Tag: Glastonbury
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Asylums: One Band’s Story Of Coping With Coronavirus Lock-Down
What has been the impact of the Covid-19 lock-down on musicians? Coronavirus has taken away loved ones, jobs, incomes, stretched medical resources, and prevented people seeing people they care about in person. For other, more fortunate people, the worst impact of coronavirus is merely spending an extended period of time working from home in their…
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A Glastonbury Top Five: Sunday
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 to tread through four inches of mud to head in any direction and that one…
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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 a swim in the mud. But off the beaten track remain lovely areas of calm…
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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 Michael Eavis popped over to cut a ribbon on the Other Stage to open the…
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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 great bands and acts including early looks at the likes of Courtney Barnett, Parquet Courts…
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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 graves of Mariah Carey’s former personal assistants.* It’s great that we can share the experience…
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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 those who enjoy dancing whilst holding pints of beer on top of their heads, Kasabian…
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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 Black Keys play at the now defunct London Astoria in front of a few hundred…
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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 of an under-performing, yet overpaid England football team. The circus acts are brightly coloured and…
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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 refer to the memorable finale to Royal Blood’s set, a band who raised the roof…
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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 White’s own mantra, “Your Turntable’s Not Dead”. The ultra vinyl record plays from the inside…
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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 rolled out for his Pyramid Stage Glastonbury performance included “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “Black…
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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 Pyramid (or indeed any other) Stage. Were they really The Thing That Should Not Be…
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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 act. 3. A cover version (The Roundhouse “Reflektors” show last year had The Clash covered…
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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 to play Glastonbury this year. They arrive fresh from a brief tour of the UK…
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