Glastonbury
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. While the villagers of Pilton have been complaining about the noise generated during the weekend for many years, in 2007 over 700 acts played on over 80 stages. Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival. Organiser Michael Eavis stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert in 1970.
West Midlands’ finest The Charlatans are celebrating 30 years of their organ-fuelled swirling British garage rock and have been drafted in at short notice to perform on the Other Stage. The Charlatans have released 13 studio albums and, despite having lost two key members since their inception in 1989, remain one of Britain’s most enduring and best-loved live bands. Earlier this year they released a retrospective box set of 7-inch singles, Everything Changed, to celebrate Record Store Day.
Get ready for the pure rock and reckless abandon that is IDLES.
Dublin's punk five-piece bring the anger and the energy to the John Peel Stage
Foals play the Park Stage at Glastonbury 2019
Mike Skinner and co. headline the John Peel Stage.
If new album 'Reflektor' took them from purveying symphonic indie symphonies to a rhythmic dancefloor previously owned by producer James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), it doesn't seem to have lost them any of their following.
Johnny Cash considered his UK appearance at Glastonbury Festival 1994 to be one of the great highlights of his musical career. He wrote about the performance in his autobiography and was so moved by his reception that, according to the other performers who were there, tears were rolling down his face when he came off stage afterward.
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