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Glastonbury 2015: Couch potato thread

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 Friday

BBC One -

The One Show will kick off BBC's TV coverage of Glastonbury with presenters Chris Evans and Alex Jones who will introduce the festival to those watching from home from 7-7.30pm. This includes appearances from special guests.

BBC Two -

BBC Two's coverage begins with The Pyramid Stage and its first headlining act, Florence and the Machine from 7.30-8.30pm.

The channel then returns with the highlights from the first big day of the festival from 10-10.30pm and again at 11pm-2am.

BBC Three -

Kicking off almost two hours of coverage, BBC Three is showing James Bay on the Pyramid Stage and Catfish and the Bottlemen on the Other Stage from 7-8pm.

Then from 8-8.50pm, the show returns with Jungle, the Vaccines and an acoustic performance from The Staves.

At 11pm-12.15am, BBC Three is back covering Rudimental who are headlining the Other Stage on Friday night.

BBC Four -

Highlights from rock band Motorhead will be shown from 8.30-9pm. This is shown again on BBC Four at 2.55-3.25am.

From 9-10pm, you can watch Mark Ronson performing on the Other Stage. This is shown again on BBC Four at 1.50-2.55am.


Saturday

BBC Two -

BBC Two begins its coverage of day two with music from Gregory Porter and Skepta from 4.30-6pm.

Glastonbury returns on BBC Two with Kanye West's set and highlights from the show from 9.30pm-1am.

BBC Three -

BBC Three returns with coverage from 7-8pm of George Ezra on the Pyramid Stage and Clean Bandit on the Other Stage.

From 8-8.50pm, you can watch Years & Years on the John Peel stage and the Maccabees on the Other Stage.

Then at 11pm-12.15am, you can see Ben Howard and his band plus super-DJ Deadmau5.

BBC Four -

From 7-8pm you can see a set from Burt Bacharach, songwriter of classical songs from the 1950s onwards.

You can watch BBC Four's coverage of Paloma Faith's performance on the Pyramid Stage from 8-9pm.

From 10.40pm-12am, Huw Stephens will introduce a set from Suede live from the John Peel stage.

Sunday

BBC Two -

From 6.15-8pm you can watch the highlights from day three of Glastonbury.

You can see The Who headlining the Pyramid Stage and highlights from the third day at 10.40pm-1am.

BBC Three -

BBC Three covers alt-J on the Pyramid Stage and Charli XCX on the John Peel Stage from 8-9pm.

From 9-10.30pm you can catch Prince's protege, London singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas on the John Peel Stage and Jamie T on the Other Stage.

You can see The Chemical Brothers close the Other Stage on the third day of Glastonbury from 10.30-11.30pm.

BBC Four -

Watch Paul Weller as he takes to the Pyramid Stage from 8-9pm.

Can't believe Jo Wiley is 50 this year!

Mary J Blige rockin it !

Libertines!  Wow, that's a pretty cool surprise act.  I'd be happy.

Motörhead on BBC Four now but it seems the sound is all screwed up - there's no bass at all and it's tinny as fk.

For Motörhead of all people!

Also pretty cool how my iPad autocorrects Motörhead to put the umlaut in.

Should have kept quiet, I thought you're just being sophisticated.

quite enjoyed jungle and the vaccines

i am so off the pace that i had never heard of them until around 7pm tonight!

Just testing to see if that works with Haagen-Dazs


PS - well that was a fail.

Don't who the guitarist is? looked like a welsh Al Pacino to me

That is the joy of Glastonbury , you always manage to find a gem of an act that you have never heard of.

and may never hear of again despite their having delivered an hour of perfect entertainment somewhere on the outskirts of the farm

Are Pussy Riot appearing at Glasto this year or have I been whooshed on Twitter?

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They are appearing ,not in a musical sense but in a debating one.

Do you happen to know when exactly?

Was yesterday Ralph

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3140760/Charlotte-Church-dons-androgynous-boilersuit-chat-feminism-controversial-girl-band-Pussy-Riot-Glastonbury-Festival.html

Giant Sand on for any fans of alt-country/americana.

Cheers Dave.

Paloma Faith puts on a good show.

Lewis Hamilton ligging it backstage for the Pharrell set.

Burt Bacharach deserved better support.

Those singers should be so embarassed at their performances.

not worth catching up with then Bo?

I'd have moved from the main stage by now I think

Watched Spiritualized, always good value

Tighty - get hold of the Vaccines first album and give it a couple of listens - you won't be disappointed.

From the bands I knew really enjoyed Vaccines, Maccabees, Motorhead, Suede, Slaves - enjoying it vicariously cause my son is there - wish I was 25 again :-(

Best find for me was Young Fathers - incred live performance

You don't need to be 25 again. I was 53 for my first Glasto, and although I've missed last year and this I plan on doing it again.

Yah, fair point, but my knees hurt

Loved Suede. Brett Anderson is still a hell of a frontman

Maccabees cnsistently good too

Kanye West was hilariously bad. (i'm not his audience lol)

When you were 25, would you have still gone despite hurty knees?


PS- This is a deep, serious question.

My opinion also , but ,

we were watching" the greatest living rock star on the planet!"

After a week of sleeping in a tent, hiking large distances across the site and three eight hour shifts on my feet checking entry and reentry entitlement EVERYTHING hurts. But it's worth it.

Things you learn, Pharrell Williams is 42  :o

Last few times we went to Download, I took my caravan.  She was bought specifically to go to to Download in after camping a previous year.  Park right next to the van, comfy sleep, fridge, cooked food, bit of space outside to sit and chill, put the heating on if it gets cold :D Proper way to do a festival!

i suspect being the person on kanye subtitle duty had a challenging night

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Before deciding he couldn't be arsed any more...

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Highlight yesterday by a mile was Vintage Trouble, possessed by the spirit of James Brown.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e84mxj/acts/anvbc8#p02vrrz7

Bought their album after seeing them on Jools Holland. Not stopped playing it since. Superb outfit.

Saw them last year and thought they were good.Havn't managed to view this years set yet.

BBC coverage , as usual , is excellent. The live streaming is great.

Really looking forward to Steel Pulse on West Holts at 5.50pm

Interested to see Patti Smith next on the Pyramid stage. Hit or a massive fail.

Yeah not a very consistant performer.Sometimes pretty meh ,other times she blows you away.

I wonder if John McEnroe will be there too as Wimbledon starts tomorrow.

I saw Patti Smith play at a really small venue in Toronto during the 1970's and I thought she was decent but not mind-blowing. Mind you there was some pretty stiff competition on the downtown bar-band circuit in that era from Paul Weller and The Jam to Muddy Waters.

Wow, she's still scary, fiery & passionate. Magnificent  :)up

Performance of the festival for me.

Was superb

lionel was awesome.

lol, yes of course

But The Chemical Brothers...wow

Lionel was wonderful

Roger Daltry is 71! looked about 45

The Who's songs really stand the test of time, great show

Fantastic set from The Who.

Hats off to the BBC , once again their coverage has been superb.

Yep but he did plod around in circles looking lost for a while  :D

Enjoyed it

On catch up now for what I missed. BBC licence fee worth every penny for Glastonbury coverage alone.

Watching bits of the who made me realise I can't separate the performance from the songs. If I heard that at the back of a small pub I'd have to go out in the garden. Same as Paul wellers pish. All i could imagine all the way through was some old dude croaking 'im 70 you know'. Fair enuff, put yr slippers on and have a nap love. Chemical Brothers was just brill though but I guess we don't have to look at them or hear them sing

My find of the festival............The singer is mesmerising.



YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ei95JNEOU

Did anyone else see that bloke wearing a pirate's hat and waving a sword crowd-surfing in a little rubber dingy during Lionel's set or did I imagine it?

Surely those purple Owsleys don't have flash-backs after this long.

I take my hat off to him hallucination or not.

Whoever did Kanye's set design was inspired, his performance has had mixed reviews to say the least but Kanye fans seems to like it (I saw the first 15 minutes) and I have listened to FFS which was brilliant in my opinion and I am not a fan of either band particularly.

I think my avoidance techniques worked quite well all told, so what else should I seek out on Iplayer? Did TV or radio broadcast any of Leftfields set?

Of the performances i caught Jamie T was my favourite - worth a watch if anyone missed it.

Yes I saw him too, and thought what the hell! Also saw a naked Lionel blow up doll standing to erm attention. Both made me chuckle alot.

My vote for the t-shirt of the festival goes to the Lionel one with Hello, is it mud you are looking for on the front.

It looks like there are only 7 days left to watch Glastonbury on the iplayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b061229w/glastonbury-2015-suede (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b061229w/glastonbury-2015-suede)

Ty, gonna watch the Fat White Family set. Watch them guys http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02txjyg/glastonbury-2015-fat-white-family

I accidently found this last night on youtube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asCrHkEHfWI   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asCrHkEHfWI)

I found it after putting on voodoo ray after listening to Noel Gallacher's desert island discs and leaving youtube running.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062hplj (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062hplj)

I'd recommend that desert island discs too, as it is quite interesting to hear about his childhood, his choices and see how he has mellowed.

Anyway as Noel said in the clip, people of a certain age will not get voodoo ray and should just make a cup of tea, but the first set on youtube was one of my favourite glastonbury memories.  It was entirely unexpected and I wanted to be elsewhere and was outvoted.   

Well that's my afternoon sorted - thanks for posting link.

Doctor Who theme into Chime from 95(First time?) is one of my favourite Glastonbury moments.
Probably says a lot that I cannot be certain what year it actually was.

Trying to move through the crowd on the Other Stage in 02 when they were on, possibly one of my worst.