First complaint from presenters about monosyllabic interviewees. It's all their fault, naturally. Also, one interview with a man who maintains the roads and at least three uses of the phrase "How amazing was that?" Anyone care to start some spread betting on the number of repetitions by sunday night?

and watching the red button coverage instead. We've had The Maccabees and now it's White Lies.

Though I briefly flicked over to BBC3 and saw a man playing what looked like a double-headed cowbell?

I'm new to Sky - good call. Why do they have their microphones like that?

Seemed a bit pained. I do wonder about the wisdom of bringing a cellist to an open-air festival.
Interview between Bowman / the bloke and Lily Allen collapsed into doggerel (surprise, surprise).
Jesus, L.A. is a stunningly average performer, isn't she. It must be the fag-centred insouciance.

and is indeed wearing a most singular outfit. I think she looks great, shame I don't like her music.

being a presenter or has the little shit been restricted to the god awful IOW ITV2 show?

Fleet Foxes are on now, but the same performances will turn up later to kill time. You end up witnessing the same performances over and over..

What's with all the idiots and their bloody flags, thankfully when I went to Glastonbury that was not deemed "cool".
If I'd spent a hundred quid or so to watch a band, I'd like to see them thanks very much not to stare at a frigging Chelsea FC flag! Bad enough trying to see what's going on on the tele...

Now a flag in front of Edith Bowman, Jo Whiley, Ferne Cotton or Rufus Hound - fair enough!

are bloody tedious, aren't they?

I swear any of The Massive could do a better job!

and I feel incredibly old. When are these interviews going to stop? Why are these people deemed interesting?

Little Boots... she's no Ella Fitzgerald is she? Flat as a pancake. Can't you use Auto Tune during live concerts?

perhaps thats the point but i find it very irritating. i thought Lily looked good though.is there anybody worth watching on tonight ?

Interesting that we get to see one of this year's "anointed" bands. Really is the 1980's again, isn't it?
Popbitch made this comment this week about the way the Industry foists these bands upon us and how..er actually they don't sell, which I thought was interesting
Let's look at this year's annointed few:
Little Boots' album entered the chart at five,
but then dropped to 40 and right out of the
charts. Florence and The Machine - no album
yet, and not even a top 10 single. White
Lies - two weeks in the top 10 before dropping
straight out of top 40. Empire of the Sun
peaked at 19; Frankmusik can't get arrested.
VV Brown is written about like she's
Beyonce but hasn't yet had a hit.
Hmm..anyway, Little Boots, staggeringly mediocre...

Our first sighting of the deservedly mocked tribe, but not the last..oh, hold on, I forgot about Friendly Fires ( or was it White Lies?) who were on earlier...
Neil Young's on tonight and The Specials are promised..Lady Gaga should be..provocative?
She's on and blimey..she can sing. Putting in a bit of an effort. She's quite (ahem) sturdy isn't she?

in a sparkly box. I have no idea who she is, but I can see this all going very 'Stonehenge'.

old, very OLD!

that's an outfit!

Very "New York" isn't it? A bit "Interpretive Dance" also..
She's quite a rear too..sorry, but it's unavoidable.

a cold shower

Now they're talking about trainers with the Ting Tings

for I cannot imagine that when they are in their late thirties/forties/fifties they will be inspired to discuss the merits of the music of their youth with as much passion as we do!

For Heaven's Sake, show some decorum and wear some dungarees!

...but just wait until Celebrity Masterchef has finished and I'll be there. (How cool am I?)
Just promise me that Jo f*****g Whiley is not on at the mo.

there's going to be trouble. If something genuinely amazing happened, what would they say then?

Hurrah for The Specials. (And hurrah that they are not dressed as skimpily as Lily Allen and Lady Gaga.)

Are doing their level best to turn a very large field in Somerset into a sweaty club. And isn't it refreshing to see a band looking like they are - a bunch of middle-aged blokes who haven't been pampered & successful all their lives and have probably had to (gasp!) work proper jobs.

Grant's GLW here. Question: does Lady Gaga waving her ample bosom and quite fantastic statuesque legs stop you from thinking how quite frankly rubbish it is in that she's actually just singing along to her own record? Her voice is still there when her mouth stops moving or alternatively, she's shouting over the top. I know pop folk have been doing that for years, but at Glastonbury? really?

Who is this bloke?

Looks like a Joe Strummer tribute act, plays wanky guitar solos over evrything, sang Concrete Jungle in an american accent.

He's certainly not from Coventry and he's completely fucking up the gig.

Makes everything right, but you're right about guitar guy, he's all over the place!

Seems to have calmed down a bit now. Anyone know who he is?

Surely not an original member?

Now he's soloing over the intro to Ghost Town.

The c**t.

the sound of young Somerset?

Which is no bad thing.

The boys done good! Apart from Joe Scunner obviously.

will we actually get to see any Neil Young?

'Soul Britannia' is on BBC4.

We thought we were safe. We were wrong.

simply the closest that corparate music plc has come to claiming specious "Indie" credibility?

There's two of them ("The White Stripes are quite popular Josh, try and bag something like that"), ones a pretty girl, they have one song, they mime to backing tracks (she is NOT playing that guitar) and have a background in X factor type boy/girl bands.

But still people like them. Takes all sorts.

and I'm one of the people presenting here"

False modesty is a sin woman!

And fur fux sake Paolo. Mungo Jerry was SO 1970.

What the hell is going wrong?

the boy does have something about him.

Its like watching a really good young Scottish First Division player who could either be brilliant or vanish without trace. You feel excited and worried at the same time.

Theres definately something there though.

Kids - just say no...

Before

After

the guys in his sixties now, give him a fucking break!

Thank Heavens it's post-watershed.

The Neil Young primer was good stuff and better than that awful racket he makes when he gets carried away on the guitar. I thought Lily Allen was great. Ting Tings OK. Gaga hilarious. Fleet Foxes remind me of being stuck in an endless session in some bar in Donegal, not necessarily a bad thing, but what's all the fuss about? And while I'm here, how easy/hard is it to download Skype on a mac? The podcast may be a-calling and I told Hepworth I'd be all set up by Sunday.

Glastonbury coverage so bad so far that teary eyed nostalgia for Colin Murray and Rufus Hound's roaming interviews in the wacky field is just around the corner in H Towers. Lord there's not enough red in the box to stay up for this.

There's some land fill indie band on the stage, no idea who they are but everyone in the crowd seems to know every word of the song they are playing even though I can't make out a single word!

Easy on a Mac, we had no trouble. The GLW has used it several times for conversations with a friend in South Africa.
The Neil young Primer thing was just a bit unnecessary, wasn't it?
Fleet Foxes looked like the farm hands had stormed the stage.

I'm actually enjoying things so far.

Which has quite taken me aback. Lily Allen's got a nice bum.

Though has anyone else noticed that the various mid-table indie scamps are all singing the same song? I mean the arrangement, the lyrical meter and the tempo.

It's all the bloody same. The cheeky glottal almost-rapped rhyming couplet verse followed by the singalong chorus. All to frenzied flat out strumming.

Yep, I know I've just described Indie Landfill but it's just struck me as to what it actually is.

No really, how drunk?

but these young yins are doing nothin for me. I think I became more erotically lubricised by Terry Hall's suit to be honest.

Have you seen Lady Gag without the make up by the way? Looks like Alex Kapranos.

and retired to the the “study“ with a cup of tea and Lipstick Traces by the O’Jays on a permanent loop. Elegant chord changes. Might have a biscuit.

(Lauren Laverne scrubs up nice as well)

Neil Youngs on the Telly!

I assume that's Pegi on backing vocals?

But whats the red phone for?

Its a festival fur fux sake! Half of Glasto are on their iPhones with some jusification.

Fextival set man. Greatest hits and fuck off. This is poor stuff.

Neil's not really Friday evening Pyramid rock out fayre is he? Also the GLW has pointed out that the slide player has the oldest hands in rock. Older even than Keith Richard's, apparently. I had no idea she paid that much attention.

the perfect presenter - knowledgeable and interested.

as exciting as ever

a re-write of Tom Waits' "Get Behind The Mule"?

Its always been there, knawing at me like a small rodent, but I fuckin hate Neil Young and now I know why.

Ghastly, meandering songs sung like a favour is being done. Ignoring the audience as though they havent paid for his life.
Solos. And more solos. And they're all pish.
His songs are all shit. Honestly. Three chords. Nursery rhyme melodies. You could have written them.
Deep ugliness as a part of "real" music
Employing your fucking family. We dislike it in MP's. Why this flatulent Canadian cunt is immune to wrath is a mystery.
He can't play the guitar. Keep hitting it Neil. Go on. Harder. Hit the single string. Again. And again. We think yer great.

He's on again now playing third rate 12 bar blues the talentless twat.

"Play some new, Neil"

I have to say, he'd probably have done better to have done an old-fashioned Crazy Horse set, at least they're sufficiently unsubtle for the festival audience.

pleeeeease.

would wipe the floor with this guy

Were verging on landfill indie but I prefer them to Scouting For Girls, Kaiser Chiefs, Pigeon Detectives, etc.

he's making his point with RITFW isn't he? Just finish it man and get on with the next song

is a poor song. And he's now reprised it 4 times.

Michael Jackson is dead and this cunt roams the earth.

5 times. Hes like a cat retiurning to its prey.

Never realised it before, but they do sound great tonight, don't they? How come Elbow are suddenly famous and they're not? Thanks for all the Skype tips. And as for Neil, Jesus wept.

Never realised it before, but they do sound great tonight, don't they? How come Elbow are suddenly famous and they're not? Thanks for all the Skype tips. And as for Neil, Jesus wept.

You Can Etc.

The Youngster doesn't have a greatest hits set, name a 17 song set that everyone in the audience will be swinging along to a la Wilson, Brooooce et al

"Oh mummy, it was horrible. There was this frightful man with long hair who made the most awful noise with his guitar. His song went on for about an hour and his shirt was hanging off."

will John Lennon ever be allowed to rest?

.

It is Reggie Young, isn't it? Sitting talking enthusiastically next to Edith Bowman and skilfully managing to not use the word 'wicked'.

He doesn't seem to know that much about the Glasto experience so seems free of the in-the-know attitude of his co-host, Edith.

Riddle me this; how has this woman become a broadcaster when her diction is so awful?

hat from the cover of Desire

Although, spookily, he did pronounce Lancahsheere like he is from Blackburn

Orange peel. That's a Les Paul, man

but this has been piss poor.

Anyway from Twitterworld - Eamon Forde opines:

"Neil Young! He looks like he works on Time Team and he sounds like Christ boiling the devil's fat eyes in a volcano."

stop it now and go back to bed

Channelling Ruth Madoc to finish - rock'n'roll!

I think we can see who ate all the pies...

Lord make it stop.
Shouldn't Doc Emmet Brown be be getting into his Delorean getting up to 88mph and pissing off back to 1969?
If he does it now he might manage to catch Edgar Broughton and Zeppelin tomorrow

but I rather enjoyed Neil Young.

Uncharacteristically, I've actually gone easy this evening, three small ones only (so far) - may be more was required. I did like the tiny smattering of greatest hits but not the feedback wankery. Seen him a few times and this has always been the case.

6music are playing Radiohead's set from 1997 if modern things like Neil Young get too much.

Are Spinal Tap really co-hosting some of the 6music coverage tomorrow?

Sorry, I've never got Bloc Party, although know many bright, intelligent youngsters who think they are the D's Bs. I think they are a less soulful Snow Patrol with Edge circa 1980 on guitar without the pedals

Ivan, if we could get some utterly synthetic Motown horns onto MMM with Daniel Merryweather doing a special encore of Andy's Chest or The Kids,now that would be Glasto gold

Little Boots does Last Great American Whale - who could resist?

However, does the drummer need massive bins to keep time?

and now I am looking forward to Springsteen tomorrow night.

Apart from that, The Specials brought a tear to this glass eye, and Lily Allen was oddly liberated when she ripped the wig off.

Landfill from now on, and I have ran out of beers. Bed methinks.

And so, in the immortal words of Janet Webb : "until we meet again, goodnight, and I love you all !"

(Pissed again...)

there's a touch of the brown rice and lentils off this lot, isn't there?

Where is Phil Jupitus and his dopey hat? The fleet Foxes are shite though. Rubbish.

BT's right, Fleet Foxes look like the sort of band of assholes who used to regularly turn up in Leo Brennan's (accursed progenitor of Clannad) bar in Bunbeg and spoil the fun. In the middle of the session, their like would sensitively clear their throats and announce, 'This is one of our own,' and then promptly clear the joint. A charisma-free zone.

or is Zane Lowe a right arse?

Fleet Foxes should be doing miners' strike commemoration songs at a Sinn Fein public meeting about rent strikes circa the 1986 Ard Fheis, perhaps with a 'native American'and Danny Morrison in tow.

He sounds like an arse, but he is a genuine entusiast

That'll be an 'entusiast' like De Niro's Capone in The Untouchables had 'entusiasms'

I think Jo Wiley gets a bad press. I think, and not just anatomically, that her heart's in the right place. She's no Fearne Rotten

all a bit Matt Bianco

Re Little Boots: surely there are far too many strong, attractive, upbeat, focussed grouped women aimed at the MPshe/ school run mums demographic. One Lily Allen is enough.

Stay awake people ,The Wire is on next

Little voice more like. Nice big fat synth, though. There's not been enough of that.

I believe Stringer's going to 'punk' Poot's 'nigga' ass himself, whether he had the floor or not

White Lies are doing Dancing in the Dark, with a shithead singer reading from crib notes. It may be ironic, but even with extensive knowledge of that comedic area, I'm not sure. I think it might just be bad. And not in a Jacko good way

White Lies really are very bad - have they been bigged-up. I presume they have if they have been put in the round up.

Just looked on their website and these Clampetts have TWO shows at Glastonbury. How?

be watching Shine a Light on Sky Movies which is on now?

For all the "tribute band" jibes - they're better than anything I've seen at Glasto so far

Gauntlet, it really is worrying that marketing is so cynical

Most enjoyable. And I think I only started watching it due to what might be described as peer pressure...

Again sorry, but,
a) Shine a Light's not very good, musically
b) who's been the best at Glastonbury so far?

The overall effect may be that of a two-day migraine but the drummer hits those skins properly.

No-one's been any good other than The Specials and Lily Allen, and that's not an old curmudgeon speaking

And I don't even like Lily Allen. Slim pickings a-go-go

Ray Davies, Steel Pulse, Q-fucking-Tip, Dan Le Sac, etc

Now you have finished all 60 hours, start again. I have done it six times on DVD and doing it again on BBC. The only time peer pressure was ever worthwhile.

Lady Gaga is a Home and Bargain Madonnna - not original, but I am, ahem, refreshed.

attractive girls dancing on some blokes shoulders Tick

How dull was Neil Young? Just goes to show that a massive reputation doesn't necessarily make for a good headliner.

Big fat zero from the sound of it.
Same time tomorrow will it be any brighter?

I love this. It meant that this morning, over a cup of tea and some melon, I enjoyed watching an hour of the Specials. I got the Lily Allen performance and Neil Young to go from yesterday, then all of the ones from this evening.

A busy few days viewing, spread out to my own speed. Lovely.

Plus, they'd better play the majority of Blur tomorrow, or I may have to kill everyone.

My mate & I caught a bit of Little Boots. There two young girls at the front having a ball and standing next to them a very bored looking older lady with glasses. My m8 declared 'that'll be mum then!'

Caught the last few seconds of Neil Young as he was hitting his guitar with something. Did I miss much last night?Digital TV is playing up at the moment, so no doubt every Glastonbury act I see this weekend will look like they're playing in a snow storm.

I put it to you that it's the BBC who have most let us down - again. Why, with the magic of the red button, did I have to watch the Ting Tings three times, and the Specials about five? Why aren't they all over the other stages? Why, when they are at a bloody enormous festival full of live music being (mostly) played live, do they stage little showcases in their studio? Why do they have Jo Whiley talking about cows?

I agree, they do repeat stuff all the time and it's always the big names they play. Caught some of The Doves and The Specials on the red button last night, both very dull! Don't even get me started on Lady Ga Ga, or should that by Lady Gag Gag.

More Indie Landfill dreadful

Give me Thriller Any Day

Bat for Lashes if you prefer, and Lily Allen ever been same in the same room at the same time?

Afternoon, cyber-campers!

Younger Dakota rang me earlier from Glastonbury to inform me he was watching Rolf Harris - and was currently performing Two Little Boys (MJ tribute?) - which is Poolie anthem.

The good lady girlfriend (please feel free to come up with a better set of initials than GLG) has the remote, so my watching maybe slightly random.

I thought they were Status Quo for a minute

So that is irony then is it ?

"For 4000 years no one went there, and now it's a major tourist attraction.. I'm not saying it's all down to us..."

Just caught the highlghts on iPlayer as I was at AC/DC last night (top gig once they got ythe sound right!).

The RITFW multiple ending was just pathetic and, maybe the answer to my earlier post on when are you too old to rock and roll and too young to die has just been seen?

I love Neil Young but this was a bit too much for me. Although he was great at The Fleadh in 2001!

... that Lady GaGa was wearing knickers. The GLG has confirmed it.

... fashion expert" is?

Anyone care?

The 'Tap have moved things up a gear and I was wrong, it's not as dismal as last years: Derek Smalls has just said "Without Michael Jackson there'd be no Spinal Tap" and they got a bevy of maiden's on stage swinging their booties for 'Big Bottom' even if Cock is Jarver joined them on bass it's a very wonderful thing :D

I'm even gonna give that tosser Doherty a chance

Looking forward to them

bloody good, so far! Full of energy and spirit! Miles better than Neil Young last night!

David Crosby has no right to have such a good voice still... but I'm very glad he has.

the best thing I've heard at this year's Glastonbury so far. Absolutely fantastic. I got a shiver down my spine... it was beautiful.

David Crosby... what a legend. Great guitar player as well as a fabulous singer.

And as for the Nashster... nuff respect.

Can't watch - but will someone post if they play "The Lee Shore"

It's one of the most beautiful songs ever

Ripping guitar solos ( I didn't realise Stills could play like that), a paced and measured set, humour and class.
Even the solos are bearable! Like the bass one especially!

As someone with little knowledge Crosby,Stills & Nash I'm won over, absolutely marvelous, almost burst into tears myself . I may even pop round to Amazon and purchase some of their stuff, any recommends from the Massive