Live from the Glastonbury Festival 2014!
Chris kicks off the Â鶹ԼÅÄ at Glastonbury 2014 with live music and chat featuring some of the biggest acts at the festival, plus a look at some of the quirkier things going on too.
Chris Evans is joined by Alex Jones to kick off the Â鶹ԼÅÄ at Glastonbury 2014, with live music and chat with some of the biggest acts to play this year's festival, and a look at some of the quirkier things going on too!
Chris will present the show live from Michael and Emily Eavis' own farmhouse on Worthy Farm, before heading to the Pyramid Stage where he'll have an exclusive live performance from the Kaiser Chiefs, covering a super special Glasto song for one time only...! Keep listening to find out what they choose!
We'll check in with Dolly Parton, Lily Allen and the Manic Street Preachers as they travel to Somerset, we'll ask Lars Ulrich from Metallica what kind of wellies he'll be wearing, and we'll hear from 'Mad' Mick Ringham who was the compere and DJ at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970!
Alex will be roaming around the fields of Glastonbury, meeting some of the weird and wonderful characters that make the festival what it is. She'll have a salsa lesson in the Dance Village, learn some circus skills in the Kidz Field and laugh out loud in the Theatre & Circus Field...
Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the brilliant bassoon trio Wind Power will perform some very special cover versions for us live in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Tepee!
See you in Pilton, friends!
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Lily Allen
The Fear
- (CD Single).
- Regal.
- 1.
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Blondie
Hanging On The Telephone
- Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
- EMI.
- 1.
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David Bowie
Let's Dance
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Jake Bugg
Lightning Bolt
- (CD Single).
- Mercury.
- 1.
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Coldplay
In My Place - Glastonbury 2002
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Elbow
One Day Like This
- (CD Single).
- Fiction.
- 1.
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HAIM
If I Could Change Your Mind
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
- 001.
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James
Moving On
- (CD Single).
- Cooking Vinyl.
- 001.
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Led Zeppelin
Immigrant Song
- Led Zeppelin III.
- Atlantic.
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Madness
Driving In My Car
- Madness - Divine Madness.
- Virgin.
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Paul McCartney
Maybe Baby
- Maybe Baby - Film Soundtarck.
- Virgin.
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Paolo Nutini
Scream (Funk My Life Up)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Dolly Parton
Blue Smoke
- Blue Smoke - The Best Of Dolly.
- Sony Music.
- 1.
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Dolly Parton
Â鶹ԼÅÄ
- Blue Smoke - The Best Of.
- Sony Music.
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Pratt & McClain
Happy Days
- Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
- Silva Screen Records Ltd.
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Pulp
Common People
- (CD Single).
- Island.
- 5.
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Ed Sheeran
Sing
- (CD Single).
- Asylum Records.
- 001.
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T. Rex
Metal Guru
- Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
- Cherry Red Records.
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Travis
Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
- (CD Single).
- Independiente.
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Pharrell Williams
Happy
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
Pause for Thought
From the Rt Rev’d Peter Hancock, Bishop of Bath and Wells:
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My daughter, Lottie, has come to the Glastonbury Festival several times and last year she said to me ‘Dad, you really need to go.Ìý You would love it. You’d have a great time.Ìý There’s so much to see and do even if you didn’t listen to the music’.ÌýÌý But of course it is the music that brings most people here.Ìý And it is the music that has made Glastonbury the largest greenfield festival in the world.
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And now I’m here as the local bishop – the festival is on my patch, as it were.
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Every aspect of life has been set to music at some time and it can convey the deepest of thoughts and the profoundest of ideas.Ìý The composer Rossini once said:Ìý ‘Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music’.ÌýÌý Music is such an integral part of life it is hard to envisage life without it.
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As a bishop I experience all sorts of music each week as I visit churches.Ìý And it is not uncommon during those services to see people in tears.Ìý They may be tears of delight, as they celebrate something joyful which is happening in their lives or in the lives of their family and friends.Ìý Or they may be tears that come from loneliness or bereavement, illness or anxiety.Ìý Sometimes they are tears of wonder or thanksgiving in response to the worship.Ìý Music lifts our hearts and makes our spirits soar.Ìý That is why the reformer, Martin Luther, wrote that music ‘is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.’
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That’s not to say that all presents are welcome ones - there’s an Italian Proverb, ‘God save me from a bad neighbour and a beginner on the fiddle.’
Those camping at Glastonbury will know the wisdom of that saying!
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But I am with Martin Luther.Ìý Music is a wonderful gift and as I sing and give praise to God day by day I discover not only more about God, but also more about the person that he wants me to be.
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I shall certainly enjoy the music whilst I am here today.Ìý It is a long time since I went to my very first concert to listen to Wishbone Ash, and I wait to discover whether what I listen to today moves me to tears.
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