“At 60 years old, 2024 will see me attending my 18th Glastonbury. It’s hard to put into words how important the festival has become to
Category: Music
‘Like winning a golden ticket’: how Glastonbury’s traders thrive off of good vibes
A five-day event spread over more than 360 hectares at Worthy Farm in Somerset, the Glastonbury Festival takes a full year of planning, with about
Get ready for Glastonbury 2024: 11 essentials to pack, plan and download
If you’re one of the 200,000 music fans who are about to get stuck into five days of partying in the Somerset fields of fun;
Ed Sheeran named UK’s most played artist of the year for seventh time
Britons rule the airwaves in the UK, with Ed Sheeran taking the most played spot and homegrown artists dominating the top 10 in a chart
I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great
This waiver I’m signing says it is binding until the day I die or the year 2103 – whichever comes first. I’ll be 112 years
Chaka Khan review – queen of funk sounds as majestic as ever
The opening gig by the curator of this year’s Meltdown festival begins in impressively grandstanding style. The lights in the Royal Festival Hall dim, the
Bowie and Spice Girls PR Alan Edwards: ‘Through punk I found another family’
I always knew I was adopted. I had a sister, Mary, and a brother, Tony, and we all looked quite different, so I suppose our
‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention
Even over the phone from Los Angeles, John Cale has a certain presence. It’s not just the still resonant Welsh lilt of his speaking voice
Beth Gibbons review – an unapologetically intense triumph
Eyes shut, feet bare, with the stage in virtual darkness, singer Beth Gibbons clings to her microphone stand as though to a sapling in a
Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records
In July 2018, the peace of an upmarket cul-de-sac in rural Hampshire was suddenly disturbed by the arrival of two police officers and three people