Glastonbury 2025

BlueHammer85 said:
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has long been a staunch campaigner for peace, and in 1981 famously donated festival proceeds to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), in a partnership that lasted until the early Nineties.

In 1984, Eavis introduced the Green Fields to raise awareness of environmental issues.

2005 Make Poverty History campaign, which saw Eavis appear alongside musician and activist Bob Geldof on the Pyramid Stage.

2009, the festival supported the White Ribbon Alliance’s Million Mums campaign, collecting thousands of signatures supporting an end to the needless deaths of women in childbirth.

2016, EU exit prompted Blur frontman Damon Albarn to announce that “democracy had failed”.

Elsewhere during the day, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis wore a t-shirt onstage that said: “Abuse of power comes of no surprise.”

A year later, then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared on the Pyramid Stage amid chants of “oh, Jeremy Corbyn” in the style of the opening riff of “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes.

There, accompanied by Eavis, he delivered a rousing speech that condemned nationwide poverty and paid tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Stormzy, who backed Corbyn and Labour in the December 2019 general election, used his headline set earlier this year to highlight racism in the criminal justice system along with the UK’s high rate of knife-related homicides (while wearing a Union Jack stab vest designed by Banksy)
In the thrilling performance, he also got the thousands of fans in attendance at the Pyramid Stage to chant “F*** the government, f*** Boris [Johnson]” during his rendition of hit single “Vossi Bop”.

2022 edition of Glastonbury Festival was another politically rife event, in part due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which was addressed in a powerful video message to revellers from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Elsewhere that year, The decision by the Republican-controlled Supreme Court prompted artists such as Lorde, Phoebe Bridgers, Olivia Rodrigo, Idles and headliner Billie Eilish to speak out, with Eilish calling it a “really dark day for women in the US”.

…. Look forward to quoting this all again next years set when some have totally forgotten the history of political statements at Glastonbury and also to remind again that every single year this is ‘the worst line up’ and ‘worst Glastonbury ever’ accordingly to the same old morons.
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Bravo sir.
 
SamTheGuru said:
For me too. I do not understand it. It is a car crash of music genres, washed up has beens, one hit wonders, or people trying to break in. I am very eclectic in music taste but I don't get the attraction.
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It's always been about diverse line ups, that's the big appeal. It's also much better attending in person; something I feel you should experience at least once.
 
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