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Ontobetterthings · 2025-06-28T13:02:00+00:00

Anyone else? I tuned in last night and couldn't believe how bad it was! 1975 was headlining and it was so middle or the road. Maybe I'm getting old but the music was awful!!! So bland. Im early 40s 🤣 What are your thoughts?

Everanewbie · 01/07/2025 09:41

sualipa · 30/06/2025 21:12

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.

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?

Lalgarh · 01/07/2025 11:22

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

JaneJeffer · 01/07/2025 11:29

Why not divert the thread back to the actual music?

ConnieHeart · 01/07/2025 11:58

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

Tangfastic71 · 01/07/2025 11:59

Lalgarh · 01/07/2025 11:22

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

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

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 12:35

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.

JaneJeffer · 01/07/2025 12:39

Are you his publicist @Gloriia?

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 12:43

JaneJeffer · 01/07/2025 12:39

Are you his publicist @Gloriia?

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

JaneJeffer · 01/07/2025 12:50

You’re doing a great job 👍

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 13:07

JaneJeffer · 01/07/2025 12:50

You’re doing a great job 👍

Thanks 😘

sualipa · 01/07/2025 15:55

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.

PollyIndia · 01/07/2025 16:01

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.

PollyIndia · 01/07/2025 16:02

sualipa · 01/07/2025 15:55

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.

Yes, exactly this last para

Tangfastic71 · 01/07/2025 17:03

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 ❤️

ArtfulGoldWriter · 01/07/2025 17:13

Glasto is awesome! I didn’t go this year but watched a load of good stuff on TV:

Self Esteem, Maccabees, Scissor sisters, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Snow Patrol, Loyle Carner, Maribou State, Four Tet, Raye, Wolf Alice, Djo, Blossoms, Amyl & sniffers and Prodigy to name a few.

Rod Stewart is a racist old twat so didn’t watch him.

I managed to stream Kneecap on Tik tok just to see what all the fuss was about and it was a load of fuss too.

Loads of good music out there and Glasto has it in spades. Will be back in 2027 and can’t wait!

ArtfulGoldWriter · 01/07/2025 17:15

Tangfastic71 · 01/07/2025 17:03

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 ❤️

Love Ezra Collective! Saw them at Green Man last year - brilliant band!

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 17:21

'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.'

What has the Daily Mail and its readers got to do with it?

Your rose coloured view of the place and it's 'soul' is lovely to read but most of us see it for what is is. Greta types wanging on about the environment yet leaving so much detritus behind, celebs wanging on about the environment yet accessing it via environmentally unfriendly helicopters. Celebs using their platform to spread hate. Banners about immigrants yet solid perimeter fences to keep their perceived undesirables out. Oh but hang on that's for health and safety so it's ok!

Jarvis singing common people was magnificent. Just very ironic that the very privileged hapless person he was singing about was what constitutes your average Glastonbury goer.

It all just seems so very fake. <But Gary Numan and The Prodigy were amazeballs>.

sualipa · 01/07/2025 17:26

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 17:21

'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.'

What has the Daily Mail and its readers got to do with it?

Your rose coloured view of the place and it's 'soul' is lovely to read but most of us see it for what is is. Greta types wanging on about the environment yet leaving so much detritus behind, celebs wanging on about the environment yet accessing it via environmentally unfriendly helicopters. Celebs using their platform to spread hate. Banners about immigrants yet solid perimeter fences to keep their perceived undesirables out. Oh but hang on that's for health and safety so it's ok!

Jarvis singing common people was magnificent. Just very ironic that the very privileged hapless person he was singing about was what constitutes your average Glastonbury goer.

It all just seems so very fake. <But Gary Numan and The Prodigy were amazeballs>.

We would have been in the same tent have been coming since 2005. I remember when somebody asked what he thought of Tony Blair and he said its about issues not personalities and then went onto recall that after the war when food was scarce and on ration we made sure to feed the German people and it wasn't popular but it was the right thing to do and I remember his last appearance may have been 2013 when frail and with difficulty walking he talked about his life well lived and the people he had encountered and persuaded on the way and said you never give up fighting for what you believe to be right right up to the last breath
Amen to that. Maybe the Bob Vylan oppsitionists should have cut off the food and water and armed rogue security guards to take out the chanters. All they have done is made them and Kneecap far more popular than they would ever have been if they had left them to their previous niche obscurity. Had advanced warnings that they would have been rammed I would have been tempted to ruberneck but they were and some tik rocker livestreamed Kneecap to 1.4milion om her feed which beats the best figure for the BBC. Oh and heard rumours that an aging famous rockstar is going to be metooed by a major publication and they are working like Russell Brand on a major story. Can't say who obviously but will be a shock when and if it comes out.

sualipa · 01/07/2025 17:34

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 17:21

'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.'

What has the Daily Mail and its readers got to do with it?

Your rose coloured view of the place and it's 'soul' is lovely to read but most of us see it for what is is. Greta types wanging on about the environment yet leaving so much detritus behind, celebs wanging on about the environment yet accessing it via environmentally unfriendly helicopters. Celebs using their platform to spread hate. Banners about immigrants yet solid perimeter fences to keep their perceived undesirables out. Oh but hang on that's for health and safety so it's ok!

Jarvis singing common people was magnificent. Just very ironic that the very privileged hapless person he was singing about was what constitutes your average Glastonbury goer.

It all just seems so very fake. <But Gary Numan and The Prodigy were amazeballs>.

There's a lot of truth in what you say all refugees are welcome was a running loop on all the screens on the stages and Terminal One which I didn't get into is supposed to simulate some of the experience of seeking asylum at an airport with some djs at various times so probably a load of well meaning nonsense and a full sized Vicyorian pier at Glastonbury om Sea is a piece of unnecessary bloatware and what did the poster avenge trans youth mean

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 17:34

'Maybe the Bob Vylan oppsitionists should have cut off the food and water and armed rogue security guards to take out the chanters. All they have done is made them and Kneecap far more popular '

No one wants food and water cutting off or armed security <obviously>, we just can't have performers shouting hate and whipping others up.

Vylan and the other group are maybe more popular now due to their publicity stunts, but with haters and it's not a following to be proud of tbh.

Tangfastic71 · 01/07/2025 17:48

@sualipa yes! It was exactly that speech …the one about standing up for what’s right…even when it’s difficult. A kind of Tony Benn version of “Be the change you want to see…..” I think it was earlier than 2013 but my memory is shocking.
Im not mad keen on some the Instagram trustafarian types but they’re not as plentiful as is made out, and the vast number of volunteers adds to the diversity. I guess they’ve got to do what they’ve got to do to keep it viable.
Glad you had a wonderful time…very sad to have to wait two years for another one. The real world just isn’t the same 😢

ArtfulGoldWriter · 01/07/2025 18:05

Gloriia · 01/07/2025 17:21

'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.'

What has the Daily Mail and its readers got to do with it?

Your rose coloured view of the place and it's 'soul' is lovely to read but most of us see it for what is is. Greta types wanging on about the environment yet leaving so much detritus behind, celebs wanging on about the environment yet accessing it via environmentally unfriendly helicopters. Celebs using their platform to spread hate. Banners about immigrants yet solid perimeter fences to keep their perceived undesirables out. Oh but hang on that's for health and safety so it's ok!

Jarvis singing common people was magnificent. Just very ironic that the very privileged hapless person he was singing about was what constitutes your average Glastonbury goer.

It all just seems so very fake. <But Gary Numan and The Prodigy were amazeballs>.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/29/adrian-chiles-first-time-glastonbury

The negative comments are usually from people who have never been.

It’s nothing like you describe. I have been 10 times and seen plenty of changes over the years but still think it’s the best place.

Full of life and joy!

Adrian Chiles’s first time at Glastonbury: ‘The peace-and-love control knobs get turned up to 11’

Six years after declaring the festival his idea of hell, the columnist finally had his arm twisted. What unfolded was a weekend of shock, confusion, throbbing testicles – and unbridled joy

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/29/adrian-chiles-first-time-glastonbury

ArtfulGoldWriter · 01/07/2025 18:07

Oh and the reason there is a bloody fence is to stop the 300k people that turned up in the 90’s with knives and guns. Pretty much like every other festival in the U.K. too 🙄

PollyIndia · 01/07/2025 18:08

ArtfulGoldWriter · 01/07/2025 18:05

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/29/adrian-chiles-first-time-glastonbury

The negative comments are usually from people who have never been.

It’s nothing like you describe. I have been 10 times and seen plenty of changes over the years but still think it’s the best place.

Full of life and joy!

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100%. this year they sold 50k less tickets, and it all didn't feel overcrowded anywhere, you could always get a drink or food without a huge queue. I didn't queue for more than a few mins for a loo. There's day festivals in London that charge £75-100 where you are moving from queue to queue, and it's done by 10pm. Now those are soulless and corporate. Glastonbury has soul in buckets.

sualipa · 01/07/2025 18:15

ArtfulGoldWriter · 01/07/2025 18:05

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/29/adrian-chiles-first-time-glastonbury

The negative comments are usually from people who have never been.

It’s nothing like you describe. I have been 10 times and seen plenty of changes over the years but still think it’s the best place.

Full of life and joy!

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It absolutely is and I would love it if the world and their dog would just ignore it and leave it alone oh and silence Billy Bragg I never want to hear another tuneless note from him for the rest of my life I wanted to see Ezra Collective having seen like another poster at Green Man last year but he doesn't like all the clapping and audience participation and joy so we didn't go.Interstingly almost uniquely amongst Pyramid headliners Alanis Morisette had a closed it for photography oh and having earned my ticket through recycling and doing the gonzo photos for my reviewer friend got to stay in Hospitality. Very nice but couldn't afford it starts around 1k u for the ticket and you have to be in media or the biz to get in. Very quiet at night but get flushing loos showers and the interstate cut through which are very handy. My overarching theme for my photos which are mainly people is joy and hope which is very easy to capture. Didn't see any lairyness or groups of coked up aresholed lads either this year which was most welcome.