Glastonbury: mud, music and madness in rural England
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Glastonbury music festival, one of  the world&#39;s biggest, opened on Wednesday with legends such as  The Who billed alongside Las Vegas rockers The Killers at  concerts expected to be played out in slippery mud.
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Glastonbury, the world's biggest green field arts and music festival, opened on Friday with a record 177,500 people braving rain and mud to hear British rockers Arctic Monkeys, Icelander Bjork and the haunting sound of Canadian band Arcade Fire.
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This old mining town in the northeast of England used to be a grimy industrial wasteland. Now it's becoming a gleaming cultural center and -- who would have thought it? -- tourist destination
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Thousands of people are delayed leaving the Glastonbury Festival because of the bad weather.
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Tens of thousands of people flocked  to Glastonbury for the world&#39;s biggest green field arts and  music festival on Thursday and with rain falling and more  forecast to come mud-lovers might not be disappointed.
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The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and The Who will headline this year&#39;s Glastonbury, the festival announced Friday.
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Glastonbury, the world's biggest green field arts and music festival, opened on Friday with a record 177,500 people braving rain to hear British rockers Arctic Monkeys, Icelander Bjork and the haunting sound of Canadian band Arcade Fire.
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As some concerts and outdoor music events struggle, the Austin City Limits Music Festival revels in its success.
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Record industry: 'Will you be our friend?' Reg goes ligging Trendy Camden venue...check. Silly haircuts and spectacles...check, check. Suspiciously long queue for the disabled toilets...check. Lots of bellowing about how great everything is...MASSIVE CHECK.â¦
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The Killers headline Glastonbury's second full day as festival-goers shrug off muddy conditions.
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Arts & entertainment: The verdict on Damon Albarn's Monkey opera, plus what to look out for in the Manchester Festival.
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Glastonbury, the world&#39;s biggest  open air arts and music festival, on Thursday made  environmental issues a pillar of the three-day event by  launching its &quot;I Count&quot; campaign to stop climate change.
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Britain's biggest literary festival - a fortnight's worth of readings, signings, debates and discussions - brings huge numbers of visitors to the small, but perfectly formed for the bookish, town of Hay-on-Wye each year.  This year was the festival's 20th, offering some 400 opportunities to put a face and a voice to names on spines. Guardian photographer Martin Godwin has been busy around the site, and for those who missed the festival here are some of his portraits of the visiting luminaries meeting their public over the past fortnight.  For a sample of these authors' voices, visit our audio archive of readings and interviews from the daily Haycasts.
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Rock godfathers The Who headline at Glastonbury on Sunday with persistent rain turning the rural English meadows which host the world's biggest greenfield music and arts festival into a high-spirited mudbath.
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This topic of discussion is usually reserved for spring in Vermont. All week, there has been much ado about mud in Massachusetts. If ever there was an example of media gone amok, it has been the seemingly endless discussion of how mucked up the turf at Gillette Stadium would become after being left naked in the night, subjected to the ...
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Organisers of the Glastonbury music festival apply for a licence to run the event for the next four years.
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Arts & entertainment: Top acts put on big sales after braving the Somerset mud