Haven't watched her Glasto set yet, but she was a great, fiery performer in her younger days, one of the best female rockers around then in the 90s and early 00's. Sadly that's all gone now as her music has become more pretentious and her attitude more precious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwG3r9_L9o

I agree, I thought that was just the one fault with the performance. Their Hyde Park concert was better - much more atmospheric. Not sure if it's available online but well worth a look, except they don't do Rockaria!

I adore ELO and would love to see them if they didn't play such huge venues, but I guess these bands have so many people on the payroll they have to, they can't play the Dagenham Roundhouse!

What would you say were the three most pretentious things about Chris Martin?

He seems quite the opposite - seems to genuinely enjoy what he does, and genuinely enjoy seeing the audience have a great time.

What's pretentious about that?

They are talking about having another festival at one of the safari parks in 2019, the next year Glastonbury has the year off. I don't think they are talking about stopping the festival at Glastonbury. Not yet at least, although this may involve some sabre rattling to the neighbouring farmers.

Tremendous clip - not seen that before. I think that album was made in the aftermath of her relationship with Nick Cave. I don't think she's become precious, just doesn't want to get stereotyped as a hard rocker. I saw her at Rock City when she had gone so hardcore than it was almost impossible to listen to. Her recent stuff is light years away but still very inventive.

Indeed. There was a very good interview with him on 6Music on Sunday. You'll be able to get it on iPlayer.

Another one in a similar mould who played on Sunday was James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, and all-round audiophile. Have a read about his (and the Dewaele brothers) Despacio project - a brilliant insight into the minds of people who are just obsessed with sound.

Not necessarily performance-related, but as nice and genuine as he is, he does needlessly become pretentious:

1) he is humble but he's overdone it over the years because it endered him so now it's part of his schtick.

2) live - pretending to mess up the start of a song, or start laughing, for audience reaction. It's only one song per gig from the 2003 tours to 2014 (haven't seen them recently so not sure if he still does it). And usually the same song, often switching for different legs of the tour. It usually works with a lot of the audience, so I guess you could class this as part of the performance, but I find the way he does it dishonest.

3) Bigging up artists that he's clearly been told to by record chiefs (like One Direction, he had to try really hard not to crack up laughing when pushed on that in one Zane Lowe interview). Miley Cyrus is just another one.

4) His pointless Bono-wannabe political messages.

Just a few, imho

No you're right - people paid a lot of money to hear Adele sing, not some tuneless git stood behind you.

As for Adele, she's obviously talented, but not my cup of tea - her miserable songs get pretty samey after a while. I'm not offended by her foul mouth and crude references, but it doesn't show her in a good light, and seems at odds with the type of music she plays and her target audience. It'd be fine if she was a death metal vocalist for example. I don't think she was a particularly appropriate choice for a Glastonbury headliner, but there are always good bands on elsewhere if you don't want to see her.

If I'd been at Glastonbury, I'd have been a bit disappointed to have 2 of the 3 headliners being Adele and Coldplay. A bit too middle of the road for my tastes.

I'd actually have been quite happy with it, as it would mean fewer people crowding round the other stages, where I would have been watching somebody else

I really enjoyed Gregory Porter. I have known who he is for a few years but just never got around to checking him out. It's festivals like this that allow us to check some artists we haven't heard before.

I just wish other different stages got televised or at least were available to watch online. Like the Introducing stage and the acoustic stage.

The introducing stage was online.

My friends went this year and I couldn't get the time off. Anyone know how Grimes, Vince Staples or Muse went down?

Ever see his 'performance' on Question Time?. The most clueless celeb they have ever had, and that's sayin' summat.

Its the annoying political stuff that irks many of us.

Oh, and anyone who talks about 'unconscious coupling' needs a good slap.

Coscious uncoupling.

But yeah, you're right.

I agree. I saw that Greg James (I think) put something on Twitter saying he'd caught Hurts set who were on before Chvrches and that they'd been awesome. I couldn't help myself and tweeted back that he obviously didn't think they were THAT good because he doesn't ever play them. It's always the same on the radio stations and the only way you get to discover new bands is places like Glastonbury. Hurts and Chvrches are 2 of my favourite bands and you wouldn't even know they existed if you listen to mainstream radio.

I saw Staples and he was great. Really humourous between songs too.

That was Gwynnie speak though.

What a load of rubbish. Both Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow have handled their seperation in a grown up and adult manner and out of the limelight as much as possible, they have proved that you can split up without all the nastiness etc and purely focus on the children, which is refreshing in this day and age.
And as for the "annoying political stuff", nobody is forcing you to listen to him.

Tbf Chris Martin called Rihanna our generations Frank Sinatra this week so I think pretentious is a very apt description. In fact I'd go as far as to say that's almost too nice.