Radiohead fill the Glastonbury festival rumour slot
Would it be Coldplay? Or Pearl Jam? Or maybe even Cliff Richard? No! It was (half of) Radiohead, with a rather brilliant stripped-back acoustic setGlastonbury potentiates rumour. In the pre-internet era, that was because the site felt weirdly cut off from the rest of the country. In the absence of news from the outside world, myths stepped in to fill the gap. So it was that in the mid 1990s, every Glastonbury was beset by the story that Cliff Richard had passed on: quite why the Peter Pan of pop...
Guardian Music — Revellers celebrate four decades of mud, sweat and beers amid blue skies and World Cup excitementFrom the booming bass from the main stage to the bursts of pop from the b... more info
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England's massive Glastonbury Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary this weekend at Worthy Farm in Somerset. There's still two more days left to ... more info
ContactMusic — RADIOHEAD stars JONNY GREENWOOD and THOM YORKE served up the first big surprise at this year's (10) Glastonbury festival when they hit the stage for an unannounced... more info
Guardian Music — Would it be Coldplay? Or Pearl Jam? Or maybe even Cliff Richard? No! It was (half of) Radiohead, with a rather brilliant stripped-back acoustic setGlastonbury potentiates... more info
MTV.co.uk News — Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood played a surprise set on the remote Park stage, usually reserved for new bands, on the first day of Glastonbury. Thousands of f... more info
Guardian Music — The sun shone, the cider flowed and a surprise set by one half of Radiohead got eveyone talking on the first day of Glastonbury festivalIt might be a stereotype that Brit... more info
NME - Festivals — At a festival already overburdened with delights – unbroken sunshine, peerless line-up, a near-total absence of blokes on stilts – here was another: an unannounced gi... more info