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I mean - I obviously dunno.  I just don't think it's wildly unlikely that they'd opt to do the Friday and then chill for the remainder of the fest.   Waste of a night imho to stand stage-side and watch the back of your husband's head.   Obviously for a random punter then stage-side access, etc would be a huge W - but for folk like that who've played 100s of festivals it probably loses its lustre after a while.

Which is still remarkable, because The Kooks have got quite a few hit songs, even if they are still from way back. FTP has literally one recognizable song. It's crazy how long they can survive off of that. Unless I am missing something.

In defense of China, they're rapidly decarbonising and are also sponsoring infrastructure building projects in other countries to decarbonise. The CCP has decided global warming is a priority issue (or whatever term they use) and is arguably the most influential driving force to reduce fossil fuel use globally between their political and economic power. The lack of democracy also means that now they've decided it it's getting done very rapidly. (this isn't a defense of totalitarianism, just a comment that they can shift gear faster)   You're completely right about India though. 1.4bn people and coal, oil, and gas burning all on the rise. They've been buying all the fossil fuels from Russia that Europe wouldn't on top of everything else in an attempt to rapidly industrialise and catch up in output to the West and China.   It's largely corporate output in USA, Russia, India that is the big problem going forward (it has been in China for decades and probably will be for 5 more years or so). Sure we as consumers can make small adjustments that will also have an impact on demand for different products, but we need the governments of USA, Russia, India, to try and control/impact their own industry, which with their current leaders isn't going to happen.   What's annoying is that if there were the political will, it could probably shift it quite rapidly. The USA dealt with acid rain really effectively, not by banning it, but by creating a "pollution credits" system that gave strict fines around different tiers of ozone damaging pollution. The industrial complex responded by rapidly researching and implementing the technology to shift their pollution output instead of buying these credits. I can't help but think a similar system could be adopted for carbon output. At least in the USA.

Maybe being peak efests here but for the 1975 its not just another show (charli xcx maybe less so).   Its the biggest show they can possibly do in their home country - its a fairly big occasion. They also have no tour dates currently and could defo be their only show of the year, with new staging or something too.   For the other way towards Charli XCX it is just another show though - defo

Any mention of the worst offenders - the Pyramid picnic blanket posse