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Of course, that year isn't 2008 but sometime from the mid 1980s. I've not seen a lot about this (although I've not been looking) but this video for the poptastic Two Doors Down is really something special.
Noal Gallagher – guitarist/song-writing for once great band Oasis – is shooting his mouth off again, this time claiming that this year’s Glastonbury hasn’t sold out due to the presence of Jay-Z on the line up.
Let’s start with Gallagher himself - Instead of being relevant like he was for around 15 minutes back sometimes in the early 1990s, at this point in time he’s just a worthless sack of shit who makes “controversial” comments about whatever the majority of people like, seemingly just to remind people he’s not dead. This causes people like me to write stuff like this to point out what a retard he is, only for Oasis defenders to come in and tell me how I should “respect” him for making Definitely Maybe and (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory a billizion years ago. And, to be fair, those albums are pretty unfuckable with.
However, everything after that has been a continued sludge of unlistenable MOR guitar rock, with the occasional theft of a Beatles line or melody to try and add some sort of artist aura around a string of albums which are at best unlistenable and at worst make me want to kill the human race for encouraging such rubbish.
For the most part, Gallagher and Oasis have managed to starve off a mainstream backlash and keep Wonderwall on the radio by the cycle I described before – controversial remark, angry nerd retort, retarded wankers defend by bringing up past great work. This has lead Noal Gallagher to come out with some truly stupid remarks in recent years, such as describing Bloc Party as “indie shit” and that he was better than Thom Yorke because he “never went to fucking university. I (Gallagher) don't know what a paint brush is”.
In such lights, his remarks about this year’s Glastonbury don’t come as any real surprise, especially since he once claimed all hip-hop was shit. However, what is surprising is that only hours after this remark has become widely known, the cycle isn’t being fulfilled. It seems that there’s a large presence of people who’d usually tear the dickhead apart who are staying quiet because, well, they agree with him.
This brings me onto what I actually want to talk about – the reaction Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury has received. To say it has been mixed is an understatement. Quite a lot of people, both online and who I’ve come across in reality, seem to share Gallagher’s feelings and wider belief that Glastonbury should remain a quote/unquote rock festival. Gallagher’s line about “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is scarily common.
The wider issues isn’t that people don’t want Jay-Z at Glastonbury – they don’t want change at Glastonbury.
A major problem with this is the how the concept of Glastonbury has become imbedded in the general British consciousness. By the majority of people, it is regarded as some sort of mythic place of fairies and mud and white guys playing vaguely Brit-popish type music on the mainstage.
But, as any hippy will point out, such continuity isn’t the Glastonbury Spirit. It was started as a reaction against the festivals of the time (at the first Glastonbury festival in the 60s, you got free milk with admission) and the changes organisers are attempting this year reflect this tradition.
So, whilst the Glastonbury traditionalists who usually spend their time wandering the fields looking for the obscure stages and cheap acid are looking forward to Jay-Z because it is something different, those who go for the booze and the sing-along anthems and the big name acts aren’t looking forward to Jay-Z because it isn’t familiar.
There are other reasons for the disinterest in Glastonbury 2008, of course – I personally am not going because it comes at an awkward time of the year, its expensive, the application system is far too troublesome and the horror stories of last year’s mud really don’t sell it to me. I think such reasons play into other people’s decision to skip Glasto this year, as well as the large amount of other festival around - many of which don’t have the fucking Verve on the bill.
But for those who oppose Jay-Z, as I can see it, it goes beyond genre, as at least when Glastonbury tried putting pop acts like Kylie Minogue or Rod Stewart on, it was well-known pop music that people had been exposed to a million times before through radio and television.
No, it’s a battle between change and continuity, new and old. And, much like the crap he’s been peddling for the past decade and a half, that cock Noal Gallagher is firmly in the camp of continuity and the old.
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I happen to agree that hip-hop is wrong for Glastonbury, but probably because i think hip-hop is wrong in general, especially Jay-Z. Man that dude is corny.
wow. Noal Gallagher does sound like quite a cock.
now tell me how you really feel :)
Because I'm bored, here's a list of every band I've ever seen. Actually, its not, cause I went to shitty Give It A Name a few years back and I can't be bothered going through my memory to remember all the shitty emo bands I saw.
Arcade Fire x2 (Once with Patrick Wolf, once with Clinic and Wild Light)
Kanye West x2 (Once with some shitty DJ, once with a parade of shitty rappers and Common)
Young Knives x2 (Once with Foals and Parka, once with no-one because Vampire Weekend dropped out so I just sat outside the venue waiting for YK)
Arctic Monkeys (with The Horrors and The Rascals)
Bloc Party (with The Cribs and Foals)
Brand New (with MeWithoutYou)
The Cribs (with Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offen You, Yeah? and The Ting Tings)
Editors (with The Kissaway Trial and Ra Ra Riot)
The Fratellis (with those cunts The Enemy)
Klaxons (with no-one, cuz Shy Child didn't turn up)
LCD Soundsystem (with Prinzhorn Dance School)
Manchester Orchestra (with Anathallo)
The Mars Volta
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thats a nice list of shows... here's mine...
The Strokes x2
The Raconteurs (opening for Bob Dylan)
Bob Dylan
Modest Mouse x2
The Meat Puppets
Albert Hammond Jr.
Kaki King
The Von Bondies
Wilco
The M's (opening for wilco)
Regina Spektor
Only Son (Jack's band of the Moldy Peaches opening for Regina)
Bloc Party
The Kills (opening for Bloc Party
and I'm going to see Lou Reed next Sunday!
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big fan of the mystery jets. only a matter of time that they get bigg out here.
I've never even heard of these guys! Cool!