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Glastonbury Festival 09 is now over. Thousands of people will be today packing away all their belongings and taking the trip back to reality from Worthy Farm for another year.
This year’s festival has seen some great acts performing a wide range of music for hundreds of thousands of people.
Here are just a few of the highlights of Glastonbury Festival 09:
Numerous artists performed Michael Jackson tributes, including Mike Skinner, Jamie Cullum, Dizzee Rascal, Lily Allen and many more.
The Dead Weather, Jack White’s latest band, played a surprise show.
Jamie T pulled in a huge crowd on the John Peel Stage.
See Jamie T’s performance here.
N.E.R.D had their set cut short after being late on to the stage.
The Specials slated the BNP.
See The Specials performance here.
As did Lily Allen, dedicated her song Fuck You to them.
Lady GaGa set her breasts on fire (ouch!).
Neil Young closed the first night covering The Beatles.
Rolf Harris rapped on the Jazz World Stage, bringing in a massive crowd.
Jarvis Cocker and Jamie Cullum joined Spinal Tap onstage.
Klaxons played their secret show on The Park Stage in full fancy dress where they previewed new material.
Kasabian enlisted the help of the crowd as choir for their set.
See Kasabian’s performance here.
Headliners Crosby, Stills And Nash covered Rolling Stones track Ruby Tuesday.
Bruce Springsteen honoured Joe Strummer with a cover of Coma Girl.
Blur played an amazing set to close Glastonbury 09 in spectacular fashion.
See Blur’s performance here.
Michael Eavis, Glastonbury Festival organiser, declared Glasto 09 to be one of the best ever, “Having Neil Young, who I’ve been waiting for for 39 years, and Bruce Springsteen just appear out of the blue – and of course Blur tonight – we’ve got three major, major headliners.”
All these news snippets courtesy of NME.com. All videos courtesy of BBC Glastonbury 09. Images courtesy of the Official Glastonbury Website.
You can watch highlights of all the acts on the BBC Introducing Stage, which I wrote about in part one of Indiescreet’s Glastonbury 09 Guide here.
Did you attend Glastonbury 09 or have you been watching and listening all weekend? If so what were your highlights? Who did you enjoy seeing most? Who would you have loved to of seen but didn’t get chance to?
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