Glastonbury Festival

The Leeds indie rockers’ frontman on drawing a blank with Bono, getting over Oasis insults and swapping book recommendations with our Ryan

Thousands of sore heads emerged from tents following high-energy set the night before

Plus: Fungus inspired by octopus; and what hens behind bars tell us about Mountjoy Prison

The trio led festival crowds in chants of ‘f**k Keir Starmer’ during late June appearance

Politics will age you faster than even the most rock’n’roll lifestyle

The BBC’s coverage of the festival is a wonder. But this time around it became a morass of missed points and moral cowardice

If Kneecap’s pro-Palestine stance is noisy and relentless, it’s right up there with the band’s marketing nous

Belfast rap trio led crowd chants of ‘f**k Keir Starmer’ against UK prime minister at English music festival

Band member Mo Chara has been prosecuted for allegedly displaying Hizbullah flag at London concert

Rap trio joins line up that includes Chappell Roan, Hozier, Kings of Leon and more

Police assessing footage of group’s performance, which UK health secretary Wes Streeting on Sunday described as ‘appalling’

June 29th-July 4th: including 7/7: Homegrown Terror; Glastonbury 2025; and the second and final series of The Sandman

Belfast rap group member Móglaí Bap tells large audience: ‘The prime minister of your country, not mine, said he didn’t want us to play’

Kneecap are due to perform a much-anticipated set at Glastonbury on Saturday

Scottish singer last performed at festival in 2023 before taking a break, citing anxiety

Thirty years after the release of Jagged Little Pill in the 1990s, the singer-songwriter will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle this weekend

Squid Game, The Gilded Age, and The Bear among this week's TV highlights

Paul Mescal and Dominic West among speakers, while mystery group Patchwork may be a decoy on the Pyramid Stage

Be it Glasonbury or Forest Fest, a good line-up is key for any music festival. How do Irish organisers attract the biggest names?

The trio of Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell are wrapping up after 13 albums

Wide Awake Festival had ‘positive discussions with stakeholders’ involved in Brixton event

Belfast rappers' choice of word may have been crass but at least they were using their artform to create a space for politics

Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’

The saxophonist has seen huge changes in British jazz since her early performances. She’s now both a figurehead and a breakthrough international star

Young says surge pricing a ‘bad thing that has happened to concerts worldwide’, citing The Cure’s Robert Smith

Young back on bill after withdrawing due to mistaken belief that festival was under BBC ‘corporate control’

Devastating observations about the trials of everyday life are part of what the English singer-songwriter is all about

Earlier this week Young backed out of the festival claiming it was ‘under corporate control’ of the BBC

Capacity at the famous music festival, which turns over much of its profit to charities, has increased to 210,000 people

Young says BBC wanted him and his band to ‘do a lot of things in a way we were not interested’

Scottish singer Rod Stweart will become one of the oldest artists to perform a major set at the Glastonbury festival

Dua Lipa and Simone Biles among celebrities known to imagine success in belief they will achieve it

The Irish postpunk band talk about playing Jools Holland, how Glastonbury lost out to Armagh and why Ireland’s music scene is working so well

From Stock Aitken Waterman pop puppetry to playing Glastonbury, Rick Astley’s trajectory through the pop music industry has been anything but ordinary

From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun and a smoking-belching dragon to headliner confusion and annoying festivalgoers

Frontman Dave Bayley reflects on his drummer’s brush with death, the slow boil of the band’s success, his own insertion as an introvert into a chart-topping life and the forthcoming album

June 23rd-28th: From the perils of social media in drama Douglas is cancelled to coverage of Glastonbury 2024

Diverse spread of A-list artists and strong supporting lineup includes Camila Cabello, Burna Boy and more

Likeable northern English crooner, who plays in Dublin on Tuesday, is still in fine voice and is clearly enjoying himself

Our world can feel terribly one-note: western politics driven primarily by men in sharp suits, all presidential in nature