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at the risk of breaking my own rules about non car related chat......anyone watch any of it?

i had heard of arcade fire, but never really heard them if you get me.

quite enjoyed their set last night.


anyone else find new bands?

I watched Lana Del Ray but that's all to be honest.....

I had to catch elbow, and metallica, brilliant!


there certainly are some "alternative" acts too eh, not sure it'd be my cup of tea in the flesh,


just looks like a sea of the great unwashed to me! Phew!

yes, wouldn't want to spend a few days there in a tent that's for sure!

some weird acts too, did you see the fella spinning a beer barrel around attached to his lug 'oles?


what a spanner. had tatoos all over himself so he looked like a lizard, even had lumps in his forehead

ha ha! no i missed him, sounds, err, entertaining!

this is the fella, just watch what he does with a corkscrew!!!

forgot he did this also.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aee1eWOZcE

Neat!

just watched all the Arcade Fire set again via the sky download thingy, what a brilliant band. best part of 2 hours and not a bad bit amongst it.
highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3RcSt_m2Ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHWColYQ90

I caught the set from Chvrches (no, they actually do spell it that way) after getting back from Goodwood. Listening to thier album on Youtube quite a lot at the moment... Then reverting to one of their original inspirations, fellow Scots the Cocteau Twins.

With such a short attention span, I could almost qualify as a "yoof"

OK, perhaps not.

Lauren

did see they were available, and spelt their name wrong!, but haven't heard of them.

may well check them out if there's a resemblance of the cocteau twins

KevJTD wrote:did see they were available, and spelt their name wrong!, but haven't heard of them.

may well check them out if there's a resemblance of the cocteau twins

There are some hints there, but not very obvious. Chvrches are synth-pop, with a dark edge, parallels are largely confined to synth drums and girlie vocals. Certainly nothing like Robin Guthrie's screeching, mesmeric guitar work. There again, you pick your era with the Cocteaus, I prefer their early stuff, being an ex-punk

I ought to watch the Blondie set on the iPlayer before it times out, although I didn't think much of their recent Maida Vale appearance. Perhaps I should listen to my vinyl version of Parallel Lines instead...

Lauren

just played the chvrches set, very good indeed lauren, great recomendation


can see where the cocteau reference comes from too, i do hear something else there but can't put my finger on it just now

nice though.

KevJTD wrote:can see where the cocteau reference comes from too, i do hear something else there but can't put my finger on it just now

M83?