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The sun blazed in the sky as Saturday at Glastonbury kicked off. If the previous day was an ode to pop stardom, Saturday provided a more eclectic variety of musicians with an exuberant colourful finale. Yet for all the fireworks and confetti, we’re still unconvinced by the choice for Coldplay to headline a record fifth time. Here’s everything we learnt from Saturday at Glastonbury Festival 2024. Good taste at GlastonburyWhile we were soaking up rays in the resplendent sunshine, we also needed some food to soak up the previous night’s festivities at Dua Lipa. Walking around the colossal festiva...
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Glastonbury has been going on since Wednesday morning for most punters who travelled through the heat and dust to get to Worthy Farm. But for many, the main event doesn’t get going until Friday, as that’s when the big name music acts come on. And while Glastonbury might be known for its sprawling programme of cultural activities, it’s still primarily a music festival. Here’s what went down as Euronews Culture got stuck into Glastonbury Festival 2024 on Friday. Cirque du VulgarStarting off with the early hours of Friday/late hours of Thursday, the circus tent was abuzz with dynamic acts showing...
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With France set for its most high-stakes election in recent years, there are plenty of posters, stickers and leaflets around to get the French population mobilized to vote in the snap parliamentary election. It all kicks off this Sunday (30 June) with the second round on 7 July, and could lead to France having either a hard-left or hard-right government, with President Macron having to appoint a prime minister from an opposition party – an arrangement known as “cohabitation”. This could force him to compromise during the remainder of his presidential term. Bold move on Macron’s behalf, after h...
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Glastonbury has hosted some of the loudest rock bands in the world and is known for its rowdy crowds and high jinks. What could be bolder than asking for silence at an event of this scale? Marina Abramović, the acclaimed performance artist who has dedicated her life to pushing the boundaries of conceptual art, is about to stage her largest-ever participatory work at Worthy Farm this evening. At 17:55 GMT, just before PJ Harvey’s set, the 77-year-old Serbian artist will take to the Pyramid Stage for seven minutes of silence. Hardly out of step for an artist who has done naked stand-ins, laid in...
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This year’s Glastonbury Festival has opened with hundreds of thousands of festivalgoers descending on Worthy Farm amid a heatwave which experts have warned could be dangerous. The British Red Cross has urged people to stay safe in the sun and to recognise the risks of dehydration and heat stroke. However, in true British fashion, the 30° temperatures came to an abrupt end today with revellers enduring rain this morning. The festival regaled attendees last night with its first-ever opening drone show, which took place ahead of its regular fireworks display. Worthy Farm’s opening show required 5...
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French-Spanish singer Manu Chao has announced a new album, ‘Viva Tu’, due in September, 17 years after his last studio album. The 63-year-old singer-musician announced the comeback LP on his website, a month after posting a first single, also entitled ‘Viva Tu’. Yesterday (Wednesday 26 June), he released a second track, ‘Sao Paulo Motoboy’, a hymn to the Brazilian megalopolis' motorcycle delivery drivers "who risk their lives every day on two wheels in the great metropolis". The upcoming new album is said to be “inspired by his travels and people’s daily lives,” with songs in Spanish, French, ...
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And so it begins. Over the next two days, over 200,000 people will descend on Worthy Farm in Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival. A month ago, weather reports were suggesting that this year would be the first in recent memory to present a classic washout event. A typical southwest English summertime with rain showers and footfall churning the dairy farm’s fields into rivers of squelching mud. At the time, the UK was dealing with one of its wettest years on record. Then suddenly, a week before it began the weather changed. Worthy Farm is in an area of England defined by its ancient grounds li...
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Following a tumultuous year in which multiple acts opted out, SXSW festival have announced that they have dropped the US Army and defense contractor RTX Corporation as sponsors for next year’s edition. More than 60 artists refused to play at the festival in Austin, Texas last March, boycotting the event because of its ties to defense groups that supply Israeli weapons in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Shortly before the festival began, Squirrel Flower cancelled their SXSW shows, citing festival sponsorship from the US Army. In a statement, Squirrel Flower wrote: “A music festival should not inc...
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Billie Eilish has become the third artist to reach 100 million monthly Spotify listeners - and she did it with just 82 songs. The two-time Oscar winning singer, 22, follows The Weeknd, who tops the list with 107 million monthly listeners on the music streaming platform, and Taylor Swift, who has 102 million monthly Spotify listeners. Both have over double the number of songs on Spotify than Eilish, with the latter only having 82 tracks on the platform. She also makes history as being the youngest to reach the 100 million monthly listeners. Speaking about the achievement, Jeremy Erlich, Spotify...
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The music industry has always been a place for the application of pioneering technology. When the synthesiser was first created, though not everyone saw it as a real musical instrument, eventually it came to be accepted as a game changing tool in the evolution of music. In 2023, the iconic amp brand Marshall was sold to Swedish company, Zound for £325 million (€384.5 million). Earlier this year, Marshall Group CEO Jeremy de Maillard said that amps account for only 5% of the company’s revenue as the new focus is on digital amps and tools. With AI having the potential to radically change almost ...
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