2016 Highlights

[Winslow Leach]

Just got my phone back from the lock ups and thought I'd counteract all the talk of mud and rain on here by asking for people's highlights.

Mine were:

LCD Soundystem

Sigur Ros

Craig Charles on Arcadia 

Skepta

Shibuza Shirazu Orchestra 

[elias]

So, so many, but the following excelled:

Ben Millar Band
St Paul and the Broken Bones
LDC Soundsystem
Of Monsters and Men
Muse
ZZ Top
Foals
Larkin Poe

and many, many more.
Mud bloody awful, but the music more than made up for it.

[Hutchmaster]

LCD Soundsystem

James Blake, especially when Bon Iver came out!

[cidy]

Protoje at the gully

Ronnie spector the park

Beans in toast avalon

[rubenz]

So much good stuff this year

LCD Soundsystem - No explanation required

PJ Harvey - So intense during the evening gloom

Wolf Alice - Great to see them on the big stage

Adele - Went in quite cynical but came away grinning

Bat for lashes - fantastic as ever

 

[Alcatraz]

LCD 

Underworld

Michael Kiwanuka at the Crows Nest

Bixiga 70's whole field Conga line

James Blake

[the wonderwhy]

New Order, LCD Sounsystem, Beck, Wolf Alice (I genuinely think they'll headline one day), Christine and The Queens, Hinds, Floating Points, PJ Harvey, Steve Davis... pretty much everything I saw was excellent bar Muse who I thought were average. So a great year this year. 

Foals sounded great but the crowd was poor unfortunately. 

[Nobody Interesting]

James - Nothing But Love and Laid especially

Ronnie Spector @ The Park

Earth Wind and Fire

Echo Town on the Band Stand - two brothers, two guitars, one set of drums and a digeredoo.

and of course, New Order

[Mich1268]

art garfunkel. I got all religious for 1 hour. 

[Thunderstruck]

Isaac Gracie, Adele, Barry gibb, and the incredible performance from chvrches, 2 years ago the lead singer was quiet and shy, my jaw hit the floor when she came out on other stage and absolutely killed it. 

[Finding leto14]

Nothing but thieves

Madness

Adele 

Coldplay

jack Garrett 

[Digi]

Coldplay.  I have never been a Coldplay fan but I really wanted to close the festival with my 20 year old son who wanted desperately to see them so I went with him.  WOW!  Love them or hate them, they can put on a show and the Viola Beach tribute is THE most moving thing I have ever experienced.  I won't be buying everything they've ever produced but I do have a new found respect for them!

Squeeze - my Mum's favourite band.  I could sing 'Up the Junction' before I could recite the alphabet.

James - they were just brilliant and another +1 particularly for Laid

 

[6t6o6m]

My highlights were:

BMTH, The Wanton Bishops, Nothing But Thieves, Fatboy Slim and M83.

I was let down by X Ambassadors (they played one song due to technical issues - there had a bit of that at Reading too), Half Moon Run (great singer, just really boring IMO), Bastille (awfully boring).

Missed out on ZZ top (due to mud and BMTH), Raleigh Ritchie, Years & Years, Of Monsters and Men and Coldplay all due to leaving Sunday afternoon. 

[Yokel Again]

PJ Harvey - bloody brilliant. Captured the mood of the weather, weekend, vote and everything. Perfect in every way.

Coldplay - juxtaposed to the above, great way to end. Even if it did all get a bit silly we didn't care!

Ezra Furman - deserves a bigger slot. 

St Paul & Broken Bones - great fun

Enjoyed everyone so could go on... except Art Garfunkel. The less said the better.

[Mouseboy11]

Tame Impala, Foals, New Order and LCD Soundsystem were all brilliant. Band of Horses really surprised me also.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Ronnie Spector, man.....when she started singing my jaw the it the ground at how great she still sounded.

[Hugh Jass]

For me Clive:

Set of the weekend - Beck. What a performance!

Moment - Sound of Silence - utterly sublime.

Pleasant surprise - Adele. Smashed it.

[The Nal]

Ronnie Spector. Shouldve been on the Pyramid.

St Paul & The Broken Bones was a lot of fun

Kamasi Washington was superb.

Highlight though was Patty Griffin. One of the best sets Ive ever seen on the farm. About 100 people there. 

[Nobody Interesting]

13 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Ronnie Spector, man.....when she started singing my jaw the it the ground at how great she still sounded.

Absolutely right, 72 years young with a voice like that and still just a little bit sexy too! Loved her little flirts with the young lads.

[Smeble]

1 hour ago, Mich1268 said:

art garfunkel. I got all religious for 1 hour. 

I felt so sad watching him, poor guy's voice has completely gone

[CaledonianGonzo]

 Be My Baby - jam of the weekend, albeit up against some stiff competition.

Also, still laughing at the people who thought Adele couldn't headline the Pyramid.

[SophieBee]

Hard to pick just a few highlights as I enjoyed so much. Foals and Beck were as great as I was expecting - that sunset over the Pyramid for Foals really cheered my Brexit blues. Underworld completely blew me away and ending the festival on LCD Soundsystem was simply perfect.

My real highlights were in things I discovered almost accidentally. Anna Meredith, Lady Leshurr on the Park, Levelz at Wow - all acts I didn't know anything about before finding them on the playlist, but their joy at playing Glastonbury was, well, joyous. Loved them.

Edited June 27, 2016 by SophieBee

[Smeble]

ZZ Top

paul carrack

Squeeze

ELO- I don't care how many were there for it,whether  they knew the songs or not, I was down the front and bloody loved it

ronnie spector

 

 

[danceonfire]

LCD 

Beck

Sigur ros 

James

Ezra Furman 

And a shout for Mike Artistik in the rocket lounge 

[Andeeroo]

Chvrches and Hinds stood tall above the rest.

In the rung below would be LCD, Beans on Toast, Ezra Furman, Oddisee and Corinne Bailey Rae.

And then the rest, all of which were pleasant and enjoyable but not overly memorable.