Kalush Orchestra made their Glastonbury and UK debut on Friday (24.06.22). The 2022 ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ winners played Shangri-La’s Truth Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, South West England, for what marked the Ukrainian folk-rap […]
‘When we do a Beatles song, all your phones light up and it’s like a galaxy of stars,” says Paul McCartney as he seats himself at his piano. “When we do a new song, it’s […]
For Self Esteem – AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor – Glastonbury is where it all began, sort of. “It was Gary Lightbody!” she told Alexis Petridis in the second of the Guardian’s onstage interviews with musicians […]
Shaad D’Souza is over at the Park Stage where rapper Sampa the Great is performing and history is being made. “I’m standing on this stage with the first Zambian band to perform at Coachella,” she […]
As the first night of major performances began at Glastonbury Festival, some of the biggest female acts in music addressed the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which eliminated the federal right to abortions […]
It’s not just that Billie Eilish is, as she’s keen to point out, the youngest headliner in Glastonbury’s history … it’s that she’s the first mainstream pop star – as in the kind of pop […]
Phoebe Bridgers brought her frustration with the reversal of Roe vs. Wade across the pond to England’s Glastonbury Festival where she led concertgoers on a chant decrying Friday’s decision. Shortly after the Supreme Court overturned […]
‘Glastonbury has shaped my life’ Lauren on stage with Kenickie in 1997. Photograph: Martyn Goodacre/Getty I first went to Glastonbury to play in a band [Kenickie], then with friends, and then for work. I’ve covered […]
Headlining Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage – the most recognised festival platform in the world – has always been a career-defining moment. When 20-year-old Billie Eilish makes history as the youngest ever solo headliner on Friday, one […]
The Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has said she was overcome with emotion as the first of 200,000 people flooded into the festival for the first time in three years. Its return has long been anticipated […]
At the end of May each festival year, Holly Larkin arrives at Worthy Farm to find a vast, rusting pile of metal bins, and starts to feel excited. She leads a team of about 90 […]
Sigrid joins The Rebecca Judd Show to discuss her new album, ‘How To Let Go. She reveals she wrote a song specifically with playing Glastonbury in mind, discusses the contrasts between her first and second […]