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Glastonbury 2020: a virtual line-up to end all virtual line-ups
The Glastonbury crowd in 2016
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GLASTONBURY! What a year it’s been for the festival’s 50th anniversary year. All that mud, all that traipsing around, all those Pyramid headline extravaganzas, all those hippies in the Green Fields, all the weirdos in Shangri La — all on telly and online of course.
But thanks to the media frenzy around the festival it has been so well documented that the Eavises, and the organisers of almost every stage and area of the festival, have curated a virtual line-up to end all virtual line-ups.
For starters there’s a BBC Glastonbury channel featuring a mash-up of all the best headline sets, from Beyonce to Bowie, with the star man’s famous 2000 set broadcast in full for the first time.
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