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On June 28th, Orbital made a triumphant return to Glastonbury, the site of their famous 1994 headlining concert. Back then the helmet-lighted brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll, were among the earliest acts to bring electronic music to the festival. This year, Glasto celebrated its 40th anniversary and the Orbital brothers their 20th. …MORE
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This year’s Glastonbury festival in England was a legendary one for two reasons: First, it was the 40th year Worthy Farm has hosted what’s become the largest festival in the world, and secondly, it didn’t rain. Not one single drop. The heat beat down on more than 200,000 heads this past weekend as temperatures climbed to a humid 80 degrees, but that didn’t stop fans of artists like Dizzee Rascal, Snoop Dogg, Parliament Funkadelic, The XX, Kelis, Muse and more from coming out and showing their Glasto love. See the pics in the link below, as well as a few videos capturing two great moments : Dizzee Rascal’s energetic performance of “Heavy” (while wearing an England futball tee) on Friday and Subfocus’ remix of Rusko’s Hold On going completely OFF at The Glade Stage on Saturday.
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There’s a lot of bands we are excited to see, but we came up with a select assortment spanning the spectrum of genres (and decades). While you will notice Thom Yorke and Muse are missing from our list, that doesn’t mean we don’t endorse them. Au contraire, we do and we know everyone wants the bragging rights to make Facebook updates like “Thom Yorke killed it,” so we just skipped to other folks.
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My favorite festival just got even more interesting. Through the years, Bonnaroo’s been doing a real nice job booking great female artists with Patti Smith, Erykah Badu, Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, Mavis Staples, Catpower (this is a very short list), and the addition of The Gossip is a damn nice one — check this footage of Glasto’007, as well as URB writer and shooter DG Loral’s filming of Annie Clark, Erykah Badu, Neko Case and Ani DiFranco at Bonnaroo 2009, for a proper glimpse at some of the ladies that have graced Bonnaroo .
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London’s geekiest cool kids are on the verge of releasing their fourth studio album, One Life Stand, and are poised to show the world Alexis Taylor’s amped-up songwriting and the introduction of new sounds like Al Doyle’s flugelhorn. Previous records like The Warning and Made in the Dark produced hit after hit, and Joe Goddard says he is proud of this new addition to the repertoire and the quintet couldn’t be more excited to start performing. It’s been ten years of making addictive dance floor tunes and winning videos, and it sounds like these guys still have their priorities right. Before the holidays, URB spoke with Goddard to hear the good word.
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