i agree with you about the head liners that's why i was hoping for pj .but there's so much more to do its not just the bands its meeting people you've not seen for a year or two .ive got a mate who lives in Ireland not seen him in years would have liked to have gone over there to see pj but i haven't got the money .
i still think its worth the 200 for 5 days
id agree this used to be the case in the 1990's before the festival went all corporate and lost its identity.
Now its no different to any other festival (camping onsite is a good bonus), so it all comes down to the line up now on which one to attend, in the past glastonbury was all about the experience and you are quite right it wasnt at all about the line up....
Step away from the Pyramid and Other Stages, forget what Radio 1/Q Magazine/NME want to hype up and there's usually great stuff to be found. As it's got bigger it's become more mini festivals within a festival almost, great for me as I love the Jazz/World stage, Avalon/Acoustic and the greenfields. Really don't care about the headliners - the Pyramid stage/Other stage have become like any other festival. The majority at these stages tend to be there for the whole weekend and not see anything else... which you can do for 2 days at V and save yourself £20!
And there's not a cat in hells chance of Pearl Jam playing. The Pyramid is (apparently) completely booked and they won't foot the expense of putting in a second barrier on another stage just to satisfy PJ.
Totally understand this......When i used to go i used to love wandering off to find Billy Bragg playing to 30 people as a surprise and watching the crowd grow to a 1000, or watching rolf harris play a blinding show (yes really) to a small tent which spilled outside with thousands streaming in.....or catching Plant, the hothouse flowers, the levellers, suzanne vega, etc in the acoustic tents, and the best of all Kanda Bonga man on the world stage - that was probably the best thing i sawm off the main stages at glastonbury and id never heard of the guy...blew me away....
but, and theres always a but, the place used to have the vibe too, and its hard to put a finger on this, but now it doesnt attract the right crowd and its lost that feel, they've made it all about the mainstream...and now they dont charge £70 - they charge £200 - and lets be honest for £200 you need to be seeing some big acts to make it worth the while....paying 200 nicker to watch the little stages doesnt work - not for the full 3 days. Whereas before £70 or £75 whatever it was in 1997 was a bargain......
Im in the minority of course, but I do know that most people who went in the 90's now feel the same, the old crowd doesnt clambour for tickets anymore, but the people from the city cant shell out their 200 quid quick enough.
i agree with wot you say about the vibe i started going in 96/97 so i know wot you mean but on the other hand you make your own vibe don't you.
as for going and finding small places tents ect whilst jay z was on me and the wife where up in the green field watching two blokes running a sound system by riding a bike the faster they peddled the louder the music got brilliant .
ok now one knows the line up but Suzanne is touring always look out for her i remember when a bloke climb up the inside of the tent also the levs are playing and are strongly rumoured .[this i will find out soon as they are playing mr kyps where my son works as a promoter ]
price ah know this is a bit of a sore point BUT and there's always a but if you look at and here i have to apologise because it would take to long to write so ive pasted it for you to compare
first v festival ...http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/v ... ford/2010/ and that's for three days
second isle of wight ..http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/iow/2010/ three days
third T in the park http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/titp/2010/ three days
Glastonbury http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/2010/ five days .
ok the main music starts Friday but you have two day Wednesday Thursday to do as you please plus monday to chill plus you dont have an arena so you have your own beer once your in your in and for just under £200 i cant find a better festival that has as much for the money
rant over old sons im still hoping pj or ev will do something if not im of to venice for one day £60
so sad, so sorry to have miss lead anyone but my contact LIED
I take you have also looked at the offical line up thats now out ~ BAG O SHITE !!!!
so The Black Keys on JP stage will be the only thing I'll make the effot to see, and a band called "The Transpersonals" in the rabbit hole" cos they are damn good and friends, apart from that if you want me I'll be working hard in de tipi !!!!
~~~~~~~~~~ PINK FLUFFY LOVE PSYCHO~~~~~~~~~~
Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
How reliable are your sources? I really hope they are right.
:? well a friends friend does the booking for Glasto so I thought it was a good contact but looking at that line up cant see where they would fit in ? really cant see them playing that early !
~~~~~~~~~~ PINK FLUFFY LOVE PSYCHO~~~~~~~~~~
Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
ive not even bothered adding to the glasto bit old sons very very disappointed dizzy,, snoop im sure its says NO dogs allowed !!!!
vv i agree not good the only way i can see anything is if ed turns up with ben .
BUT hey its going to be sunny ill try and meet up with you over the week end if thats ok
i think this years glasto line up is the biggest load of crap i have ever seen! and worse still i have got a ticket for the bloody thing!!
not a chance i would have bought a ticket if i knew who was playing! i have got a hyde park ticket for the friday so i only have to put up with the pet shop boys for two days!!
i was really hoping for pj with them playing hyde park on the friday. but nooooo, mr eavis is a stupid c#@t!
right rant over now, and i feel better again
With the Glastonbury festival in full swing, Gorillaz are preparing to headline on Friday night after U2 pulled out. How can an act make the most of topping the bill at the biggest event in the British music calendar?
As the lights come up on the Pyramid stage, you step out to face the crowd.
Your intestines churn at the sight of 100,000 faces stretching to the horizon as their roar shudders through you like a bassline.
They haven't showered in days, nor slept much either.
Over 177,000 are expected to attend the 2010 festival
You are billed as the focal point of their weekend, the reason why they put up with the squalor and dirt and abysmal toilets. And now you must entertain them.
For better or worse, Glastonbury is more than a festival.
The ageing hippies say the ley lines and spiritual energy make it a place of mysticism and magic. Even if you don't buy this, it makes for a more evocative backdrop than, say, Reading.
Even the cynics wonder with astonishment what drives so many grown adults to willingly spend a long weekend wallowing in the fields of Somerset amid mediaeval scenes of cider-fuelled indigence.
It is also an event that can utterly transform the careers of those who top its bills, propelling little-known alternative acts to stadium-filling success and resurrecting the fortunes of those presumed past it and washed up.
——
TIPS FOR THE TOP OF THE BILL
From Jim Bob of Carter USM (headlined in 1992)
Go large. No room for subtleties
Play the hits.
Don't try out your new musical direction
Encourage sing-alongs, clap-alongs etc.
Spend most of your fee on a ridiculous over-the-top light show.
Have an expensive and spectacular gimmick. We fired foam balls into the audience from cannons - we had planned on dropping them from helicopters but were told we couldn't get clearance from air traffic control.
Climb on stuff. Up the PA stack, on top of the drum kit etc.
Jump off stuff.
End your set with a big finish.
Smash everything up if needs be.
———
Pulp laboured in John Peel-sponsored obscurity for almost two decades before they were elevated to the top of the bill in 1995 when the Stone Roses pulled out - a triumphant performance turning Jarvis Cocker into a genuine star and his band into one of Britain's biggest.
Robbie Williams' 1998 appearance won over indie and rock fans who might previously have dismissed him for his boy-band past, and so-called "heritage" acts such as David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart have all seen their critical reputations burnished by putting on a good show.
And Jay-Z cannily exploited the controversy generated when Oasis's Noel Gallagher said a hip-hop artist was "wrong" for the festival by delivering a witty and self-effacing set (the rapper opened his set with an energetic, if deliberately tuneless, version of Wonderwall, instantly winning over the crowd).
But if the opportunities for headliners are immense, the pressure not to squander the chance weighs heavily, too.
With the Glastonbury experience itself attracting a bigger pull than any group, acts used to playing gigs to their own fans must reach out the merely curious, the uncommitted and the barely conscious. And that's just the TV audience.
Having stepped in to replace U2, Friday night's headliners Gorillaz will have to win over an audience geared up for another group - over and above the ordinary challenges of heading up Europe's largest festival, as confronted by Muse and Stevie Wonder, who top the bills on Saturday and Sunday.
Mark Chadwick played to Glastonbury's biggest-ever crowd in 1994
One performer who understands the pressures of the occasion is Mark Chadwick, lead singer of folk-punk group The Levellers - believed to have played to Glastonbury's biggest-ever crowd when they headlined the Pyramid on the Friday night in 1994.
With no steel fence yet having been erected to keep out gatecrashers, as many as 300,000 people are thought to have seen the show.
For Chadwick, the only way to deal with such a terrifyingly-sized audience is to block it out.
"You have to treat it like any other gig," he says. "Obviously, you make sure you play the sing-along numbers and the big choruses.
"But because it's dark, you can't actually see the crowd - except when they put the lights up between songs, and they look like a field of ploughed potatoes. You can't let nerves get to you."
Chadwick did eventually succumb to stage fright, but only after he had left the stage - he spent the aftermath of the gig "curled up in my tent with awful stomach cramps".
If you crack a gag about the weather or the Glasto toilets, you really can't go wrong
Arthur Smith, comedian
For all that The Levellers maintain a dedicated fan base, this approach did not quite propel them into the big time - as illustrated by the fact that in 2010 they headline the Glade, one of the festival's smaller stages. Although the band's green-anarchist politics suggest that this troubles them little.
A truly memorable headlining set is one which taps into the sense of togetherness that distinguishes Glastonbury from other festivals, says Wendy Fonarow, professor of anthropology at Greendale University, California, who has studied the social dynamics of the British indie music scene.
For all that it is criticised for having become too commercial, she argues, Glastonbury still attracts visitors because of its hippy ethos - its audience ultimately wants bands to succeed, and those cast as underdogs like Pulp and Jay-Z are best placed.
"The thing with Glastonbury is that it's not primarily about the music," she says. "It's about seeking a communal experience. Part of what unites everyone is the arduousness, the discomfort, the fact that it's an ordeal.
Glastonbury regulars insist that it remains true to its original ethos
"Damon Albarn [of Gorillaz] has headlined Glastonbury before and understands this. Gorillaz aren't going to have any problems."
The blitz spirit may be more difficult to invoke during 2010's projected fine weather, and Albarn surely cannot match his other band Blur's emotional reunion on the Pyramid last year - but replacement headliners, like Pulp and Basement Jaxx, who stood in for Kylie Minogue in 2005, have a habit of winning over the crowd.
Comedian Arthur Smith, himself a Glastonbury regular, likens the process of charming an uncommitted festival audience to compering a comedy night.
"Basically, you have to be direct," he says. "Make sure you have strong material at the start to hold their attention. If you crack a gag about the weather or the Glasto toilets, you really can't go wrong."
Music journalist David Quantick agrees - and although he is giving the festival, which he believes has grown too big, a miss, he admires its capacity to prick bloated rock star egos.
"You've got an audience of people who have been up for three days," he says. "Some of them can't speak. Some of them think you're the Ramones.
"This isn't the time to start playing experimental stuff from your new album. Give them the hits."
In 1970 the first ever Glastonbury took place on Worthy Farm. Tickets were a bargain at £1 and included free bottles of milk, fresh from the farm. Performers included T. Rex and Al Stewart - not the one from Home & Away we hasten to add.
There were singles too but these are the albums made by Jim Bob & Fruitbat / CARTER The Unstoppable Sex Machine before their headline show 1992 - incl. the UK number 1 album 1992 The Love Album.
Maybe there is one way to avoid the topic‘s movement to Other Music alongside.
FRI 22:15 - 23:45 SAT 22:00 - 23:45 SUN 22:15 - 23:45
According to the 2025 schedule + assuming that the appearance is full band on the Pyramid Stage.
90 - 105 minutes! - Anyone with a Glastonbury (fantasy) setlist nowadays ?! + What could be your PJ Glastonbury SPECiAL ?!
I’ll think about it and will not ignore most of the notes from people who played a headline show or from the other people mentioned in the BBC article up there.
My PJ Glastonbury SPECiAL came to mind, when I was writing this 😎 and Alive is not played in the encore - to shake up the festival crowd way earlier!
As ever, this year’s GlastonburyFestival offers another voluminous programme of music and wider arts that truly delivers a little something for everybody.
While the plethora of mainstream pop acts and underground DJs will keep both the Big Weekend and Resident Advisor crowds happy, it’s always nice to have at least one massive legend name to look forward to on the Pyramid Stage. Michael and Emily Eavis have done well in previous festivals, nabbing everybody from The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, and Stevie Wonder in recent memory.
For 2025, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts will be gracing the Pyramid Stage at 10pm Saturday evening, mere weeks after the release of his 48th studio album, Talkin’ to the Trees. Young’s vitality and creative spark are never without doubt, having doggedly pursued his artistic intuitions with an unerring focus ever since his days in Buffalo Springfield.
Yet, with this noble chase of musical ‘truth’ can come a belligerent set list, a stubborn commitment to his stylistic direction that at times can see the ‘Godfather of Grunge‘ sticking to material that honours his artful impulses while alienating half the crowd.
Basically, will Young play the hits? Well, looking at his recent repertoire, any Glastonbury goer worried he’ll play Talkin’ to the Trees in its entirety can rest assured the sets have been pleasingly balanced with classic numbers and recent cuts. The last time Young found himself at Somerset’s Worthy Farm was back in 2009, headlining the Friday Night with Bruce Springsteen and Blur the following nights. In full, flannel-shirted Crazy Horse mode, Young took to the stage and delivered a gripping set that stands as one of the festival’s key headliner moments.
He started strong, opening with the 1979 ripper ‘Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)’ to herald his arrival. Having dropped Fork in the Road two months earlier, its themes of ecological concern and financial corruption informed the narked energy that radiated from the band and their turbulent frontman. While only playing ‘Get Behind the Wheel’ from the album, Young seemed to channel its riled spirit and anchor the song selections, even the gentler numbers like ‘Heart of Gold’ and ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ crackle with a fraught frisson.
Sporting a provocative grin, Young concluded his set with 1989’s ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’. Pushing the anthemic stomper to new levels of raucous blitz, the elongated number was returned again and again, the chorus echoing amid a sea of grunged-out rock attack. The encore was a delightful surprise, a rendition of The Beatles’ ‘A Day in the Life‘ but swapping the original’s celestial psychedelic stir with shredding intensity so violent Young breaks all his strings and ends the song’s crescendo with an engulfing wall of feedback noise.
Anyone hoping McCartney would make a cameo appearance for his memorable bridge would be disappointed, and aghast that such a dream collab ended up materialising the following night at his Hyde Park headliner.
Young pulled off a set for the Glastonbury ages with aplomb, and while a degree of confounding expectations always hover over his work and shows, you can bet that this year’s slot will deliver no less of that complex, arresting, defiant magic.
Patchwork i believe has been unofficially confirmed as Pulp.
I have been wondering for a while though if Ed will appear with Dhani, Brandi and Uncle Neil all performing. Maybe one of the TBA slots has his name on too.
2000 Cardiff/ 2006 Paris/ 2011 Toronto/ 2013 Chicago/ 2014 Amsterdam 1 & Milton Keynes, 2016 MSG 1&2/ 2017 London Ed solo/ 2018 London 1, Padua, Rome, Prague & London 2 2019 Dusseldorf & Dublin Ed Solo 2022 Copenhagen, London 1&2, Budapest, Krakow, Vienna, Prague, Ams 1 & Ams 2 2024 Manchester, London, Auckland 1&2, Sydney 1&2
35 minutes live on the Pyramide Stage is a strange looking slot there
30 min. interchange
60 min. Burning Spear
55 min. interchange 35 min. TBA 45 min. interchange 60 min. Alanis Morissette 60 min. interchange …
+ There is another chance to play 90 minutes on the Pyramid Stage: the Legends slot on Sundays. But in the history of the festival “names” like James Brown, Kylie Minoque, Rod Steward played it, no “bands”.
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Glastonbury Festival 2025 officially takes place from Wednesday, June 25 to Sunday, June 29, 2025, at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset. Festival gates open in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with music on the main stages beginning on Friday, June 27. Headline performances run through the weekend, with nightly sets starting from around 8:00 PM and continuing until nearly midnight.
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Totally understand this......When i used to go i used to love wandering off to find Billy Bragg playing to 30 people as a surprise and watching the crowd grow to a 1000, or watching rolf harris play a blinding show (yes really) to a small tent which spilled outside with thousands streaming in.....or catching Plant, the hothouse flowers, the levellers, suzanne vega, etc in the acoustic tents, and the best of all Kanda Bonga man on the world stage - that was probably the best thing i sawm off the main stages at glastonbury and id never heard of the guy...blew me away....
but, and theres always a but, the place used to have the vibe too, and its hard to put a finger on this, but now it doesnt attract the right crowd and its lost that feel, they've made it all about the mainstream...and now they dont charge £70 - they charge £200 - and lets be honest for £200 you need to be seeing some big acts to make it worth the while....paying 200 nicker to watch the little stages doesnt work - not for the full 3 days. Whereas before £70 or £75 whatever it was in 1997 was a bargain......
Im in the minority of course, but I do know that most people who went in the 90's now feel the same, the old crowd doesnt clambour for tickets anymore, but the people from the city cant shell out their 200 quid quick enough.
thank god for the PJ tour
as for going and finding small places tents ect whilst jay z was on me and the wife where up in the green field watching two blokes running a sound system by riding a bike the faster they peddled the louder the music got brilliant .
ok now one knows the line up but Suzanne is touring always look out for her i remember when a bloke climb up the inside of the tent
price ah know this is a bit of a sore point BUT and there's always a but if you look at and here i have to apologise because it would take to long to write so ive pasted it for you to compare
first v festival ...http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/v ... ford/2010/ and that's for three days
second isle of wight ..http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/iow/2010/ three days
third T in the park http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/titp/2010/ three days
Glastonbury http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/2010/ five days .
ok the main music starts Friday but you have two day Wednesday Thursday to do as you please plus monday to chill plus you dont have an arena so you have your own beer once your in your in and for just under £200 i cant find a better festival that has as much for the money
rant over old sons im still hoping pj or ev will do something if not im of to venice for one day £60
dizzee rascal, snoopy doggy, stevie wonder, scissor sisters, pet shop boys
fuck me - where did it all go wrong, if tickets could be resold I;'d think ebay would be full of these today.
oh and No Pearl jam....no surprise there then
I take you have also looked at the offical line up thats now out ~ BAG O SHITE !!!!
so The Black Keys on JP stage will be the only thing I'll make the effot to see, and a band called "The Transpersonals" in the rabbit hole" cos they are damn good and friends, apart from that if you want me I'll be working hard in de tipi !!!!
Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
:? well a friends friend does the booking for Glasto so I thought it was a good contact but looking at that line up cant see where they would fit in ? really cant see them playing that early !
Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
vv i agree not good the only way i can see anything is if ed turns up with ben .
BUT hey its going to be sunny ill try and meet up with you over the week end if thats ok
not a chance i would have bought a ticket if i knew who was playing! i have got a hyde park ticket for the friday so i only have to put up with the pet shop boys for two days!!
i was really hoping for pj with them playing hyde park on the friday. but nooooo, mr eavis is a stupid c#@t!
right rant over now, and i feel better again
With the Glastonbury festival in full swing, Gorillaz are preparing to headline on Friday night after U2 pulled out. How can an act make the most of topping the bill at the biggest event in the British music calendar?
As the lights come up on the Pyramid stage, you step out to face the crowd.
Your intestines churn at the sight of 100,000 faces stretching to the horizon as their roar shudders through you like a bassline.
They haven't showered in days, nor slept much either.
You are billed as the focal point of their weekend, the reason why they put up with the squalor and dirt and abysmal toilets. And now you must entertain them.
For better or worse, Glastonbury is more than a festival.
The ageing hippies say the ley lines and spiritual energy make it a place of mysticism and magic. Even if you don't buy this, it makes for a more evocative backdrop than, say, Reading.
Even the cynics wonder with astonishment what drives so many grown adults to willingly spend a long weekend wallowing in the fields of Somerset amid mediaeval scenes of cider-fuelled indigence.
It is also an event that can utterly transform the careers of those who top its bills, propelling little-known alternative acts to stadium-filling success and resurrecting the fortunes of those presumed past it and washed up.
——
Pulp laboured in John Peel-sponsored obscurity for almost two decades before they were elevated to the top of the bill in 1995 when the Stone Roses pulled out - a triumphant performance turning Jarvis Cocker into a genuine star and his band into one of Britain's biggest.
Robbie Williams' 1998 appearance won over indie and rock fans who might previously have dismissed him for his boy-band past, and so-called "heritage" acts such as David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart have all seen their critical reputations burnished by putting on a good show.
And Jay-Z cannily exploited the controversy generated when Oasis's Noel Gallagher said a hip-hop artist was "wrong" for the festival by delivering a witty and self-effacing set (the rapper opened his set with an energetic, if deliberately tuneless, version of Wonderwall, instantly winning over the crowd).
But if the opportunities for headliners are immense, the pressure not to squander the chance weighs heavily, too.
With the Glastonbury experience itself attracting a bigger pull than any group, acts used to playing gigs to their own fans must reach out the merely curious, the uncommitted and the barely conscious. And that's just the TV audience.
Having stepped in to replace U2, Friday night's headliners Gorillaz will have to win over an audience geared up for another group - over and above the ordinary challenges of heading up Europe's largest festival, as confronted by Muse and Stevie Wonder, who top the bills on Saturday and Sunday.
One performer who understands the pressures of the occasion is Mark Chadwick, lead singer of folk-punk group The Levellers - believed to have played to Glastonbury's biggest-ever crowd when they headlined the Pyramid on the Friday night in 1994.
With no steel fence yet having been erected to keep out gatecrashers, as many as 300,000 people are thought to have seen the show.
For Chadwick, the only way to deal with such a terrifyingly-sized audience is to block it out.
"You have to treat it like any other gig," he says. "Obviously, you make sure you play the sing-along numbers and the big choruses.
"But because it's dark, you can't actually see the crowd - except when they put the lights up between songs, and they look like a field of ploughed potatoes. You can't let nerves get to you."
Chadwick did eventually succumb to stage fright, but only after he had left the stage - he spent the aftermath of the gig "curled up in my tent with awful stomach cramps".
For all that The Levellers maintain a dedicated fan base, this approach did not quite propel them into the big time - as illustrated by the fact that in 2010 they headline the Glade, one of the festival's smaller stages. Although the band's green-anarchist politics suggest that this troubles them little.
A truly memorable headlining set is one which taps into the sense of togetherness that distinguishes Glastonbury from other festivals, says Wendy Fonarow, professor of anthropology at Greendale University, California, who has studied the social dynamics of the British indie music scene.
For all that it is criticised for having become too commercial, she argues, Glastonbury still attracts visitors because of its hippy ethos - its audience ultimately wants bands to succeed, and those cast as underdogs like Pulp and Jay-Z are best placed.
"The thing with Glastonbury is that it's not primarily about the music," she says. "It's about seeking a communal experience. Part of what unites everyone is the arduousness, the discomfort, the fact that it's an ordeal.
"Damon Albarn [of Gorillaz] has headlined Glastonbury before and understands this. Gorillaz aren't going to have any problems."
The blitz spirit may be more difficult to invoke during 2010's projected fine weather, and Albarn surely cannot match his other band Blur's emotional reunion on the Pyramid last year - but replacement headliners, like Pulp and Basement Jaxx, who stood in for Kylie Minogue in 2005, have a habit of winning over the crowd.
Comedian Arthur Smith, himself a Glastonbury regular, likens the process of charming an uncommitted festival audience to compering a comedy night.
"Basically, you have to be direct," he says. "Make sure you have strong material at the start to hold their attention. If you crack a gag about the weather or the Glasto toilets, you really can't go wrong."
Music journalist David Quantick agrees - and although he is giving the festival, which he believes has grown too big, a miss, he admires its capacity to prick bloated rock star egos.
"You've got an audience of people who have been up for three days," he says. "Some of them can't speak. Some of them think you're the Ramones.
"This isn't the time to start playing experimental stuff from your new album. Give them the hits."
Surely the Glastonbury crowd will agree.
1970: Tickets sold for £1
In 1970 the first ever Glastonbury took place on Worthy Farm. Tickets were a bargain at £1 and included free bottles of milk, fresh from the farm. Performers included T. Rex and Al Stewart - not the one from Home & Away we hasten to add.
Is there a waiting zone on board - until PJ shows up in 20XX?
I can see the topic’s movement to Other Music because of non-PJ time travel stuff
😋
There were singles too but these are the albums made by Jim Bob & Fruitbat / CARTER The Unstoppable Sex Machine before their headline show 1992 - incl. the UK number 1 album 1992 The Love Album.
SAT 22:00 - 23:45
SUN 22:15 - 23:45
According to the 2025 schedule + assuming that the appearance is full band on the Pyramid Stage.
+ What could be your PJ Glastonbury SPECiAL ?!
My PJ Glastonbury SPECiAL came to mind, when I was writing this 😎 and Alive is not played in the encore - to shake up the festival crowd way earlier!
02 Behind Blue Eyes
03 Alive
2025
Neil Young
Saturday 28 June
22:00 - 23:45
+ 2009
What happened last time Neil Young played Glastonbury?
While the plethora of mainstream pop acts and underground DJs will keep both the Big Weekend and Resident Advisor crowds happy, it’s always nice to have at least one massive legend name to look forward to on the Pyramid Stage. Michael and Emily Eavis have done well in previous festivals, nabbing everybody from The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, and Stevie Wonder in recent memory.
For 2025, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts will be gracing the Pyramid Stage at 10pm Saturday evening, mere weeks after the release of his 48th studio album, Talkin’ to the Trees. Young’s vitality and creative spark are never without doubt, having doggedly pursued his artistic intuitions with an unerring focus ever since his days in Buffalo Springfield.
Yet, with this noble chase of musical ‘truth’ can come a belligerent set list, a stubborn commitment to his stylistic direction that at times can see the ‘Godfather of Grunge‘ sticking to material that honours his artful impulses while alienating half the crowd.
Basically, will Young play the hits? Well, looking at his recent repertoire, any Glastonbury goer worried he’ll play Talkin’ to the Trees in its entirety can rest assured the sets have been pleasingly balanced with classic numbers and recent cuts. The last time Young found himself at Somerset’s Worthy Farm was back in 2009, headlining the Friday Night with Bruce Springsteen and Blur the following nights. In full, flannel-shirted Crazy Horse mode, Young took to the stage and delivered a gripping set that stands as one of the festival’s key headliner moments.
He started strong, opening with the 1979 ripper ‘Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)’ to herald his arrival. Having dropped Fork in the Road two months earlier, its themes of ecological concern and financial corruption informed the narked energy that radiated from the band and their turbulent frontman. While only playing ‘Get Behind the Wheel’ from the album, Young seemed to channel its riled spirit and anchor the song selections, even the gentler numbers like ‘Heart of Gold’ and ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ crackle with a fraught frisson.
Sporting a provocative grin, Young concluded his set with 1989’s ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’. Pushing the anthemic stomper to new levels of raucous blitz, the elongated number was returned again and again, the chorus echoing amid a sea of grunged-out rock attack. The encore was a delightful surprise, a rendition of The Beatles’ ‘A Day in the Life‘ but swapping the original’s celestial psychedelic stir with shredding intensity so violent Young breaks all his strings and ends the song’s crescendo with an engulfing wall of feedback noise.
Anyone hoping McCartney would make a cameo appearance for his memorable bridge would be disappointed, and aghast that such a dream collab ended up materialising the following night at his Hyde Park headliner.
Young pulled off a set for the Glastonbury ages with aplomb, and while a degree of confounding expectations always hover over his work and shows, you can bet that this year’s slot will deliver no less of that complex, arresting, defiant magic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7q-BLxLA
(Rockin' In The Free World, Glastonbury 2009)
Who will be Patchwork and who is TBA ?
Pyramid Stage - Friday 27 June
Pyramid Stage - Saturday 28 June
Pyramid Stage - Sunday 29 June
Other Stage - Friday 27 June
Other Stage - Saturday 28 June
Other Stage - Sunday 29 June
West Holts Stage - Friday 27 June
West Holts Stage - Saturday 28 June
West Holts Stage - Sunday 29 June
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I have been wondering for a while though if Ed will appear with Dhani, Brandi and Uncle Neil all performing. Maybe one of the TBA slots has his name on too.
2016 MSG 1&2/ 2017 London Ed solo/ 2018 London 1, Padua, Rome, Prague & London 2
2019 Dusseldorf & Dublin Ed Solo
2022 Copenhagen, London 1&2, Budapest, Krakow, Vienna, Prague, Ams 1 & Ams 2
2024 Manchester, London, Auckland 1&2, Sydney 1&2
30 min. interchange
35 min. TBA
45 min. interchange
60 min. Alanis Morissette
60 min. interchange
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There is another chance to play 90 minutes on the Pyramid Stage: the Legends slot on Sundays. But in the history of the festival “names” like James Brown, Kylie Minoque, Rod Steward played it, no “bands”.
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When and What Time Does Glastonbury 2025 Start?
Glastonbury Festival 2025 officially takes place from Wednesday, June 25 to Sunday, June 29, 2025, at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset. Festival gates open in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with music on the main stages beginning on Friday, June 27. Headline performances run through the weekend, with nightly sets starting from around 8:00 PM and continuing until nearly midnight.
Where to Watch and Stream Glastonbury 2025 Live
You can watch Glastonbury 2025 live across BBC iPlayer, which will stream over 90 hours of performances from five main stages—Pyramid, Other, West Holts, Woodsies, and The Park. Major acts and highlights will also be broadcast on BBC One, BBC Two, and BBC Four, including Ultra HD and BSL-interpreted streams. For audio coverage, tune in to BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra, or listen on-demand via BBC Sounds.
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