Glastonbury worst I've seen!

Beautifully put @sualipa
I miss the 3pm Sunday chat with Tony Benn. What a joyful human he was. I think he might even have changed my life a bit in 2007/8.
Given that Glastonbury has always been about so much more than those 5 stages (I think there’s over 100 performance spaces)? I’ve always wondered why more isn’t shown…the theatre and circus fields have always been a bit of favourite area for me. And I’m guessing no-one wants a camera down in Shanghai-La or the Unfairground 🤣
Four-Tet did an outstanding job this year I thought, and Amy Taylor of Amyl was incredible as ever. And the energy on Ezra Collective was ❤️

Yes, exactly this last para

I love threads like this, as my guess is most of you weren’t there and maybe have never been. It’s an incredible place, so much music and art and creativity and joy, and what happens on the 5 main stages is a tiny part of the festival itself. I go every year, and it just gets better and better. It’s so much younger and more diverse than the media image too.

Rod Stewart was awful first watched him in person left after a couple and then watched a couple more on the Glasto feed in the press tent and by all accounts I didn't see him Neil Young was excellent with a superb band. The Scissor Sisters was packed to the rafters couldn't get in but the cheering and relentless applause was something to behold. Selecta opened the Pyramid Stage to a small but hugely appreciative crowd including me oh and Basil Brush unleashed in the Cabaret Tent was late night slightly filthy Basil doing his thing. Gary Numan was pretty good at the Park he has a sort of gothic electronic industrial sound and can still prowl the stage like a man much younger than he is. He was followed by Haim but we had to be elsewhere so listened to the first three numbers which ok but the youngsters seemed to get him. Oh and just before Gary the Red Arrows flew over probably keeping an eye on the tens of thousands of wannabe terrorists that were prowling the site. Oh and I drove by Gary Lineker at the Wellness Stage where has was in conversation and caught in passing his comment why is there so much fucking hate around ? Well said.

But most of the things you see and experience here are not televised and not communicable. A lot of long time punters and volunteers wish the BBC would stop televising it its not made the festival more democratic or accessible just made it a struggle for wannabe punters to tick it off their bucket list , that and sadly the health of the saintly Sir Michael who is not in the loop anymore and however good Emily is she will never equal her father who along with Tony Benn were my must sees in their annual jour long talks in the Green Fields Speaker tent.

Glastonbury is not a commercial business all the profits go to Oxfam Water Aid and Greempeace and it wouldn't be possible to put it on with artists working for much less than they would normally charge and the vast army of volunteers who work for a ticket and come year after year and that's the real beating heart of the place something that the Daily Mail and many of its readers would never understand and its soul is not for sale.

Thanks 😘

You’re doing a great job 👍

I should maybe volunteer for the job someone needs to tell him to stfu and stop digging.

Are you his publicist @Gloriia?

Poor hapless Big Bob has released another long winded speech. He thinks he's been targeted for 'speaking out', seemingly oblivious that shouting 'death death to the IDF' isn't the brave speaking out he seems to think it is. It is hate and inciting violence. I wonder if one of his pals might tell him it isn't his beliefs per se it is his methods of delivery that need attention.

It was yes…
www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/worthy-causes/oxfam/

I thought Olivia R was great. For a 22 year old to be the headline act on the closing night is incredible

Why not divert the thread back to the actual music?

Don't want to divert the thread, but would be good to know if the war and trauma unfolding in Sudan (150,000 dead and counting) was mentioned in the tent as well

I realise ppl will say "but we're not arming them". But, well, the UK has very good relationship with the main sponsors of the belligerents UAE (the RSF are the successors of the Janjaweed), plus Turkey and Ukraine on the government side

Do angry traumatised middle aged mothers have an "absolute right to say what they want and did" and not go to prison for best part of 3 years, or is this right exclusive to the narrative that you subscribe to?

'but out of a free speech angry young men pop groups who have the absolute right to say what they want and they did.'

Except they don't have the right to incite hate hence their visas being revoked.

Am just catching up on Iplayer watching Rod Stewart. His vocals are obviously not as great as when he first sung his hits ..as a 60 year old I cannot sing as well as I did 40 odd years ago…he is still a fantastic showman and can entertain!
My only reservation about Rod ,is that he is a fan of Reform which really has saddened me 😔

I'm at Glastonbury both as press and a recyclers and have been here since last Sunday and leave next Friday. As ever the best Glastonbury ever and it's not what you watch on the TV. It's both a community and a fluffy cult on the volunteer side with some of the nicest people on the planet who look after each other , chat to randoms and raise a lot of money for oxfam water aid and green peace. The authorities anf government should do the job they were elected to do and but out of a free speech angry young men pop groups who have the absolute right to say what they want and they did. Also saw a passionate and engaged Owen Jones in the speakers tent and a standout performance by Nadine Shah who along with her band were weeping to a poem about Gaza. I'm really out of the loop of progressive politics these days but many of the artists, performers and Glastonbury stands with calling out the destruction and wanton mayhem rained down on a long suffering people and rightly so.Frankly Keir Starmer and his machine politicians cohorts can fuck off with his performative knee jerk ŕesponses to the worst murders of journalists aid workers health workers and bombing of hospitals and starving civilians that we have witnessed in our lifetimes and if you aren't calling that out I don't really care what else you want to say. Israel you have lost the "room" and I don't think it's ever coming back. Gideon Levy is spot on Israel is lost in a perpetual war of trauma and anger and until it explicitly and with conscience recognises Palestian grief and suffering there will be no end to the cycle of despair and destruction.Ive been happily away from my phone for the last weeks so won't be answering so don't @me expecting a reply.

I've been on this earth for 54 years and I can guarantee you that no 'gentle person' chants and incites others to chant "death to xyz"

Seriously, I wish you'd just give it up now.

I hear he wants his visa back! Boo hoo! Shut the f××× up!

Yes I did thanks. Are you this rude and patronising to everyone or just on MN?

For the love of god RTWT

Think he was what? Calling for the death of people when he uh... called for the death of people?

But yeah he managed to get himself some publicity. And dropped by agent and a criminal investigation buy hey ho.

"As a result of their visas being canceled, the band’s U.S. tour will likely be canceled. The duo had planned to visit about two dozen venues in the United States, including major cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Nashville, Tennessee."

They certainly don't have more courage than I thanks very much, just have big gobs and have incited hate which I believe can be a crime. Yayy to more insta followers, though not quite up there with a US tour is it.