Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor on Coldplay taking the stage at Glastonbury 2024

Thousands of people have poured into Worthy Farm in southwest England for this year's Glastonbury music festival.

Coldplay is set to headline this year's edition, alongside other big names such as Dua Lipa, SZA and Cyndi Lauper.

Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall unpacks the event - including some other surprise contributions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
So we've just been talking to Paul Henry about the
media moving with the times, and I'll tell you what
the BBC I'm moving with the times. You might recognize
it just in the background there a little bit. This
is the BBC News thing and tell us all about
it and talk entertainment is Steve Newill, editor at flex
dot co dot m Z Jesus is really funking things up.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's a bit hectic.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's quite hectic. So the BBC. This is a drum
and bassed remix of their news theme, which is exactly
what you'd expect them to do. Well, how's this coming about?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, this weekend is Glastonbury. Yes, think flags, think mud,
think music. I think hundreds of thousands of wasted British people.
And one of those, one of the many many performers
is BBC News Analysis editor Ross Atkins. He did a
daytime drum and bassed set at Glastonbury and to really

(01:09):
whip people into a frenzy, he got someone to make
a drum and based remix of the BBC News theme
and that's what we just heard, a small snippet of
I bet everyone's going to want to listen to all
of its.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, no, I'm sure actually does sort of calm down
and you do hear the theme a little bit more
clearly in the track, and it's actually quite good.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's actually quite good, and it reminds me of drum
and bass remixes of O Novius and the Bunnings theme
and yeah, look, look there's a there's a rich heritage
of repurposing.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's so funny. It'd be great to actually hear the
BBC using that over the weekend to look like they're really.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Looking cool this weekend. They are all over Glastonbury coverage.
If you are a user of BBC's I Play, you'll
be able to have watched a whole bunch of live
stuff already coming out of Glastonbury right now, Cold Player playing.
They opened with Yellow, which.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Was oh, just a big, big.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Call for a headline band to open with one of
their bigger songs. It's the fifth time, a record breaking
fifth time they're playing Glastonbury this weekend, and I think
they're they're on for about another or fifteen minutes, half
an hour, not that anyone should stop listening to this
radio show and watch Coldplay, and that's a no.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
We don't need to. They're coming here later in the year.
They're playing the.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
What you can watch in your own time. Last night's
headliner yes or yesterday for us was du a Leaper
played a staggering fifteen top forty hits. Mental played to
one hundred thousand people. That sets up in BBC dot
com has that set in full. You watch it your
leisure and if you check out their YouTube page you

(02:57):
can see clips from a bunch of different performances, everyone
from Cyndey Lauper to PJ Harvey, Alcity sound System its
titles Jungle. One thing I'm hoping turns up is some
footage of DJ Messi. This is the New Zealand DJ
who Fred again took under his wing when he toured
down here, sort of plucked from relative obscurity to open

(03:19):
for him and got an invite to play glaston Vill Awesome.
Hopefully no immigration problems like the news stories around Fred again.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
So just confirming we can watch the shows that have
been You could jump on and watch them online for
if you.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Have Eyeplayer, you can have access to those that's all
the bricks listening will know what I'm talking about, maybe
less so for New Zealanders, but you can watch the
door Leaper set in full on the BBC website and yeah,
the BBC YouTube channel will have lots of great clips
and they'll just keep rolling out over the next days
and weeks.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
And I see that already people are coming out and
saying was she singing? Or was she lip sinking?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
If you think a pop star is still to come up,
still to come on Glastonbury The Sunday lineup Sunday UK
Times that'll be for us early tomorrow morning, headlined by Scissor.
Other artists include Janelle Money, Shania Twain, The National, Everil Levigne,
Justice Near Archives and another key We Connection and Jordan

(04:22):
at Archive actually a little bit more key We Connection.
If we can just claim this one. Russell Crowe played
Glastonbury over the weekend as well with a band. Yeah.
I think it's it's a something Garden party Russell craw.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Right good on them.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
But nevertheless there's just big beardy, big beardy crooning going on.
We still claim Russell, I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah we do, Okay, I do, yep, thank you so
much Steve, and for reminding us that we can go
and watch a few good gigs at some point over
the weekend.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Gumboats required.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
No Gubet's beautiful weather. Yeah no, it looked like beautiful weather,
but it did look like beautiful weather as well. Put
your gumpets on.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
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