egg Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 Go! Team - please. Famous because of their videos. Music is ****e. Not a massive fan of Coldplay but anyone who argues their performance was trumped by anything else on the Pyramid this year is just simply wrong. Viva La Vida was awe inspiring. Nail on head. You don't need to like coldplay, or their music, or Chris Martin to recognise that the performance at Glastonbury was excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian H. Cope Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 I've just realised that Boj really is an egocentric c*ntbubble. Whatever you think of Chris Martin, Coldplay absolutely smashed it on Sat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baj Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 I've just realised that Boj really is an egocentric c*ntbubble. Because I dont like someone? Makes your comment rather ironic then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjsaint Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 I find Coldplay extremely boring and pretentious. Their show (what I could be bothered to see of it) was decidedly average, which is still much better than most of the 'music' at Glastonbury this year. God I sound like my grandparents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjsaint Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 I am a U2 fan (using the term loosely) by the way. Yes, I find Bono pretentious and cringeworthy especially when watching live performances but I love much of their music. With the exeception of Pop I've always found 3 or 4 songs on each album that I thoroughly enjoy. I take it you haven't heard October. Truly unlistenable album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian H. Cope Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 Because I dont like someone? Makes your comment rather ironic then. Yep, I'm all about the irony. Look forward to seeing you on the main stage in 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 i have registered for 2013..however, tickets seems to sell out in like 4 hours of going on sale...blink and you'll miss it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 Nail on head. You don't need to like coldplay, or their music, or Chris Martin to recognise that the performance at Glastonbury was excellent. They may have played their songs well, but when they are insipid, soulless and monotonous to begin with it doesn't matter what they do - it would still be beige. To my ears most of the main stages are filled similar kinds of indie-twaddle or dull radio 2 style pop. I've just looked through the full line up and the only acts I'd like to have seen on the Pyramid or Other stage are TV on the Radio, Wu Tang Clan, Laura Marling and maybe Fleet Foxes. And who is curating the John Peel Stage?? He wouldn't have listened to half the guff scheduled on there over the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dronskisaint Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 To add to my post - I have a couple of Coldplay tracks on an ipod so can't be considered a fan in any way but I have been to a great many festivals going back as far as the original IOW late sixties and seventies and to not accept that Coldplay did everything that was necessary to produce a classic festival performance is the sign of never having been further than a tv screen to see a band. Not even necessary to like a band to appreciate a performance unless you're so precious about your own presumption of your own 'cool image' that you won't let yourself be seen to admit to it....anyone's ears burning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 I watched about half the Coldplay set, they are not my cup of tea, I find them a bit bland and insipid and I think Chris Martin has a very weak & wishy washy voice. Having said that, they seemed to get the crowd going, and that's what it's all about. If you don't like them don't go to their gigs, or watch them on the telly. If you do like them, fair play & enjoy the gig. A band that surprised me was Kool & the Gang, again it's not my type of music, but for a bunch of old timers they did a good set & looked they were having tge time of their lives. I couldn't believe it when the trumpeter did a cartwheel across the stage, he must have been over 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint.tom.clancy Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 To add to my post - I have a couple of Coldplay tracks on an ipod so can't be considered a fan in any way but I have been to a great many festivals going back as far as the original IOW late sixties and seventies and to not accept that Coldplay did everything that was necessary to produce a classic festival performance is the sign of never having been further than a tv screen to see a band. Not even necessary to like a band to appreciate a performance unless you're so precious about your own presumption of your own 'cool image' that you won't let yourself be seen to admit to it....anyone's ears burning? This - i've been to a fair few festivals, IOW last year for example, not really into Jay-Z but thought he was fuc*king quality! Doesn't mean i went home and bought his album and w*nked over it for a week straight - just that before you judge music just to be "cool" and "different", give it chance, especially live. If you dont like it f*ck off to another tent or the bar (or turn over the tv as most of you have probably never been to a festival). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 How were the wombles/ PS I like cold play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 In your opinion. So what. A lot of people seemed to like their show and have a completely different view to you. You don't have to listen to them or watch them. I am sure there are people out there who will think the music you like is everything that is wrong with rock and roll too. Personally I like them and thought they put on a great show. I just don't understand why people have to p*ss on other people's taste. Trust me, it doesn't make you a better person. i thought this was a discussion forum !! Differing opinions are the point aren't they. Not p***ing on anybodys enjoyment, just expressing an opinion. It would be very boring if we all had the same taste. Can't really understand why what I said was SO offensive. Last years I saw Hazel O'connor at a festival, and I didn't enjoy her show, but I actuallt DID enjoy the fact that lots of people there clearly loved it. So I went off for a beer while they enjoyed it.No problem. As it turns out, go! team were a bit average.. but so it goes. But please do tell me what would make me a better person, apart from agreeing with everybody on forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_bert Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 None of the stuff I saw could hold a candle to the performance DOWN put on at Download the other week. That was with Phil half cut too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 27 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 27 June, 2011 i thought this was a discussion forum !! Differing opinions are the point aren't they. Not p***ing on anybodys enjoyment, just expressing an opinion. It would be very boring if we all had the same taste. Can't really understand why what I said was SO offensive. Last years I saw Hazel O'connor at a festival, and I didn't enjoy her show, but I actuallt DID enjoy the fact that lots of people there clearly loved it. So I went off for a beer while they enjoyed it.No problem. As it turns out, go! team were a bit average.. but so it goes. But please do tell me what would make me a better person, apart from agreeing with everybody on forums. Happy to oblige. If you had posted that you had just watched a concert by Band X and I didn't care for Band X I would have thought fair play, not my cup of tea but so what. I wouldn't have then joined the thread and had a pop at Band X. I am sure millions of people think Coldplay are rubbish but I had just seen their concert and thought it was great. Silly me for saying so because it then means that it becomes a "cool" competion. Oh, someone likes Coldplay, lets have a dig. If I had come on saying I thought that Coldplay were the best band in the world then fine, lets have a "discussion." I didn't, I said I just saw the concert and thought it was the mutts nuts. Stupid of me I know but there you go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 just to be clear (not really being a coldplay fan) what bands are seen as good..and not nerdy to follow..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 27 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 27 June, 2011 (edited) coldplay are boring in a genuinely epic way. They are everything that is wrong with rock and roll. hope the go! team get shown...they were ace a couple of years ago. By the way, if this was a discussion you wouldn't have just come out with this crass statement, you would have expanded on why you think Coldplay are boring etc. But instead you just make a statment as though it is wriiten in stone somewhere. Perhaps you should have started with "In my opinion"... By the way, I have the last Go Team CD. It is missing something. Perhaps Chris Martin could write them a ballard Edited 27 June, 2011 by sadoldgit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stain Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 just to be clear (not really being a coldplay fan) what bands are seen as good..and not nerdy to follow..? Sensus are the new big thing amongst the trendy kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 27 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 27 June, 2011 just to be clear (not really being a coldplay fan) what bands are seen as good..and not nerdy to follow..? Anyone who becomes successful (in the country at least) immediately becomes "uncool." This is the John Peel School of Coolness where you have to find a rubbish band who no one has heard of and have made one good record. You must then champion their cause to all who will listen even though you probaly don't listen to it yourself. Thing is music it totally subjective. How to you decide which band/arist is better than another? Record sales are one yardstick but if you really don't like a band like Coldplay for example, the fact they shift shedloads of CDs isn't going to make one iota of difference. If you follow a band because they are cool and not nerdy I would suggest that you are doing so for the wrong reason. I have just started listening to Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes. A couple of years ago I wouldn't have touched them with a barge pole. I am not soing so because someone says they are cool. I saw Mumford & Sons on the TV and liked them and I found a Fleet Foxes CD lying around at work, shoved it in the PC and liked it. Years ago my mate was crazy about Neil Young. At the time I was very into English Prog, Yes, ELP, Genesis and couldn't get my head around that American whine. Now I love Neil Young. (By the way, for the younger members of this thread Prog was huge in this country in the early 70s despite being very "uncool.") If you like something go with it if you don't, don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 Happy to oblige. If you had posted that you had just watched a concert by Band X and I didn't care for Band X I would have thought fair play, not my cup of tea but so what. I wouldn't have then joined the thread and had a pop at Band X. I am sure millions of people think Coldplay are rubbish but I had just seen their concert and thought it was great. Silly me for saying so because it then means that it becomes a "cool" competion. Oh, someone likes Coldplay, lets have a dig. If I had come on saying I thought that Coldplay were the best band in the world then fine, lets have a "discussion." I didn't, I said I just saw the concert and thought it was the mutts nuts. Stupid of me I know but there you go... So, to make clear...I watched some of Coldplay's set. I really didn't enjoy it.Hence my comment. If people really only follow bands because they are cool they are missing out. From where a lot of people stand U2 are pretty uncool. I went off them a long time ago...but I am happy to admit they played perhaps the most exciting show I have ever seen , back in 1980 at the Lyceum. Would this thread really have been better if only people broadly agreeing with the OP had joined in? I read it as a general Glasto thread, and offered something positive, if perhaps a little tongue in cheek, about another act, as well as having a contradictory view on Coldplay. thats how it goes, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 27 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 27 June, 2011 So, to make clear...I watched some of Coldplay's set. I really didn't enjoy it.Hence my comment. If people really only follow bands because they are cool they are missing out. From where a lot of people stand U2 are pretty uncool. I went off them a long time ago...but I am happy to admit they played perhaps the most exciting show I have ever seen , back in 1980 at the Lyceum. Would this thread really have been better if only people broadly agreeing with the OP had joined in? I read it as a general Glasto thread, and offered something positive, if perhaps a little tongue in cheek, about another act, as well as having a contradictory view on Coldplay. thats how it goes, isn't it? You could equally have said that Coldplay aren't my thing and didn't enjoy them but I did enjoy so and so. But your statement was a bit heavy wasn't it? Still, no point in arguing and I am sorry if I overreacted to your post Teamsaint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 27 June, 2011 Share Posted 27 June, 2011 You could equally have said that Coldplay aren't my thing and didn't enjoy them but I did enjoy so and so. But your statement was a bit heavy wasn't it? Still, no point in arguing and I am sorry if I overreacted to your post Teamsaint. well, I have no issue with Coldplay other than that I don't enjoy them...as you can tell I did at least give tham another chance....well 15 minutes at least !! as you say, no point in cyber squabbling..... things I enjoyed that i hadn't seen before.....two wounded birds were fun,Janelle monae likewise, Omar souleyman interesting(for a bit anyway). Didn't mean to offend on the Coldplay thing....should learn to to keep the invective for the poopey thread !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 30 June, 2011 Share Posted 30 June, 2011 Coldplay were excellent. Much better than those tax-dodging hypocritical Irish c*nts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 30 June, 2011 Share Posted 30 June, 2011 I like allsorts. Coldplay are a top band. Anyone who claims they aren't is just being derivative. Very Rock n Roll. Nothing wrong with the mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 30 June, 2011 Share Posted 30 June, 2011 Coldplay are a top band. Anyone who claims they aren't is just being derivative. Irony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 2 July, 2011 Author Share Posted 2 July, 2011 Just been watching the "highlights" again and it is strange how U2 came across. Larry Mullen seemed very disinterested in the after concert interview and that cam through in their performance. One thing that really grates. It is an awsome festival yet the bland one dimensional people they get to do the links from Radio 1 turn it into amateur hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 2 July, 2011 Share Posted 2 July, 2011 just to be clear (not really being a coldplay fan) what bands are seen as good..and not nerdy to follow..? Make up your own mind Jamie, FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 2 July, 2011 Share Posted 2 July, 2011 How were the wombles/ PS I like cold play. The Wombles were awesome. HTH Seriously. Very clever set by Mike Batt. If you took away the dopey Womble lyrics they managed to play an excellent set of just about every genre of music. As a "concert" it was far more intimate than the "experiences" of Coldplay & U2. We got to the Avalon field just as they kicked off and struggled to even get down off the railway line it was so packed. Watching the stoned drunk dopey dancing of many in their 20's & 30's from the comfort of our camping chairs was a hoot. But was gutted we got there too late to get a free Womble mask. Coldplay put on an awesome SHOW. It was the 2nd time I've seen them live and they simply are streets ahead of (most) other bands in making it a "SENSATION". What they do not seem to do is to put on a concert. Compare them to Elbow in terms of audience participation and simple excitement at being on that stage then they were pants, yet those couple of hours of Coldplay will live long in the memory banks as being simply "something else" Standing 150 or so yards from the stage for both them & U2 then U2 shaded it as an experience. But Coldplay played a better "set" even with his feck up of the words of one song. Probably the reason we preffered U2 as a sensation was simply the whole being cold and wet thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottery st mary Posted 2 July, 2011 Share Posted 2 July, 2011 I thought Coldplay were awesome and U2 poor. Wife and two teenage daughters agreed with me for the first time in their lives. It may well be that I agreed with them for the first time. In a nutshell we were thoroughly entertained by Coldplay and totally bored with U2 after about two numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COMEONYOUREDS Posted 2 July, 2011 Share Posted 2 July, 2011 chemical brothers were better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch01 Posted 3 July, 2011 Share Posted 3 July, 2011 I was there. They were fantastic. Not liking mainstream music is so mainstream these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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