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Glastonbury

Specials 2000 - 2022
TV-PG

  • 2009-06-25T23:00:00Z on BBC iPlayer
  • 2h
  • 1d 6h (15 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
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.

16 episodes

nteractive stream with performances from:

The MaccaBees
White Lies
Regina Spektor
N.E.R.D
Lilly Allen
Friendly Fires
Fleet foxes
Jack Penate

Interactive stream with performances from:

The Specials
N.E.R.D
Lilly Allen
Fleet foxes
Regina Spektor
Neil Young

2009-06-25T23:00:00Z

Special 3 Day 1 - Other Stage

Special 3 Day 1 - Other Stage

  • 2009-06-25T23:00:00Z2h

Interactive 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

In 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.

Special 5 Glastonbury Golden Greats

  • 2015-06-18T23:00:00Z2h

The 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

With 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.

As the country that created karaoke, you can be sure that the Japanese will take musical mimickery to the next level. In My Hero: The Japanese Radiohead, we'll get exclusive access to this incredible world of ultra tribute bands, where every guitar lick, drum roll and facial expression is obsessively copied down to the last detail. But even that's not enough for Yokohama's version of Radiohead. In the ultimate act of tribute band dedication, they teamed up with a gifted craftsman to make a rare, vintage keyboard for Johnny Greenwood to perform with at Glastonbury.

Billy Bragg describes how political activism came to the fore at Glastonbury Festival in the 1980s.

Special 10 Best of Glastonbury 1999

  • 2021-06-24T23:00:00Z2h

Highlights of 1999's sunbaked Glastonbury Festival, including performances by R.E.M., Manic Street Preachers, The Corrs, Fun Lovin' Criminals, the Beautiful South and Al Green.

Special 11 Best of Glastonbury 1998

  • 2021-06-24T23:00:00Z2h

Highlights from the 1998 Glastonbury Festival, one of the muddiest festivals on record

Special 12 Best of Glastonbury 2017

  • 2017-06-29T23:00:00Z2h

Highlights from the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, including a reminder of some of the big performances, stories and moments from the weekend's events.

Special 13 Best of Glastonbury 2000

  • 2000-12-27T00:00:00Z2h

Special 14 Julian Temple's Glastonbury

  • 2011-11-18T00:00:00Z2h

Broadcaster and film fan Edith Bowman introduces Julien Temple's acclaimed film celebrating and documenting the history of the Glastonbury Festival. Featuring footage captured from 35 years of the festival, including performances by David Bowie, Radiohead, Morrissey, Coldplay amongst many others, the film brilliantly captures the essence of this unique three-day rollercoaster ride of music, madness and mud! It's the next best thing to being there!

Special 15 Best of Glastonbury 2003

  • 2021-06-25T23:00:00Z2h

Highlights of the standout performances from the 2003 Glastonbury Festival

Three 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.

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