own material. Rob Zombie does it well by playing a couple of key White Zombie songs normally Thunder Kiss '65 and More Human Than Human so then his own discographyc can still shine in the setlist.
In should be a fun day regardless of what he plays although I'm not looking forward to how there's overground, bus and tube strikes in London all happening at the same day as the fest, it should make for a very long drunken walk home.
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