Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood @ Glastonbury 2010

Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood @ Glastonbury 2010

Thom Yorke @ Glastonbury 2010

Thom Yorke @ Glastonbury 2010

Snoop Dogg is at Glastonbury Snoop Dogg only performs a limited amount of his songs Snoop Dogg makes a conscious effort to speak about the benefits of marijuana use as often as possible. Snoop Dogg dedicates a song “to the ladies” Snoop Dogg’s audience is be mostly white Snoop Dogg’s audience, it can be assumed, can be divided into three groups on the following criteria: White People who sing along to Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot, White People who frequently quote Ice Cube’s Good Day and White People who believe A Tribe Called Quest is the best thing that ever happened to their lives. Snoop Dogg arrives and leaves with the crowd in his hands, including myself

Snoop Dogg is at Glastonbury

Snoop Dogg only performs a limited amount of his songs

Snoop Dogg makes a conscious effort to speak about the benefits of marijuana use as often as possible.

Snoop Dogg dedicates a song “to the ladies”

Snoop Dogg’s audience is be mostly white

Snoop Dogg’s audience, it can be assumed, can be divided into three groups on the following criteria: White People who sing along to Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot, White People who frequently quote Ice Cube’s Good Day and White People who believe A Tribe Called Quest is the best thing that ever happened to their lives.

Snoop Dogg arrives and leaves with the crowd in his hands, including myself

Miike Snow @ Glastonbury 2010

Miike Snow @ Glastonbury 2010

Matthew Herbert @ Glastonbury 2010 Not pictured: his “big band” consisting of a ten piece orchestra, a 30 piece choir and one soprano with gold Princess Leia pieces on her head.

Matthew Herbert @ Glastonbury 2010

Not pictured: his “big band” consisting of a ten piece orchestra, a 30 piece choir and one soprano with gold Princess Leia pieces on her head.

Two Door Cinema Club @ Glastonbury (“Opening Night” performance) 2010 The opening night duties this year were split between Two Door Cinema Club and Boy George at the Dance Village (who failed to appear until his tour manager begged for the crowd to stay). And while I can find two major things wrong with the title “Opening night”; one being the site opened on wednesday and the otehr being that at 6pm it’s still as bright as day, I can’t help but think a better band then your latest run-of-the-mill “indie kids who’s debut album is pretty good on the first listen then ridiculously samey after that but other indie kids love them” should take the honours. Then again, last year Maximo Park did it.

Two Door Cinema Club @ Glastonbury (“Opening Night” performance) 2010

The opening night duties this year were split between Two Door Cinema Club and Boy George at the Dance Village (who failed to appear until his tour manager begged for the crowd to stay). And while I can find two major things wrong with the title “Opening night”; one being the site opened on wednesday and the otehr being that at 6pm it’s still as bright as day, I can’t help but think a better band then your latest run-of-the-mill “indie kids who’s debut album is pretty good on the first listen then ridiculously samey after that but other indie kids love them” should take the honours.

Then again, last year Maximo Park did it.

Phototumbling! Tumbling Photos! Pumbling Totos!

With a lot of photos and memories yet not much to show for it yet, over the next few days I’ll be presenting a few more of the pictures and stories from my European travels. This includes the Glastonbury, Roskilde and Bilbao festivals, as well as such artists as Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, Muse, Prince, The National, Florence and the Machine, Thom Yorke, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Japandriods and much much more.

So while you mourn not going to Splendour or Lollapalooza (face it, it wasn’t going to be THAT great), keep half an eye here for some equally as entertaining live acts?

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a boat big enough to sail right up next to it.
David Lee Roth
Gareth of Los Campesinos! @ Bilbao BBK, 2010 As arguably the best of my 1400 European festival photos, I may just try to “pic pick” with this…

Gareth of Los Campesinos! @ Bilbao BBK, 2010

As arguably the best of my 1400 European festival photos, I may just try to “pic pick” with this…

LCD Soundsystem at Roskilde Festival 2010 While fun to dance around with about 5000 sweaty Danes, James Murphy and his Not-Plasma Soundsytem are as much a quarter-life crisis mediation exercise as a live show. He seems to really be living the lyrics of Losing My Edge a bit too much and forgetting that sometimes the best things about music are not the feelings created that constrain you but the ones that free you. That and they didn’t play North American Scum. Fuckers.

LCD Soundsystem at Roskilde Festival 2010

While fun to dance around with about 5000 sweaty Danes, James Murphy and his Not-Plasma Soundsytem are as much a quarter-life crisis mediation exercise as a live show. He seems to really be living the lyrics of Losing My Edge a bit too much and forgetting that sometimes the best things about music are not the feelings created that constrain you but the ones that free you.

That and they didn’t play North American Scum. Fuckers.