Glastonbury 2023

Lewis Capaldi what's the story ? I have never knowingly listened to any of his music, is it more hype than substance?
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Personally I thought his voice was nowhere near as good sadly. I've seen them live many times. Perhaps it was the mixing?
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Well yeah he might not be in his prime per se but I thought he still sounded pretty good, when you consider how rough a lot of singers are sounding after their best years.

Best act i saw last year was Supergrass. I wouldn't say they one of my favorite bands or anything but Gaz Coombes sounded absolutely flawless and put most of the other bands to shame.
 
Saturday headliners next year - a covers band.

Hear me out. Not talking a pub band, but a band made up of all the usual suspects who appear on stage anyway (so Dave Grohl for a start). Could rotate in and out, especially making sure the singer can still sing. Two hour set of bangers - every track something 90% of the audience will know and can sing to, from Abba and Beatles to Take That, Black Sabbath, Smiths, Oasis, Queen, Neil Diamond the fucking lot. No more than one song from any band so start the arguments now.

Imagine 100,000 people singing along for two hours. Like the legends set but for all the legends. I'm saving up for my ticket and en-suite hotel room already.
 
lonestay said:
Lewis Capaldi what's the story ? I have never knowingly listened to any of his music, is it more hype than substance?
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He's a good singer and writes some nice enough middle of the road pop ballad type of songs.

I guess it depends what you're looking for, it's not something that interests me but I think objectively he's pretty good at what he does.

His music is probably appealing to who are into Adele or Ed Sheeran or something like that.

I think some of his appeal is that he is a bit of a character with sense of humor and doesn't take himself seriously at all, which is actually quite at odds with his music. He seems about as down to earth as it gets and very much not your typical pop star, which I think is actually probably part of the reason why he's having troubles with his health in terms of developing tourettes and anxiety and things, which he said has been brought on during his rise to fame.
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Sorry mate - would have been a lot easier to type Rory Gallagher.

Listened to an interview where Slash was talking about his musical influences and I can't remember whether it was one of his studio albums (Deuce etc) or Irish Tour but it apparently blew his socks off.

Around the similar time also saw Johnny Marr speaking about Rory and sighted the same thing. Listening to one of his albums completely changed the way he approached the guitar (which I'd never really heard in Marr's playing before).

He was also playing Rory's strat (the one in the picture I attached).........
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I know for a fact that Rory Gallagher was Johnny Marr's hero.
 
Crooked_rain said:
He's a good singer and writes some nice enough middle of the road pop ballad type of songs.

I guess it depends what you're looking for, it's not something that interests me but I think objectively he's pretty good at what he does.

His music is probably appealing to who are into Adele or Ed Sheeran or something like that.

I think some of his appeal is that he is a bit of a character with sense of humor and doesn't take himself seriously at all, which is actually quite at odds with his music. He seems about as down to earth as it gets and very much not your typical pop star, which I think is actually probably part of the reason why he's having troubles with his health in terms of developing tourettes and anxiety and things, which he said has been brought on during his rise to fame.
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You can’t develop tourettes. You are born with it.
 
Just catching up with Chvrches, started off well but I've always liked them tbh so maybe biased.
 
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