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Music festivals

Latest news, reviews and blogs from music festivals around the world

August 2024

  • Led Zeppelin perform at Knebworth festival, August 1979.

    From the Guardian archive
    Led Zeppelin at Knebworth festival – archive, 1979

    6 August 1979: Stiff and under-rehearsed, not until they played Kashmir, almost two hours into the set, did the band come alive

July 2024

  • Ice cream van, Glastonbury from above, the Other Stage field

    Guardian Print Shop
    Buy a Glastonbury 2024 photograph: ice-cream van and crowd

  • Tightly choreographed … Sampa the Great on stage at Womad.

    Womad festival review – wildly entertaining treasure trove for adventurous music fans

  • Parklife festival in June 2024.

    ‘I puked virtually every morning’: inside the stressful life of a festival organiser

  • Next-gen Nicki? … Ice Spice performing at Wireless festival.

    Wireless festival review – Ice Spice, Asake and Doja Cat triumph on gappy bill

  • Festival wristbands are grubby badges of honour – so Balenciaga’s £3,000 version is cringeworthy

    Emma Garland

  • Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

  • South Asians have been insultingly ignored by most music festivals – so thank you Glastonbury

    Nikhita Chulani

  • Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    The summer of green music festivals

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury – photo essay

  • ‘A younger generation has grabbed it’: BBC pips composer on his tune’s Glastonbury remix

  • I’ll take your brain to another dimension … my classical DJ set at Glastonbury

  • The Guardian picture essay
    Shangri-La, stetsons and SZA: Sunday at Glastonbury – a photo essay

  • Glastonbury live: Sunday with SZA, Shania Twain, Burna Boy and more – as it happened

  • SZA at Glastonbury review – electric eclecticism from today’s greatest R&B star

30 June 2024

  • Avril Lavigne performing on the Other stage.

    Avril Lavigne at Glastonbury review – pop punk pioneer still gives potent teenage kicks

    The Canadian singer plays to the biggest Other stage crowd of the weekend, all in thrall to an expertly written catalogue that has real strength and depth
  • Louis Tomlinson and England fans watch the football at Glastonbury.

    One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson stages impromptu England match screening at Glastonbury

    After festival organisers refused to screen Euros clash, pop singer bought flat screen TV and generator from Argos on Sunday morning and set them up in camping area

    • Behind the scenes with Coldplay at Glastonbury – in pictures

    • Shania Twain at Glastonbury review – country-pop legend doesn’t hold her horses

    • Furry bucket hats for ever! The seven biggest fashion trends of Glastonbury 2024

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