Why glastonbury 2017
We wanted a nice quiet Sunday but instead Glasto gave us perhaps the greatest closing day in the festival's history!
Nile Rodgers and a cast of thousands with a disco classic. Whether it's on the stage or in the crowd, there are times at Glasto where you can lose yourself. How to describe this man and this set? Delivering epic alt-rock guitar heroes Biffy Clyro hit the Pyramid Stage. Oasis frontman doing what he does best. A seductive Sunday afternoon session on the Pyramid Stage.
Go to Coachella in California, or Leeds and Reading in the UK, and you can hardly tell what year it is, such is their determined obliviousness to the outside world. Leeds is relying this year on the cutting edge appeal of Kasabian, Eminem and Muse. But Glastonbury has always been unafraid of risking mainstream appeal, wrapping the site in socialist posters, sprinkling right-on stalls campaigning for human rights in Tibet amid the usual burger vendors.
After several decades of stars eschewing politics, today to have the most cred you need to seem the most credibly engaged with the issues. Kendrick Lamar and Solange have gained large followings with unapologetically political albums. But given Perry used to think that global consciousness equated to dressing as national stereotypes such as geishas , she is a perfect illustration of why politics and pop can be a hard trick to pull off. This year, up in the Green Fields and Healing Fields, there were the usual vegan food trucks, multiple CND posters and lectures on the importance of bees.
But these things were always here, backdrops that are easy for most festival goers to walk past and barely see. When it was announced that Corbyn would be appearing, prior to US hip-hop group Run the Jewels, there was a sense that politicians were going to cause a bigger stir than the headliners. They were certainly outshining the celebrities. And again. It took us about half an hour to work out that, every time, they were celebrating the sun disappearing behind a cloud.
Then I went on stage and danced like I'd never danced before. All sorts of crazy stuff. Now I can barely walk. One reveller had a very creative solution to their bad hair day.
In , when the Foo Fighters played their first ever Glastonbury, half of the audience walked away to watch England v Colombia in the World Cup - a match where David Beckham scored one of England's two goals.
Fast forward 19 years, and the band headline the Pyramid Stage with Beckham watching from the sidelines. It wasn't just Beckham watching from the sidelines. Most surprising of all was Bradley Cooper - who turned up on the Pyramid Stage and played guitar albeit silently while filming a sequence for the upcoming remake of A Star Is Born.
He then introduced a set by country singer Kris Kristoffersen, who starred in the version of the film alongside Barbra Streisand. We had the privilege of watching up-and-coming pop star Sigrid soundcheck for a live session on BBC Radio 1. As you can see above, her acoustic rendition of Don't Kill My Vibe was nothing short of stunning. Unfortunately, when it came to the broadcast, the Norwegian was interrupted by Jools Holland and his Big Band, who launched into a thunderous set on the nearby Pyramid Stage.
Sigrid persevered; eyes screwed tight, delivering a delicate and heartfelt performance against the boogie woogie barrage. I really had to concentrate. Thank goodness I had headphones! Everywhere you went, the chant broke out: "Ohhhh, Jeremy Corbyn.
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