Music
‘Respectable’ rock snobs once laughed at metal – but they’re not laughing now
On the weekend of June 17 2021, in the midst of an airborne disease, live music returned to the UK in something like a recognisable form. As a compliment of British bands entertained an audience of 10,000 vaccinated revellers, over three days and nights this section of the concert-going community helped plot a hesitant course back to normality. Never mind that the Download “Pilot” festival was a mere one-tenth of its normal size – the volume was operating at full-whack. Because when it came to duking it out with a global pandemic, rightly and inevitably, there was only one kind of music up to the job. Metal.
Your Afternoon Musical Interlude
Seventy-nine years later, still the biggest amphibious landing in military history.
Let us remember with these numbers, Dinah Shore’s “I’ll Walk Alone” and an old favourite, “We’ll Meet Again”:
Your Afternoon Musical Interlude
Let us take a moment to remember what our bought-and-paid-for government would rather we forget with this number here by Sue Medley:
Also, because it feels appropriate:
