I'm finally back from my two and a half week long vacation to French Polynesia. I had a great time! Thanks for your patience. I plan on posting some more soon, once I recover a bit. I also will try to respond to the comments I'd missed.
While I was gone, the 2025 version of the annual Glastonbury Festival happened in Britain. This is the first festival to take place while I'm closely paying attention. (Sadly, there won't be another one next year, as the festival skips a year every now and then.) Most of the sets from the three day festival were made available in full by the BBC (although sadly I can't find any recording from the acoustic stage, which included sets by Ani DiFranco, Nick Lowe, and Roy Harper). Since I just got back home, I haven't listened to any of the music yet, but I can see which sets are available for download. There's about 90 acts, which is far too much for me to post here, unless I were to stop posting everything else for quite a while. But I figure I can post the most popular sets. So here's a list of everything I found. Let me know which ones you'd like me to post (and please only select a handful). I'll do all the ones that get a reasonable number of votes.
The 1975
AJ Tracey
Alanis Morissette
Amyl & the Sniffers
Anohni & the Johnsons
Badbadnotgood
Beth Gibbons
Biffy Clyro
Black Country New Road
Black Uhuru
Blossoms
Brandi Carlile
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Busta Rhymes
CMAT
Caribou
Celeste
Charli XCX
Cymande
Denzel Curry
DJO
En Vogue
English Teacher
Ezra Collective
FCUKERS
Fat Dog
Father John Misty
Faye Webster
Floating Points
Four Tet
Franz Ferdinand
Future Islands
Glass Beams
Gracie Abrams
Greentea Peng
Inhaler
JADE
Jalen Ngonda
Japanese Breakfast
John Fogerty
Joy Crookes
Katy J. Pearson
Lewis Capaldi
Libertines
Lola Young
Lorde
Loyle Carner
Lucy Dacus
Maccabees
Maribou State
Myles Smith
Neil Young
Nile Rodgers & Chic
Noah Kahan
Nova Twins
Olivia Rodrigo
Osees
Overmono
Pa Salieu
Parcels
Pink Panteress
Prodigy
Pulp
Raye
Rod Stewart
Royel Otis
Scissor Sisters
Script
Self Esteem
Shamboozey
Shed Seven
Skepta
Sprints
St. Vincent
Supergrass
Tom Odell
Tunstile
Weezer
Wet Leg
Wolf Alice
Wunderhorse
I have to admit I haven't kept up that much with currently popular music, so I don't recognize many of these names. But hopefully there are some that will get a good number of votes and prove to be worthy, in addition to some of the older and better known names.
Thanks for this LONG list. I would like to hear the sets from St. Vincent, Father John Misty, Lorde and Beth Gibbons, if you wouldn't mind. Thanks again for providing all this music and for all the work you put into making it all sound great.
ReplyDeleteMost of these I'm interested in are mainly older bands but they are the ones I'd be interested in most:
ReplyDeleteThe 1975, Alanis Morissette, Blossoms, Black Uhuru, Brian Jonestown Massacre, English Teacher, Franz Ferdinand, John Fogerty, Glass Beams, Libertines, Maccabees, Osees, Prodigy, Pulp, Rod Stewart, Shed Seven, Sprints, Supergrass, Neil Young, Weezer and Wunderhorse.
Thanks for all the great posts
beth gibbons, BJM and neil young please you rule!
ReplyDeleteFour Tet, Franz Ferdinand, Prodigy, Libertines would be great . Thanks.
ReplyDeleteRod Stewart.
ReplyDeleteMerci
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Father John Misty, Libertines, Pulp, Neil Young
ReplyDeleteBrandi Carlisle
ReplyDeleteJohn Fogerty
Please
Thank you
Prodigy, please!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all!
Pulp, Cymande & Black Uhuru please
ReplyDeleteHello! Welcome back! Many thanks for your wonderful blog!!! The acts... Anohni & the Johnsons, Raye, Olivia Rodrigo and St. Vincent would be nice!
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a great holiday! My only request is Weezer which is for my 13 year old daughter who is a big fan. Thanks
ReplyDeleteKneecap
ReplyDeleteWelcome back: Franz Ferdinand, four tet, Neil Young, English Teacher, St.Vincent, Raye please
ReplyDeleteAlanis Morrissette please :)
ReplyDeleteFor me the choice should be:
ReplyDeletejapanese breakfast, wet leg,st vincent, lucy dakus, neil young, libertines, john fogerty, please.
The 1975, Neil Young, and Wet Leg.
ReplyDeleteAmyl & The Sniffers and Wet Leg for me. I downloaded both already but want to add the ATSE wersions!
ReplyDeleteWet Leg and Inhaler for me
ReplyDeleteHope you had a great vacation. Cymande would be awesome to hear.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back. Would love to hear the Supergrass and BJM shows
ReplyDeleteBeth Gibbons, Neil Young and John Fogerty please?
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed your trip. Pulp would be good to hear. Roy Harper's set appears to be streaming on Soundcloud. Parts of it are also on YouTube. If you can find it, I'd love that as well.
ReplyDeleteHi Alanis, Rod and maybe Weezer. Glad you are back, that Lennon photo gave me the willies.
ReplyDeleteWhat Lennon photo?
DeleteWelcome back!! And yup, I'm in the same boat as you. I recognize a handful or so but don't find very many at all on the list to be interesting. That being said I have friends who saw Nile Rodgers & Chic and said they were great. I also have a boot or two from Nova Twins and they're pretty interesting. And then there's Rod Stewart; in general I've given up on him just due to his advanced age, but if you think his set is a good one, I'm game. That's it for me, and thank very much for asking!
ReplyDeleteHope you are well rested! For me it would be:
ReplyDeleteAlanis Morissette
Brandi Carlile
John Fogerty
Neil Young
Rod Stewart (he was joined by Ron Wood & Lulu)
St. Vincent
Thank you for all your hardwork.
Biffy Clyro would be good, since they are very under rated
ReplyDeleteFor me Pulp, Neil Young and Beth Gibbons would be great. Thank you for all that you do in bringing us such great music!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTotally off subject, but I just read that Dave Cousins has died. Do you have any Strawbs stuff or some of his pre-Strawbs stuff with the great Sandy Denny?
ReplyDeleteI'm especially interested in Father John Misty, Faye Webster (her album I Know I'm Funny is great, do give it a listen), St Vincent and Wet Leg. Do you have the Bob Vylan one? I saw some of it circulating online but I think the BBC pulled it?
ReplyDeleteHere's my top 10 from that list that would be great to hear!
ReplyDelete*Amyl & the Sniffers
*Caribou
*Father John Misty
*Franz Ferdinand
*Gracie Abrams
*Lola Young
*Lorde
*Osees
*St. Vincent
*Supergrass
I'd like to see John Fogerty, Rod Stewart and the Script here. Glad you're back btw. I missed checking your (almost) daily new uploads. Hope you had a great holiday!
ReplyDeleteSt. Vincent would be my top pick.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a good holiday my top choices are Amyl & The Sniffers, Wet Leg, Alanis Morissette & Neil Young. Like you I was annoyed that the BBC decided NOT to show Nick Lowe & yet showed other acts not good enough to lick his boots !!
ReplyDeleteWould love to hear Father John Misty, Inhaler, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo. Hope you enjoyed your holiday!
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