Glastonbury 2024

Links to videos of all the recorded sets for stream/download here:

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Yep! Absolutely all ages volunteering and at the festival in general.. Don't let age put you off

Think it's around £100..

.. actually, £200!

Also spoke to someone working in the lockups who said if you volunteer there and dont act the bollix you get a ticket every year from then on

They would want to supply transportation and have the tent set up for you at that price.

Yeah. And they were swapping shifts depending on what bands they wanted to see etc.

You should try it, its great once you get your foot in the door and have built up their loyalty. Have been working Irish festival since 2011, a great way to meet like-minded folk, some day I'll make a contact who also works the UK festivals.

I'd have thought that for all the 'handy' volunteer jobs you'd have to be an active member of whatever organisation was handling that job. Y'know, actually out chugging on the streets/ volunteering in a shop or office admin for the whole year. Can't imagine you could sit on your arse for 51 weeks then sign up for your volunteering role and away you go! Or maybe you can…

I'm listening back to some of the performances again. And honestly, Tom Chaplins vocals are just spot on. That guy is so underrated. Magic

Was away for the coverage on BBC and came back to find half of it didn't record. Drat. At least PJ Harvey recorded🥰

If anyone comes upon this again let me know!!

Long post warning!

I didn't really do much on the Wednesday, we camped at the back of oxlyers this year which was actually pretty good, if a bit noisy. We watched the weird drone show and the fireworks from the pyramid field and then eventually ended up in a bar in the Park area, I was in bed by 1am.

Thursday had one or two things on I wanted to see. First up was a DJ id never heard of called Lens in Stonebridge tent at 2pm, I was brought here by one of our group who is a big drum n bass head after we ended up outside the tent getting food. It was fine, I don't love DnB, we stayed at the back and drank cold pints. There wasn't really much else happening that interested me until Bicep who were doing a DJ set on the Levels stage in Silver Hayes under their Dove alias at 1:30am. We stayed at the Glade for a short while in the afternoon, then we watched a bit of Skream and Benga playing a dubstep set on Lonely Hearts at around 6pm while eating dinner, seemed like fun if a bit ridiculous. I really enjoyed Bicep's (Dove) set, totally different to anything else I've ever heard them play, really mellow and quite slow at times but still with a decent groove. They finished just after 3am and I went straight to bed.

Friday morning, I walked about 10 minutes from my tent to the levels stage for Nightmares on Wax who was playing a 3 hour set from 12 - 3pm. I had a smoke and fell asleep immediately against the wall at the back, woke up an hour later starving and wandered off for food. Don't really remember anything he played which is a shame because it was probably good, he's a great DJ / producer. I then lined up with my group and we headed to The Park for The Mary Wallopers who were brilliant. I was surprised how many of the brits actually knew them and made a point of being there, the field was full, must have been around 10k people. Great energy, loads of Irish flags in the crowd. My friends wanted to go back to Levels where id just walked from for Romy but I wanted to stay in The Park for fish56octagon's garage set in Stonebridge and it was great fun. This guy blew up on Instagram this year due to his infectious enthusiasm and his encyclopaedic knowledge of dance music, turns out he's also a really good DJ. Tent was packed it was great vibes. Now it's 7pm and I needed food and then to get back to Pyramid to link up with my group for LCD Soundsystem and Dua Lipa. I really enjoyed both of them, I thought LCD could have chosen a better setlist, an hour 15 minutes isn't a long gig for them because loads of their songs are really long and they played a few slow ones but they just nail it live every time and the crowd were loving it where I was. Dua's gig is a bit blurry for me due to whiskey consumption but I had a good time, was surprised how many songs I knew and she seemed to put her heart and soul into it, you could tell it wasn't just another stop on the tour for her which set her apart from some of the other big American pop acts that have played. We were all a bit hammered now but I did manage to herd the group en masse to Bicep doing a DJ set on IICON at 1:15am. Visually this was amazing, the iicon stage is always impressive to behold and bicep had a special AV setup for this set with 3d projected visuals and a crazy laser / lightshow. They played loads of their own stuff and definitely a few unreleased mixes of tunes I knew. There's clips on the Block9official instagram, worth a look. We stayed in the south east corner after this, I think I ended up at Genosys for Midland but didn't stay too long, I think I was in bed by 5am.

Saturday. I had intended to go see Kneecap on Woodsies but they started at 11:30am and I was asleep so that didn't happen. Caught a bit of Dan Shake on Levels who sounded fun, but we were eating lunch so didn't go in. Then meandered around towards Pyramid. Kasabian were doing a TBA gig in Woodsies which was packed and we didn't get there even nearly early enough so sacked that off and went to Keane on Pyramid instead. I really enjoyed this and I don't even listen to them, knew a few songs and the whole crowd singing Somewhere Only We Know at the end was really nice. Bloc Party started on the Other stage 15 minutes after Keane ended so by the time we got there it was nearly full and we were a bit far back on the left but close to the bar so it was grand. First time seeing them for me and I thought they were excellent, id heard they've been hit and miss live but this was surely a hit. Kele seemed in good form and they played most of the crowd pleasers, the crowd were well up for it, 8/10. Caught almost all of The Streets as well while eating food and I thought they were brilliant, amazing energy. I watched the start of Coldplay with my group and they played a few old songs which I actually enjoyed, then I went and watched a bit of Goldie and his band on The Glade. My main target for this night was Stingray 313 doing a 2 hour set on iicon in block9 from 2 - 4am. I eventually made it there on my own but it was worth it, 2 hours of mind melting electro / techno, every transition was into another absolutely killer track, I've tracked down a few songs he played and will hopefully find more. It was definitely my late night set of the weekend and I saw some good ones. After he finished I made friends with randomers in the crowd beside me and ended up talking absolute nonsense and dancing with them until it was bright, I think I left iicon and headed off to bed at around 5:30am.

Sunday, pretty wrecked by now. Not much time spent sleeping or sitting down. I watched a bit of Seasick Steve on the Pyramid while getting food and he sounded fine, bit of a gimmick imo. Shania Twain was ok, I'm not the target audience and left before she finished. All my friends were set on seeing Avril Lavigne on the Other stage but it was absolutely rammed and we couldn't really get close, we didn't get there early enough. Next up for me was Justice on West Holts at 10pm. I got there 45 mins early and there was loads of room and they were really awesome, 1 hour 15 minutes is a bit short but they made the most of it, I was surprised at how it morphed into heavy techno towards the end. As soon as they finished I legged it towards the south east corner so I could beat the crowds to The Common and into the Temple for Kink followed by Kettama. The latter finished at 4am and I moved towards Genosys for a bit of Felix Dickinson but I was half asleep by then so I decided it was time to surrender and go to bed. 

It’s always a life affirming experience, I met some great people, ate some lovely food and we were blessed with the weather again. Not much more you could ask for.