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[Desmond 48]

It's my first Glasto this year and I have a good idea who I'm seeing.

I'm just curious as to whether people's favourite songs they've seen at Glastonbury are by the big headliners or well known acts in general, or relatively unknown bands a lot lower down the line up.

So, your favourite song you've ever witnessed at Glastonbury, the stage it was on and why it was so good...

Edited by Desmond 48, 02 May 2011 - 06:38 AM.

[Spindles]

Walk unafraid - R.E.M - Pyramid stage 1999

I had been waiting over a decade for a chance to see the band that were the soundtrack of my teenage years, halfway through the set they played a little known album track from their current album with such energy, power and feeling that it transformed the song to a classic for me.  The musical highlight of my life so far.

[Desmond 48]

Spindles, on 02 May 2011 - 06:10 AM, said:

Walk unafraid - R.E.M - Pyramid stage 1999

I had been waiting over a decade for a chance to see the band that were the soundtrack of my teenage years, halfway through the set they played a little known album track from their current album with such energy, power and feeling that it transformed the song to a classic for me.  The musical highlight of my life so far.

This is 100% why I asked this. I love reading things like this. Great stuff, thanks.

[Aussie@Glasto]

Don't know if it's the best but it was a great moment hearing Hey Jude in 2004. The closest anyone can get to hearing the Beatles live.

[abu hamster]

Pulp doing sorted for E's and Wiz for the first time

[Yorkshire Chomper]

I remember Mody doing Thousand on the other Stage in 99. whole field was transfixed...

[lee60]

Many special moments, Willie Nelson singing "Always on my mind" 2000 and 2010, McCartney "Let it be" 2004 and Leonard Cohen "Bird on a wire" 2008 to name a few.

[Banana Co]

'Tender' by Blur in '09 was an amazing moment.

[titusbungle]

Fix You by Coldplay in 2005, the start of my Glasto obsession! Watch it on YouTube, once it kicks in and the fireworks go off, you'll be obsessed as well!

[blue6field]

Been a while since I was there so not a lot to choose from, my highlight from the last time I was there would be foggy notion by the velvet underground

Edited by blue6field, 03 May 2011 - 03:39 PM.

[Ryan1984]

Hard to choose just one as there have been a few, so here's a selection of the best:

Jimmy Cliff performing 'I Can See Clearly Now' in the blistering heat on the Pyramid Stage, 2003.
The Killers in a rammed New Bands tent playing 'Mr Brightside', 2004. Despite what they went on to become, this was joyous.
McCartney - 'Hey Jude', mass singalong in a thunderstorm that went on long into the night, and past the curfew. 2004.
The Gaslight Anthem and Bruce Springsteen - 'The '59 Sound' in 2009. Even if The Boss was singing the words all wrong.
Arcade Fire - 'Rebellion (Lies)', 2007. Neon lights and mud at dusk, it fitted perfectly.
Crowded House - 'Don't Dream It's Over', 2008. Pretty much the perfect mid-afternoon Pyramid stage band, and lots of banter.


But the one to top them all was:
Blur's 'Tender' in 2009, the set was brilliant already but then the reaction to this song - and Damon's tears - nailed it on as a truly special moment.

[robith]

So many to choose from

Arcade Fire - Wake Up 2007
Rufus and Martha Wainwright - Hallelujah 2007
Jay Z - 99 Problems 2008
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows 2008
Neil Young's 10 minute Rocking in the Free World 2009
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCE - The River 2009
Blur - Popscene 2009
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline - my favourite band performing my favourite song at Glastonbury 2010
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? 2010
Orbital doing Doctor? with Matt Smith 2010

[dottycat2205]

Ryan1984, on 02 May 2011 - 09:12 AM, said:

Hard to choose just one as there have been a few, so here's a selection of the best:

Jimmy Cliff performing 'I Can See Clearly Now' in the blistering heat on the Pyramid Stage, 2003.
The Killers in a rammed New Bands tent playing 'Mr Brightside', 2004. Despite what they went on to become, this was joyous.
McCartney - 'Hey Jude', mass singalong in a thunderstorm that went on long into the night, and past the curfew. 2004.
The Gaslight Anthem and Bruce Springsteen - 'The '59 Sound' in 2009. Even if The Boss was singing the words all wrong.
Arcade Fire - 'Rebellion (Lies)', 2007. Neon lights and mud at dusk, it fitted perfectly.
Crowded House - 'Don't Dream It's Over', 2008. Pretty much the perfect mid-afternoon Pyramid stage band, and lots of banter.


But the one to top them all was:
Blur's 'Tender' in 2009, the set was brilliant already but then the reaction to this song - and Damon's tears - nailed it on as a truly special moment.

Superstition Stevie Wonder last year. Never thought I would ever see him.

[Taija]

The fact that, right after he had gone in the crowd in the song before, he decided to venture to the side of the stage that I was at. He was completely drunk of course, but it was an amazing moment.

[doubledutch]

So many, Blur and Tender was beautiful; The Verve and Bittersweet Symphony; Jimmy Cliff and Many Rivers to Cross; loved Neil Finn organising the Mexican Wave, twice, which I watched from the disabled platform - amazing to watch this from an elevated position roll past me from the back of the Big Ground all the way down to the front of the Pyramid on a beautiful sunny saturday afternoon and also the banter in trying to get a security guard to turn round; seeing artists that I never thought I would ever see, like Neil Young, his Day in a Life awesome, he just didn't seem to want to leave the stage; ...
I could go on and on and on.............

[ghandi]

I have only 2009 and 2010 to choose from!But it's not always the bigger gigs moments that you remember :

The Mummers ( 2009 Avalon tent) " This is Heaven ", on the Sunday as my Glasto neared its end it sort of brought home to me what i had missed down the years and with a lump in my throat i promised myself i wouldn't miss again.

Faithless ( 2010 Pyramid) "We Come one", i had seen it played on Utube before to experience it Live and the whole set was amazing.

Stevie Wonder ( 2010 Pyramid ) " Superstition" ( mind you the whole set!!), as said before i never thought i would see one of THE icons perform live. The first album i ever listened to throughout was " Songs in the key of life" and this moment was just blissful dance your tits off heaven!

[MamaJojo]

another one for hey Jude (pyramid) treat me like your mother( dead weather, park 09), newborn/where the streets have no name(muse, pyramid '10) somewhere only we know/with or without you (keane Avalon '10) spearhead set (pyramid 04)..... doesn't matter where you are watching it, if you find music that you connect with sometimes it's like a little bit of magic..... it seems like every Glasto we've done there's just been a moment that we didn't expect, that surprised us. last year it was keane...... tiny little tent, amazing vocals, really feelgood moment... blew me away.... sang somewhere only we know with tears streaming down my face (yep, probably too much booze/other enhancements/not enough sleep) but it had a meaning to me that afternoon that went deeper than the lyrics or the tune and left that gig absolutely euphoric.

that's what I love about glasto, those little things that you
just don't expect, that create a memory that you'll never forget

Edited by MamaJojo, 02 May 2011 - 10:10 AM.

[MamaJojo]

oh, and karma police (radiohalf, park '10) amazing

[CrispyRed]

Most of mine happened at my favourite Glastonbury - 2008, and strangely they are all a bit MOR

One Day Like This - Elbow on the Other Stage (to see so many grown men cry)
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen on Pyramid had me totally transfixed
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond on Pyramid made me completely forget who I am
Bittersweet Symphony / Love Is Noise - The Verve just totally blew me away

I've been to many other Glastonburys but I don't think I have experienced so many special perforamnces

[ghandi]

good moment... blew me away.... sang somewhere only we know with tears streaming down my face (yep, probably too much booze/other enhancements/not enough sleep) but it had a meaning to me that afternoon that went deeper than the lyrics or the tune and left that gig absolutely euphoric.

This! It will creep up on you when you least expect... that you are there.. having the time of your life without a care in the world and you let you guard down, it happened to me in 2009 when i realised i'd found my shangrila ( so to speak), i did blub like a baby, through pure enjoyment though.