Festival Sounds – Details, episodes & analysis

Please hit the follow button on Apple Podcast for a bonus episode discussing the songwriting process for "Mum Does The Washing"  that will be release later this week.

Joshua Idahoan was a breakthrough act at music festivals in the summer of 2025 playing across the country including at Glastonbury and Green Man.  We are both huge fans and he joined us to discuss his journey, his UK tour and his love of festivals.

You can buy tour tickets here https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/joshua-idehen-tickets/artist/5409793 

Finally we release our Glastonbury 2025 recap.

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Link to Primary School Bangers tour

Random act chatting about lions - Otto and Astrid

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This week we are joined by award winning broadcaster, Kavita Kukar

We chat about our packing priorities for Glastonbury - this is not a definitive list!  You can find that on our website.  Plus we play Am I a Festival D*ckhead.

You can find out more about Kavita here https://www.instagram.com/kavitakukar?igsh=NjNyd2xtOTRzcTdp

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We are joined by Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness, the iconic corner of Glastonbury Festival that was credited with saving the festival itself in the early 2000s by re-inventing how audiences interact with performers.

In this episode we discuss how he changed the appearance of the people in the south east corner to making to more welcoming, how they created immersive spaces blurring the lines between art and the audience.

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We are joined by Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness, the iconic corner of Glastonbury Festival that was credited with saving the festival itself in the early 2000s by re-inventing how audiences interact with performers.

We pick up when he started to combine selling wine with putting on music.

And soon after how he found himself in the south east corner of Glastonbury, before there was a south east corner and we discuss the birth of Lost Vagueness

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We are joined by Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness, the iconic corner of Glastonbury Festival that was credited with saving the festival itself in the early 2000s by re-inventing how audiences interact with performers.

In the first of three episodes with Roy, released over the next three days, we chat about how he got started with life on the road, his first festival, free festivals at time of civil unrest, and how he started making a living at festivals.

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Today Bilal and Tilly interview @secretglasto and, even now, we do not know his real identity. 

SecretGlasto is the twitter/X/BlueSky handle with tens of thousands of followers who have for years given tips of who is playing those TBA slots on the line up.  

How do they handle that responsibility? How do they get their leads? Give the episode a listen to find out.

https://bsky.app/profile/secretglasto.bsky.social

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We are joined this week by James aka Primary School Bangers, who shares his journey from live lockdown TikTok's to performing on stage at festivals and Glastonbury.

James podcast “Notes from School” is available via this link https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=l02NkkCRRZOt7xFDDSHoWA

This is part 2 of 2.  

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We are joined this week by James aka Primary School Bangers, who shares his journey from live lockdown TikTok's to performing on stage at festivals and Glastonbury.

James’ podcast “Notes from School” is available via this link https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=l02NkkCRRZOt7xFDDSHoWA

This is part 1 of 2.  Part 2 is out tomorrow.

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Bilal and Tilly, no guest, Glastonbury poster drop chat, our listeners give their thoughts on Wolf Alice and is there a weight to fun ratio for festival drinks?

Thank you to mobygratis for the into music