Best New Bands » Glastonbury http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 New Bands At Glastonbury: Haim, London Grammar And More http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-glastonbury-haim-london-grammar/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-glastonbury-haim-london-grammar/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:08:35 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34548 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

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  2. New Bands At Glastonbury – 2017 Preview 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...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-glastonbury-george-ezra-royal-blood/feed/ 0 Glastonbury 2017: Thursday Report http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2017-thursday-report/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2017-thursday-report/#comments Sat, 24 Jun 2017 02:55:02 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34478 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

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2017-preview/feed/ 0 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition Winners Announced http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-winners-announced/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-winners-announced/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:21:02 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34327 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

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-winners-announced/feed/ 2 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2017: The Last Eight http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-2017-last-eight/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-2017-last-eight/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2017 01:02:27 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34270 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

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/first-look-glastonbury-2017/feed/ 1 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2017: Round 1 http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-2017-round-1/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-2017-round-1/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:25:18 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34208 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

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-emerging-talent-competition-2017-round-1/feed/ 1 Ed Sheeran Paves The Way http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/ed-sheeran-paves-way/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/ed-sheeran-paves-way/#comments Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:44:06 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34188 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

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