“I wrote this next song because I was sick and tired of microaggressions. So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I’ve had enough,” she said to the Glastonbury audience. Despite not mentioning his name, Sawayama was referring to Matty Healy as the “white man” in her speech.

Watch Rina Sawayama calling out Matty Healy at Glastonbury Festival below:

Rina Sawayama calling out Matty Healy at Glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/cBE5rWWtFt

— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 24, 2023

On an episode of The Adam Friedland Show, Healy admitted to watching a pornography series in which black women are “brutalised” and degraded by white men. He also joined in with mocking the US rapper Ice Spice which they made racist jokes regarding her heritage. The hosts referred to the rapper as an “Inuit Spice Girl” and “This chubby Chinese lady”. They then proceeded to mock Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian accents while Healy laughed. The offensive episode has since been removed from Apple and Spotify.

Both musicians, Rina Sawayama and Matty Healy’s band The 1975, are signed under same label, Dirty Hit, which is a British independent record label. The 1975 was one of the first acts to be signed on to the label and achieved mainstream success. Since then, other artists under this label include beabadoobe, No Rome, and Pale Waves.

Healy served as director of Dirty Hit Limited, the private limited company behind the record label Dirty Hit, and held the position for 5 years from December 2018 until his termination on April 4, 2023 for unspecified reasons.

However, Healy made somewhat of an apology to Ice Spice for his derogatory remarks on the Adam Friedland Show podcast. At a concert in New Zealand, he said, “I just feel a bit bad, and I’m kind of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you. Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued. It’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a dick. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry.” 

Watch Matty Healy’s apology to Ice Spice at his band’s concert in New Zealand below:

matty healy apologising to @icespicee_ in auckland/nz: pic.twitter.com/gKrKET6Rd2

— Coup De Main (@coupdemain) April 21, 2023

Before inviting Cate to the Park stage, the vocalist Russell Mael gave her a welcome and introduction. He said, “Hopefully as many of you know we have a brand new album, it just came out a couple of weeks ago. We have a super special treat tonight. We did a video for this song recently and we had the great honour of having the great actor Cate Blanchett join us – where are you Cate Blanchett?”

Watch Cate Blanchett perform with Sparks at Glastonbury Festival on Twitter below:

Cate Blanchett and Sparks at #Glastonbury! pic.twitter.com/sAkeemtg83

— Far Out #Glastonbury23 updates (@FarOutMag) June 23, 2023

Sparks is a pop and rock band from Los Angeles consisting of two brothers, Ron and Russell Mael. Ron plays the keyboard while Russell provides the vocals. The duo previously explained that they met Cate Blanchett at the César Awards in Paris. For their film Annette, the Mael brothers went to the same Césars as Cate Blanchett who received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Recently, Sparks released their 25th studio album last month. The album The Girl is Crying in Her Latte had three singles released before dropping the album itself. The lead single was release on March 3 along with the music video starring Cate Blanchett. On April 21, the second single “Veronica Lake” was released. The last single they released was titled “Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is” which was released on May 12, 2023.

In total, the album consists of 14 tracks with songs titled “You Were Meant for Me”, “We Go Dancing”, and “It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way”. It made it to number 7 on the UK Albums Chart which is the band’s third consecutive album to debut at that position.

Watch the music video for “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte” starring Cate Blanchett below:

In an interview with Variety, Ron and Russel Mael explained how their collaboration with Blanchett happened. Russell said, “When she first heard it, she said, ‘I’m laughing and I’m crying at the same time.” When it came to Blanchett starring in the video, Russell continued, “She came in with the red headphones she’s wearing in the video, and… she seemed like she’d actually been on a stage before or something.”

The band confirmed the news they was at Glastonbury festival prior to their surprise set on stage, posting a picture to their Instagram of a bunch of flags, with one saying ‘’CHURN IT UP.’’ The picture was captioned ‘#Glastonbury2023.

The Foo Fighters were welcomed to the stage by a sound wave of cheers. As Dave Grohl spoke to the crowd, he said, ‘’You guys fucking knew it was us this whole time, didn’t you? We’re happy to see you guys. It’s nice to see you guys after all this time.” During their performance, Dave Grohl brought his daughter, Violet, to the stage to sing one of the band’s new songs from their recently released album, ‘’But Here We Are.’’ He explained that the song, called ‘’Show Me How’’, was written as a tribute to his late-mother.

As they performed their final song, ‘‘Everlong’‘, the band dedicated the song to their late-drummer, Taylor Hawkins, who passed away last March at the age of 50. Grohl said,”Lets sing this one loud and sing for Mr Taylor.” The Glastonbury crowd cheered as he continued by saying, ”Sing it for T.” The Foo Fighters drumming spot has recently been taken over by Josh Freese. He was announced as the new drummer on a live stream of the band performing in early May on the app, Veeps. Josh Freese has worked with iconic bands such as Weezer, Nine Inch Nails and Glastonbury 2023 headliners Guns N’ Roses.

Foo Fighters sang some of their greatest hits during their Glastonbury set, including ‘’Best of You’’, ‘’My Hero’’, ‘’Learn To Fly”, ”All My Life” and ‘’The Pretender.’’ Dave Grohl also confirmed the band will be returning to the UK next summer to embark on their highly anticipated tour. A release date for the tickets or any confirmation of where they will be performing is still yet to be announced.

To re-watch the Foo Fighters Glastonbury Festival 2023 performance, to replay other performances or watch live across the weekend, click here.

The suit delivered pizzas to festival-goers who were unable to make it to the food stands due to the massive crowds. The jet suit pilots were fly directly to their customers without having to leave their spot in the crowd.

Not only did Domino’s Pizza Jet Suit catch the attention of the crowd, but it also caught the attention of social media users. One user tweeted, “wtf is going on at Domino’s Glastonbury then” along with a video of the Domino’s delivery worker landing.

See the video of the Domino’s jet suit on Twitter below:

wtf is going on at Domino’s Glastonbury then pic.twitter.com/C9SJRJjrs3

— K E N T Ø N (@tomkenton84) June 20, 2023

Footage first emerged on Tuesday where people arriving early for the festival witnessed a man in a jet suit hover around Glastonbury. After the pilot placed two pizzas into the custom-made delivery box at the top of his suit, he blasted off into the air and controlled movement using hand gestures. This allowed the pilot to manoeuvre through the crowds of Glastonbury with ease.

Glasto, more commonly known by its name Glastonbury Festival, takes place over the course of five days. This year, it is taking place between Wednesday, June 21 until Monday, June 26. The lineup for 2023 includes artists such as Central Cee, Lil Nas X, Lewis Capaldi, Lizzo, Royal Blood, and Carly Rae Jepson. Normally, around 200,000 people attend this festival every year. Nonetheless, this year’s Glastonbury marks the world’s first pizza company to deliver food via jet pack.

It is said that the jet suit idea was inspired by Elton John’s “Rocket Man” song. Elton John will be headlining the Pyramid Stage on Sunday (June 25). Over the course of the event, musicians including Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses will also be headlining the festival. However, it is still unsure whether Arctic Monkey’s will be performing. The frontman of the band, Alex Turner, was diagnosed with acute laryngitis.

In addition to this, Sir Elton John’s husband has revealed that four other stars would be performing alongside Elton. The Evening Standard speculated a variety of possible celebrities include Britney Spears, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Eminem, Kate Bush, and Taron Egerton.

Live performances from the festival will be available to watch on the BBC.

Music from this years Glastonbury acts will be available to watch live across BBC One, Two, Three and Four. The performances will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds throughout the festival. Presenting the BBC Glastonbury shows will be Clara Amfo, Jack Saunders, Lauren Laverne and Jo Whiley. The BBC will provide Glastonbury coverage live over the weekend, beginning Friday 23 June, 12pm until late evening – until Sunday 25 June late evening.

The BBC will provide audiences with live Glastonbury performances, preview programmes, interviews with performers and more. Live performances will be available to watch from the Pyramid stage, West Holts, John Peel, Other and Park Stages.
Over 90 performances will be broadcast on BBC iPlayer for audiences to watch for up to 30 days after the event. Emerging UK artists performing on the BBC Introducing Stage will also be available to stream for a week after Glastonbury, from Monday 26 June until Friday 30 June.

The festival will be broadcast all day on BBC Sounds from Wednesday 21 June. Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2 and Radio 6 will provide audiences with extensive coverage of the event. In addition to the live coverage of Glastonbury 2023, BBC iPlayer will be airing several shows in the lead-up to the festival. The launch of a brand new show, called Signed, will be available to stream on the broadcaster, which will show every Pyramid stage live performance in British Sign Language.

The highlight’s from the performances on Friday will be shown on BBC Two at 7.30pm. Arctic Monkey’s Glastonbury set will be available to watch live on Friday 23 June on BBC Two from 10.30pm until Midnight. BBC Three will show performances from Fred Again.. and will continue to cover the highlights from Friday’s Glastonbury performances, including Shygirl and Wizkid.

On Saturday 24 June on BBC One, Lizzo and Lewis Capaldi’s performances will be available to watch at 9pm until 10pm. To watch Guns N’ Roses perform, BBC Two will be covering their set from 10pm until 2am. BBC Three will be covering Central Cee and Loyle Camer at 12.15am until 2am.

On the final day of the event, Sunday 25 June, coverage from the festival will begin at 5pm on BBC One, with highlights of Rick Astley and Blondie’s sets. Elton John will perform his last ever performance on the Pyramid stage at 9pm, which will be available to watch on BBC One. Elton John’s set will finish just after 11pm. The War on Drugs and Queens of the Stone Age‘s performances will be available to watch on BBC Four from 10pm until 12.15am. BBC Two will broadcast a show from 11pm until 12.20am, with the BBC presenter’s wrapping up the Glastonbury Festival weekend.

Jovi Bunce and Abigal Pearce from Didsbury were the fortunate couple to win the tickets. In the video Jovi uploaded to YouTube on the 25^th April, an unexpecting Abigal is seen kissing the bar before opening it and finding the coveted tickets. The camera then flips to Jovi doing a victory lap and jumping with joy whilst shouting “No way!”. Charlie Bucket would be proud. Watch the video below:

For anyone wondering what winning a Golden Ticket to #Glastonbury Festival looks like… pic.twitter.com/kGZwp53Xzn

— Glasto Fest Feed (@GlastoFestFeed) April 25, 2023

Tony’s Chocolonely, whose mission is to make chocolate 100% exploitation free by ending modern slavery and child labour in the chocolate industry, has teamed up with Oxfam to create the bars. All profits from the limited-edition bars will go to Glastonbury’s charity partner Oxfam. Set up by Dutch television producer and journalist Teun van de Keuken back in 2005, Tony’s Chocolonely is an award-winning company that made its products available in the UK in 2019. The ticket containing chocolate bars will be available to purchase until the 16^th June. Bars are sold out online but are still available to purchase at your local Oxfam shop for just £3.99. Find your local store here. Tony’s Chocolonely shared the video of the couple winning the tickets on its Twitter page writing, “Drum roll.. we have our first winner! Congrats to Jovi, who after missing out on resale bought his winning @oxfamgb @glastonbury bar at @OxfamDidsbury”. They confirmed that the couple are the first winners in their caption: “No need for FOMO. There’s still 4 more pairs of tickets to be found”. One of the videos the chocolate company shared on its Twitter currently has over 33.4K views.

Drum roll.. we have our first winner! Congrats to Jovi, who after missing out on resale bought his winning @oxfamgb @glastonbury bar at @OxfamDidsbury No need for FOMO. There’s still 4 more pairs of tickets to be found Find your local Oxfam: https://t.co/X7jXM5Kgfa pic.twitter.com/30mZ4TOtM4 — Tony’s Chocolonely UK & IRE (@TonysChocoUK_IE) April 25, 2023

This year the last wave of Glastonbury tickets sold out in just six minutes on the 23^rd April leaving many wannabe festival-goers gutted they missed out. The festival will be held from 21^st – 25^th June on Worthy Farm with Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, and Elton John headlining the Pyramid Stage. Other acts playing Glasto include Lana Del Rey, Lizzo, The War On Drugs, Chvrches, Shygirl, Rina Sawayama, Lil Nas X, Blondie, Alt-J, Christine And The Queens, Carly Rae Jepsen, Fred Again.., FLO, Joey Bada$$, and Manic Street Preachers. See the above poster for the full line up.