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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tobi Thomas

‘We’ve only played in a pub to 50 parents!’: meet Askew, one of Glastonbury’s youngest ever bands

Musical youth … Askew, (from left) Eli Crossley, Alfie Lewis, Jay Guru-Murthy, Freddie Wormleighton and Will Pond.
Musical youth … Askew, (from left) Eli Crossley, Alfie Lewis, Jay Guru-Murthy, Freddie Wormleighton and Will Pond. Photograph: Lisa Colles

At this time of the year, most British 16-year-olds are focused on GCSE revision and how to spend their long summers. But for Eli Crossley, who alongside Alfie Lewis, Freddie Wormleighton, Jay Guru-Murthy and Will Ponds are members of the band Askew, playing at Glastonbury festival as one of the youngest bands to ever perform has also been on their to-do list.

“We haven’t really done any gigs or anything, but we’ve been able to practise at a studio. Now the fact we’re playing Glastonbury is quite crazy,” Crossley says.

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