poprock wrote:

It’s supposed to be the big outdoor Green Day / Rancid gig in Glasgow tonight. It’s just been cancelled, despite a decent amount of the audience already having been let in. Security staff haven’t been properly instructed yet. People are going to be angry. 

Hope it’s not due to anything awful happening. I hope the bands and crew are all okay.

Yikes. 200+ casual staff brought in to be stewards have just been told to go home and that they won’t be getting paid because they hadn’t started work yet.

There’s an event manager somewhere who’ll be getting the blame for all this.

Looks like it’s a health & safety failure to blame. The stage got wet and failed inspection.

Stage Manager about to get even more shit than the Event Manager, then …

As long as everything is ok for the hours between 21:25 and 23:45 on Friday Night in Glasgow Green.

This is why when the BBC phone you about these jobs you politely decline then leave the country

I don't know in intimate detail how this stuff works... but could the bands have stayed around for a bit longer? Or is that not the done thing? I remember seeing Battles at Latitude and due to various issues they could only play a 20 minute set, they still played though.

Living End are way better than Rancid.

Tempy, looks like the whole thing was called off, so no point sticking around.

Tbf, I remember Green Day headlining TitP years ago, and being primadonna wankers, so I wouldn't imagine they'd be in a hurry to stick around.

All of these bands are way past their prime. Wouldn’t catch me paying £50 for a nostalgia-fest these days.

Also, I’m old. See the Middle Age thread. I’d rather walk the dog, cook a nice dinner and watch telly with the Missus.

Ooft. The bar staff all got sent home without pay today as well, despite being at work on site for three hours before the cancellation.

Event cancellations are a shitshow. The promoter will have insurance. But the bar company, for example, will be getting the fuck out of there in a hurry for fear of not getting paid by the promoter. If they can get away with not paying their casual staff, hired through an agency … they will. The staff will complain to their agency. The agency will complain to the bar contractor. The bar contractor will complain to the event manager. The event manager will complain to the promoter. The promoter will claim on insurance and get their lawyers to argue that they don’t have to pay any subcontractors. The promoter’s insurers will be inquiring as to why the event was cancelled. The buck will get passed to the PA hire company who apparently didn’t get the PA onsite in time. The PA hire company will point out that paying the bar staff is fuck all to do with them. Total shitshow.

Somewhere down the line, maybe two years from now, a small local company doing something like PA repair or supplying cables for sound gear will go out of business because the lawyers on each side agree that it was all their fault in the end.

Haha, so according to him the stage didn't have weather cover, got fucking soaked, the bands showed up and refused to play on it and then fucked off. Everyone's started pointing fingers. What a glorious mess.

Aye PCL are defo using the weather line as their insurance will pay out in the result. Anything safety related and they get fuck all.

A shitshow all round. Deary me.

Also, green day have been shite for well over a decade lol, cheer up goffs lol

Ahem.

Radiohead at TRNSMT last night were immaculate. After a bit of a wobbly start to Glastonbury's performance I was worried that his voice just wasn't up to it anymore, and was kinda fearing they wouldn't bring their A game to TRNSMT as its a bit of a last minute affair. I did not want to hear Pyramid Song butchered.

So they opened with Let Down and he's crooning those perfect falsettos from the word go. Set was littered with songs that needed him to be on his A game, and he just smashed it, Reckoner was sublime, Fake Plastic Trees had just the right amount of grit to big chorus, Pyramid Song was absolutely note perfect from start to finish, their second encore started with Nude which is the kind of song that shouldn't work at a festival given how stripped back it all is, but it just swelled and soared. Christ. Spectacular on all fronts. 

Having seen them like... 7 times now, I think, it never fails to impress me how organic they are with their songs and their setlists. Songs never sound the same between tours, every take on a song is fresh for each tour; 15 Steps with its weird new machinegun guitar effects at the end, Everything In Its Right Place's woozy new sytnh sound with crazy bass breakdown at the end, Idieoteque sounding even more like a computer in its final throes, but now with a weird egyptian sounding riff possibly sampled from earlier in the night and distorted to go over the outro, even The Bends got a new sneering and loosely executed vocal take that made it feel like a brand new song.

Being a festival set up made it a little less than ideal, far too many bams around, people constantly traipsing back and forth, putting people on their shoulders, singing and clapping out of time without fail. Still, it was cheaper than seeing them elsewhere, and my pal who saw them in Manchester said the same - people walking and talking like £60 is pocket change and the band is background noise to their chat about work last week.

Anyway, I woke up this morning and just wanted to be back in the moment. The Thsirts were all a little too big but I am glad I have picked one up, because I imagine it'll be a good 3 or 4 years until I get to see them again, and that will be the perfect reminder. 

Shellac in October, which I am sure will be immense.

I mean... they're the same songs, they just rework bits of them or approach them from new angles. Different synth and drum patches, new pedal usage to eke out a different timbre or effect, solos that naturally deviate from the recorded version like a solo should do, flourishes here and there that reflect their mood approaching that tour or their in the moment interpretation of that part of a song. It's music. Can't be doing with bands that are still playing songs of their first albums exactly the same way they recorded it, it's a live gig, not a recital. I can understand people also not wanting to hear their songs on a fart organ or with armpit percussion... but that's not what's happening here.

But they are as they are, in that precise moment.