Glastonbury - The Sunday Night

So the Sunday night headliner on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury wasn’t someone like The Levellers, the Manics or The Strokes, it was Beyonce. I have nothing against Beyonce and she is clearly very good at what she does but it’s just not my cup of tea. I can’t review her set because I didn’t watch it. I tried but after about 10mins I gave up. That kind of music just doesn’t do anything for me. Luckily the TV was also showing music from other stages so there was plenty to keep the rest of the viewing public engaged.

I was delighted to find that the Red Button was showing a decent chunk of a set by one of my favourite bands The Eels. I’ve been a fan of Mark ‘E’ Everett and his music since ‘Novocaine for the Soul’ was a minor hit in the mid-nineties. One of the main reasons I like the Eels is that they are constantly changing and re-inventing their style. Every tour they do has a different feel, look and sound. You never know what you’re going to get but you know it will be brilliant.

After The Eels I watched some Queens of the Stone Age. Unlike the Eels with Queens of the Stone Age you know exactly what you’re going to get and that’s what they delivered. It was an accomplished rock tour-de-force. It was Powerful, exhilarating and the perfect antidote to pop on the Pyramid stage. It’s perfect festival music and I really enjoyed it.

A lot of people are very annoyed that Glastonbury has become the sort of event that a pop act headlines. I agree to an extent but I think the festival is now so big it can cater for all tastes. If you didn’t want to watch Beyonce there was plenty of other stuff to see. I don’t particularly want to see another pop act headline again in the near future but if it’s in several years time and we are talking about someone as big as Beyonce then why not? Glastonbury has always prided itself on mixing genres and being inclusive of all types of music. Long may it continue.

I’m going to the Manchester Apollo tonight to see the Fleet Foxes. I’ll Blog about it some point over the next couple of days.