From the feral to the glamorous at Glastonbury 2024
Little Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Little Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.
ByA sublime evening of torch songs, and managing not to ruin Maxine Peake’s one-woman show – that’s my idea of…
ByThe band threw a tantrum at Radio 1’s Big Weekend. But to good musicians indifference is an opportunity to prove…
ByThe rockers that make up this year’s headliners make the festival seem like a relic from the past.
ByFrom Green Man to Glastonbury, the best festivals are UK festivals.
ByThis Netflix documentary treats violence against women as an afterthought and mythologises a toxic environment.
ByThe rise of tiered ticketing, VIP packages and cordoned-off areas is destroying concerts. Just look at the Rolling Stones.
ByFestivals are easily romanticised, but alongside the glitter and the dancing they demonstrate how humans might better live together.
ByThis year’s festival will be shown on TV for longer, and in higher definition. Ageing festival veterans should steel themselves.
ByMass gatherings are due to be allowed again from 21 June, but without guaranteed insurance, festival organisers are in an…
ByThe cancellation of events this year is not just a blow to the festival circuit, but to the music industry’s whole…
ByThis weekend, more than 200,000 people will fill the fields of Somerset’s Worthy Farm for Glastonbury, the world’s largest greenfield…
ByMany festivals still have no policies or procedures in place to tackle the alarming numbers of people being harassed and assaulted…
ByDrug testing is hopefully the first step towards a more fact-based approach to government policy.
ByFrom its beautiful, imposing grounds to its eclectic line-up, the festival has an atmosphere of Scandi cool that couldn’t be…
ByTom Gatti’s Latitude Notebook.
ByFor the second year, the New Statesman is media partner to Latitude, the music and arts festival in Henham Park,…
ByFrom Brahms’s chamber music to Mozart opera, the little Swiss ski-village provides a musical feast.
ByLive music is great. But you know what's also great? Bands not sounding like they’re shouting into saucepans.
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