The Manchester acts worth watching at Glastonbury 2022

Mark Sutherland The U.K.’s biggest festival, Glastonbury, made a glorious return this month. As well as 200,000 fans in the field, the festival scored record-breaking figures for the BBC, where festival content was streamed 34.1 million times on BBC iPlayer and listened to 2.3m times on BBC Sounds, up 116% and 205% respectively on 2019, the last time the festival was held.And, after two years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival’s future now looks secure.“With hindsight, having those two years off and time to reflect maybe wasn’t the worst thing,” says Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis.

BBC has revealed which of the sets at this year’s Glastonbury were the most-viewed on UK TV – see the results below.After two years away, the festival made its return to Worthy Farm last week, with Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar headlining the Pyramid Stage across the course of the weekend.McCartney’s almost three-hour Saturday night (June 25) set, which NME called “history-making” in a five star review, averaged 2.7million viewers on BBC One and peaked at 3.9million, according to Broadcast.While the 80-year-old Beatle’s figures were impressive, the artist with the biggest viewership average was Diana Ross, who performed in the revered legends slot on Sunday (June 26). The Motown icon and disco queen’s 75-minute set garnered an average audience of 3.1million, peaking at 3.8million.In a four-star review of Ross’ performance, NME said she had the “crowd in her hands” throughout the set.

Paul McCartney‘s headline show at Glastonbury 2022 last weekend, which caused a brief halt to the set, has said she is “absolutely gutted” about missing the show.The legendary Beatle‘s near-three-hour show on Saturday night (June 25), which featured a whole host of classic songs and special guest appearances from Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen, drew a huge crowd to the Pyramid Stage.Some fans, such as Lisa Morris, had waited hours to see McCartney’s set from the front of the crowd barriers.However, Morris, 50, from Bath, started to feel unwell shortly before McCartney came on stage. She fainted around 25 minutes into the performance, and had to be carried out of the crowd by security guards.McCartney had been telling a story about Jimi Hendrix at the time, but stopped to check in on Morris.

PIERS Morgan has left Shaun Ryder in shock after claiming Diana Ross "sounded like a bunch of drowning cats" at Glastonbury. The TV presenter sat down with the Happy Mondays star on Monday to discuss the artists at the festival over the weekend.

Glastonbury set.Lisa Morris, 50 has spent seven hours in the cold waiting for the singer to come on stage and a few songs into his set collasped.On a night when Paul made history by becoming the oldest solo performer to command a headline slot at 80, the legendary musician paused his tribute to Jimi Hendrix to make sure a festival-goer was okay,READ MORE: Glastonbury: What you don’t see on TV – secret bar, free transport and gatecrashersBut he had to cut short a tribute to Jimi Hendrix after witnessing security removing a member of the audience in front of him.Fans and viewers saw the Beatles legend stop the show and say "What’s going on over there?”He gestured the audience to help, adding: “Is there something happening there? If so, let’s tend to it. Come on."A moment later he added: “It’s okay we sorted it we sorted it.

A PAUL McCartney superfan has claimed he saved her life — by rallying crowds to help when she collapsed watching him at Glastonbury. Lisa Morris, 50, passed out with hypothermia a few songs into his set.

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Glastonbury Festival returned to Worthy Farm this weekend – scroll down to see what the festival looked like in three minutes.The festival ran from June 22-26 and was the first to be held since 2019 after Glastonbury’s 2020 and 2021 editions were both cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.After the festival, organiser Emily Eavis shared a statement in which she called Glastonbury 2022 “surely the best one yet” and hailed “a remarkable feat by all artists and crew.”Glastonbury 2022 was headlined by Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, with a legends’ slot from Diana Ross and notable performances by Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo and more.See all the highlights inside three minutes below.Reviewing Glastonbury 2022, NME wrote: “The festival is all about unity, and sometimes you find it in unexpected places. Sleaford Mods’ scabrous, sweary take on post-punk might initially sound solo antagonistic, but frontman Jason Williamson regularly punctuates the set by sweetly checking the audience are still enjoying themselves.“The band stand atop a wave of post-punk coursing through the bill: Yard Act stake their claim for Glasto greatness at William’s Green and IDLES make a surprise appearance at the BBC Introducing Stage, tearing through their near-seminal debut album ‘Brutalism’ in full.”Many artists at the festival also took the opportunity to address the US Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.

Naman Ramachandran A star-studded Glastonbury 2022 edition has yielded record breaking audiences for the BBC across its digital platforms.Popular sets from the festival included Pyramid stage headliners Paul McCartney, who revealed surprise guests Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl, and Billie Eilish, as well as performances from Crowded House, Diana Ross, Little Simz, Megan Thee Stallion, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Sam Fender.Content was streamed a record 34.1 million times on streamer BBC iPlayer. This included 23 million live streams, the highest on record for a BBC program brand.

Kendrick Lamar joined Baby Keem on stage during the latter’s gig in London last night (June 27) – you can watch fan-shot footage of the moment below.Lamar’s special guest appearance came just a day after his powerful headline set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2022 on Sunday (June 26).Lamar joined his cousin and regular collaborator Baby Keem – who did not make an appearance at Glastonbury – on stage at Electric Brixton last night to close out the show.The pair performed the tracks ‘Family Ties’ and ‘Vent’ from Keem’s September 2021 debut album ‘The Melodic Blue’, as well as one new (and untitled) track (via Setlist.fm).You can watch fan-shot footage of Lamar’s performance with Keem in London below.Top 5s!! @kendricklamar @babykeem pic.twitter.com/idFDTOmMDv— KENDRICK LAMAR BIBLE (@dakendrickbible) June 27, 2022Baby Keem bringing out Kendrick tonight

Glastonbury Festival – and has hit back at naysayers who say she can’t live the dream life because she is a parent.The self-proclaimed ‘CEO of cheap travel', who goes by the name The Travel Mum on social media, has shared that she took her tot to the iconic festival along with her husband.When most people think of camping music events, booze and other debauchery usually comes to mind.READ MORE: 'I don't mind if husband gets our girlfriend pregnant - we'll be one big family'But the travel enthusiast mum has shown that not all festivals are like this and are actually child and family friendly.The Travel Mum has declared that just because she has a child it does not mean that she still can’t live her “dream” life.In a TikTok clip that has racked up 858,000 views, the mum shared a comment from someone who fretted at the idea of taking a child to Glastonbury.She wrote: “Omg who on earth would take their child to Glastonbury festival?!”“Great parents, that’s who”, the mum bit back.The mum then shared a series of clips of her son having the time of his life at the festival, as he waved his hands in the air at the thought of camping – and even had a fun time on the helter skelter.“Kids love to camp, love exploring – there is so much for all ages”, she said.Her small son had a big grin plastered across his face as she got his face painted and went on the fairground rides.He even enjoyed the live music as he wore ear defenders for protection.The mum declared: “Becoming a parent doesn’t mean you have to stop living the dream, you just get to do it with a mini you making the best memories.”Sweetly, the family of three smiled for some selfies at the five day festival that saw the likes of Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney

Glastonbury Festival, describing it in glowing terms as “surely the best one yet”.The festival’s organiser shared a short statement on Instagram yesterday (June 27) following the conclusion of this year’s Worthy Farm event on Sunday (June 26), which was the first to be held since 2019 after Glastonbury’s 2020 and 2021 editions were both cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.In her post, which featured images of Sunday performers Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross and Pet Shop Boys, Eavis wrote: “Sunday rounding off an incredible weekend… thank you to everyone who came here and made it so special. It surely was the best one yet!“A remarkable feat by all artists and crew, thank you to everybody who played a part and everyone who came and created such an amazing atmosphere of joy and love.

Kendrick Lamar during his headline set on Glastonbury‘s Pyramid Stage on Sunday (June 26) featured 8,000 cobblestone micro pavé diamonds.The Compton rapper’s powerful show on the final night of the 2022 festival saw him take to the stage wearing a custom titanium and pavé diamond crown.The headpiece was designed over the course of 10 months by Lamar along with his longtime creative collaborator Dave Free (of pgLang) and the jeweller Tiffany & Co., according to Vogue.The crown featured 8,000 cobblestone micro pavé diamonds totalling more than 137 carats, weighing in at around 200g. Four craftsmen put in 1,300 hours of work to handset the diamonds.“The crown is a godly representation of hood philosophies told from a digestible youthful lens,” Free said of the creation.“Kendrick Lamar represents the artistry, risk-taking creativity and relentless innovation that has also defined Tiffany & Co.

Kate Moss, Stella McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Bruce Springsteen, and Cara Delevingne looked to be having a ball at Glastonbury, and oh to be part of that iconic crew. The legends of fashion and music posed together in a totally star-studded snap after Bruce joined headliner Sir Paul McCartney for an epic performance. Noel, who also performed with his band the High Flying Birds, took a moment to appreciate his fellow musician, giving us an (almost) smile in the incredible snap posted to Stella’s Instagram.

The closing night of Glastonbury 2022 featured a headlining set from Kendrick Lamar. Taking place after the release of his new album Mr.

Several acts who hit the stage at the weekend’s Glastonbury Festival are on course for huge uplifts on the Official Albums Chart this week.

Steve Coogan has quoted Alan Partridge‘s famous Beatles line from his TV series while watching Paul McCartney at Glastonbury.The music legend headlined the second night of the festival over the weekend, which saw him duet with Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen, as well as a virtual John Lennon.The BBC was in the crowd and managed to catch up with Coogan, who referenced a line in I’m Alan Partridge where the character is asked about his favourite Beatles album.“Alan Partridge was asked, ‘What’s your favourite Beatles album?’ And he said, ‘Errr, that’s a tough question… I think I would have to say ‘The Best of the Beatles’,” Coogan quipped.The scene in the series also saw Partridge say a memorable line declaring that McCartney’s group Wings “were only the band The Beatles could have been”.During his BBC interview, Coogan went on to argue: “The Rolling Stones have only ever written about eight brilliant songs, whereas The Beatles have done about 50.”After McCartney finished his set, the actor was asked for his snap verdict, admitting: “I don’t know what to say, it’s quite overwhelming. I don’t think there’s anyone else in the world who can give such unadulterated joy to people.

Kendrick Lamar delivered a showstopping performance at this year’s Glastonbury.

There goes his hero. Dave Grohl joined Paul McCartney at Glastonbury Festival, performing for the first time since the death of Foo Fighters bandmate Taylor Hawkins.

Music fans across the globe were wowed by some of the biggest names in the industry as Glastonbury Festival returned over the weekend.

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