An ode to the Great British music festival
From Green Man to Glastonbury, the best festivals are UK festivals.
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In a fractured world, Glastonbury is a much-needed sanctuary
Festivals are easily romanticised, but alongside the glitter and the dancing they demonstrate how humans might better live together.
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The BBC’s Glastonbury TV coverage is a hellish nostalgia generator
This year’s festival will be shown on TV for longer, and in higher definition. Ageing festival veterans should steel themselves.
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Macca and the Stones? The past has a death grip on our culture
Boomer pop line-ups at Glastonbury and Hyde Park show the hegemony of the nostalgia industry is not going away.
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