Environmental charity Greenpeace has endured "a big financial hit" because only one Glastonbury festival has been held in the last four years, BBC reports. Glastonbury usually takes place on the last weekend of June but was cancelled in 2021 and 2020, due to Covid-19, whereas in 2018 it has been cancelled because of a family feud between the potential new hosts. Founder Michael Eavis is one of Greenpeace's biggest donors, often giving up to £500,000 after each festival. Greenpeace's Bob Wilson said it had also missed having a key opportunity to "sign up new supporters" at the festival which attracts thousands.

Coldplay, HAIM, Michael Kiwanuka, Damon Albarn, Kano, Idles Wolf Alice, will perform at a Glastonbury ticketed livestream event on May 22, Music Ally reports. Performances will take place at various festival landmarks, and sets will broadcast as part of a five-to-six hour production directed by Paul Dugdale. The four airings have been staggered for different timezones - at 7 p.m. in BST, EDT, PDT, and AEST. Tickets cost £20 from WorthyFarm.live, the capacity is unlimited, with funds supporting the festival and its charities. Performers waived their fees. On the other side of the Atlantic, and a few months later everything is happening old-school way. Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will return to Manchester, Tennessee, from September 2-5, 2021, with Grand Ole Opry, Megan Thee Stallion, Foo Fighters, Tame Impala, Lizzo, the Creator, and Lana Del Rey headlining, according to NPR.

Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and organisers have revealed that ticket deposits will be rolled over to 2022. "As with last year, we would like to offer all those who secured a ticket in October 2019 the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, and guarantee the chance to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2022" - the organisers said, adding - "we are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!".

Organizers of the Glastonbury have cancelled this year's edition fo the festival after the UK government advised people to avoid mass gatherings, Metro reports. Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to appear end of June at the muddy British fields, but they won't this year. Organisers took the decision to call off the event before 1 April, when festival-goers were expected to pay the remaining balance of their £270 tickets. Fans who had already paid the £50 deposit will be allowed roll over that sum to next year, guaranteeing "the opportunity to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2021", organisers said. Refunds will also be available for those who want them.

Glastonbury's first big line-up announcement features 52 per cent female or female-identifying acts (Taylor Swift, Diana Ross, Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney are headlining), and the NME loves it: "It is glorious, inspiring proof that the same old, tired excuses that still get trotted out by certain festival bookers don’t wash. Instead of moaning about how there aren’t 'enough female artists' or coming up with some face-saving, condescending scheme to give young female musicians 'a boost' and then seemingly forgetting all about it, Emily Eavis and her team have just surveyed the wealth of women making music right now and, you know, booked them. A novel idea!".

All of the 135,000 tickets for the 50th year of Glastonbury have been sold out in 34 minutes, with a record 2,4 million people signing up to have chance of securing a ticket, Daily Mail reports. The ticket sale was the second fastest in the event’s history, with only the 2014 festival selling out a […]

Billie Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Sheryl Crow are among the Glastonbury stars to give T-shirt to Oxfam in support of a campaign against "throwaway fashion", and with the aim of encouraging fans to buy second-hand fashion. The Cure's frontman Robert Smith gave a Disintegration Era shirt, worn in 1989, Kylie Minogue donated a sun visor, Johnny […]

“I walked off stage and the security guards took me back down and it was just amazing. The way security brought me back down was in front of everyone and I was walking past people who were screaming my name. I had the best time of my life” - fifteen-year-old Alex Mann tells Guardian about […]

On his headlining set at Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Stormzy appeared with a customized stab-proof vest made by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy, a work of art set perfectly in the moment, and the one that makes sense only then and there. "It added a punch of visual tension to his verbal mash-up of modern […]

BBC chooses highlights of this year's Glasto: Sign-language interpretation of Stormzy, horses dancing to Anne-Marie, Lewis Capaldi's entrance with Noel Gallagher saying "Who's this Capaldi fella" on loop, George Ezra's confetti sabotaging Stormzy, Lizzo saying "I love you, you are beautiful, and you can do anything!", Billie Eilish's phone-advice: "If you want to film me, […]

Stormzy is on Friday night, at the Pyramid Stage, as a headliner, although he has only only released one album. He is seen as a representative of black Britain and working class Britain, so the expectations are high, as BBC reports. BBC also will be bringing over 100 performances from this year's Glasto.

British climate activist Extinction Rebellion will lead a march through the Glastonbury festival on Thursday June 27. The ‘Extinction Procession’ will begin at The Park Stage at 4pm, it then heads to the Stone Circle, where at 5:30pm, the largest-ever human hourglass sculpture will be attempted. The hourglass is also Extinction Rebellion’s logo, Independent reports.

Organizers of the British festival Glastonbury banished punk band Killdren because of their lyric "kill Tory", which made the Quietus point at double standards at Glastonbury. Glasto booked a singer - Carrie Underwood who has released several songs glamorising the act of murder. tQ goes, rightfully, into travesty in the article - at Glasto headliners are […]

British punk band Killdren have been kicked out of Glastonbury after criticism of their song 'Kill Tory Scum', which includes the lyric: "Tory genocide is the perfect outcome". The two-piece rave-punk band defended the song as a "crude" satire, and have accused Glastonbury of "buckling under pressure from the right-wing media". The band explains the […]

British telecom company EE will be trialing a 5G mobile network at this year's Glastonbury, which raised some health issues, and some fans were questioning whether they will even attend the festival now because of the trial, Plymouth Live reports. The trial would mark the first time the 5G technology has been used at a […]