Reading festival 2017
Reading festival was great from a musical point of view as you got to see hundreds of acts over a space of four days. I learned a lot about the performance and different ways of involving the audience and making the whole set exciting. I also learned a lot about dynamics as sometimes artists and bands would have a break or go into a slower song or interlude so it has a much bigger impact when the more upbeat stuff comes back in. Circa Waves were really good at getting people to sing along especially in their last song “t-shirt weather” which is a typical summer banger. Kasabian were also great headliners because they added in some unexpected twists in their set such as interludes and even going into “around the world” by daft punk after their song “eezeh”. Watching Liam Gallagher taught me that sometimes it is all about the music especially as his act is very simple yet so effective. Other artists have to be energetic in order to make a performance exciting whereas Liam’s “rock ‘n’ roll” attitude seems to be enough to make everyone go absolutely mad. However, it shows that there is a lot of difference between artists as Muse mainly used lights and lasers the make their shows exciting. It all comes down to the artist and their image.
Liam Gallagher 2017
I watched him at the Brighton centre in December and people sang throughout the whole set. This is due to the catchy classic britpop style and also with a bit of help from his brother Noel for originally writing the majority of Oasis tunes we all listen to. He has a session band which is what I would like to have in the future. They were all well rehearsed and it was all based around Liam which is what I want to achieve in the future.
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