Tilly and Bilal sit down with singer-songwriter Fiona-Lee to discuss their debut at Glastonbury Festival, where they opened on the BBC Introducing stage on the Thursday. 

Find Fiona-Lee on Instagram here

Fiona-Lee shares what it was like experiencing festival as both a performer and first-time attendee, from navigating the massive site to finding random performers. We dive into the creative process behind their song "Mother," exploring the inspiration (occasional stunned silence!) and songwriting journey with other artists that brought this track to life. The conversation covers a lot with this incredible up-and-coming musician.

The song Mother

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Find Fiona-Lee this summer at:

Y Not in Derbyshire (1 August) 

Humber Street Sesh in Hull (2 August)

For the cover of High and Dry by Radiohead 

An episode for the journey into the festival, maybe for the last thirty minutes before you reach the site.  

In this episode Bilal and Tilly record on the go, using their new mobile microphones and travel through fictional Bristol to their fictional coach to fictional Glastonbury 2025.  It's all a bit daft.  Maybe you like it.  We do this once a year.   

If you haven't listened to us before, maybe don't start with this episode.

We are also joined by the Samaritans for a couple of minutes towards the end of episode. Find out more about them or donate here

Thank you to the amazing guests for their cameos (spoilers below)

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James, aka State of the Ground Guy  

William from "This Album..." with William Hann 

Rachel and Ross from How to Build a Festival

Jessi and Miguel from GlastoCast

The incredibly talented Nina Arya is playing BBC Introducing at Glastonbury Festival at 15:30 Sunday 

She chat to us about how she found out that this is playing Glastonbury and her songwriting process.

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We are joined by Dominic who previously recorded with us on going to Glastonbury solo.  In this episode we chat about rumours for big name secret sets at Woodsies and the Park as well as our favourite smaller stages.

No Tilly this week, just Bilal.  In our 50th episode we go back to the start with our very first guest, Grahame.  We chat about lesser known artists away from the big stages and maybe we now know who Patchwork are?

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This week Jessi joins us to discuss which are the best campsites at Glastonbury and a little bit about volunteering at Oxfam.

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This week we are joined by host of "This Album..." with William Hann to discuss arrival at Glastonbury Festival and what to expect on a Wednesday.

William has released several Glastonbury specials, you can find the latest one via this link https://open.spotify.com/episode/2p4nR0YZ4K8cacBuMNfBaE?si=fEOWpyj-Qjqou0BXyqK0AA 

Need a packing list?

https://festivalsounds.co.uk/part-10-packing-list-glasto

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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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