Best New Bands » Glastonbury Festival https://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 Ed Sheeran Paves The Way https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/ed-sheeran-paves-way/ https://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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  2. Glastonbury Festival Announces The Winners Of The Emerging Talent Competition London – The annual Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition, supported by PRS for Music and the PRS for Music Foundation, reached its climax on Saturday evening in the Somerset village of Pilton, close to the actual festival site. As a first round...
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/ed-sheeran-paves-way/feed/ 0 Glastonbury 2016: Day Four Coverage https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2016-day-four-coverage/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2016-day-four-coverage/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2016 01:58:48 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=31660 Somerset, UK – Sunday morning. Forgive me for starting with the weather once more. Thankfully, there had been no overnight rain at Glastonbury to speak of, yet ground conditions remained extremely muddy, and we were in for a largely overcast day with showers expected later. Of course, the weather is pretty fundamental to festivalgoers’ experiences, whether they are

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  1. Glastonbury 2016: Day One Coverage Somerset, UK - 2016′s Glastonbury Festival opened its gates on Wednesday followed by tales of up to 12 hour queues to get onsite, along with the combination of rain and people on already well-watered land, turning the lush pastures of Worthy Farm into a...
  2. Glastonbury 2016: Day Three Coverage Somerset, UK - Those Glastonbury campers who were actually in bed rather than partying at Shangri La didn’t get a great night’s sleep, woken by heavy overnight rain drumming on tents, followed by more early morning precipitation. It hardly dampened spirits; though,...
  3. Glastonbury 2016: Day Two Coverage Somerset, UK – Glastonbury Festival kicked off for real on Friday after campers woke up to sunny intervals vying with overcast skies and a muddy terrain, though no worse than it was the day before. All the stages opened today so festival goers...
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  2. Glastonbury 2016: Day Two Coverage Somerset, UK – Glastonbury Festival kicked off for real on Friday after campers woke up to sunny intervals vying with overcast skies and a muddy terrain, though no worse than it was the day before. All the stages opened today so festival goers...
  3. New Bands to See at Glastonbury Festival 2016 London – Having condensed this year’s Glastonbury Festival line-up to a mere 36 A4 pages of 10-point type, the red pen quickly runs out as you mark down all those must-see acts from tempting newcomers to sure-fire headliners. Mindful that your...
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  2. New Bands to See at Glastonbury Festival 2016 London – Having condensed this year’s Glastonbury Festival line-up to a mere 36 A4 pages of 10-point type, the red pen quickly runs out as you mark down all those must-see acts from tempting newcomers to sure-fire headliners. Mindful that your...
  3. Glastonbury Announces 2016 Emerging Talent Competition London – Glastonbury Festival has just announced details of its Emerging Talent Competition 2016, giving new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a spot on one of the main stages at this summer’s...
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  1. New Bands to See at Glastonbury Festival 2016 London – Having condensed this year’s Glastonbury Festival line-up to a mere 36 A4 pages of 10-point type, the red pen quickly runs out as you mark down all those must-see acts from tempting newcomers to sure-fire headliners. Mindful that your...
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2016-day-one-coverage/feed/ 0 New Bands to See at Glastonbury Festival 2016 https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/10-new-bands-see-glastonbury-festival-2016/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/10-new-bands-see-glastonbury-festival-2016/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:25:53 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=31430 London – Having condensed this year’s Glastonbury Festival line-up to a mere 36 A4 pages of 10-point type, the red pen quickly runs out as you mark down all those must-see acts from tempting newcomers to sure-fire headliners. Mindful that your name isn’t Marty McFly, or the good Doctor for that matter, the process of scheduling who

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/10-new-bands-see-glastonbury-festival-2016/feed/ 0 Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition: Final 8 https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-festival-emerging-talent-competition-final-eight/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-festival-emerging-talent-competition-final-eight/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:05:17 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=29436 London – Best New Bands’ Tony Hardy was one of forty U.K. based music writers invited by Glastonbury Festival to decide on a long list of 120 acts from thousands of entries to the 2016 Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition. Once the long list was announced, a panel including festival hosts Michael & Emily Eavis next set about

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/glastonbury-festival-emerging-talent-competition-final-eight/feed/ 3 Jonquil: The Prettiest Flower In The Indie Bouquet https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/jonquil-the-prettiest-flower-in-the-indie-bouquet/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/jonquil-the-prettiest-flower-in-the-indie-bouquet/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:00:00 +0000 Recipe for the perfect indie band: Start with beautiful voices that can sing the lowest lows and the highest highs. Stir in an assortment of instruments, most especially organs, harmonicas, trumpets and electronic keyboards. Add a dash of British flavor. Lastly, wrap up the package with outstanding lyric writing. If you follow this recipe, you

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