The final day of Glastonbury brings a unique feeling of excitement, sadness, relief and exhaustion. Excitement at the prospect of new bands to discover and see. Sadness that it will soon all be over. Relief that soon you won’t have… Read More ›
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A Glastonbury Saturday
By the time Saturday comes at Glastonbury, most festival goers are pretty battle-hardened. Amidst the festivities, the fancy dress and general bonhomie, you begin to notice people who either resemble Vietnam veterans or simply look as though they went for… Read More ›
Glastonbury News: Day One
It was a strange mood that pervaded across Glastonbury yesterday as the overnight referendum news sank in like a heavy boot into the mud. Even rumours of a secret Radiohead performance (still only rumours) weren’t enough to lift spirits. Sir… Read More ›
GlastonBowie – Glastonbury honours David Bowie with mass singalong
It’s the festival of festivals. Nauseatingly omnipresent for some, frustratingly always out of reach for others (usually those with slow broadband speeds trying to get tickets). A couple of years ago, I went along and reported on a plethora of… Read More ›
How To Recreate That Glastonbury Feeling Without Actually Going To Glastonbury:
Stretched out over acres, and often difficult to navigate your way across, the Media Coverage of Glastonbury is one of a handful of man-made objects that can be seen from space, alongside The Great Wall of China and the mass… Read More ›
Kasabian Set Glastonbury On Fire With Barnstorming Set To Close The Festival: Review
There’s something rather loveable about Kasabian. Perhaps not the most hotly anticipated headliner of the weekend thanks to all the fuss about Metallica, they nevertheless conjured the most electric of atmospheres to round off a memorable weekend. Unashamedly appealing to… Read More ›
The Black Keys – Live at Glastonbury: Sunday – Pyramid Stage
It has been a long and winding road for Akron, Ohio’s finest band to reach the heady heights of the Pyramid stage, Glastonbury. On the way, they have paid their dues through long years of touring (I first saw the… Read More ›
The Horrors Provide A Darker Alternative To Dolly’s Ray of Sunshine – Live at Glastonbury
Despite the odd torrential downpour, Glastonbury 2014 has revealed many pleasures: More stages than Berlusconi has mistresses. Cases of trench foot down 38% on last year. You could have a great time here without seeing a single band. No sign… Read More ›
Royal Blood – John Peel Stage Live at Glastonbury
There was devastation of biblical proportions at the Glastonbury Festival yesterday. It was carnage. No, not the walkways and campsites of the festival goers, or even the revolting shirt worn by one of my friends all day yesterday. No, I… Read More ›
Jack White – Live at Glastonbury: Saturday – Pyramid Stage – Exclusive Photos and Review
Fresh from having smashed a 20 year old record for vinyl sales with latest release Lazaretto, Jack White today played a superb set at Glastonbury. Lazaretto’s all-singing all-dancing “ultra-vinyl” record smashed vinyl sales records with 40,000 first week sales, backing… Read More ›
Robert Plant – Live at Glastonbury – Pyramid Stage: Exclusive Photos and Review
It’s possibly the nearest we’ll ever get to seeing Led Zeppelin play Glastonbury. Greeting the crowd with “Welcome to a sojourn of Country and Eastern music” Robert Plant appeared relaxed in a trademark loose shirt. The Led Zeppelin songs Plant… Read More ›
Metallica + Glastonbury = Glastallica: Exclusive Photos and Review
It says something of Metallica, and the heavy / thrash / metal / rock (delete according to taste) genre they represent, that much of the pre-Glastonbury Festival talk was about whether they were an “appropriate” act to take the… Read More ›
Arcade Fire – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – Pyramid Stage
Arcade Fire – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – Pyramid Stage There are several things we have come to expect from an Arcade Fire show: 1. A segment inexplicably involving oversized Paper Mâché heads. 2. A guest slot from a local… Read More ›
Parquet Courts Stoned and Starving at Glastonbury: Friday – The Park Stage
After the rain-enforced break that threw Jimi Goodwin offstage, on came four punks / stoners / who knows? in the form of Parquet Courts. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Parquet Courts were perhaps one of the most highly anticipated bands… Read More ›
Courtney Barnett – Live at Glastonbury: Friday – The Park Stage
Well, it had to happen in music eventually. For years we Brits have had to smile through gritted teeth as Australians beat us at everything, especially sports we had taught them to play. Cricket, rugby, tennis (although we have come… Read More ›
