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Glastonbury 2024 is over – What were the 10 must-see performances? And why does the festival anger all the (far) right people?
Glastonbury is over for another year. Whether it’s a “middle-class band virtue signalling”, or “the line-up not being as good as back in my day !”, people love to complain about the greatest music festival on the planet. Well I’m here to fight back.
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The ideal, indisputable (and slightly impossible) itinerary for Glastonbury ’24 – SATURDAY: LOCK DOWN YOUR AERIAL AND PUT YOUR RECORDS ON
The two best sets of the weekend (Confidence Man and Fontaines D.C.) may already be beyond us, but let’s not allow that to dampen our Saturday shindig.
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The ideal, indisputable (and slightly impossible) itinerary for Glastonbury ’24 – FRIDAY: IRISH FLAVOURED WITH A HINT OF SUGA
Whether you’re gracing Worthy Farm with your presence, or watching from afar on iPlayer, it’s always difficult to navigate your way through Glastonbury weekend. So I’m here to help. View me as your guardian angel for all things great (and not so great) at Glasto.
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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: The uniting AND dividing role of hip-hop in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict
It has been over 70 years since Israel was created in an effort to split Palestine into seperate Jewish and Arab states. I’m sure you’re well aware that this created quite a few more problems than it solved. The youth in the region needed an outlet to express their frustrations and hopes, hence the emergence…
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ETHIO-JAZZ: Attempted assassinations, decades of censorship and an unlikely French ‘hero’. How Ethiopian Jazz survived and thrived after so many years of repression.
September 11th 1974. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, is alive with the sounds of youth, culture and hope. But this wouldn’t last. The music has stopped and the sun has risen, the whole country about to witness a seismic, soviet change. Has the music stopped forever?
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How Kendrick Lamar and Drake utilised hip-hop’s greatest marketing tool. But is it ever anything more than just business?
Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Biggie and Tupac. Jay-Z and Nas. Hip-hop ‘beef’ is a trusted and proven marketing tool. But what happens when it goes beyond business?
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“I promise my Spotify wrapped is always wrong, even though it is literally factually correct”
It’s that time of the year again. The one reason to still have Spotify instead of Apple Music has arrived. To paraphrase a tweet I saw yesterday, “If nothing else I’m just a girl who likes being shown statistics about herself.”
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What makes music, good music, to me and to you?
Truth is, all music is good music. It just needs to find YOU at the right time in YOUR life.
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