Glastonbury: The Final Round-Up
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|12:58 UK time, Tuesday, 30 June 2009
If you want to relive this year's festival or see what you missed you can watch extensive video highlights and enjoy some amazing photos on our Glastonbury website.
There's also been lots of superb Glastonbury coverage in other papers, mags and websites.
The NME writers' highs and lows expresses predictable disappointment with East 17 and Bjorn Again but enthuses over Ray Davies and Florence & the Machine. They also pestered artists and celebs backtsage to create this photo gallery, the highlight of which is a delighted Dominic West, aka McNulty in The Wire. The NME also took their video cameras with them. Their film of the site from a helicopter is well worth watching.
Most of the papers have reviews of the whole festival - some even managing to give a star rating to a three day event that features hundreds of acts. Peter Paphides in the Times (4 stars) praised Lady GaGa who "embodied that spirit of dirty disco fun at which Madonna once excelled".
Lady GaGa on the Other stage, Friday 26 June 2009
In the Telegraph (5 stars) their reviewer singled out "fast-rising Oxford band Stornoway" whose "blend of the Celtic, the English pastoral and a sprinkling of bluegrass was just the ticket for a full house that was entirely sprawled on meadow grass". The Independent's review reckons that it's "Damon Albarn's tearful wrestling with his own Glastonbury moment, that makes this year's festival great".
The Guardian's Alex Petridis rates Neil Young, Dizzee Rascal and La Roux as this year's "big winners" but the best bit of his article has nothing to do with music, it's the sub-editor's addendum: "In the article above we mistakenly stated that a banner said 'I love sausages', it actually said 'I love sausage'. This has been corrected."
Dizzee Rascal on the Pyramid stage, Saturday 27 June 2009
As Glastonbury's official newspaper the Guardian went all out in their festival coverage and all of it can be found via an interactive map of the site. For a flavour of the festival they've distilled it all into a nice 5-minute video.
Orange Music provided another great overview of the festival's sheer vastness and variety with their brilliant 100 Hours in a Field blog which is full of videos, presumbly filmed on a mobile phone, of fans, food vendors and performers in every far-flung corner of Worthy farm.
Finally, anyone at Glastonbury who tossed their empty cider cans, spent joints or falafel wrappers on Mr Eavis' fields should read the Telegraph's article about the 500-strong army of litter collectors who'll be spending the next two weeks cleaning up the site's 200+ tons of detritus. The Times also has a good non-music aftermath story about the traffic jams created by the exiting, irritable throng: "It seems that as soon as the festival is over some people are eager to go back to the rat race and forget peace and love. People are very polite while queueing for a burger but now they are pushing in and trying to get out down the sides."
Feel free to share links to any other great Glastonbury content you've seen in the comments below and do take time to enjoy the dozens of hours of videos on our site.
Comment number 1.
At 17:12 2nd Jul 2009, marc_likes_sport wrote:The bbc Glastonbury coverage this year was superb. I managed to follow it on all mediums, Radio, TV and the internet and I think it was worth every penny spent. So on that note, congratulations to the Beeb, the lot of you involved should give yourself a pat on the back. Many thanks.
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Comment number 2.
At 10:41 4th Jul 2009, LeSlacker wrote:The coverage was generally very good, and much better than the ITV/Channel 4 efforts at festival coverage.
However I could not beleive that there was no coverage whatsoever of the Eagles of Death Metal. Why ? There was enough air time to show Lilly Allens purple wig on a daily basis.
They would probably upset any Daily Mail readers, but are probably less raunchy than Lady Gaga. Can the BBC please recitfy this in their Reading coverage.
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