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Glastonbury has come to a close and once again, the hundreds of thousands of festival goers are finding their way back across the country to their humdrum lives, away from the anarchic chaos of a city dedicated to art, culture, spirituality and politics. It’s been an incredible year, but not without some hiccups. Here’s everything that happened on final day, and what we made of the festival overall. Politics in art, art in politicsTerminal 1 is a new art installation to this year, intended to replicate the refugee experience for the largely British crowd. It’s an arresting piece, constructed o...
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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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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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For those of you who are still heartbroken that ABBA didn’t make a surprise appearance at this year’s Eurovision, there’s some more bad news coming your way. Band member Björn Ulvaeus has stated that ABBA may never make another public appearance together ever again. On the Rosebud With Gyles Brandreth podcast, Ulvaeus revealed that the pop icons’ latest appearance together for their Swedish knighthood may have been their last public get-together. The band received the Royal Vasa Order from King Carl XVI Gustaf of the Swedish royal family for their contribution to music last month. Ulvaeus reve...
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Even those who faithfully believed R.E.M would one day perform again had all lost their religion since the band’s last performance in 2008. So sure was Michael Stipe and his bandmate’s insistence that the pioneering alt-rock band would never reform. Yet that faith was shaken last night when R.E.M. took to the stage at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony to perform an acoustic rendition of their hit ‘Losing My Religion’. The end of an Era(s Tour): Taylor Swift confirms end of her record-breaking tourEuronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Treasure' - Stephen Fry can't save this m...
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Sweden's said a big 'Thank you for the music' to its most famous pop exports ABBA by honouring the supergroup with one of the country's most prestigious awards, the Order of the Vasa. It's the first time it's been bestowed in nearly half a century in recognition of ABBA's "very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life." The band, which consists of Agnetha Faltskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, sprang to international stardom by winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with their infectious love song 'Waterloo'. Cultural CommandersThe Eurovision vict...
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Jean-Michel Jarre lit up the skies over Bratislava with his "Bridge from the Future" concert on Sunday evening. The French electronic music pioneer was headlining the Starmus festival. He was joined by Brian May, guitarist with Queen and co-founder of the gathering in Slovakia. Jean-Michel Jarre promised that his performance would not be "just another music concert", but a genuine _"_civic event at the heart of Europe". The event attracted more than 100,000 people. Jarre, who describes the fears aroused by artificial intelligence as unfounded, used AI to design the fireworks and laser shows fo...
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Every month of 2024, Euronews Culture takes a trip down memory lane and handpicks a trio of albums celebrating a major milestone. These are the three records you should choose to (re)discover as they respectively turn 10, 20, and 30 this May. Turing 10 in 2024: Sharon Van Etten – Are We There(Release date: 27 May 2014) 'Are We There', confusingly titled without a question mark, is an absolute gem of an album. It is the fourth from American singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, and in it, she offered up an urgent collection of simultaneously swoon-worthy and haunting songs that were hands down he...
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It’s been a bumper start to the year for pop fans. First there was the return of Beyoncé with ‘COWBOY CARTER’, the 27-song long second part in her purported trilogy of genre-bending albums. Then, last month came Taylor Swift’s 11th album ‘THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT’, an hour-plus long album that was immediately doubled in length by the addition of 15 more songs just hours after its release. By comparison, Dua Lipa, the British-Kosovo Albanian popstar’s third album ‘Radical Optimism’ released today is a far more taut affair with just 11 songs running at around 36 minutes. Swift’s latest was ...
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