Will Varley – Glastonbury Festival 2017 Another of the festival circuit’s perennial stars, Will Varley is a songwriter first and formost, but, unlike some of the less well-polished performers of contemporary folk (naming no names) he also holds a tune so perfectly balanced you think it might go on forever.
Vintage Swing Cartel – Glastonbury Festival 2017 The perfect cure for Glastonbury wind-down blues is that moment towards the end of the festival when you stumble on some beautiful music being played in the back of a bar… The Vintage Swing Cartel put a spring back in your step with infectious rythmns and an uplifting…
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The Avalanches – Glastonbury Festival 2017 Playing their debut UK festival show on the Glastonbury West Holts Stage, The Avalanches can only be described as seriously fun. Ripping up the rule book they blend and bend genres into new and interesting shapes. Their Glastonbury set was a joyous thing to behold, and when the strains…
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Rev Schnider and the Band of Angels – Glastonbury Festival 2017 If you want a little chaos in your life you’ve come to the right place. This roving church of the fevered mind is a musical lifeline for anyone who just wants to see the world turned upside down. The Rev and his Band of…
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Raye – Glastonbury Festival 2017 Watching the ausience numbers swell throughout her set it was clear to see that Raye’s soulful delivery is a real head-turner. The South Londoner hit the industry watch lists last year and whilst not everyone who gets the attention of the decision makers goes on to great things we’d be…
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Nish Goyal – Glastonbury Festival 2017 Nish Goyal didn’t realise it, but when he strummed his guitar and sang the first line of a song at 11.30am on Wednesday morning at the Croissant Neuf Bandstand he was officially opening the live music programme of Glastonbuty Festival 2017. A self-professed seeker of truth through words he…
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Loyle Carner – Glastonbury Festival 2017 Get used to his face and get used to his voice. Because you are going to be seeing and hearing a lot more from the hugely talented and charismatic Loyle Carner over many years to come. This Croydon boy has been doing the circuit for the last four years…
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London Elektricity Big Band – Glastonbury Festival 2017 They are back after a few year’s break – and what a comeback. Playing to a packed Shangri La Truth stage late the night before, the London Elektricity Big Band might have been delayed by soundcheck gremlins, but once they kicked off they blew the Sunday afternoon…
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Kiefer Sutherland – Glastonbury Festival 2017 The thing is, it’s really tough for an A-list actor to be taken seriously when they branch into music. But you know what – Kiefer Sutherland pulls it off with aplomb. His down-to-earth Americana is a self-written collection of stories of love, loss and booze…lots of boooze. And he…
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Dead Kennedys – Glastonbury Festival 2017 Spending more time in the pit with the crowd than onstage with the band, Dead Kennedys frontman Ron Greer gives it his all as the seminal punk rockers tear through a frantic set that sets the audience on fire.
Chickenbone John Guitars – Glastonbury Festival 2017 For just a few quid you could own your very own Chickenbone John geetar – a thing of beauty that makes beautiful bluesy music.
Birdy – Glastonbury Festival 2017 With a perfect voice and delicious songs, Birdy held the Avalon Stage audience in the palm of her hand.
Beans on Toast – Glastonbury Festival 2017 It simply wouldn’t be Glastonbury without Beans on Toast. He’s been going to Glastonbury for 20 years and has pleyed it for the last ten. If you haven’t yet been to see him live… why not???
12 Stone Toddler – Glastonbury Festival 2017 This Brighton bunch deserved a bigger crowd than they got on the Truth stage in Shangri La – but that’s a lesson for bands playing big festivals…sometimes the lure of other acts is just too much. They enjoyed the experience though and looked like they were giving it…
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The opening act of The Truth stage in Glastonbury’s Shangri La saw a joyful and exhuberant set from the amazing New York Brass Band, who climbed off the stage and eventually played in the centre of a packed crowd. What only Glastonbury can provide came next – the extreme noise of Napalm Death. We got…
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Despite the increasing shift to polished production and mainstream artists for the kids there is still a little of Glastonbury’s seedy underbelly left in the corners of the festival…if you know where to look. Shangri La is one of those places, and this, dear festival-goers, is some of the madness that can be found there.…
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Cadet (Glastonbury 2017)
Craig Charles (Glastonbury 2017)
Dave the Great (Glastonbury 2017) His name is Dave, and he is great…
Declan McKenna (Glastonbury 2017) 2015’s Glastonbury emerging talent winner, Declan McKenna, played one of his two Glastonbury sets this year to a packed John Peel stage tent…
Another band to deliver a secret set on the BBC Introducing stage, Blossoms went down a storm at Glastonbury 2017…
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Bradley Cooper (Glastonbury 2017) Bradley Cooper briefly took to the Glastonbury Pyramid stage to film a scene for his new film – a remake of A Star is Born, the classic Judy Garland musical.
Charli XCX (Glastonbury 2017) A sea of pink confetti littered the Other Stage arena after a huge burst of colour from the Cambridge-born electro-pop princess.
First Aid Kit (Glastonbury 2017)
Glass Animals (Glastonbury 2017) Glass Animals hit up the Other Stage after a secret lunchtime warm-up show in the BBC Introducing tent over in Silver Hayes earlier in the day.
Halsey (Glastonbury 2017) The chart-topping American pop sensation had her dream come true, playing to a huge and appreciative Other Stage audience and putting down the gauntlet for Katy Perry to beat that…
Kris Kistofferson (Glastonbury 2017) Not the best-received set of the festival…
Lorde (Glastonbury 2017) Twenty-year-old Newzealander, Lorde, took the gamble to go for a big production number with her Glastonbury debut performance. Risking being overwhelmed by the scale of the stage, the singer came through unscathed, delivering up songs in front of a giant glass shipping container that was raised above the stage and slowly filled…
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Royal Blood (Glastonbury 2017) An enormous surge of festival-goers preceded the Royal Blood Pyramid stage set, no doubt helped in their decision to catch the band’s main stage debut by the fact that this was the week the new album, ‘How Did We Get So Dark’ hit the number one spot in the charts. …
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The xx (Glastonbury 2017) A huge crowd – perhaps bolstered by legions of Radiohead fans keen for a grandstand view – helped make The xx very happy bunnies at Glastonbury.
Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs (Glastonbury 2017) Highly irreverent, but far from irrelevant, Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs epitomise the skanky underbelly of festival culture. They’re just brilliant.
Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart (Glastonbury 2017) The legendary bass-master squeezed every deep decibel possible out of the Glade’s powerful sound system, to the delight of a packed crowd.
Nadine Shah (Glastonbury 2017) Nadine Shah won over a multitude of new fans and cemented her political activism during her two shows at Glastonbury this year. She’s undoubtedly one of a new breed of outspoken and talented performers who will hopefully be the future of music.
The Ramona Flowers (Glastonbury 2017) Providing an energetic opening salvo to Friday’s live music action, The Ramona Flowers tread that line between electronics and live guitar rock. With an impassioned line in hook-filled vocals, they have the power to grab attention and hold new audiences.
Rishi Saluja (Glastonbury 2017) Playing one of the festival’s smallest stages, Rishi is one of those performers with the ability to capture attention and hold an audience.
Rob Roy Collins (Glastonbury 2017) If you look closely you can see our photographer in the crowd in Rob’s video – taken after he escaped from chains whilst balanced at the top of a ladder in an impressive two minutes…a great performance to a delighted crowd.
Silver Hayes (Glastonbury 2017) A small taste of the fun to be had in this legendary part of Glastonbury Festival…
The Hot 8 Brass Band (Glastonbury 2017) It’s a tough job turning ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ into an upbeat, uplifting, singalong-summer-anthem…but The Hot Brass Band do a fantastic job and the crowd loves every minute…
