Top 5 of Glastonbury 2014

[found home in 2009]

1. Clean bandit - a packed john peel tent singing there is no place I'd rather be and the amazed look on the singers faces was one of my all time favourite festival moments.

2. Cuban brothers

3. Metallica

4. Dolly

5. Crystal fighters

Hard to decide tho as I enjoyed everything I saw except blondie (Debbie Harry was terrible) and jack white(had such high expectations and though it was okay it left me very disappointed.

My girl friends top 5 were Dolly, Cuban brothers,kasabian, clean bandit and crystal fighters. Jake bugg was on her list till she realised she'd forgot dolly

[Ted Dansons Wig]

The Trojans

Jump 66

Both in the Rocket Lounge. Absolutely bloody marvellous.

North Mississippi All Stars

Pixies

Daptones.

Would also have included Vintage Trouble if the rain gods hadn't intervened.

[carlmcq]

In chronological order

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Arcade Fire

Royal Blood

White Lies

Kasabian

Special mention too to Showhawk Duo on Thursday night in Croissant Neuf

[ohvienna]

Jungle - great way to kick the weekend off dancing away in JP, it also made me happy to see the turnout and how blown away by it they seemed!

Metallica, Royal Blood, Dolly and Bombay Bicycle Club in the bbc introducing tent!

[TheBoz]

In order

1. Arcade Fire

2. Royal Blood

3. Mogwai

4. Disclosure

5. St. Vincent

Also mentions to White Lies, Rudimental and Metronomy in William's Green on the Thursday night

[smogo]

Skrillex (other)

Jus Now (gully)

DJ EZ (arcadia)

My Nu Leng (introducing)

Danny Brown (park)

And a special mention to DRS from Toddla T Sound, who kept the crowd's spirits up through an hour of pissing rain during Toddla's boat party set.

[richroet]

1 Elbow - even got a bit emotional when One Day Like This started

2 De La soul

3 Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot

4 Kasabian

5 Kaiser Chiefs opening the festival

Metallica were ok but not a fan

Black Keys a disappointment

Rodrigo y Gabriella were excellent

Blonde was ok

Maxi Priest ( not my choice) was awful the music playing before he came on 45 minutes late was 10 times better than he was

One of my favourite Glastonbury's I think

[krisskross]

Metallica

Jurassic 5

Metronomy

RN Ballet

Kate Tempest

Will try and catch up on a few sets on the iplayer - De La Sou / Jungle. The 5th spot was a close faught one with Little Dragon, Clean Bandit and a few others slipping out.

[richroet]

O and Dolly Parton was not to be missed a real coup for the festival I think

[Dixo]

1) Arcade Fire

2) Goldfrapp

3) Kasabian

4) Jagwar Ma

5) Dolly

[Dan R]

Chronological order

Beans on Toast (on the hell/snakepit/hell stage, was just a great, entertaining set)

Arcade Fire

Pixies

Dolly Parton

London Grammar

Im surprised by the lack of mentions for Pixies, I was expecting a really disinterested set but they were fantastic! So glad I left a dull Jack White early to get a good spot.

[KryziF]

Metallica

Antiflag

Skinny Lister

English national ballet

Steve Knightley

5. Some Comedian Magician Thing, he did the best Shadow Puppets ever!

[Minihay]

Rudimental

Disclosure

De La Soul

Seani B, Toddla T & Robba Ranx

Dolly Parton

But I could go on and on and on......

[phillyfaddle]

1. Royal Blood (by a country mile - my second-favourite Glastonbury performance ever - a properly special show)

Yes. Me too. I was on my own (no one wanted to come with me). They smashed it. Massive, massive enjoyment. Pipped to top spot by Metallica but only just.

Other highlights - Fat White Family, MIA, Daptone Super Soul Review. Alabama 3.

[phillyfaddle]

Oh and Dolly of course. Immense.

[ig1234]

Surprised not so many people have mentioned Deltron 3030.... absolutely my favourite new discovery, everything I anticipated and more from reading the guide...

Metallica

Deltron 3030

English National Ballet (second time I've cried at the Pyramid after Leonard Cohen)

Arcade Fire

Dolly Parton (just 'cos)

Biggest disappointment - Jack White. I fear he got Metallica's rider after they went sober.

[Toffee Crisp]

De La Soul- a surprise for me, with that moment where they called out security and forced 242 to raise his arms a particular highlight of the festival.

The Smyths- I'm not even a Smiths fan and I absolutely loved it from start to finish.

Jurassic 5- fantastic atmosphere, fantastic group. Met them after the show and they were lovely too.

The Wailers- perfect for Sunday evening

Massive Attack- wish I could remember more of it but great way to close the festival

[Yesiamaduck]

Surprised not so many people have mentioned Deltron 3030.... absolutely my favourite new discovery, everything I anticipated and more from reading the guide...

Metallica

Deltron 3030

English National Ballet (second time I've cried at the Pyramid after Leonard Cohen)

Arcade Fire

Dolly Parton (just 'cos)

Biggest disappointment - Jack White. I fear he got Metallica's rider after they went sober.

[Fake Encore]

Top 5 - No Order;

Jagwar Ma - Williams Green

Drenge - JP Tent

Royal Blood - JP Tent

Kaiser Chiefs - JP Tent

Kasabian - Pyramid

Surprise - Kelis - Thoroughly enjoyed that and new about 2/3rds of the set somehow

Disappointment - The sound bloke at Williams Green Who was unable to sort the sound out for Gaz Coombes and then it completely went, played caught by the fuzz, glancing at the man in question, before clapping walking off and looking at him like he had just pissed on his kids.

[Yesiamaduck]

He was called Paul Dabet (sp?) the shadow puppets were cool.

Edited June 30, 2014 by Yesiamaduck

[beau1]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one that enjoyed Royal Blood. That band is going to huge, I was really impressed by the quality of their performance.

[wilko8]

1. Arcade Fire

2. Bombay Bicycle Club

3. The Black Keys

4. Metronomy

5. Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip

With Kasabian getting an honourary mention for being a lot better than I'd expected they were going to be.

[kalifire]

Oh good call on Kelis, that was definitely another highlight. A really superb set.

I'd also say the Sunday lunchtime 'Tony Benn slot' at Leftfields, this time replaced with a panel discussion about the next year in politics, which will be fascinating. Ken Livingstone, Emily Benn, Billy Bragg and Lucy somebody or other, a new Labour councillor in Manchester. I found it a really interesting discussion which made me regret I'd waited until Sunday before giving Leftfields a proper go.

[Staff_Sav]

1. Crystal Fighters - JP Tent (Fri) - by a loooong long way (although the crowd around us was all having the most amazing time as well, and their intro was mesmorising)

2. The Subways - Other (Sun) - Wanted to see them live for a long time and they really looked like they were really enjoying it

3. The Black Keys - Pyramid (Sun) - Tune after Tune after Tune, loved it

4. Kasabian - Pyramid (Sun) - A Band I've personally always loved, but had a few too many tunes from their new album which is their most disapointing yet

5. Me doing Hip-Hop Karaoke - Stonebridge Bar (Sat) - Cos I was awesome (Actually the girl who sang that "Get the fuck up" tune was probably better, but She wasn't wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, so I win)

[howlin_pete]

Anti-flag

Dolly

Arcade Fire

Dan Le Sac

Metallica