Been to 12 glasto's and can't honestly remember many disappointments but Madness in 2016 was terrible. Loved their back catalogue & saw them a few times back in the day. My daughter wanted to see them & I thought it would be fun. It was like watching a bad karaoke version of the band. My daughter said about 45 minutes in "please can we leave, this is awful". I've never been more grateful of her!
Saw Biig Piig in Birmingham on Saturday night -- the opening date of her headline tour in support of debut album 11:11 released earlier this month. She put on a great show, bundles of energy and was obviously blown away by the reception given by the few hundred fans gathered in the O2 Institute2. Could see her slotting in to early-mid afternoon on Woodsies, Park or Avalon. Would go down a storm I reckon.
First time (recently? perhaps ever?) I've seen an artist properly come back for an encore after finishing and replaying a song from earlier in the set (Switch) cos obviously she and the band hadn't reckoned on needing to prep an encore track and they'd already played the Big Ones!
I鈥檝e still got fingers crossed that Raye will be added . She鈥檚 not got a Portugal date this summer and I think it鈥檚 unlikely she will be doing MEO as she鈥檚 in the USA Just a few days before and not starting her European run until July .