Great times at TRNSMT festival Glasgow this weekend! Great crowds, weather was kind, (apart from rain Sunday which did little to dampen the crowds enthusiasm!) and the setting top class. As well as the main stage, there was the King Tuts, and the Jock Rock stages.
Highlights – the unforgettable Radiohead headline Friday night, Belle & Sebastian, Blossom, The
Strypes, The 1975, Rag n’ Bone Man (I’m only Human), Twin Atlantic, Charlotte and more.
The headline
band final night were the Awesome Biffy
Clyro.
Radiohead pleased with a mix of crowd pleasers to sing to along with and their more experimental music, wonderful escapist, and mind blowing stuff. Their music makes me escape to new horizons.... Karma Police, Fake Plastic Trees,
Stop for a
while – ‘No Surprises’ – set you free, escapes, …..
The Stages
were set up to be lit up with the magic of energetic bass and drums and those
wonderful melodies the crowds love to sing. This year
was the first for TRNSMT festival, replacing T in the Park which had problems
with its site last year.
Has
tribalism in music disappeared? With our ease of access to thousands of sounds
online – many artists now mix the genres and rarely are about one. A young
scots singer songwriter (Rose Code Blue for example) may be bluesy folk or a singer 'rocky soul’. In fact crossing
boundaries often gives an artist that edge and something unique to say.
I happened to read of the first major Scottish festival at Loch Lomond back in 1979 – when the bands included the Jam, Boomtown Rats and Annie Lennox. The strange thing was the audience was mixed into tribes – the mods, rockers, skinheads and punks! Each tribe had their own bands and while the bands played some tribes would stand on the mounds and throw things at the other tribes! How weird! Thank goodness there are no tribes today – that I could see! This gig was for all ages and all walks of life...Some things improve clearly.
Bringing
hope to the moment. Music lifts spirits often, and certainly makes more sense
than todays stupid politics!!
