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The Guardian
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Welcome to the Ministry of Happiness! Glastonbury kicks off for 2025
Each year there are tweaks and adjustments to the tried and tested Glastonbury formula, and this year the eccentric Shangri-La area has had a makeover. On Thursday afternoon David Levene took a stroll around the revamped area – see more pictures here in our gallery. The thoroughfare through the revamped Shangri-La. Photograph: David Levene Late on Thursday night we happened upon a secret set at Floating Points' new Sunflower Sound System in the Silver Hayes dance area – a special back-to-back performance by Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) and Floating Points (Samuel Shepherd) himself. They played a set on a painstakingly built sound system which had been assembled in a special tent with mycelium-based sound-baffling discs and tweeters hung from the top of the tent. The system has six stacks arranged around the dancefloor in a circle, enabling the selectors to pan sound around the tent. Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, plays with Samuel Shepherd AKA Floating Points, perform together at Sunflower Sound System. Photos by David Levene Thursday evening, with no open performance stages in action, has evolved into a bit of a party night as festivalgoers ease into the proceedings. Over in Silver Hayes, crowds packed out the Lonely Hearts Club, for Nooriyah's set around midnight. Festivalgoers at Lonely Hearts Club for Nooriyah's set on Thursday evening. On Friday, the first day proper, we kicked things off with a Guardian Live talk between features writer Zoe Williams and drag queen Bimini at Astrolabe. Drag queen Bimini during an interview with Zoe Williams at Astrolabe fora Guardian Live event. Photograph: Jonny Weeks. Love was in the air as the festival kicked off for Guardian photographer David Levene: he snapped newlyweds Charlie and Charles in the south east corner by the Rum Shack. Charlie and Charles Shires, from Harrogate, held their wedding ceremony at the festival. In the words of our reviewer Safi Bugel: 'In many ways Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso's music is perfect for the chronically online: they rap knowingly about hashtags and OnlyFans; their hook-heavy tracks rarely push beyond the three-minute mark. But despite the in-jokes and commitment to the bit, the music is strong; they deliver a tight, confident performance for the full hour, which frequently climaxes in their frenetic percussive breakdowns. And when the music drops and the audience join in for a full-blown a capella, you know they're bona fide popstars.' Fans watching Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso at West Holts stage. Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso at West Holts stage. Photographs: Jonny Weeks Lola Young played Woodsies, and Jonny Weeks was there to capture the young British artist's assured performance – who shot to fame with her viral track Messy, and who has had a rocky year thanks to a sometimes scabrous public. Lola Young at Woodsies. Photograph: Jonny Weeks Later into the evening on the big stages we saw Busta Rhymes on the Other stage, Self Esteem up at the Park stage and the 1975 closed the first day's programme on the Pyramid stage. Self Esteem plays the Park stage at Glastonbury. The Guardian's Elle Hunt was at Self Esteem: 'Many in the crowd know every word – and these are very wordy songs – and really seem to get something out of shouting them to the sky. It's stirring, serious-minded yet still upbeat.' Busta Rhymes with Spliff Star on Other stage. Reviewer Jason Okundaye called Busta Rhymes's show 'absolutely hilarious, and the interaction with the crowd is gold standard'. Anohni and the Johnsons plays the Park stage. And closing the Pyramid was the 1975: 'A bold, experimental, occasionally confounding, but ultimately hugely impressive performance,' said the Guardian's Alexis Petridis. Matty Healy of the 1975 on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury on Friday evening. Matty Healy with a pint of Guinness. Photographs: Jonny Weeks
The Guardian
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Welcome to the Ministry of Happiness! Glastonbury kicks off for 2025
Each year there are tweaks and adjustments to the tried and tested Glastonbury formula, and this year the eccentric Shangri-La area has had a makeover. On Thursday afternoon David Levene took a stroll around the revamped area – see more pictures here in our gallery. The thoroughfare through the revamped Shangri-La. Photograph: David Levene Late on Thursday night we happened upon a secret set at Floating Points' new Sunflower Sound System in the Silver Hayes dance area – a special back-to-back performance by Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) and Floating Points (Samuel Shepherd) himself. They played a set on a painstakingly built sound system which had been assembled in a special tent with mycelium-based sound-baffling discs and tweeters hung from the top of the tent. The system has six stacks arranged around the dancefloor in a circle, enabling the selectors to pan sound around the tent. Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, plays with Samuel Shepherd AKA Floating Points, perform together at Sunflower Sound System. Photos by David Levene Thursday evening, with no open performance stages in action, has evolved into a bit of a party night as festivalgoers ease into the proceedings. Over in Silver Hayes, crowds packed out the Lonely Hearts Club, for Nooriyah's set around midnight. Festivalgoers at Lonely Hearts Club for Nooriyah's set on Thursday evening. On Friday, the first day proper, we kicked things off with a Guardian Live talk between features writer Zoe Williams and drag queen Bimini at Astrolabe. Drag queen Bimini during an interview with Zoe Williams at Astrolabe fora Guardian Live event. Photograph: Jonny Weeks. Love was in the air as the festival kicked off for Guardian photographer David Levene: he snapped newlyweds Charlie and Charles in the south east corner by the Rum Shack. Charlie and Charles Shires, from Harrogate, held their wedding ceremony at the festival. In the words of our reviewer Safi Bugel: 'In many ways Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso's music is perfect for the chronically online: they rap knowingly about hashtags and OnlyFans; their hook-heavy tracks rarely push beyond the three-minute mark. But despite the in-jokes and commitment to the bit, the music is strong; they deliver a tight, confident performance for the full hour, which frequently climaxes in their frenetic percussive breakdowns. And when the music drops and the audience join in for a full-blown a capella, you know they're bona fide popstars.' Fans watching Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso at West Holts stage. Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso at West Holts stage. Photographs: Jonny Weeks Lola Young played Woodsies, and Jonny Weeks was there to capture the young British artist's assured performance – who shot to fame with her viral track Messy, and who has had a rocky year thanks to a sometimes scabrous public. Lola Young at Woodsies. Photograph: Jonny Weeks Later into the evening on the big stages we saw Busta Rhymes on the Other stage, Self Esteem up at the Park stage and the 1975 closed the first day's programme on the Pyramid stage. Self Esteem plays the Park stage at Glastonbury. The Guardian's Elle Hunt was at Self Esteem: 'Many in the crowd know every word – and these are very wordy songs – and really seem to get something out of shouting them to the sky. It's stirring, serious-minded yet still upbeat.' Busta Rhymes with Spliff Star on Other stage. Reviewer Jason Okundaye called Busta Rhymes's show 'absolutely hilarious, and the interaction with the crowd is gold standard'. Anohni and the Johnsons plays the Park stage. And closing the Pyramid was the 1975: 'A bold, experimental, occasionally confounding, but ultimately hugely impressive performance,' said the Guardian's Alexis Petridis. Matty Healy of the 1975 on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury on Friday evening. Matty Healy with a pint of Guinness. Photographs: Jonny Weeks
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Four Tet Shares New Song 'Into Dust (Still Falling)': Listen
Four Tet, photo by Katie Serva After playing it on the road for several years now, Kieren Hebden has shared his new Four Tet song 'Into Dust (Still Falling).' The track, which samples Mazzy Star's 1993 song 'Into Dust,' is now available both digitally and as a limited-edition 12" vinyl record via XL. Give it a listen below. 'Into Dust' was written for Mazzy Star's sophomore studio album, So Tonight That I Might See. That LP also includes the timeless single 'Fade Into You,' which catapulted the dream-pop band onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned the group long-lasting fame as 1990s staples. Back in February, Four Tet was in the running for three different Grammy Awards, but ultimately lost out. Hebden released his latest Four Tet album, Three, in 2024. He also reunited with his occasional collaborator Ellie Goulding that same year for the song 'In My Dreams,' after the English pop singer texted him some voice notes and song ideas, and joined forces with Skrillex, Champion, and Naisha for the collaboration 'Talk to Me.' Revisit the interview 'Four Tet on His 155-Hour Spotify Playlist, the Coolest Thing on Streaming.' Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly called Four Tet's new song 'Into Dust (Still Fading).' The single is titled 'Into Dust (Still Falling).' Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
The Guardian
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Intense and fleeting' – how festival friendships can touch your soul (and change your life)
There's something strange and magical that happens at Glastonbury. One minute you're in the queue for halloumi fries, minding your own business, and the next you're deep in conversation with someone you've just met, bonding over your mutual fear of missing a secret Four Tet set. You might not know their surname (or even their real name) but for one golden weekend, they become your person. I've seen it happen more times than I can count. From the half-shouted conversations between strangers at the front of the Pyramid stage, to my friend's thoroughly modern romance with a gorgeous man in a wedding dress. She became his groom for the night; they cruised the festival together in blissful fancy-dress harmony. But by morning he'd gone full runaway bride and vanished. More than 10 years later, she still refers to him as 'the one that got away'. Such stories used to be all too common, with countless intense, fleeting festival friendships lost to the crowd. But since Vodafone teamed up with Glastonbury to boost connectivity at Worthy Farm, it's become so much easier to connect with and keep track of suddenly made friends. The free Official Glastonbury 2025 app, powered by Vodafone, offers lineup sharing and, new for this year, live location sharing to help people stay in touch with friends old and new. For 30-year-old Katrina Mirpuri, a chance encounter at Glastonbury became the start of something lasting. 'In 2024, I went to Arrivals, which was Glastonbury's first dedicated South Asian stage,' she says. 'It had a curated lineup of DJs and artists, and by the side of the stage there was an area where you could sit and hang out. That's where I ended up making this amazing friend called Yash – we literally sat next to one another on a bench and got chatting.' Hours passed. Their conversation meandered from 'cultural values to relationships and marriage – everything', she says. They swapped numbers before parting ways that evening, and a year on, they still meet for drinks in London. 'The whole experience made me feel really grateful to be at the festival. Even though it's so huge, I think you can connect with people really easily. There are spaces that invite you to have conversations that you might not get to have in everyday life. I definitely think we hit it off because we were in an area that catered for and represented our culture. It gave us a grounding to start talking.' It's a sentiment echoed by Natasha Hannawin, 29, who had a chance meeting at her first Glastonbury in 2018 that went on to change her life for ever. 'If you meet at somewhere like Glastonbury,' she muses, 'I think you can safely say you'll have a few things in common, which always makes it easier to form a friendship.' That year, she'd signed up to volunteer with Oxfam. 'I got a really good gig, actually, because I was one of the stewards on an artist's vehicle gate – I checked Solange's wristband, which is my claim to fame,' she laughs. It was during a 12-hour night shift that she got chatting to a man working for site services. 'I think I won him over with my millions of questions about food – asking: 'If you were going to go to this restaurant, what would you order?' You know, all that mindless chit-chat that gets you through a night shift.' The next day they arranged to meet up with their respective friendship groups. 'We just talked a lot about the music, who we were excited to see, that kind of stuff.' By the end of the weekend, something had clicked. They stayed in touch, and by the end of the summer, they were in a relationship. 'I don't think either of us is particularly confident,' Natasha says. 'In fact, we were both probably quite nervous, shy people but I think it worked out as well as it did because we were thrown together randomly in this low-pressure environment.' A year later, they returned to Glastonbury as a couple. Now, seven years after their first shared night shift, they're planning their wedding. 'There'll be lots of nods to Glastonbury in our wedding,' Natasha says. 'I think we're going to call our top table Worthy Farm. It's a nice story to tell people – and inevitably they always end up telling us about all the random friendships they've made through the festival too.' Connecting friends to the best of British summerVodafone has been connecting people to the places and things they love since 1984 – that's why it is The Nation's Network. As Glastonbury's official connectivity partner, Vodafone is proud to support the festival's charity partners including Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid by donating sim cards and battery packs to keep volunteers connected and fully charged. Even when the friendship only lasts the length of the festival, it can leave a real imprint. One of 36-year-old Pip's most vivid memories is of making 'a completely random friend on the last night of my first Glastonbury'. The group he'd travelled with had left on Sunday, so he decided to go it alone. 'I just got chatting to this guy who was dancing by himself on a patch of grass and we ended up hanging out together for that whole night. We didn't swap numbers or try to stay in touch but we just had such a fun time.' It set the tone for the whole experience. 'I left the next day feeling really full of love for the whole experience. It's so rare to connect like that, without expectation or pressure – it's genuinely heartwarming.' For 59-year-old Katy, festivals, and Glastonbury in particular, offered not just connection, but transformation. 'I was 46 when I first volunteered at a festival. I was at a bit of a funny life stage – people get busy with parenthood, work and family, and your friendships can change quite a lot in your 40s and 50s. I had some parent friends, but as they get older, you start to realise that maybe the only thing you had in common were your children.' Knowing she loved live music, she signed up to volunteer. 'That kind of started things off for me. In 2016 I volunteered at my first Glastonbury and it was incredible.' The friendships she formed that weekend have since become like family. 'It's opened a whole other world for me.' She now returns most years as part of a network of volunteers supporting charities such as Oxfam and WaterAid, often attending solo and meeting up with people she's met through the community. As they go about their work, the volunteers can rely on Vodafone's support – it donates free sim cards and battery packs to help keep them connected and fully charged. Katy says: 'Glastonbury changed my life for the better and I hope I can continue to do it for a lot longer. It's an amazing place to go to solo because there are so many groups where you instantly feel welcomed.' And best of all, fleeting encounters no longer have to be lost to the mist. The Official Glastonbury app is making it easier to keep those new connections going and help you find that new friend dancing near the front in a sea of sequins. Whether it's for one magical night or for the rest of your life, one thing's for sure, the friendships you make at Glastonbury will stay with you long after the music stops. Vodafone, connecting you to Glastonbury this summerThe Official Glastonbury 2025 app is available now! Download the free app, powered by Vodafone For privacy, some surnames have been withheld
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Scotsman
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Create a personalised Glastonbury 2025 TV schedule with AI
Max out your Glasto viewing with this AI hack |This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Feeling overwhelmed by Glastonbury's 2025 TV coverage? Here's how I used AI to create a stress-free viewing schedule packed with my favourite acts – and how you can too. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Trying to keep track of hundreds of hours of live music across more than ten stages is hard enough when you're at Glastonbury. Watching from home brings its own kind of chaos – BBC iPlayer tabs, unpredictable clashes, and the creeping fear you'll miss that performance everyone ends up talking about. This year, I've tried something different. With the full Glastonbury 2025 line-up now available, I've used AI to generate a personalised TV viewing guide based entirely on the artists I care about – with a few suggestions I might not have considered, but probably should. If you're already feeling overwhelmed by the sheer scale of this year's festival, here's how to build your own. How to create your own personalised Glastonbury schedule using AI Get the full Glasto line-up Head to the official Glastonbury Festival website or the BBC's Glastonbury pages. Look for the full running order, ideally with stages, dates, and set times. Paste it into your AI platform of choice Whether you use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another tool, drop the full text in – even if it's a long one. Share your favourites List your top 10–20 acts performing this year. The more specific you are about your taste, the smarter the results will be. Ask for a personalised timetable You can mention that you'll be watching from home, and request it in chronological order. Ask the AI to highlight any similar or complementary acts you might like. Tweak it If the suggestions are a bit off, add more artists or ask for a slightly different focus – more punk, less electronic, or vice versa. My personalised Glastonbury 2025 TV schedule Here's the schedule I've created for myself based on favourites like CMAT, Neil Young, Wet Leg, Four Tet and Bob Vylan. I've also included some acts I wouldn't have picked out straight away but am now planning to catch. Friday 27 June 12:30 – CMAT (Pyramid) 15:45 – Wet Leg (Other) 17:05 – Ash (Avalon) Irish singer-songwriter Cmat could give the standout performance at Glastonbury 2025 | Getty Images 17:30 – Getdown Services (The Park) 19:00 – Denzel Curry (West Holts) 20:30 – Busta Rhymes (Other) 22:30 – Four Tet (Woodsies) 01:00 – Romy (Arcadia) Saturday 28 June 13:00 – Nilüfer Yanya (West Holts) 14:00 – Japanese Breakfast (The Park) 16:45 – Pa Salieu (The Park) Neil Young is Glasto's Saturday night headliner | Getty Images 18:00 – Gary Numan (The Park) 19:30 – Father John Misty (Woodsies) 22:00 – Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts (Pyramid) Sunday 29 June 12:30 – Nadine Shah (Other) 14:00 – Sprints (Woodsies) 15:30 – Goat (West Holts) 16:30 – Bob Vylan (West Holts) 18:00 – St. Vincent (Woodsies) 19:45 – Wolf Alice (Other) 21:45 – The Prodigy (Other) Why it's worth doing With BBC coverage spread across multiple channels and streams, it's not guaranteed that every act you love will be shown live – but at least now I know exactly when and where they're playing. That gives me a far better shot at catching them when they are featured, and lets me plan around the key slots I care about. Even better, it's taken the stress out of the weekend. No scrolling, no schedule clashes, just a clear sense of what I'm looking forward to – and a few new discoveries I'm now excited to try.
