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I've never bothered to watch there coverage that much on sky, do they split it into stage by stage on the interactive bit, or is it just re-runs of the enemy or the feeling from the night before and other crap like that?

lovelessrapture | 25 Jun '08, 13:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply



  • both

    usually split for bigger acts and headliners and endless reruns the rest of the day

    • cool

      Thanks, I think I'll just really really hope they decide to show some battles as they're fairly high up (even though its on one of the smaller stages)

      • I think

        they'll probably put a lot of stuff on the website this year. iplayer and all that

  • BBC3

    seem to be dedicating their time to showing entire sets rather than odd hihglights.

  • The coverage this year

    is all Radio 1 DJs fellating themselves, while pausing momentarily to catch their breath and annouce their love for mud, the Glastonbury vibe, and some shit middle class major label band.

    Then back to the fellatio.

  • It's horses for courses

    You do often get some interesting choices of bands - I remember watching Tokyo Police Club's set on interactive last year, and Bat For Lashes - but on Saturday and Sunday they seem to allocate one screen to showing a band from the previous day's main stage.

  • User-generated content

    maybe the best place to watch coverage would be on user-generated sites like YouTube - there was quite a bit of content on there last year, and with more and more people having decent vid cams on their mobiles, we might see more this year. anyone know any specialist websites where festival goers upload their clips?

  • expect Phil Jupitus

    to enthuse wildly about some reggae band on the jazz/world stage before waddling onstage to sing along with some ska/two-tone band who have managed to get themselves surprisingly high on the other stage line up

  • they're just playing

    table football at the moment..

  • Fucking hell,

    that looks like a big crowd for the Jazzworld stage.

    • Lupe Fiasco and Candi Staton

      were both great great acts, i would prefer a live feed from the Jazzworld to take up one channel, a feed of the Other stage to take up another, one from the Pyramid, one from the Peel then one around different stages.
      Rather than the current Feeling/Hoosiers/KT Tunstall/Young Knives repeats

  • Last Year...

    I remember they put up loads of videos on their website, but the site was horribly designed and a bitch to navigate.

    This year, the site seems to be quick well designed, but they aren't putting any videos up, damn it.

  • is anyone watching this on BBC3 now?

    horribly awkward interview between edith bowman and the ting tings taking place right now. why is he wearing sunglasses when its a) evening and b) miserable weather!? grrr

  • are they showing the same Ting Tings song

    on two different channels?

    fucks sake, surely there's been more music than this today

    • What's wrong with

      wee Scot's rocker KT Tunstall?
      You could watch her too!

      • i only have

        two channels of glasto and one of tennis

        my telly mustn't be fancy enough

        • Fuck me

          why are they showing such shit bands? Godamn Fratellis on now and, no lie, they're DOING A DRUM SOLO. Already had to put up with Ting Tings, Editors, The Feeling....about only half decent thing was one song by Foals. I wish we could have a whole show dedicated to the smaller stages. Much more interesting.

  • is it just me or is bbc coverage

    less high profile this year? didnt they have a primetime bbc1 or 2 show last year every night?

  • John Peel

    must be spinning in his grave with Reverend & the Makers appearing on his stage

    I think there should be a show dedicated to the smaller/underground acts even if it's late night on BBC 3/4. Battles are quite obviously going to be the best band there but the BBC will probably show 2 minutes of 'Atlas' (if that) then go back to talking about some of the "characters" they've met by the Avalon stage

  • beth ditto - "let's here it for Jay-Z"

    camera zoomed straight into the first black man it could find in the crowd

    hmmm

    • what

      the hell is this cover of smells like teen spirit!? It's like my ears have been flushed down a particularly nasty public toilet

  • are they showing the Editors set AGAIN

    come aawwwwwn! :(

    • They're just repeating the same bloody bands

      Fratellis again......aaaargh. And Editorzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Then I remembered the red button, but there's little salvation there either. But then again, that's what you get for being in on a Friday night I guess, though I can't help but think it's all a little unfair on people who don't have a life.......

  • The

    little rallying call for hip-hop from Lupe Fiasco was pretty cool, although BBC had obviously edited together what they showed from his set - one song he had a jacket, next he didn't! C'mon.

    I've given up watching now - its a choice of The Fratellis and The Gossip and I'd rather choose this.

    • I am sure

      I watched Fratellis and Estelle about a hour ago. Tonnes of bands and the BBC repeats a handful, twats.

  • FFS

    Fucking Fratellis again?

    • if that's all the've got

      I'd rather they just left me with Lauren and the bloke who used to play in Skrewdriver chatting.

      • bbc2

        have got a "heart moving" mini-documentary on how glastonbury recovered from last year's festival. aww

        • Probably with the oodles of cash they make?

          I was amazed how busy the tent was for the Tings Tings, was it just to escape the rain?

          I've got bored of the coverage, and it's only Friday...same fucking bands over and over...

          • radio

            coverage has been very dull so far (however, I will check out Rob Da Bank's highlights show), but I'm wondering about how much of the content will appear online (on iPlayer or bbc.co.uk/glastonbury)?

          • im getting pretty envious

            watching this Kings Of Leon set, mainly because I would have been seeing them at oxegen but now can't afford to go. grrr.

          • Unfortunately

            these are the only stages the BBC are covering.
            They seem to be filming the majority of later acts on said stages.
            I'm not loving the coverage however the bands featured may not be your cup of tea but surely it's better than just the highlights on BBC2?

  • I'm watchin BBC2 now

    and well its boring. Kings of Leon are making me wish Jonathon Ross hadn't just finished its that dull.

    I tryed watchin some earlyer on BBC3 but they kept playin crap like fritellies and editors, the only saving grace was a little bit of lupe Fisaco and he wasnt all that.

    • KoL are about the best it's been

      other than we are scientists who had two or three songs earlier and KT ... jimmy cliffe is on bbc4 probably best to abandon the others and stick with him

    • This KoL song is quite nice

      Milk, I think it's called, but the rest of the coverage has been dull. BBC4 are showing Jimmy Cliff, but I wish they'd dedicate some time to the more non-radio friendly bands.

    • Not up to your standards?

      I think KoL are brilliant, after watching the coverage I now really really want to see them live. And well it's hard to tell due to the darkness On Call at least was a massive singalong.

      annoys me how they interrupted the set for the bad sound of Jimmy Cliff, no offence but he is a bit past his prime

      • I'm not a fan of KoL

        I saw them live once at Leeds and they were just boring and bad. I have one of their albums but I kinda wish I hadn't hehe.

        • was that 05?

          I thought they were boring then as well, I'd just come from the arcade fire though so was still picking my jaw up off the ground. I really love their last album and would love to see them now they've got it in their repotoire

  • Oh Lord

    On Sky now, there's 2 red button channels showing The Enemy. What is the fucking point of showing the same fucking set on two channels?!

  • They need to hurry up

    and show some decent highlights

  • I personally thought the Kings

    put in a stellar performance, there was an air of Glastonbury magic. From my seat anyway.

    The crowd wasn't physically that reactive but the overwhelming singalongs for 'Milk', 'Fans' and 'Charmer' really surprised me and surely prove that they were after all big enough to step up?

  • What a surprise

    Last night's coverage was mostly wall-to-wall Editors.

    • and

      Kate Nash opening the festival
      The festival was opened by Kate Nash
      This is how the festival was opened, by Kate Nash...
      Did you see how brilliant Kate Nash was when she opened the festival?
      etc...

  • i am enjoying

    the fact i'm only just watching any coverage now this morning, on the red button iPlayer thing, and being able to fast forward through the Fratellis set. Technology is ace.

  • All the interactive

    channels are showing tennis.

    Seen as though everyone pays for the BBC (well, not me being a kid..) they should try and cater for everyone too?

  • why is anyone suprised by this?

    getting worked up about them ignoring a band that is ignored largely anyway is KERAZY

  • Oh lord.

    Did anyone see the coverage of Estelle?

    She was fucking awful and her patter was terrible.

  • Radio 5 at work this morning

    A mildy irritated Shakin Stevens
    The Young Knives playing a Shakin Stevens song
    The Radio 5 presenters taking the piss out of Shakin Stevens
    A roving reporter telling us that Shakin Stevens is late starting
    The Radio 5 presenters not knowing what Glastonbury Tor is
    Seasick Steve told he looks like the granddad from Dukes Of Hazzard

  • i just want them to show the national

    and i'll be fine with anything else they put up.

    p.s. edith bowman LOVES EDITHORZZZ. who knew?

  • Kings of Leon

    I thought they were good but not great. They never seemed to reach the big transcendent crescendo that a truly great festival headline slot needs to separate it from one which is merely good.

    Unless the BBC was just too busy repeating Editors/TingTings/Fratellis to show it.

    Seriously, I'm not expecting some obscure side-stage DiS cult band to get any coverage but even on the main stages there are more than just two or three bands playing who they could cover.

  • Just watching the shitty Wombats o the old interactive

    The singer hair is thinning badly
    He's going to be bald by the time he's thirty going by the spot on the back of his head!

    • It's

      the only part of him that is thinning then.

  • elbow :)

    this is better than all of last night already

    • Only

      two songs though :-(

    • that was a joke.

      an Elbow/Hot Chip show with only 2 Elbow songs and no Hot Chip at all. And why aren't Massive Attack even getting a look-in on tonight coverage? I feel cheated. :(

    • nah

      it's all Winehouse at the moment. Edith says it's the biggest crowd she's ever seen even more than Coldplay or Radiohead, I've switched over to Black Kids on one of the redbutton channels because Winehouse appears to be utter crap live.

      • But to give her credit

        she's not nearly as bad as she could have been. For someone with a massive drugs problem, and supposed emphesema, I think she's doing pretty well, and to get a little sentimental about it all, I hope that seeing a crowd like this - whether they're there to support her or to witness a potential car crash - could give her the impetus to turn her life around properly. Or maybe she'll just use the money to buy more crack, who knows...

        • Hmm...

          although she seems to be rapidly forgetting the verses to many of her songs. Maybe I spoke too soon.

      • uck

        so far i've discovered my freeview box is broken and i couldnt watch Elbow, and i've heard a bit on 6 Music. Black Kids still sound shit, Neon Neon had awful sound but still are awesome, and Foals still *yawwwn*

        • mark radcliffe was pulling some great

          couldn't care less expressions when lauren was gushing about foals last night - i was on his side.

          • grrr

            stupid Lavern. I'm getting so pissed off with shitty presenters at the minute and also with the bbc's "lets be cool and mainstream" with both proper mainstream music and in terms of indie.

            I'm doing my best not to care to much cause the only people i really wanted to see at Glasto who i havent seen before are Neon Neon and Leonard Cohen...

    • Dont forget ....

      some heavily underestimated material on BBC4 too.

  • Any one else think that

    a drugged up, boyfriend in jail, Wino singing A Message To You Rudy is a bit ironic?

  • That BSP red button set in full

    The Great Skua, No Lucifer, Down On The Ground. Three songs, not one of which feature Yan on lead vocals. Well done. (They definitely have more, as Waving Flags was on BBC2 earlier)

    Anyone noticed BBC2 aren't showing Jay-Z live?

    • Waving Flags

      i saw it on BBC2... the sound was a bit iffy..

      but the crowd looked boring as fuck. Compared to the last BSP gig I was at they were as lively as between the bands

      considering Holy Fuck were on before BSP to.

  • BUDDY GUY

    FUCKING AMAZING. NO?

  • Lyyke Li

    doin accoustic stuff back stage I love this tune...

    I think I'm in love humana humana

  • I'd like to register my disgust

    at the criminal lack of Massive Attack. They headlined the other stage, i've been watching all night and have only seen one song (which i only caught the end of. on the other hand Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Buddy Guy and Joan Armatrading have been on at least three times each. Massive Attack are brilliant and i don't see why the coverage has all but ignored them.

  • srsly

    what the fuck is with the amount of absolute shit on bbc2. Im tired of world fucking music you cunts.

    • Amy

      wasn't TOO bad.
      Now, BBC crew, can you put online some Manu Chao?
      Thanks.

      • Manu Chao

        was on red button a lot last. He was really good from what I saw, I dint really dig his album but that live performance was ace. He did appear to have Gary Glitter on keyboards though