Whether you’re there or catching up on TV, we pick out some of the most exciting acts at the festival back after a three-year hiatus
Hello from Glastonbury! This week’s newsletter is being written from the Guardian’s cabin at Worthy Farm, where we’ll be covering the festival in exhaustive detail (more on that in a bit). After an enforced pandemic-era break, Glastonbury feels particularly wild and antic this year, everyone hopped up on the prospect of a mass gathering after two years of the rule of six, Zoom pub quizzes, substantial Scotch egg meals and the like. Festival-goers of every stripe are here – ravers, metalheads, poptimists, jazz aficionados, glamorous hospitality hangers-on, lads in SuperDry T-shirts throwing each other in the air for some reason – all drawn together by the promise of revelry, community and some pretty spectacular music. There genuinely is no place like it.
Obviously, if you aren’t at Glastonbury, you may well find all this talk of the “magic of the festival” envy and or rage-inducing. But the good thing about Glastonbury is that it’s pretty easy to vicariously enjoy the festival from wherever you are. The BBC’s coverage alone will see to that: this year they have live streams from the festival’s “big five” stages – Pyramid, Other, John Peel, Park and West Holts – as well as TV coverage of the Pyramid’s huge headlining acts: the planet conquering Billie Eilish on Friday, some bloke called Paul McCartney on Saturday and Kendrick Lamar, performing live for the first time since the release of his new album, on Sunday. There’s a load of other stuff too, including a plethora of other sets to stream and the usual extensive radio coverage – check here for full info of the Beeb’s offering.
Manchester-based DJ Anz (playing the Sonic stage at 7.30pm on Friday) serves up a warm and inviting garage, house and bassline hybrid perfect for those hazy summer early evenings.
The marvellously monikered geordie stoner metal band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs already played Thursday night, but are still worth mentioning because a) they’re excellent and b) it’s fun to type the word ‘pigs’ seven times in a row.
Wu-Lu is a very exciting south London producer who dabbles in everything from psych rock to fuzzy electronica.
The relentlessly energetic Baltimore hardcore group Turnstile – who Ben did mention, but are worth doubling up on as they might be the most exciting live act on the planet right now.
For me, Team America is top of the pile for comedy movies of the last 20 years. Razor sharp satire of Dubya-era American foreign policy, mixed with top drawer songs and perhaps the most ludicrous sex-scene in film history. – Mark Stewart
The Coen brothers’ late-century neo-noir western, The Big Lebowski. The screenplay’s clever rhetorical tricks combined with outstanding timing, delivery, and dialogue never gets old. Dude. – Jennifer Reimer
Sticking with the Spinal Tap/Popstar vein, and in fact very clearly indebted to the former, might I suggest the rap spoof Fear of a Black Hat from 1993? It’s totally of its time but the musical numbers are spot-on and I still laugh myself silly at so much of the dialogue. – Martin Donnelly
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