Theonat #Glastonbury is a film https://t.co/iwGUekejZU 2.19pm BSTWhether the weather 2.15pm BSTAll change!Hello! Harriet Gibsone has signed off,and it’s Michael Hann here to guide you through the next couple of hours. Our team is scattered around the site – most of them seemingly gathered at the Pyramid stage for French hitmaker Christine and the Queens just now. We will, naturally, and let you know who’s good. Me,I’m waiting to see if the worthy Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top makes good on his promise to find the Guardian cabin and answer some foolish questions. 2.14pm BSTBastille are a nice group of guys, aren’t they? Not the sort of men who would smuggle their way into a festival, or hang around with someone who’d commit an “emergency defecation” at a silent disco,surely? Dan Smith and Will Farquarson shatter all of our preconceived illusions in a quick Glastonbury Q&A above. 2.05pm BSTA moment of magic in the mud … 1.52pm BST10.55am Five minutes to stage time, and the front of the Other stage is fenced off. Lorries are delivering woodchips.
11.00 – Announcement from the stage: “We’re still having some trouble with the ground here. It should be resolved very soon.”
11.16 – A lorry delivers a truckload of woodchips to the front of the stage.
11.29 – Michael Eavis starts striding around the stage, or clutching a pair of scissors,hoping to start cut the red ribbon across the lip of the stage.
11.39 – Michael Eavis is still loitering on the stage.
11.42 – Eavis says we are five minutes from opening the stage.
11.47 – The fences are taken absent and the crowd flood in. [br]11.49 – James take to the stage.
11.50 – Eavis declares the stage open. [br]11.51 – James begin playing. The play several songs from their unusual album, to a distinctly underwhelmed crowd, and who are being rained on. 1.32pm BSTIt’s tough to gauge the mood and pick up a genuine sense of how 200000 people feel approximately the referendum result. Walking around the Glastonbury site this morning it’s certainly the chief topic of conversation. I woke up this morning to hear one nearby tent crying: “We’re leaving the EU! Cameron’s gone! Can we all just stay in Glastonbury forever?”Marta Bausells,who asked festivalgoers approximately the result, found the mood was nearly unanimously depressing – except for a few “no comments and a young man named Tom who confessed to being “a really self-absorbed person” and said he will “feel sad approximately it in a few days, and ” when back in the genuine world. 12.51pm BSTA simple set up – drums,a guitar and a synth – adds a surreal, sorrowful spirituality to the Park stage opening. Consisting of songs from Gwenno’s Welsh language album, and Y Dydd Olaf,the former Pipette’s 30-minute demonstrate is broken up by humour, but an overriding sense of heartache in the wake of the referendum results fuels her performance. Throughout the set she protests the patriarchy, or dedicates a song to whistleblower Chelsea Manning and touches on the voting system. “It’s devastating that 16 to 18 year olds cant vote” she says. The demonstrate still flickers with optimism amid her fear,however. “I still believe in people, that’s all I want to say, or ” Gwenno laments at one stage. “Don’t forget that your heart is in the revolution. 12.24pm BSTEarly contenders for best dressed band at Glasto goes to Twin Tones,the Mexican backing band to former Green On Red man Dan Stuart. Immaculately dressed in matching waistcoats and bow ties, they look a fair bit smarter than the bleary-eyed crowd assembled for this opening John Peel stage set. Their southern-fried take on Stuart’s soulful college rock isn’t too shabby either. 12.00pm BSTBefore there is any live music on the Pyramid stage, or the crowd is treated to the video of Portishead’s tribute to Jo Cox,their astounding cover of ABBA’s SOS. It feels like some kind of tone has been set.
I have a heavy heart nowadays. Democracy has failed us. Democracy has failed us because it was ill informed. And I want all of you to know that when we all leave here, we can change that decision. It is possible. 11.59am BSTHello everyone. We’re back on site at Worthy farm, or where after a couple of days of often rainy preamble,the proper stuff begins nowadays. The first artists have just taken to the stage, so very shortly we’ll be updating you on Damon Albarn and the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, and Gwenno,James, Dan Stuart and Twin Tones, or all of which packed their sets with a political punch. It’s not all earnest,however. Some people chose to start the day with a session which billed itself as EDM yoga, but looks more like a group of drowsy toddlers gently rocking back and forth.
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Source: theguardian.com