Wasn’t he playing with an orchestra or something? Seem to remember that being mentioned on the promos 6music had been doing for the last couple of months, if so I guess it was a necessity of set up that he went on first.
yeah i was expecting the full Ulster Orchestra but it only seemed to a be a few of them? i couldn’t see that well though, need to watch his set back on iplayer
Enjoying this Underworld set on BBC Four right now. Opening with Juanita is always a wise choice, because it’s cracking.
I probably haven’t mentioned in about a month on here that Underworld are brilliant, that Karl Hyde was one of the nicest people I’ve ever interviewed and how they are a totally immense live act. So I’ll set that straight right now.
Saw them last year at Ally Pally and they were absolutely immense. One of my favourite gigs i’ve been to.
I also worked on a project with Karl Hyde right at the beginning of my design career, and yes he was a thoroughly lovely human being.
Rez/Cowgirl will never not make me happy.
Went to both days. Great stuff. Friday was better lineup and weather wise but today was fine too. Hard to grumble for £20 per day but all the issues @Icarus-Smicarus highlighted are spot on. Franz Ferdinand played a pretty short set and padded with lots of “scream for me Belfast, louder I can’t hear you” guff. The beeb have done a great job with this including the fringe stuff, hope they don’t jettison the format when Glastonbury is back, or if they do they could have bigger fringe events in the week prior to Glastonbury UK wide . If nothing else I hope all of the acts consider coming back on subsequent tours and local bands and venues got some positive attention or coin out of it.
oh it is the full orchestra, couldn’t see half of them from the angle i was at during his set
Underworld are really enjoyable - I must confess I haven’t checked out any of their albums post Beaucoup Fish. Rez is a monster of a song!
I watched Orbital on catch up, though it’s very painful to use on my TV. Loved them. And it’s disconcerting to know I saw them live at Glastonbury 24 years ago. 24! Eek.
A hundreds days off is ok, with a couple of bangers on it. I preferred Oblivion with bells, which had several songs that I felt were their best in years. Barking is awful, just skip it. Then Barbara is a return to form, with a handful of really good songs on again.
Oh man, would love to have worked with him on a design job. Curious what that would have been like. Did you design at Tomato back in the day?
Simple Minds are playing in the background at the wife’s behest. They really are stadium rock on a budget aren’t they? Like the Poundland U2. Going down well though seemingly…
There seems to be so much stuff missing on the iplayer that I was hoping to catch like Rae Morris, Shame, Wolf Alice, Hannah Peel, The Orielles, Chvrches, Phoebe Bridgers
Annoying isn’t it? Can’t find full Chvrches set which I would have thought would have been no fuss at all
I came across a Hannah Peel vid earlier but don’t know about the full set. Don’t think they filmed as much of the second stage
It’s really nice seeing how much the 6music folk enjoyed their time over here
‘once i enjoyer a band, seriously’
Goldie’s drummers were very impressive. Don’t think I’ve seen DnB drummed like that live before!
I got to do some work experience there when I first left Uni in 2000. Was mostly making coffee for John Warwicker, but they got me involved in a few minor bits and pieces which was pretty cool. Also got to use their photographic equipment in the basement for my own projects. I did a thing for Karl Hyde where he was doing a photographic project called 365 Sofas, which mostly involved me scanning in 365 photos of sofas he’d snapped around the world (and a whole bunch of ‘not sofas’) and putting them into a photoshop file for him.
He was a gent and kindly signed my copy of Everything Everything, and I tried to keep my inner fanboy in check the entire time.
Thanks for sharing. Nice tale.
