Alright mate? This is the digital home of Daniel Savage, a small man who is trying very hard to exist.
🎵Now Playing: Gwenno @ Glastonbury (2025)
Yes, I’m back from Glasto. I’ve just about recovered, my mind and body are about 75% but my soul is still flying free. I’m back at work and thought I would relive the first act I saw while I try to remember exactly what it is I do. This was on the beautiful tree stage in Woodsies on the Thursday. I was sat in the sun with my friends, and was a perfect way to ease into it.
I’m sad, can’t speak and everything hurts. Worth it.
Out of office is on. Alarm set for 4am. It’s happening.
It’s good to look up sometimes.
A perk of living in an “upside down” house is that my bedroom is now the coldest room and I can get a decent nights sleep in the heat.
Behold! I have returned from a hike. I was in the Lake District this weekend. My parents were there on holiday for the week, and my brother, sister-in-law, and six-month-old niece were also visiting. Savages assemble. We’re all keen hikers, and it’s my brother’s mission to complete all the Wainwright peaks. This time, the target was Silver Howe. Silver Howe is one of the smaller fells, standing at 395 metres, just above Grasmere and not far from Ambleside.
🎵Now Playing: Foals @ Glastonbury (2022)
Glastonbury returned in 2022 after a two-year hiatus (for some reason?? I can’t remember why?) and Foals on the Other Stage was a great moment for the indie Millennials to dust off their dance moves. A great career-spanning set from one of the 00’s best bands.
The world’s elites are inextricably linked. Their fates are tied. A defeat for one is a defeat for all. If resistance can work somewhere, it can work everywhere. Knowing this, ruling classes across much of the world are committed to crushing and delegitimising the movement for Palestinian liberation. If the corrupt, authoritarian regimes that govern us permit our protest to move them, we might start to realise that organising works. They need us to believe that resistance is futile.
The tech billionaires, the finance bros, the oligarchs, the corrupt bureaucrats – each of their positions rests on our obedience. That’s what capitalism is: a system of entrenched, institutionalised hierarchy, based on the unflinching obedience of each rung to those above. Workers obey bosses. Citizens obey governments. Debtors obey creditors. Colonies obey empires. The strength of the ruling class anywhere rests on the strength of obedience everywhere.
Grace Blakeley, Resistance Anywhere is Resistance Everywhere
🎵Now Playing: Tame Impala - Glastonbury (2019)
Another old setlist in the run up. This time from Australia’s Tame Impala who put on a brilliant performance on the Other Stage (we chose him instead of Stormzy’s Pyramid set). From what I can remember, a lot of smoke, a lot of lazers, a lot of dancing. Let it happen.
🎵Now Playing: Foo Fighters @ Glastonbury (2017)
2 weeks until Glastonbury! I haven’t packed! I need tent pegs! Argh!
As we head closer to my favourite place on earth, I’ll be listening back to some of my favourite sets from the festival, as well as catching up on the music of artists I’m planning to see. First up from my first ever Glasto in 2017 - it’s Mr Dave Grohl and his band.
🎵Now Playing: Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool (2015)
There’s a new album on the way, and they’re on my list to catch at Glastonbury so I’m going back through the old stuff. It’s good! I played a lot of this album when I was DJing in bars on a Friday afternoons. Sadly I am not in a bar and it is only Tuesday.
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Had a Mac for years and only now discovering Raycast…
🎵Now Playing: Wild Beasts - Present Tense (2014)
I miss Wild Beasts.
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🎵Now Playing: Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal (2024)
Have heard his name banded around a bit, and then saw this performance on Jools Holland and thought I’d give the album a shot. It’s a lovely, strange, folksy, poetic treat.
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The full Glastonbury line-up and (most importantly) stage times are out. Need the app to properly see where the clashes are - SO MUCH CHOICE.
A run down of everything I’ve consumed this month. May was lovely. Sunshine! Wedding (not mine)! Birthday (mine)!
Yes, I turned 37 and I don’t understand how we got here so soon. But I did what everyone hurtling towards the grave does - I did my first parkrun and joined Mensa.
I went to the cinema for my birthday to see The Ballad of Wallis Island, and what a treat it was. I’ve adored Tim Key’s comedy for years. His live shows are works of genius, packed with surrealism and pathos. Whether it’s his radio shows, his appearances on Taskmaster, or his role as Sidekick Simon in Alan Partridge, Key has always brought a unique blend of wit and absurdity to everything he touches.
37!
Dave Rupert on his blog writes: I don’t have the capital to start my own Fourth Estate university or newspaper. But I do have this blog. A minor stake in the Fifth Estate. But my blog plus your blog, mix in some RSS and the power of sharing interesting blogs and podcasts… we might make a dent. The indie-web (or however you want to call it) can be a powerful antidote to the billionaire owned assets and propaganda tools.
🎵Now Playing: Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (2009)
Bat for Lashes, I’ve not heard that name in years. But this is a stunning album with a song called Daniel that I can pretend is about me. Natasha Khan’s soaring vocals really sell her theatrical indie pop landscape.
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