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Top 3 wasn't enough.   Girls Aloud (twice!!!) at the NEC, Birmingham. Shows of my entire life.     Bring Me The Horizon at NIA, Birmingham. Got disturbed towards the end of the show when a woman was waving a phone in my face. Took me a second to register she was showing me her selfie, with me in the background screaming along to Can You Feel My Heart. Pretty funny, gotta say.   The 1975 at the NEC, Birmingham. Fifth time, but always a guaranteed blaster of a show. Will never not go and see them.   Fontaines DC at The Civic, Wolverhampton. Great package.     Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the NEC, Birmingham. 2 hours of songs that take on a life of their own when performed on stage. Mesmerising.   Frank Carter at The Wulfrun, Wolverhampton. Reigning it in these days, but still a great frontman.   Smashing Pumpkins at the NIA, Birmingham. Sounded incredible. Played for over 2 hours, pushing past curfew.   IDLES at Cardiff Castle. What a drama getting there. Twisted tracks, cancelled trains, sweaty fiasco of men piled high in the train toilet. Worth it in the end.     Dayseeker at the Institute, Birmingham. A few elevated tunes away from being main stage mainstays at Download and the like. Could be a big deal this time next year.   Take That at the NIA, Birmingham. Girlfriend was getting wound up by all the women in TT tshirts knocking around town while we were having a drink. Bought the tickets in the pub about 30 minutes before Olly Murs took to the stage.      

This is what I can’t get over. She’d be great but don’t think she’s got the appeal people think.   Lido is 25,000 and not sold out. Yes she had the O2 just before, but Fontaines sold out 45,000 tickets at Finsbury at a similar ticket price and had multiple nights at Ally Pally around the same time.

Glastonbury shouldn’t be dictated to by the BBC, it should be the other way round 

Look. Guys. I can only apologise for the almighty jinxing.     My working theory is initial negotiations with Glastonbury were around the blurring of these lines, and an agreement was struck between Young and Glastonbury with them believing they could sway the BBC. But as time dragged on Glastonbury couldn’t get anyway negotiating with the BBC hence they had to go back to Neil and renege on the initial agreement and admitted they couldn’t meet the terms.   Fundamentally believe the TV / Streaming / Worldwide sales ability is the crux of his issue - but to be “booked” and then for him to publicly denounce whatever happened. It’s more than his team just didn’t read the document. Has to be the above for me, that there were attempts to bend the rules but BBC wouldn’t agree and forced the festivals hand.   Whole thing is just really sour. I sincerely hope he does more than one UK date, and it isn’t during Glastonbury week. I’ll be unfathomably pissed off if after he pulled out of Glastonbury and then I can’t even go to his own date.

Charli XCX would kill it but she's just not there size wise.   Can't even sell out her APE day with solid support and a fair price in East London!!