Tilly and Bilal dust off the mic and get back to some festival line up chat, including Isle of Wight, Reading and Leeds, All Points East. We are not talking about Kanye - we recorded before the news.

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.

Please follow us if you want to stay in touch with our episodes over the winter.  

Link to Primary School Bangers tour

Random act chatting about lions - Otto and Astrid

Echo 17 Festival was created by the team at How to Build a Festival Podcast.

The festival is this weekend (20 September 2025).

Cat, Rachel and Ross join Tilly to discuss what's on, how they created it and the biggest challenges they faced.

Tickets are available through this link.

Bilal and Tilly will both be there - we legit bought the first two tickets.

Check out the line up here

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

Apple Link

Spotify Link

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.

Give her a follow on Instagram and check out her music on Spotify 

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.