Unfortunately, over 25 years after they last played together, The Kinks don't look any closer to a reunion. Ray's done it solo, but he was given the teatime slot, not the headline booking his back catalogue warrants.
A self serving show from an act that had very recently shown their complete disdain for the people of Africa having banked the large cheque for breaking the cultural boycott of Apartheid era South Africa?
Oi! She's doing fine. (I am of the generation who grew up thinking that Debbie would always be the coolest woman in the world and we weren't far off. She's still a close second to Kim Deal.)
I'll have to trust you guitar fans on Slash's performance. I don't really speak guitar hero. Brilliantly proficient he may have been, but to me, he just seemed to lumber from place to place and play long, dull solos that took any momentum from the songs. (It's me, not him. I'd say the same if...
Alexis Petridis is wrong in almost everything he thinks about music. His writing drives me mad. He is just so desperate to position himself in opposition to other music journalism that he ends up sounding like the Burchill/Young/Parsons parodies that Lee and Herring did in the 'Ironic Review'...
Dave Grohl guesting with a headliner at Glastonbury is becoming a bit like bands appearing on later and having Jools Holland play boogie woogie piano with them.
I've never liked G&R, but always thought that they were just very good at doing something I don't like. I've just caught the last...