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5 classic Glastonbury sets to spark pure 90s nostalgia

With over 100 live sets to choose from there's plenty of amazing Glastonbury history to watch on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer as part of The Glastonbury Experience. To help you navigate the treasure trove of performances on offer we've put together a series of articles to guide you.

Here, we take a look at seminal performances from the 90s that will give you some big pangs of nostalgia.

Oasis (1994)

Fancy seeing a band on the brink of greatness? On the cusp of superstardom? Full of energy and self-belief and with the tunes to match? Look no further than this pre-mega-fame Glasto performance from Oasis, who would go on to release their mammoth debut album Definitely Maybe just weeks after entertaining the Worthy Farm crowd.

Pulp (1995)

Pulp headlining Glastonbury 1995 was never meant to happen - the originally booked headliners The Stone Roses were forced to pull out after their guitarist John Squire suffered an injury while mountain biking. But Jarvis Cocker and co really step up to the plate as last-minute fill-ins - their delirious rendition of Common People still stands as one of Glasto's best singalong moments.

Radiohead (1997)

Radiohead's 1997 headline Glasto set wasn't very enjoyable for the musicians themselves. Guitarist Ed O'Brien would later call the performance as feeling like "a form of hell", explaining: "equipment failure was happening, [we were] trying to keep all members onstage, people not walking off – it was like ‘this should be a heaven but was like a kind of hell’.” But was that evident to those watching from the crowd and from home? Not at all - actually it's regarded as one of the band's all-time best performances.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1998)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Glasto set in 1998 was so spellbinding that it even impressed one Bob Dylan, who approached Cave backstage afterwards to tell the Aussie singer, "I just wanted to say, I really like what you do." Not a bad review, that

R.E.M (1999)

The opening headline set from the final Glastonbury of the 90s and what a start it got off to, with Michael Stipe and band cementing their place as one of the best bands of their generation. A few hours earlier, an overzealous security guard almost threatened to thwart the entire thing too, refusing to let Stipe - who had just arrived at Glasto via helicopter - into the site without a ticket. Now wouldn't that have been awkward.

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