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Michael Eavis: People who disagree with Glastonbury’s politics can go elsewhere

This year’s event will see headline performances from The 1975, Neil Young and his band the Chrome Hearts, and Olivia Rodrigo.

Evening Standard

Lauren Laverne's guide to London: Alexandra Palace, Dean St Townhouse parties and Dunn Bakery

The Desert Island Discs and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter shares her favourite spots in the capital, from where she parties with her kids to the best place to buy sourdough

Evening Standard

Count down to Glastonbury with all the numbers you need to know

Music lovers will flock to southwestern England this week for the Glastonbury music festival

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Glastonbury gates open as festivalgoers descend for politically charged event

More than 200,000 people expected at Worthy Farm for lineup including Olivia Rodrigo and Irish band Kneecap

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Avoiding inheritance tax, Michael Eavis? That’s rich!

Jeremy Corbyn-loving Michael Eavis calls himself a socialist — so why does he want to pay less tax?

Evening Standard

Michael Eavis, 89, makes first Glastonbury 2025 appearance as he opens the festival he started 55 years ago

The festival founder opened this year’s Glastonbury alongside his daughter, co-organiser Emily Eavis

Evening Standard

Glastonbury organiser says Irish band Kneecap ‘welcome’ despite Keir Starmer objections

‘Everyone is welcome here’ organiser Emily Eavis insisted when pressed about the prime minister’s claim that it would not be ‘appropriate’ for the Irish hip-hop trio to perform

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Revellers pour into Glastonbury Festival as gates open for 2025

Organiser Emily Eavis and her father, co-founder Sir Michael Eavis, cheered as the gates opened.

Evening Standard

'In my dad’s 90th year to have him back will be very special...' Emily Eavis reveals importance of getting Glastonbury headliner

Emily Eavis was determined to book Neil Young as a headliner for Glastonbury 2025 because the Heart of Gold singer is one of her father Michael Eavis' "favourite artists of all time" and she wanted him to play at the festival in the same year that her dad turns 90.

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Glastonbury 2026: Why is there no festival next year?

Organiser Emily Eavis has revealed plans for the festival’s next break, as well as the celebrations for founder Michael Eavis’s 90th birthday

The Independent UK

The 16 greatest Glastonbury Festival performances ever

These are the most iconic sets to have ever graced the world's most famous music festival

Louder

Kneecap at Glastonbury ‘a matter for organisers’ says Cooper

Video has emerged of the group at a November 2023 gig appearing to show one member saying: ‘The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.’

Evening Standard

Labour MP urges Glastonbury organisers to remove Kneecap from festival line-up

David Taylor said it would be ‘deeply troubling’ to see the band performing at the event after a member allegedly called for the death of Tory MPs.

Evening Standard

Glastonbury Festival profits more than double amid ‘corporate’ criticism from Neil Young

The summer festival brought in £5.9 million in profit last year, giving about £5.2 million away to charitable causes.

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Evening Standard

Glastonbury profits more than double amid ‘corporate’ criticism

The summer festival brought in £5.9 million in profit last year, giving about £5.2 million away to charitable causes.

MusicRadar

Rod Stewart to “pleasure and titillate” Glastonbury 2025

He says he’ll be playing the prestigious Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot

Louder

"I now realise that to save the badgers, you have to save everybody": Brian May to host new BBC show The Badgers, The Farmers And Me

Brian May's show highlights the Queen guitarist's four-year battle to rid a farm of bovine tuberculosis without harming badgers

The Guardian - UK

Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

Former Oasis guitarist describes festival, which has long championed political causes, as ‘kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling’

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“Our hero, forever. One of the most amazing people on Earth”: Michael J. Fox inspired Coldplay to become a band. To say thanks, Chris Martin invited him onstage to play guitar during their record-breaking Glastonbury headline set

Fox came out to help Coldplay perform two encore tracks, as the band headlined the UK festival's iconic Pyramid Stage for the fifth time

The Independent UK

‘Are you not entertained?’ Russell Crowe’s shockingly good set epitomises the spirit of Glastonbury

The ‘Gladiator’ star and former busker charged enthusiastically through covers of Dire Straits and Johnny Cash, along with some original songs, on Glastonbury’s Acoustic Stage. Louis Chilton was charmed

Evening Standard

Ex-Mail editor Geordie Greig takes aim at his old paper

The Editor of the Independent praised the Mail’s owner but said nothing of its chair

The Independent UK

Elton John shares unseen footage from 2023 Glastonbury headline set

The behind-the-scenes video shows him rehearsing and talking to the festival’s founder

Louder

The 13 most iconic Glastonbury Festival performances ever

As Glastonbury 2024 approaches, we run through the 13 sets that have defined the festival over its lifespan

Evening Standard

Why is Glastonbury not happening this year?

The festival is noticeably missing from the summer calendar this year, and here’s why

The Independent UK

‘Someone stole my wellies!’: Glastonbury’s five muddiest years

Mud, lightning, thunder, rain and more mud! The years that bad weather took over Britain’s biggest festival

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