By most accounts Jay-Z did the business at Glastonbury last night - giving two fingers to the nay-sayers, most prominently mono-browed has-been Noel Gallagher.
The visceral reaction to the announcement that Jay-Z was headlining was more than a bit troubling, with its obvious racist undertones. "Glastonbury's always been about guitars," was Noel's reasoning. And white folks playing those guitars to mud drenched white folks in the audience. Having Negroes with baseball caps prancing about on stage - why that's a bit much, isn't it? Still having Jay-Z there (and Ms Knowles in the VIP section) meant there was at least a handful of the black folks at Glasto this year - I mean apart from the ones cleaning out the port-o-loos.
Perhaps we should leave the irony that Noel's guitar music was invented by black people so that a few decades later white people could make money playing it. Still, Noel has every reason to thank Jay; whatever reason would we have heard Wonderwall at this, or any subsequent, Glastonbury?
Festivals are mainly for white, middle-class tossers. I, of course, will be hitting the Green Man later this summer and just been invited to Latitude mid-July. Really want to go to Latitude but have some previous commitments - and it was one of those things that a group of friends got tickets, didn't ask me initially and one has pulled out. Having been slighted, not sure if I want to grace them with my presence. Still, Latitude seems like how festivals should be, a mix of music and culture and comedy. Death Cab for Cutie, Omid Djalili and Irvine Welsh all on the same bill? Genius.
The post is really only an excuse to show Hardknock Life. Still his best. Although maybe the Dr Evil/Mini-Me version tops it.
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