Love the noise Royal Blood make for a bassist and a drummer they are bloody amazing, seen them live a few times and am seeing them again on Sunday so much energy when they play
Music Glastonbury 2023
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Watching this now. It's great!
I (probably like many people) was really into them up until the In Your Honour phase. The energy and writing doesn't feel quite the same from then onwards. Fecking loved The Colour and the Shape, which is still great.
Sparks are on later, that will be a blast from the past.
What is unreal about this? He’s a dj… only instrument is a keyboard. No singer. There’s no skill to what he’s doing.Here we go…
I admire him. Playing music from his iMac, randomly pressing buttons on his keyboard and turning the volume up and down and he’s booked second to last on the second stage at Glastonbury. I respect it.
Why don't you show us how easy it is?
I have to disagree, seen some really bad DJs who could not get a rise in a brothal, but other that really knew what they were doing.
Think there's a bit more to it than just hitting the play button, pal.
It's such a pathetic take, there are many many ways to make music and believe me none of it is easy, never mind making music that others want to actually listen too.
BTW not watched the guy in question, just hate the above attitude.
I see discussing this with you would be utterly pointless.
I agree 100% with all of that.
He’s definitely not your conventional artist, and I’d rather listen to the sound abba for an hour than any of this Fred’s music.
but there’s obviously a market for it and there must be some very decent talent there to get to where he is…but I do agree seeing him and his mate press a button on their macs and then what looks like random presses on a modern drum set just doesn’t do it for me. It looks too pre-set up it you know what I mean, but still respect the talent, just not my thing
personally the star of the show so far has been Lauren Mayberry and the churches, beautiful voice and loved how she flogged off the sweaty nipple patches thing
but there’s obviously a market for it and there must be some very decent talent there to get to where he is…but I do agree seeing him and his mate press a button on their macs and then what looks like random presses on a modern drum set just doesn’t do it for me. It looks too pre-set up it you know what I mean, but still respect the talent, just not my thing
personally the star of the show so far has been Lauren Mayberry and the churches, beautiful voice and loved how she flogged off the sweaty nipple patches thing
Sorry lads but it’s a nonsense as “live music or contemporary arts”. I appreciate it could be fun, people knowing the words, drunk and in the sun. If I was in a club and I heard those songs I’d think “that’s alright” and dance along to it. I read he writes songs too, that’s a talent.
But it’s a nonsense as far as having it second to last - second stage Glasto as some sort of live spectical. It is a guy playing music from an iMac, it cannot be dressed up as anything else. Yea he’s very good at playing music from an iMac but he’s still just playing music from an iMac.
You're entitled to your opinion. You're wrong. But you're entitled to be wrong.
And you're speaking to someone who goes to hundreds of gigs every year, with 90% of those being guitar bands, who did once think much like you do now.
Take some time to watch this and tell me again that he has no talent.
Speaking of talent, how fecking good are Sparks
Fair enough put like that, yeah I can see where your coming from.
Aye, and I guess someone like DJ Shadow just spins some discs?
Foo Fighters fecking amazing
So what can we expect from the Arctics tonight? Reckon he's gonna crawl out of his arse to give us a proper Glasto set?
Looking forward to The Arctic Monkeys
Aye. Usually find them pretty middle of the road but that was a great set.
This town ain`t big enough for the both of us. Awesome.
I am no fan of his music nor did I enjoy the first two songs of his set.
but watching the first two minutes of that link was fascinating.
That still doesn’t mean I think he should be late on stage at Glastonbury as from what I saw he reset a song on the mac, start whatever he saved prior to that and walked over and started tapping a modern drum kit at random.
It’s art and perspective, is it ‘live’ when you can perfect and save your work and click a button…not sure.Anyway churches were great and you got to see her take her nipple covering off as she said she was too sweaty…
Sparks 
I saw them at Primavera this year. Didn't know much of their stuff but they were brilliant live.
I remember then from I think 80s
So good, considering I don't know any of their songs, I'd an absolutely blast watching that.Sparks
Hoping for a proper festival setlist from AM now.
Wouldn’t say that blew me away but at least it offers some insight. His quirky ness makes it quite intriguing to watch. Do I think what he’s doing is “special”, probably not. He’s good at mixing things together yes, but there was hardly a deep range to his piano playing. He also didn’t actually just do that on stage.
I echo what @We need an rvn said.. he was basically playing his finished product through an iMac into speakers. It’s the equivalent of Arctic Monkeys going on stage now and sticking AM on Spotify and plugging the speakers in.
I like all types of music but I can call out insignificant live performances when I see them. I hate when grime artists go on stage and play their songs on the speaker whilst shouting random words through the mic. Fred again is insignificant as a live performer, because his music isn’t really live. There is no significant skill involved in what he just did, period.
Yeah what we I saw was good, shocked me how old they look
Surprising opener for Arctic. Monkeys
they usually start with Brainstorm this tour
they usually start with Brainstorm this tour
I wonder if they were easing Alex's voice into it.
They played A Certain Romance as an opener when we saw them view weeks back, amazing.
His voice is struggling already.
Yeah, his voice is shot.
Why does he have to fecking croon all the old stuff?
Does my head in.
Does my head in.
Going to be a very disappointing set this.
Still up his own arse.
Got some tunes to play though.
Got some tunes to play though.
Can he not sing in time anymore? At all?
Crying Lightning is such a fecking tune.
That's better.