It's Monday. Let's take a look at what happened in live music over the weekend.
England's greatest annual event, the Glastonbury Festival, took place this weekend. Agit-pop star M.I.A. somehow got it in her head that her set wouldn't be broadcast by the BBC, as she had her backup dancers wearing shirts that said "Stop Tamil Deportation." She voiced her displeasure on Twitter.
BBC WONT BROADCAST MY GLASTONBURY SHOW / COZ MY T SHIRT IS TOO POLITICAL. BOOOOO
— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) June 27, 2014 She also went on a rant on stage, as one might expect her to do.
"This is a political announcement, The BBC have banned M.I.A at Glastonbury. It's because of these T-shirts that say 'Stop Tamil Deportation'. But we don't give a f--k and you know why? We are going to do the best f--king show tonight and it ain't gonna be on TV. I'm here, you're here and that's all we fu--ing care about. Hashtag freedom motherf--ker."
The only problem was, her set actually was being streamed in full, and the BBC had plans to broadcast it later, as was pointed out by both BBC DJ Stuart Maconie and the official BBC Glastonbury Twitter account.
Now playing on @bbc6music @MIAuniverse doing her live #bbcglasto version of Double Bubble…>> More from @stuartmaconie until 12pm..
— bbcglasto (@bbcglasto) June 27, 2014
Don't know where M.I.A gets her info from but we fully intend to broadcast some of her set. And we're streaming it.
— Stuart Maconie (@StuartMaconie) June 27, 2014
Also at Glastonbury, Dolly Parton
Country music legend Dolly Parton made her Glastonbury debut at age 68. Of course, she was amazing.
KASHKA wants to play your living room
Closer to home, former Forest City Lover turned "folkpoptronica" singer Kat Burns, better known as KASHKA, is planning a tour to be played entirely in people's living rooms. Right now, she has dates sort-of set in cities throughout Ontario and along the West Coast, but still no venues. If you'd like to have her play your living room, drop her a line.
A whole bunch of people won things, and Nicki Minaj tossed a not-so-subtle insult at Iggy Azalea, but you can look at all that later. For now, you need to watch Pharrell and Missy Elliot do a live mash-up of "Come Get it Bae" and "Pass That Dutch."
by Chris Dart via Electronic RSS
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