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00:00Hello and welcome to Glastonbury Festival 2025.
00:23Yes, we are back on Worthy Farm and ready for another sensational weekend of live music
00:29and entertainment.
00:30Oh, we sure are. So, this is the deal. Over the next three days, it is us, it is you,
00:35we are together. We are absolutely live. We're definitely live. Oh yeah, we are. And we are
00:39bringing you all the action from the biggest and the best festival in the world.
00:43Yes, it is the biggest. Quite a few of us here. So, the gates opened yesterday morning.
00:48Some 200,000 music fans have flocked to the fields behind us. It's not just them, obviously.
00:543,000 artists are ready to perform here on over 100 stages. Yes, Glastonbury Festival
01:00has truly begun.
01:01That's it. And tonight, we're going to be giving you a taste of what is to come over the weekend,
01:04including lots of great music that happens in this very part stage, because I think it
01:08wouldn't be that without it.
01:09We like a live performance, Clara. We do like a live performance. So, Anthony Schmerich
01:14is going to be here. He's a really talented spoken word artist from Manchester, 0161, stand-up.
01:19And also, we've got the brilliant Billy Martin, singer-songwriter, just delighting us with
01:23her vocal talent.
01:24From Ripon to Northerners, I'm very happy.
01:26North, south of Ireland, what's that?
01:28I know, I don't know. It's all love.
01:30Yeah.
01:31But before we get into the live music, let's catch ourselves up on the story so far.
01:35This is the first 24 hours at Glastonbury 2025.
01:39Oh my god!
01:40Oh my god!
01:41Yeaahhh!
01:42Yeaahhh!
01:43Yeaahhh!
01:47Yeaahhh!
01:48Yeaahhh!
01:49Yeaahhh!
01:50Yeaahhh!
01:51Yeaahhh!
01:52Yeaahhh!
01:53Yeaahhh!
01:54And I'm in the living for love.
01:59So take it easy on me.
02:02And when the war is over.
02:07So take it easy on me.
02:08That I'm in love with the world
02:14And I'm in love with the world
02:20And I'm in love
02:22So take it easy, I mean
02:26Take it easy
02:28I don't know why it's so far
02:31Cause it's so long for
02:34That I'm in love with the world
02:37Cause love is the world
02:39And I'm in love with the world
02:43So that is the story so far
02:48Now many of you at home will be delighted
02:50In a schadenfreude sense for me to tell you that it is
02:53Actually raining here
02:55We haven't had a wet Glastonbury for a while
02:56But you might notice that we've got an umbrella protecting a laptop
02:59That's it, we've got to protect the tech
03:01It's a high-tech solution, Clara
03:03That's it, it's all right
03:04Women in STEM, I support it
03:05Exactly
03:06As promised, some live music for you
03:08Anthony Schmerich, spoken word artist from Manchester
03:11He's so, so talented
03:12If you are in the Stockport area
03:14I'm sure you are aware of his love of pyramids
03:16More on that later
03:17But here he is now
03:18This is Anthony Schmerich with us at Glastonbury 25
03:20I'm Indiana Jones
03:25I'm Indiana Jones, you're that big polystyrene boulder
03:28Is this what you thought you'd be when you fantasised about getting older?
03:32Left lane's slow, the right one's for taking over
03:34Your ghost hogs the middle lane
03:36I set a call on Thursday but I never
03:38Too much grind, not enough rise
03:40That's where I almost broke through last night
03:42And there's only so many times I can simulation theory myself at a lunch
03:45Put this question seven, just a hunch
03:48Play a patch and live closer to the France
03:50The France 98 World Cup and the construction of the pyramids
03:53You've got to wake up
03:54Come on then!
03:57You get one life living
03:58In the Valley of the Kings
04:00Motivationally speaking
04:02You get everything you need
04:04And I've seen a period
04:13They built one in Stockport
04:15A reincarnated insurance headquarters
04:17Now an Indian restaurant
04:18And the possibilities are endless
04:20If you can imagine it, then it can exist
04:22Imagine what the pharaohs could have done
04:24With a four-day working week
04:25And a three-fingered twist
04:26A Stockport council abandoned their Valley of the Kings
04:30But I'll never abandon you
04:31God bless those big black squares
04:33We keep in the corner of the room
04:35And remember
04:36You can do anything
04:38And if we can, then so can you, baby
04:42You get one life living
04:44In the Valley of the Kings
04:47Motivationally speaking
04:49You get everything you need
04:50You get one life living
04:52In the Valley of the Kings
04:54Motivationally speaking
04:56You get everything you need
04:58Glastonbury 2025
05:00We have commenced
05:02It's party time
05:05And I'll be
05:07Worshipping the sunrise
05:10You believe
05:11Everything is alright
05:13You get one life living
05:23You get one life living
05:23In the Valley of the Kings
05:25Motivationally speaking
05:27You get everything you need
05:29You get one life living
05:31In the Valley of the Kings
05:33Motivationally speaking
05:35You get everything you need
05:36You get one life living
05:37You get one life living
05:38You get one life living
05:39In the Valley of the Kings
05:40Motivationally speaking
05:42You get everything you need
05:44You get one life living
05:45You get one life living
05:46You get one life living
05:47You get one life living
05:48In the Valley of the Kings
05:49Motivationally speaking
05:50Open her up Tommy
05:51Open her up Tommy
05:52Alright
05:53Three great pyramids of the world
05:54The great pyramid of Stockport
05:56The great pyramid of Pilton
05:58And the great pyramids of Giza
06:00On your sofa with your cup of tea
06:02On your sofa with your cup of tea
06:04Get your hands up
06:06I'll be
06:08Worshipping the sunrise
06:10You believe
06:12Everything is alright
06:14I'll be
06:16Worshipping the sunrise
06:18You believe
06:20Everything is alright
06:22Yes!
06:26Yes!
06:30Thank you!
06:31Anthony come
06:32Come on over
06:33Come over to us
06:34Come and get cozy
06:35Get out of the rain
06:36Thank you for that Anthony
06:37I am coursing with adrenaline
06:39Anthony
06:40Through your veins
06:41That's what live TV is all about
06:42Absolutely
06:43And live performance
06:44Now listen
06:45Anthony when we first met
06:46A few years ago
06:47You were an English teacher
06:48You taught yourself
06:49You know
06:50To use a bit of recording equipment
06:51During lockdown
06:52And started making music
06:54Life is pretty different for you now
06:55A few years later
06:56Yeah
06:57The debut album is out
06:58Critically acclaimed tour
06:59You've written a book
07:00And now Glastonbury festival
07:02How was life at the moment?
07:04It's
07:05Yeah it has changed
07:06We had a little chat before
07:07Sort of like the last six months
07:08I kind of live in budget hotels now
07:10And that sort of thing
07:11I'm out and about
07:12But this is a dream
07:13I've watched this
07:14I've watched this so many years
07:15This is mad
07:16To be looking at you both
07:17It's kind of out of body
07:18But I'm very
07:19I feel very lucky
07:20I'm very happy to be here
07:21And like this is the best party in the world
07:23Currently
07:24Currently
07:25And we're at it
07:26Truly living the dream
07:27Anthony you give the energy of like
07:28You know the inspirational teacher
07:29That you see in those movies
07:30I hope so
07:31You know
07:32Mr. Schneebly
07:33And it's kind of sure
07:34At the start as well
07:35That's it
07:36I'm sure your ex pupils are watching this
07:37Beaming with pride
07:38Or humiliated
07:39I think it's pride
07:40It's 50-50
07:41It could be a bit of both
07:42I think it has to be
07:44Or you're not doing it correctly
07:45There you go
07:46Now this isn't your first rodeo
07:47You've been to Glastonby
07:48Three times now
07:49Yeah
07:50So tomorrow night
07:51It is you on the left field stage
07:52What's the vibe third time around?
07:54I feel like we feel a bit more confident this time
07:57We
07:58Well I hope people will come
08:00But we feel like people will come and dance with us
08:01Where every other year has just been
08:03Existential dread for weeks
08:05But no we're excited
08:06I think it's going to be a party
08:07It's a really good slot
08:08We're on the left field
08:09We're on before Billy Bragg
08:10You can't get a more Glastonbury slot than that
08:13That's the real like spirit of Glastonbury
08:15Especially for what you do
08:16Like that you know
08:17The lineage is there isn't it?
08:18Yeah
08:19And also that's the nod
08:20Because he runs the left field right?
08:21Yeah
08:22He's like the king of it
08:23If you're on before him you're doing alright
08:24Yeah
08:25Good luck with it
08:26Thank you so much
08:27Wonderful to see you
08:28Yeah
08:29Fabulous to have you here at Glastonbury
08:30Nice one
08:31And we do have a whole weekend
08:32Of glorious live music for you
08:34So let's take a look at what's coming up
08:38It's like rain
08:41Alanis Morissette
08:42Get on your way
08:43Yeah
08:44Just like the sun
08:47Loyal Connor
08:48Know that I've been patient
08:51When I know you're around
08:53The 1975
08:55Sound of your heart
08:57What's it gonna be
08:59Cause
09:00I'm guessing
09:01No
09:02A 360
09:03When you're in my marriage
09:04Charlie XCX
09:06You're just looking at me
09:07I'm everywhere
09:08I'm so Julia
09:09Oh
09:10Oh
09:11Oh
09:12Oh
09:13Oh
09:14Oh
09:15Oh
09:16Oh
09:17Oh
09:18Oh
09:19Oh
09:20Oh
09:21Oh
09:23Oh
09:24Oh
09:25Oh
09:26Oh
09:27Oh
09:28Oh
09:29Oh
09:30Oh
09:31Oh
09:32Oh
09:33Oh
09:34Oh
09:35Oh
09:38Oh
09:39Oh
09:40Oh
09:41Oh
09:42Oh
09:43Oh
09:44Oh
09:45Oh
09:46Oh
09:47I want your love, I want your love
09:53Niall Rogers and Sheik
09:55Olivia Rodrigo
10:01And Rod Stewart
10:07Well, that is a jam-packed weekend patchwork though, Clara.
10:17Oh, patchwork.
10:19I mean, dare we hint to what we think we know, Lauren?
10:22Curiouser and curiouser.
10:24I'm going to know it quietly, that's what I think.
10:26That's it, that's it.
10:28Now, often when people talk about running away to the circus,
10:31Glastonbury isn't the first place they think of,
10:32but baby, the circus has been here, has it not?
10:35Oh, yeah.
10:35I mean, always been a big part of the festival,
10:37but not on the main stage since the mid-90s.
10:40Yeah, that's it.
10:41Actually, once upon a time, I think my first Glastonbury,
10:43I actually went to the trapeze area and tried that out.
10:46But that was one of the most scariest,
10:48but most exhilarating moments of my life.
10:50But we are delighted that the circus is back.
10:51In fact, it opened up the festival just yesterday
10:54on the Pyramid's Day, so check this out.
10:56We are the opening ceremony for the festival.
11:05The show is called The Dreamweaver's Journey,
11:07and really it is there for the community of Glastonbury,
11:11that are the crews and stuff, but also the public,
11:13to be able to celebrate what Glastonbury stands for.
11:16It's the first time anything that is of a creative nature
11:21has opened the festival at the Pyramid stage since 1990.
11:24I never thought in a million years I'd be stood here in Glastonbury
11:32after having a commission to write the music for the opening ceremony.
11:36It's just phenomenal.
11:36The general concept of everything is that once you're here,
11:41it's like another world.
11:42It's like the rest of the outside world doesn't exist.
11:44So this is kind of like ethereal quality,
11:46something quite magical about being here.
11:49There's a big, big sense of togetherness,
11:51of community, of unity,
11:52but there's also the chaos, the rebellious side,
11:55the rocking out and the partying.
11:57It's been a huge challenge because the festival hasn't started yet,
12:02so we're not allowed to do any amplified sound,
12:04so we're using the audience to become our soundscape.
12:08What we can do here is we can have satellite choirs throughout the field,
12:12we can have audience participation by way of a graphical score,
12:15and that hopefully will encourage everyone to get involved
12:18in singing parts of the piece.
12:22There's two and a half thousand litter pickers here,
12:25and we've asked them to come along and be part of this
12:28and be audience instigators to help the audience sing along.
12:31And at last count, we had 1,800 members of crew from across site
12:36who volunteered to come and participate with us tonight.
12:39So, including them, we've got a cast of over 2,000.
12:50We've done a very aerial-heavy show,
12:52but we've got Aerial Who, we've got Paul.
12:55The ball is not only going round,
13:00but also spinning on itself,
13:05so it's a lot of abdominals work
13:08and a lot of communion with the wind.
13:14Fire performance.
13:15We've got dance trapeze, we've got a flying bike.
13:18I come from all the way from the floor,
13:22and I've been lifting up in a crane,
13:25going all the way up to 25 metres above the floor,
13:29and that's how the show begins.
13:32We've got a flying taiko drum,
13:34we have more aerial hoops up on the crane,
13:37we also have Johnny and Tilly with a beautiful three-way dance
13:41between Johnny, Tilly and Johnny's wheelchair,
13:43Johnny's wheelchair, which is absolutely stunning.
13:46Having this open the festival
13:48is such a great exposure for artists
13:52that put so much work into not just the music,
13:55but all the other art films
13:56that are brought to this amazing festival.
13:59As a disabled person,
14:01seeing this representation on TV,
14:03I didn't get that when I was younger,
14:05and hopefully this can have an impact
14:08and just help other disabled people see,
14:10like, this is possible,
14:11and let's keep on messing with it
14:14and making it better and wilder.
14:28Collaboratively, we are bigger
14:30than some of our individual parts.
14:34It's going to be really cool
14:35to see it all come together
14:37and see all the hard work
14:39that so many people have put into it.
14:41Tonight is going to be just
14:43a beautiful, a beautiful moment
14:46that I will remember forever.
14:52Mum made it all absolutely well done.
14:54It was very good.
14:55It was brilliant.
14:56I think all the hard work was worth it.
14:58I really do.
14:59I think it was lovely.
15:00That was something else.
15:01And the audience seemed to enjoy it,
15:02so what more can we ask?
15:05So, come back.
15:08What a start to Glastonbury Festival.
15:10You know?
15:10Wonderful.
15:11I think it's time for some live music now.
15:13I think so.
15:14We are delighted to welcome
15:15Billy Martin into our glorious studio.
15:18A new album's coming out soon,
15:19which we're going to be talking to her about shortly.
15:21But for now, here she is
15:22from the upcoming record, Dog Eared.
15:24This is Billy Martin.
15:25Sweet believes and cut the end.
16:12Barely grown enough to stand, and looking at the ear, and you look so blue, and you look so clean, I'm on that way, hey, hey, I'm in the dream.
16:42We are all so lightly here, softer than a rabbit ear.
17:04Watch me as I disappear into the great unknown, and you look so good, and you look so clean.
17:22I'm on that way, hey, hey, hey.
17:30I'm about to breathe into the feeling.
17:40Into the feeling.
17:50I'm on that way, hey, hey.
17:52I'm on that way, hey, hey.
18:08Oh, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy.
18:28We come armed with an umbrella to protect you.
18:31Thank you so much.
18:32There we go.
18:33Let's all get together under the molly.
18:34Billy, you are performing tomorrow.
18:36How are you feeling about the gig?
18:37What's the plan?
18:38I'm very ready.
18:39There's a bubble machine.
18:41There's a band.
18:42I'm ready.
18:43I like the sound of that.
18:44And also, new album.
18:45What, two weeks until release?
18:47Whenever 18th of July is.
18:49That's when it is.
18:50Yeah, super soon.
18:51How are you feeling about that?
18:52Again, very ready.
18:54There's no bubble machine.
18:56But ten songs, ten new songs.
18:58Yeah, thrilled.
18:58Billy Martin, guys, she is ready.
19:00Thank you so much.
19:01Born ready.
19:02Born ready with a bubble machine as well.
19:04Thank you so much.
19:05We've got something very special for you now.
19:07The Glastonbury Festival works with a host of artists, especially when developing new areas.
19:12And one that we're going to find out a bit more about now is a stained glass artist called Edgar Phillips.
19:17He's actually a stained glass artist in residence.
19:19That's it.
19:19Is it the Palace of the Bishop of Wales?
19:22That's it, yeah.
19:23In the local area.
19:23The Palace of the Bishop of...
19:25Bishop's Palace in Wales.
19:27What a title.
19:28Imagine.
19:28But that's it.
19:29He's a very important man.
19:30So we're going to be following his journey throughout Glastonbury.
19:32Because as we say, Glastonbury supports artists from near and far.
19:35And this year, it's all about him.
19:37So he has been working on Dragon's Tale.
19:39Actually, a new part of Dragon's Tale, which is in the southeast corner of Glastonbury.
19:43This is Edgar.
19:56For us, we love working with thousands of artists.
20:01It's one of the things that I love the most is the sort of the canvas element of this space.
20:05We created some space in the southeast corner.
20:13We talked about calling it Dragon's Tale.
20:17And Edgar came to us at the right moment.
20:20It was just one of those things.
20:24In Somerset, we have this legend of the dragon of Wales.
20:30And it terrorised this area.
20:32Bishop Jostin came along, set out with his sword, and slew the dragon.
20:39Since then, it's marked in different artwork all over the county.
20:44And even the flag of Somerset is a dragon.
20:48All the folklore surrounding dragons, all the mysticism and magical elements.
20:54We have such a connection in the Vale of Avalon to dragons.
20:57My dad was an antiques dealer on Portobello Road.
21:03He got into the arts and crafts movement, buying and selling, especially stained glass.
21:09And he started selling so much stained glass that he was needing to get it restored.
21:14So I'd go in on my weekends and in my summer holidays and earn stained glass.
21:18So for me, no matter what state I'm in in my life, it's always there.
21:27I had my fair share of mental health and struggles.
21:38And one day, it was all too much.
21:44I sort of closed my eyes and it was like oblivion.
21:47It was just deep.
21:49And in that deep, burnt this pair of wings.
21:52And my eyes kind of opened up.
21:54I stopped.
21:57And I knew immediately what I had to do.
22:08Emily Evis saw them and said, I'd like these at the festival.
22:15It's been a wonderful journey from then.
22:18It created that relationship with Glastonbury.
22:20They've really supported me.
22:22And I'd just done a couple of other little sketches of other things.
22:26And they pointed at that one sketch of this dragon.
22:31They were like, what's that?
22:33All these people just coming up with so many ideas all year.
22:37We were like, okay, let's get Edgar, who we know so well,
22:42to design a stained glass dragon for this area.
22:46This bright dragon on the hill at night will draw people up.
22:55And then they'll be able to look back down over the festival site.
22:59The dragon itself is something like 46 metres in length overall.
23:06It's been brought to life in a very short timeline.
23:13So literally 11 weeks.
23:1611 weeks.
23:21Edgar rocks up with a cardboard cutter of a dragon.
23:24Much different from the normal day-to-day work.
23:27We're making a church worth of glass.
23:32My son has kindly come on board to help me out.
23:36The dragon is very much coming to life.
23:40The timing now, less than two weeks, it's, you know, you start really feeling it.
23:45I'm starting to see it all together, and it's a monster.
23:50We're nearly there.
23:51We're nearly there.
23:56Beautiful work from Edgar there.
23:58We're going to be following the journey of Dragon's Tale throughout the Glastonbury weekend.
24:01Gorgeous.
24:02I, for one, am intrigued.
24:03Tomorrow night now, we are going to be able to bring you our first pyramid stage headliner.
24:08That will be the 1975.
24:10Very excited about that.
24:12So we thought that we would whet your appetite for tomorrow night's activity
24:15by taking you back to the last time that they visited Worthy Farm in 2016.
24:20This is the 1975 performing The Sound.
24:30Glastonbury.
24:33Yeah, let's go.
24:38Yeah, let's go.
25:08Yeah, let's go.
25:38Yeah, let's go.
25:39It's not about my separation, it's just all about me
25:48A sycophantic, prophetic, socratic, junkie wannabe
25:53It's all my skin, seriously
25:56A simple, accurate philosophy, I love you
26:00I'm such a cliché
26:04Oh, I can't see the difference in an evil way
26:07And we love you, except it's at my mental health
26:12Where you call me when you're bored and you're playing when you're sad
26:16You look the city up, you say I love you
26:20What does it matter if I like to be?
26:24I don't have credit when I'm glad when I'm through it
26:27You tell me that you just don't get it
26:30Go!
26:31When I know it goes wrong, I know it's not, I know it's not
26:36You look the same
26:38When I know it goes wrong, it's not a sound
26:42I know it's not, I know it's not, I know it's not
26:46When I know it goes wrong, it's not a sound
26:50Now everybody if you're young if you're old if you're covered in shit if you're not it doesn't matter
27:09Everybody's gonna start jumping up and down moving side to side on account for
27:20That's the best make it go!
27:50When I know we go around kids I know the sound I know the sound I know the sound of your heart
28:18Class of 2016 can you believe it truly does the 1975 he'll be headlining the pyramid stage tomorrow also happening tomorrow is the kicking off of the channel the iPlayer
28:33The Class of the channel on iPlayer so from midday tomorrow you can expect amazing sets from CMAT and Supergrass kicking things off as well as all your faves from six different stages so lots to look forward to
28:45Exactly get yourself on site in the virtual sense and find out who those secret sets are by those interesting little gaps in the lineup of course we've got some Glastonbury debuts
28:54I'm so excited about Busta Rhymes and Dochi two hip hop legends at the farm for the first time
28:59But the question is who do you go and see is it Dochi is it Sister Scissors is it Charlie XCX because that my friends is one clash
29:06What a clash so tricky I mean also the breadth very exciting today I interviewed both Marshall Jefferson and Mr. Tumble tomorrow anything could happen
29:15We'll be back with you over the weekend for now thank you very much for watching and good night see you soon
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