Plans for new event at the Secret Garden Party site and Womad Glasgow are dashed, but others remain optimisticHosting Scotland’s first Womad festival seemed like an easy sell for Glasgow, the country’s gig capital...
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Read MoreIndustry experts say booking of controversial US rapper was calculated risk that has implications for all festivalsThe fallout over Wireless announcing Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) as its 2026 headliner was both swift and...
Read MoreRapper, who is legally known as Ye, has been criticised for making antisemitic remarks including voicing admiration for Adolf HitlerUK politics live – latest updatesThe rapper formerly known as Kanye West has been banned...
Read MorePyramid stageWith a genuinely surprise appearance from the Cure’s Robert Smith and a magnificent theatricality to her lovelorn songs, Rodrigo totally steals the entire festivalOlivia Rodrigo’s first Glastonbury...
Read MorePyramid stageBacked by Mick Hucknall, Ronnie Wood and Lulu, Stewart brings fiddles, sax and star-spangled buttocks to this genial teatime setThe triumphant blare of bagpipes, playing Scotland the Brave, announce the start of Rod...
Read MoreSix years after declaring the festival his idea of hell, the columnist finally had his arm twisted. What unfolded was a weekend of shock, confusion, throbbing testicles – and unbridled joyI thought I would never go to...
Read MoreThe festival can feel like 24/7 sensory overload, but it does have a more tranquil side …The quest for tranquility in the world’s least tranquil place can lead you to unexpected places. On a baking-hot Glastonbury...
Read MoreOther stagePlaying to a dizzyingly huge crowd, for many this is Saturday’s true headlining set: a bawdy and uncompromising icon playing alone with no frillsFor my money, one of the best pop tours of the 21st century was...
Read MoreWest Holts stageFrom Rod Stewart to Keir Starmer, no one is safe from the Irish group’s ire, as the weekend’s most talked-about set became a mosh-heavy, provocation-filled meleeMosh pits and mayhem: Kneecap play...
Read MoreAfter disasters such as Astroworld and scary bottlenecks at last year’s Glastonbury, Emily Eavis and crowd experts explain how they’re trying to make events safeIn the last two decades the British festival season has...
Read MoreThere are more than 3,000 performances to choose between at this year’s giant pan-genre jamboree. From pop A-listers to underground ones-to-watch, here are our picks‘Not a vintage year,” came the usual grumbles...
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