Agree. Festivals look my worst nightmare but I’d give so much to be in that crowd tonight.
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Debatable, but I think I'd agree.
Pity Dua is not there, love this
Haven't given it a listen yet, but I will be after this.
Oh it’s close but I think Elton just has it
Very weird setup because they’re not even playing what I’d consider the better songs for a live performance off of that album, yet all their older hits are played at such a slow tempo and the lyrics songs so off best to how they sound on the record that they’re almost different songs entirely.
All for bands branching out and trying new sounds, just think there’s no need to go back and apply it retrospectively to their previous work.
Open air festivals beat closed in arenas all day long. Just so much a better atmosphere.
No Dua Lipa live
Sir Macca there singing along though is epicIn the fade
Would have been George Michael's 60th birthday. Had to be this song.
Haven't heard this one for a while.
I find that you have to be in a 'sweet spot' when at festivals. If you're too far removed from the crowd, the atmosphere can be quite shit and you start losing that buzz. If you're somewhere in the middle/first third of the crowd, you'll have an amazing time.
That's if you're not under a tent or marquee, in which case that place is usually full of the hardcore.
The smaller marquee/tents at festivals can be fecking brilliant.Yeah. Though I have met Elton, he made me a cup of tea and was an all round legend, so I'm biased.
He did?
This Elton John gig looks like so much fun. A mate wanted to get tickets this year but I never got it together. So many great performances I'm raging I didn't get the finger out .
Apparently they couldn’t get anyone big to headline the other stage while Elton was on so the Queens said ‘feck it, we’ll do it’. It was their choice
Ditto. Gonna try and get the finger back in next year.
Elton pretty much kills everything else, hopefully they will be on iPlayer to catch upApparently they couldn’t get anyone big to headline the other stage while Elton was on so the Queens said ‘feck it, we’ll do it’. It was their choice
God in the Radio sounds huge
Yeah I've been meaning to do it forever. It's time.
It's been a good one.
Well he went to the kitchen, I can't be sure he made it himself I guess
Rocket Man my second fav Elton song
Banger after banger after banger. What a show this has been.
What were you doing at his house?Well he went to the kitchen, I can't be sure he made it himself I guess
What the feck?Well he went to the kitchen, I can't be sure he made it himself I guess
What's the backstory here? Spill the feckin beans
That’s the spirit!
One of the greatest songs of all time!
Crocodile Rock just edges it for me
He's much better than I thought he'd be. Most people's voices go completely when they hit their sixties and whilst he's by no means near his peak it's definitely passable and worth listening to.
This is the best live band on the planet right now. Incredibly tight.
Yes mate, same. This is a cracking set. Well jeal of the folk in that field.
Amazing what adrenaline can do, Axl the same last night, got stronger as he went on.
Thinking of just getting a ticket on my lonesome next year.
There was a few cracks but I though he got better as he went along
That sounds like them to be fair!Apparently they couldn’t get anyone big to headline the other stage while Elton was on so the Queens said ‘feck it, we’ll do it’. It was their choice
That's why I love them. No bullshit. Just play some rock music hard as feck
Music.
That's all really.
That's all really.
It's nothing glamorous
My first job, whilst I was training to do other things, I worked at his house building the storage in his garage for his paintings. He came and chatted with us, took drinks orders and came back in with teas and biscuits a couple of times.
2 hours of hit after hit , hits that everybody knows and word for word.
That for me was one the best set ever, maybe even better than the Bowie set from 2000 that we only saw fully 18 years later.
That for me was one the best set ever, maybe even better than the Bowie set from 2000 that we only saw fully 18 years later.