What follows, then, is team Crack Magazine’s highlight reel. Often, the moments that gave the festival meaning and shape were fleeting and personal: Batu dropping an edit of Sparks’ Beat the Clock on Thursday night at Block9’s impressive IICON Central Cee and Dave performing their summer smash Sprinter to an adoring crowd, accompanied by the infant star of the song’s video Danielle and Shanti Celeste opening – and filling – new stage The Levels in less than a blink of an eye. Indeed, this year of all years reaffirmed the creaky truism that Glastonbury is so much more than the sum of the bold-type marquee acts, and that the real magic lies in beating your own desire path through its countless stages, hidden areas, onsite nightclubs, immersive art installations and discussion hubs (shout out to Silver Hayes’ new addition, The Information). A discussion that, while absolutely valid, seemed redundant the minute you were on the ground at Worthy Farm. How will Glastonbury 2023 be remembered? Soaring temperatures? Surprise-but-not- really -surprise appearances? Heartbreaking curfews? Cate Blanchett cameos? Surely it won’t be the Succession flags?Ĭast your minds back to March of this year and this year’s festival pre-emptive takeaway looked, for all intents and purposes, to be a divisive triplet of all-male Pyramid stage headliners.
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