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GlastoAtHome 2020

June 30, 2020 at 10:48 (Festivals, Gigs, Music) (GlastoAtHome, Glastonbury, Glathomebury)

I didn’t have a ticket for Glastonbury this year and even though I hoped I might be able to get one in the final April sale it looked like it was always going to be another one at home for me. As it turned out it was one at home for everybody and that combined with the 50th anniversary meant there was probably an even better selection of stuff to enjoy.

Before things officially started on Thursday there had already been a #TimsTwitterListeningParty for the Coldplay film A Head Full Of Dreams, the Greenpeace Action All Areas festival on Youtube, Robin Ince and Richard Coles talking about The Wicker Man for the Wigtown Book Festival, live streams of the sunset and sunrise from StoneHenge. All of these felt like they could have been part of Glastonbury. The xpoNorth festival was taking place on Wednesday and Thursday and although this didn’t feel particularly like Glastonbury stuff it helped create a festival experience.

On Thursday the official Virtual Lineup started and I’ve dipped into bits of this but feel like there’s so much more there. Hopefully most of it will stay around and it will only be the BBC things that disappear after 30 days.

Anyway, here’s what I got up, I was going to include links but that’s going to take me too long. It still feels like a great five days of the usual mixture of things that take place on Worthy Farm. It’s not the same as being there but the joint experience of so many people missing out was also quite the experience. I’ve been to the festival 10 times (I think) now I’ve always seen much more on TV and it still remains such an important thing to me. I hope it returns in 2021 (although I have my doubts), I don’t know if I’ll go again, it might be time to take a break.

Thursday

• 6Music: Lauren Laverne
• xpoNorth: Terri White – How to write a brutally honest memoir (without pissing everyone off)
• 6Music: Mary Anne Hobbs/Shaun Shaun Keaveny
• Glastonbury 50 book
• xpoNorth: From True Detective to Outlaw King: Keynote with Richard Brown
• (end of) The Cure
• Film: Glastonbury
• Mark Kermode/Julien Temple Q&A

Friday

• 6Music: Lauren Laverne
• BBC Introducing Dance Mix
• The XX
• Glastonbury 50 Book
• Carl Cox Mix
• 6Music: Radiohead
• BBC2: Glastonbury Experience
• Beyonce
• Jay-Z
• Disclosure

Saturday

• Haim
• Williams Green Thursday video
• Rex Orange County
• Film: Woodstock
• Infinite Sofa: Glastonbury Special
• Radio 2: Jo Whiley – interviews
• Janelle Monáe
• Ellie Goulding (tweetalong)
• BBC2: Glastonbury Experience
• The Killers (2004)
• Chemical Brothers (2000)
• Pulp (1994)

Sunday

• Glastonbury Best of 2000
• Groove Armada
• Glastonbury 50 book
• Primal Scream
• Williams Green videos
• Glastonbury 50 book
• Carl Cox dance mix
• BBC2 Glastonbury Experience
• David Bowie
• Radiohead (1997)

Monday

• Glastonbury 50 book
• Toots and the Maytals
• BBC Somerset Radio: Glastonbury Experience
• Arthur Leed and Love
• Williams Green videos
• Greenpeace Action All Areas
• PJ Harvey
• Listening Party: Disclosure – Settle
• Oasis (1994)
• Listening Party: Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
• Dizzee Rascal

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