BBC Radio5 Live, Are festivals

cool or too middle aged? Ha Ha loving it, tune in and join the masses.

6 Music for the serious music lovers. :lou_lol:

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Radio 1 - in the car because the kids tuned the station to every preset and I have no idea how to change them.

:lou_angry:

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Upvote :laughing:

That and Radio 3, of course :lou_wink:

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Will be watching the highlights of this when I get the chance, far more edgy, angry and working class than “Glasto”…

@intiniki will be glad to hear that.

She’s at Reading with her boyf. They’re both in their forties. I expect the pair of them are flinging faecal matter at coppers, even though they’re not normally like that, because Reading is so edgy :lou_sunglasses:

Reading + Leeds is a festival with a complicated history, far longer and rowdier than that of Glastonbury. It’s always been known as the fans’ festival, a place where the bands are all that really matter and musical affiliation is taken very seriously.

That is the opening line of the beeb page on it, disagree with them…

Wouldn’t be the first time.

It’s not longer. Go to either event and you get three days of music.

You also can’t take your own ale in. This, along with the crowd being younger, means plenty are wasted before they reach the festival, or folk roll around with secreted spirits, getting more wankered, more quickly than they would elsewhere.

Edgy!

Don’t have a go at me Pap, just quoting what renowned music people are saying…

I’m not having a go at you, darling. Not for the first time, I’m having a go at the BBC.

I mean, I do find your self-appointed job as “arbiter of edgy” very amusing, but how could anyone not?

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True dat bhru, true dat.

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Settle down, @barry-sanchez .

You’ll cut yourself if you’re not careful.

I’m so ahead of the game I catch myself up.

When it comes to edgy I suspect that Barry is Howard Moon - Pap is Vince Noir.

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Sadly the BBC is the bane of the PRS…shit payers. :lou_angry:

Yeah - except Bastille played last night.

Radio 6 in the car.

Radio 4/5/6 plus KEXP at home

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Day 3 of Reading festival. I will report back on how edgy it was once I am back home.

How can a festival with a bill of straight down the line white-bread rock music be considered edgy? Reading stopped taking chances with their line-up in the late 90s. It’s an exercise in fizzy lager branding with a soundtrack of indentikit major-label guitar music made by straight white men.

The only really edgy thing about that festival is that female punters run the risk of being sexually assaulted. That’s not a good kind of edgy.

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