greets folks, about 1am here and i'm almost done with my whirlwind tour. tonight i saw lou reed perform berlin at royal albert hall. was truly stellar. 6 piece band, 12 piece orchestra and 20 plus choral group. also did satellite of love, rock and roll for encore!!
glastonbury is insane. it's truly the 900 pound gorilla of festivals. 15 plus stages, each inhabiting it's own world of shops, food, private clubs and art. it's staggering to behold. and the fact that 150,000 brits do it with knee high water proof boots, cause you're walking through such thick mud that there are moments that you worry about getting sucked into the earth, is a testament to their unbridled commitment to music.
so nickel summary:
if hip hop is dead, rock is deader.
my favorite shows were lupe fiasco, santigold, and jay-z. - all awesome.
glasvegas and MGMT? could not hold my interest.
mark ronson - solid
raconteurs - i've seen them better
leonard cohen - great
verve - really really good
amy winehouse - solid. she's insane but nonetheless, solid.
the rest are a blur
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glad to hear you are having fun! the Lou Reed concert sounds magical, would love to see that live. the festival sounds mudical but beautiful. safe travels home!
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Did you get to see The Proclaimers and/or The National?--Or were they part of the blur? :)
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didn't see either. were competing with other things i saw. left out gossip though - they were awesome!
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i heard the gossip were awesome as well....
i like ur condensced version. bad ass. glad to hear hiphop is on the rise- i would say hip hop electronic (ala Santo) is the wave of the future.
rock on Lou
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between reading posts like this and seeing the footage on youtube it makes me want to go oh so badly
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well said mate, well said! safe travels home. i live vicariously thru u.
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I heard the Yanni show was out of control.
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Pixie, don't let Santogold know you're calling her music hip hop, she'll call ya a racist, haha. Check out Sturgell's post here about it(but seriously, if you've heard her entire album, it's not in the least hip hop. )
Glad to hear Santogold put on a great show. I missed her at Coachella since I was just starting to hear about her but hadn't heard anything by her. Goldfrapp was ending at the first part of her set & Aphex Twin immediately after Goldfrapp & I wasn't about to miss either(although Aphex was quite disappointing).
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i'm so revved up to go next year! the clips i've seen of various performers have been most excellent!
and "knee high water proof boots" aka "Wellies" makes it sound even more fun, i love jumping in puddles in mine.
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Truth be told, MGMT did nothing for me at Coachella either. ZzzZZz
Yeah, gonna have to make to Glastonbury one of these days. Thanks for the recap.
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...any reason for the blur? LOL!!!
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hmm, I'm surprised that MGMT was a disappointment! For some reasion, I imagined they would be good in concert.
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I saw you in the crowd at the Jay-Z show! You were about 100 feet back, just to the side of the guy waving the Boy Scout flag, right?
Good to know Santogold was solid. (One of my top ten spons at the moment.) I was trying to see her all weekend but somehow the BBC failed me.
Safe travels home.
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Although I'm hurt by the Glasvegas comment (ahhahahah nawww), I still wuve you and I'm super glad that you attended, had fun and survived {oh the MUD}, with a Lou on top! Have a safe trip back!
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I'm jealous. But good to hear, that you have a great time there - which is nearly here. I'm with Indie regarding HipHops future. The two worlds of rapping and electronic music do merge indeed. Never would have thought that until two years ago or so when the first artifacts reached my ears.
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you didn't see the national..............your a fool