2023 legend slot

[grumpyhack]

1 hour ago, gizmoman said:

I've heard they're playing Avalon.

 

[a6l6e6x]

Don’t know much by Roxy music but would be keen to watch 

Far from the massive draw of legends past so be interesting to see the turnout

[Ayrshire Chris]

Love a bit of Roxy ever since I saw them playing Virginia Plain back in 72.  Incidentally the name Virginia Plain was copied from a brand of cigarette tobacco. Awful untipped  fags. 

[Neville Street]

11 minutes ago, Neil said:

for a huge singalong with a band  of the same era with lots of well known hits how about 10cc

Also sign up for this! Saw a version of them somewhere in the last decade or so, maybe at Wychwood??

[Skip997]

13 minutes ago, Neil said:

for a huge singalong with a band  of the same era with lots of well known hits how about 10cc

Dreadlock Holiday is superb, but not as good as the Dreadlock Holiday/Independent Women mashup

[WestCountryGirl]

In Every Dream Home a Heartache seeping over the Pyramid field on a sunny Sunday afternoon? It's a change of pace, and I am HERE FOR IT.

[Neil]

1 minute ago, WestCountryGirl said:

In Every Dream Home a Heartache seeping over the Pyramid field on a sunny Sunday afternoon? It's a change of pace, and I am HERE FOR IT.

yeah, me too. 🙂 

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Oooo tidy booking. A good few well known songs to please partial fans, but keep away the massive floods of people. 

Love is the Drug and More Than This, surely those two are the most well known and appear on about a dozen film soundtracks for the casual listener.

Also happy to move away from the whole Butlins feel of the dancing choreographed security guards.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Sweet. Happy enough with this.  Probably is more at the ELO end of the scale size-wise but it'll still bring the good times.

Ferry himself is a bit in the pub style phase of his singing career, but they've got the jams.

[CaledonianGonzo]

More Than This is one of the best singles of the 1980s.

[NoBuses]

Genuinely never heard of them, pleased people are happy though

[gfa]

2 minutes ago, NoBuses said:

Genuinely never heard of them, pleased people are happy though

Don't know much of them either, bar the name. Saves some budget for the real legends (Pulp)

[NoBuses]

Just now, gfa said:

 Saves some budget for the real legends (Pulp)

Agreed

[Zacko]

1 hour ago, Matt42 said:

Think I’m prob from the wrong generation for this one. I like the tunes I’ve heard though and recognise a few.

I always think they're one of the most underrated bands ever, and my theory is because their last album came out in 1982.

They don't seem to get talked about in the same bracket as a lot of the big 80's bands because of that, and yet they definitely influenced a lot of those bands. I also somehow don't associate them with the 70s either because I immediately think of punk, Bowie, American rock, or prog when the 70's comes up. Sort of a weird inbetween with them where they were almost too ahead of their time! 

Nile Rodgers forming Chic because he went to a Roxy show and was so inspired will always be my favourite bit of trivia. 

[incident]

2 minutes ago, gfa said:

Don't know much of them either, bar the name. Saves some budget for the real legends (Pulp)

I much prefer Pulp myself, but realistically - not factoring in any potential "Glastonbury disconts", Pulp will be a hell of a lot cheaper to book based on how much Roxy Music are charging (and it appears getting) for their own tour.

[Hugh Jass II]

Played a shitload of RM stuff when he headlined WH in 2014, and it was great.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bryan-ferry/2014/worthy-farm-pilton-england-73c1aa85.html

[CaledonianGonzo]

Thank me later

[Hugh Jass II]

It would be quite emotional for me if they play (and if I get a ticket) as they were my late dad's all time favourite band (just behind the Smiths and Stone Roses, he had taste that lad).

[scatteredscreens]

3 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

It would be quite emotional for me if they play (and if I get a ticket) as they were my late dad's all time favourite band (just behind the Smiths and Stone Roses, he had taste that lad).

let's hope both of these happen then for you mate

[Neil]

21 minutes ago, Zacko said:

I always think they're one of the most underrated bands ever, and my theory is because their last album came out in 1982.

They don't seem to get talked about in the same bracket as a lot of the big 80's bands because

THEY'RE MUCH MORE OF A 70S BAND.

[CaledonianGonzo]

That's true, but no doubt Avalon was very influential on the music that followed it in the 1980s.

[Neville Street]

5 songs into GH and already looking forward to seeing them. They are highlighted on my 2014 Clashfinder, but we can’t fully recall if we saw them. Embarrassing what old age does! We do remember the Kodaline/Imagine Dragons/Manics run earlier that day on Other, and I think we watched Brian F from quite far back in WH and it wasn’t packed and got quite close but there was a big muddy patch in WH field. I think that was the year the Grand Bouffe on the corner was accessed via pallets across a lake of mud?

[Matt42]

Is this the first time they’ve technically rebooked an act for the legends? Booked the front man solo (who plays quite a few of their records) and then the full band a few years later?

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Top tune, get your sparkles and leather trousers out everyone!

 

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]