Somerset, UK – Sunday morning and there’s no need mention the weather. Don’t fret campers, it’s going to be dry all day (you just mentioned the weather). Anyone suffering from ‘Sunday struggle’ having overindulged since the Glastonbury gates opened and in need of a touch of TLC should have been at the Avalon Stage at
Somerset, UK – OK, as I know you’ve been busting for it, first the customary weather report. Rain – Glastonbury wouldn’t be Glastonbury without it yet short bursts of rascally drizzle hardly dented the hard ground and the Festival survived one other thing it’s famous for, mud. The last showers were seen in late morning
Somerset, UK – The festival got going in earnest on Friday as campers woke up to more of the same weather – warm, cloud cover with sunny intervals. A few souls were persisting with wellies as the chosen footwear but perhaps they were worried that nothing goes quite as well with the young female Glasto
Somerset, UK – What a difference the weather makes. After last year’s quagmire, it was a whole different ball game when Glastonbury Festival gates opened on Wednesday. Early comers were treated to a day of baking sun and unusually hard ground to hammer in tent pegs. We arrived on Thursday to find it still warm
London – Glastonbury 2017 is upon us. Right now there are a whole bunch of people wishing they had tickets, and the 135,000 or so who have, wondering how they can reconcile experiencing the entire 135 billed minutes of Radiohead’s Friday night headline set yet still sneaking off to catch a bit of The Flaming
Somerset, UK – Saturday night. The Old Pilton Working Men’s Club & Village Hall was once again hosting the finals of the annual Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition which is supported by PRS for Music and the PRS for Music Foundation. Eight acts chosen from thousands of entries, earlier narrowed to a longlist of 120, were
London – BestNewBand’s Tony Hardy was one of 40 music writers invited by Glastonbury Festival to settle on a long list of 120 acts from the several thousand entries to the 2017 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. Once the long list was announced a judging panel, including festival hosts Michael & Emily Eavis, then wrestled with
London – Glastonbury has announced the first major tranche of acts to play at this summer’s festival alongside headliners, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran. Returnees include Royal Blood, who went down a storm as a relatively unknown act in 2014, same year crowd pleasers Haim, Father John Misty, who graced The Park stage in
London – The annual Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition offers unsigned artistes based in the UK or Ireland a more even playing field in the quest to reach a wider audience. Only a handful of the several thousand acts who are competing to play on one of the main stages at the illustrious festival in June
London – The big news over this side of the water this week was the announcement that Ed Sheeran will close this year’s Glastonbury Festival as Sunday’s headliner. Such is Sheeran’s current wave of chart domination via his latest album Divide that it is strange to think that he made his Glastonbury debut in 2011