My highlight will be the never before broadcast (you can get it on DVD now, of course) of Mr. Bowie’s set from 2000
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/glastonbury
BBC are going to do a Glastonbury Best In Show this year
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June 22, 1984. Black Uhuru for me please.
I’d like to see that. But it was before iplayer came along so, in much the same way as Sky treat football pre-1992, it doesn’t actually exist. *sad face*
I know. I can run repeats in my mind’s eyes and ears, but have yet to find a way to save the gig as an MP4 file. Darn.
However, lots of stuff was filmed long before iPlayer launched – which happened on July 27th 2007 – and the Bowie set from 2000 is one example, so wouldn’t it be great if someone, somewhere, had pointed a camera at the Sponji team at the time?
Sure. But I guess that’s what youtube is for đ
Fela Kuti in ’84 and King Sunny AdĂ© from ’83 for me.
I was just looking at the lineups for the early ’80s Glastos, which were the ones I went to. I don’t remember seeing 90% of the acts. Probably spent more time in the camping areas getting stoned than watching the stages.
Keeps Jo Whiley off the streets, I suppose.
Expect I will dip in and out, but I do find the more the Beeb fillet the lineup, the more they fillet out what I like…
I’d like to see bits of the 1979 festival. It had a nice scale, Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, John Martyn, The Pop Group, and The Only Ones. It also had “Sky” who were as dull as expected. I had a cracking time and was as joyful as an 18-year old could be in such a setting.
Could have sworn I saw the Bowie set on BBC2 a few months ago (about the time the DVD was released).
Shown twice on BBC 4, the last time on Saturday 29th Feb 2019. How time flies!
An edited hour of highlights – and not made available thereafter.
“On Sunday 25 June 2000, David Bowie closed Glastonbury with a two-hour performance. Only half an hour or so of that stunning set was broadcast on BBC television that night at Bowie’s insistence. At the time, the BBC were heavily criticised for coming off Bowie after broadcasting the first five songs of the set live and only returning for a couple of encore songs at the end of the show. Fortunately the cameras kept rolling and captured the whole set. “
It was broadcast live on Radio 1 FM.
The future Mrs F had a lift back from a 6-month-pregnant friend who bailed early. So I had to leave the site at tea-time Sunday and drive her home. We listened to the Dame as we hit the M25, with the sound of me grinding my teeth nearly drowining out the wireless. Gnaar!
1 FM? Haven’t heard that for a while.
Anything from The Worthy Farm Windfuckers?
To think that in some countries Kylie Minogue would be eaten.
Pfffffft! In the event of an âAlive!â-style cannibalism-to-survive scenario, sheâd be the last one youâd eat..
Is that the one with the eco hippies in the rain forest? I was on the side of the locals, although from a western perspective the cannibals/producers could have handled things slightly better than the fat black guy first. That was pretty crass.
âFraid not Rob. Alive! is the true story of a rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in the 70s, brought to mind by a blindingly brilliant recent episode of Rik and Morty…
This is superb.
https://youtu.be/8ClZFX8AsXc