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Glastonbury 2008

October 2019

  • Adele headlining at Glastonbury in 2016.

    Emily Eavis: 'I had death threats for booking Kanye for Glastonbury'

    In an exclusive extract from a new book to celebrate Glastonbury festival’s 50th anniversary, its organiser reflects on the time Prince almost played, how she wooed Adele and what it’s like behind the scenes at Britain’s biggest music event

November 2008

  • Crowd for James Blunt at Glastonbury 2008

    Glastonbury 2008 fails to make a profit

    Organiser Michael Eavis cites rising costs as the reason behind the festival's failure to make money for the first time in nearly four decades

  • World's greatest

    If anyone wasn't sure who Jay-Z is, they are now. Reporting exclusively from backstage at Glastonbury, Alex Bilmes asks the rap god, where next?

  • On the road

    Black Lips' Jared Swilley loses his festival cherry

  • Miranda Sawyer

    Sounding off
    Having fun? don't tell anyone else

    Miranda Sawyer

    Since when did Glastonbury turn into a form of mainstream entertainment not so very different from The X Factor? Miranda Sawyer is worried

  • Musical camping? Sorry, I'm a creature of convenience

    Kathryn Flett: Whether the drugs are working or not, Glasto was a no-go at17, so what chance does this mother of two have now she's 44

  • Festival Watch

    Festival Watch: Glastonbury, Pilton, Somerset

  • Radio review
    In search of the perfect Glastonbury loo

    Radio: The BBC went Glasto-mental this year. At one point, it seemed there were more festival-based programmes than the combined coverage of tennis, football and the Zimbabwe elections. By Miranda Sawyer

  • On balance
    The boss

    Rebecca Jordan: Glastonbury inspires the type of creativity that can also enrich our working lives

  • Music: Rappers, rockers and retailers hail record Glastonbury effect

  • Flakes and flashbacks

  • Jay-Z enjoys post-Glastonbury sales festival

    Jay-Z caused such a stir at this year's Glastonbury festival that sales of his album by a music chain have enjoyed a near fivefold increase.

  • Glastonbury festival Pyramid stage

    Tech Weekly
    Tech Weekly: Culture and Technology

    This week: Singstar at Glastonbury, Cory Doctorow on rights, and Blast Theory's perfomance art via SMS and GPS
  • Yeasayer

    Glastonbury band pictures: Yeasayer

    Pop-rock experimentalists capture their time at Glastonbury Festival 2008
    • The Automatic at Glastonbury

    • Jay-Z: 99 problems but a chart entry ain't one

    • Lost property at Glastonbury

  • Winehouse punch victim forgives her

  • Glastonbury festival: final day

June 2008

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    Festival style

    Festival-goers went all out in the fashion stakes at Glasto this year. We review the best, the worst and the downright ridiculous outfits that tramped the muddy fields
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