Glastonbury 2025 live: Clean-up underway as organisers prepare for fallow year – UK Times

The festival’s clean-up team began picking up thousands of discarded items including paper cups and food containers as festival-goers began to make their way home, leaving the festival in a steady stream.

Cleaners tackled over-flowing bins and big items such as camping chairs and blow-up mattresses, as well as slippers, flip-flops and shopping bags.

It’s hard to find fault in Morissette’s pride here: her lyrics raised a generation, giving voice to feelings that many of us possess but tend to lay dormant, says Adam White.

Choosing to spend your Saturday headline slot with her doesn’t feel like a consolation prize. In fact, you’d be forgiven for thinking Doechii had been playing to festival crowds for decades, says Kate Solomon in a five-star review.

Young’s idea of a special guest is Hank Williams’s guitar, while his pyrotechnics are strictly of the fretboard variety and generally aimed into a circle of bandmates writes Mark Beaumont.

The Irish trio’s appearance has, due to political interference, led to an unexpected referendum on the festival’s soul. But, writes Adam White, their anarchy feels historically in keeping with what Glastonbury represents.

Pop star has the crowd so deeply in their feelings that it feels like any deadbeat ex in the vicinity would burst directly into flames says Kate Solomon in a rave review.

Charli XCX has addressed accusations that she’s a “fraud” following backlash aimed at her Glastonbury Festival performance.

Yet, throughout her performance at Worthy Farm, many viewers watching the BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury at home slammed the singer for using the software – and for her style of dancing.

In response to the vitriol, Charli wrote on X/Twitter: “like the idea that singing with deliberate autotune makes you a fraud or that not having a traditional band suddenly means you must not be a “real artist” is like, the most boring take ever. yawn sorry just fell asleep xx”

Lydia Spencer-Elliot reports:

Bob Vylan have had their US visas revoked ahead of a tour later this year.

The US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has said this is because of the band’s “hateful tirade at Glastonbury”.

It comes after the band’s controversial set at Worthy Farm, which saw them lead the crowd in an anti-IDF chant.

Glastonbury Festival organisers said they were “appalled’’ by the comment, adding that they “very much crossed a line”. Meanwhile, police are currently assessing Glastonbury footage to decide whether any offences may have been committed.

It marked the first time the band has performed at the Worthy Farm music festival since 2009, having first performed there in 1995 at the peak of their commercial success.

Performing on the festival’s Other stage, The Prodigy, led by Maxim (Keith Andrew Palmer) alongside musicians Liam Howlett, Rob Holliday and Leo Crabtree, stunned viewers and festivalgoers with their high-energy set covering decades of hits including “Omen”, “Light Up the Sky”, and the controversial “Smack My B***”.

“The Prodigy. One of the most electrifying, unhinged and incredible bands I’ve ever seen live,” wrote one fan on X/Twitter. “This return to Glastonbury is off the charts. That’s what a festival headliner looks like.”