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The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres, had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. While the villagers of Pilton have been complaining about the noise generated during the weekend for many years, in 2007 over 700 acts played on over 80 stages. Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.
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15 Episodes
- Day 1 - Other StageE3
Day 1 - Other StageInteractive stream with performances from Day 1 of the Other Stage: The Maccabees The View White Lies Friendly Fires Lady Gaga The Ting Tings Bloc Party The Maccabees:- Can You Give It Precious Time Young Lions Lego Mary First Love Love You Better The View- Glass Smash Wasted Little DJs 5Rebbeccas Face For The Radio Give Back The Sun Same Jeans Superstar Tradesman Shock Horror White Lies: - To Lose My Life Taxidermy Farewell To The Fairground Unfinished Business The Price Of Love Dancing In The Dark Death Friendly Fires:- Lovestick Jump In The Pool Skeleton Boy In The Hospital Paris Ex Lover - Glastonbury After Hours: Glastopia
E4Glastonbury After Hours: GlastopiaIn this personal film, Julien Temple, who directed the definitive documentary history of the Glastonbury Festival, explores the alternative side of the festival away from the spotlight of the main stages with their global pop superstars. In fields known as Shangri La, Arcadia, the Unfair Ground, Strummerville, Block 9 and the Common, every year an unlikely attempt at utopia takes shape. Here, the festival reconnects with its radical, countercultural origins combining underground music, performance art and some of the funniest and most provocative sights of the festival with a dark, urgent 21st century spontaneity. Filmed at the 2011 festival, this 75 minute documentary features Michael Eavis, the creators of, and visitors to the true heart of the Glastonbury, and, fuelled by the music of tomorrow, explores the hopes, dreams and personal utopias of those who, for one weekend in June, come together as the tribes of 21st Century Albion. - Glastonbury Golden Greats
E5Glastonbury Golden GreatsThe iconic artists that have been booked to play the Glastonbury Festival have often been the talking point each year. A look back at performances from the likes of Dame Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Neil Diamond, Al Green, Willie Nelson, BB King, Johnny Cash, and of course 2014's appearance by the Queen of Country, Dolly Parton. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire Tony Bennett - Laughing at Life Al Green - Take Me To The River Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft James Brown - I Feel Good Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations Shirley Bassey - Big Spender Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline Tom Jones - The Green Green Grass Of Home Ray Davies - All Day and All of the Night B.B. King - Key To The Highway Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Kenny Rogers - The Gambler Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 - Glastonbury's Greatest Headliners
E7Glastonbury's Greatest HeadlinersWith a week to go before Glastonbury 2019 and after a fallow year at Worthy Farm, Edith Bowman narrates this affectionate but witty A-Z of 25 years’ worth of Pyramid Stage headliner action since television cameras first came to Pilton in 1994. Tracking the festival’s emergence as a global stage featuring the biggest names in popular music across a variety of genres this retrospective celebration blends archive clips and backstage testimony alongside new interviews with the likes of Damon Albarn, Liam Gallagher, Skunk Anansie’s Skin, Chemical Brothers, Jarvis Cocker and the Eavis family. If A is for Arctic Monkeys and Adele, B is for Britpop, D is surely for dance and didgeridoo, courtesy of The Levellers, while Z takes us back to 2000 and the remaining letters of the alphabet caption a rollercoaster ride across some 60 epochal headline sets as stars waxed and very occasionally waned, crowds surged and sang along and history was made, come rain or shine, beneath a West Country moon. - GlastonburyE14
GlastonburyJulien Temple's 2006 documentary film about the famous music festival from 1970 to 2005, featuring performances from artists such as David Bowie, Bjork, Blur, Oasis and Coldplay. The film is made up of footage shot by Temple at the festival in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, as well as footage sent in by festival goers after a request on websites and newspapers for footage. Temple had initially only agreed to make a film of the 2002 festival after organiser Michael Eavis expressed concern that that would be the last year of the festival. Temple then realised that he wanted to make a film detailing the full history of the festival. The film also includes footage shot by Channel 4 and the BBC during their coverage of the festival since 1994. - Glastonbury: 50 Years and CountingE16
Glastonbury: 50 Years and CountingThree years in the making, Francis Whately’s film is a social and musical history of (probably) the world’s greatest music festival, as told by its principal curators, Michael and Emily Eavis, and many of the key artists who’ve appeared there between 1970 and 2019 – Billie Eilish, Thom Yorke, Florence Welch, Dua Lipa, The Levellers, Aswad, Orbital, Fatboy Slim, Linda Lewis, Noel Gallagher, Ed O’Brien, Chris Martin, Stormzy and more. Balancing the driving forces of social conscience and hedonism, Glastonbury has always been both a world apart and a barometer of the state of the nation. Looking at the hippie days, CND, the contribution of the travellers, dance music, Britpop, The Wall, the impact of television and the first black British solo headliner, this film takes viewers backstage and deep into the archive to reveal the forces that have driven this alternative nation between utopia and dystopia, the greatest night of your life and a muddy field in the middle of nowhere.
