Glastonbury 2025 celebrated its 52nd bash June 25–29 at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Pilton, England.

The massive five festival spread about the 1,000 acre farm boasts more than 120 stages where approximately 4,000 artists entertain over 200,000 music lovers with a party that starts early and ends in the wee hours every night.

This year also served as the final Glastonbury before a scheduled fallow year in 2026.

Fallow? Indeed. The deeply intentioned organizers periodically take a break about every five or six years to allow the land at Worthy Farm to recover and to give local residents and the festival team a breaky-poo to sit back and smell the roses.

If you pay close attention to many festivals, as soon as it's over, everyone takes a week or two off but then it's full steam ahead preparing for the next one. Glasto understands that not only the people, but the land should take a hiatus before it all burns out.

Sometimes even the grass needs to touch grass.

Here's some memorable moments from this year's fest.

The 1975's Charming "Chocolate" Troll

One feature audiences would probably love but for some reason never get is for arenas to utilize all the screens that not litter the venues. Especially the thin ones that circle the place that often flash ads for this or that brand.

Knowing their hit "Chocolate" is often chastised for having hard-to sing-along-with lyrics, the band threw the Glastonbury fans a bone Friday (6/27) by revealing the lyrics written by the self-proclaimed poet / frontman, Matty Healy, above the stage.

Ever the jokesters, the band did provide some of the lyrics, but others were exaggerated onomatopoeia of how he sings the tune.

It was something like HEY NOW KOI SCHPLIPI CUSHYA KNOWTHATCHA WILL
OH YA BUY YA FREN LIE CHOCOLATE.

On brand as their latest album is called Being Funny in a Foreign Language.

Charli Burns Brat Flag

If a live album is released from Charli xcx's Saturday (6/28) set would it be called Brat But Live And The Brat Flag Was Set On Fire So It's Not?

After setting her flag ablaze near the top of her set after "365" and "360" the singer told the crowd, “I’m known to have a heart of stone, but this is very fucking emotional.”

Could this mean that this Brat Summer after the original Brat Summer is official dunzo and she's ready to turn the page? Isn't that what it typically means when most people burn up their low-fi (and low-key brilliant) logo?

Charli still has a half dozen Euro festival gigs on her schedule and one in South Korea, let's see if it was Brat Fire But Just Kidding So It's Not. Get your tix on her website.

Lewis Capaldi Gets A Second Chance

Lovable Lewis Capaldi was so struck with a bout of Tourettes during his Pyramid Stage set in 2023 that he was no longer able to sing and had to cut his time short and leave. What must have been tremendously embarrassing for him and heartbreaking for his admirers, sadly it became one of the sad memories of that year.

Every now and then someone gets a second chance and there's few more worthy that the 28-year-old singer/songwriter.

"I'm not going to say much up here today because if I did I might start crying," he declared to the welcoming crowd during his short surprise set Friday (6/27).

"It's just amazing to be here with you all and I can't thank you all enough for coming out and coming and seeing me. Second time's a charm on this one everybody," he said before playing "Someone You Loved" to an audience who seemed to know every word.

"I just wanted to come and finish what I couldn't finish the first time round on this stage. I want to thank everybody at Glastonbury for giving me the chance to do so."

His 35-minute set also included the live debut of "Survive," which seemed apropos.

Neil Young Makes Youngsters Raise Their Fists At The Sky

Usually it's the old man shouting angrily at the sky because things aren't the way he thought it should be. But this weekend, a noticeably vocal group of so-called music lovers were peeved that 79-year-old Neil Young was headlining Saturday (6/28).

Others whined that it wasn't that he didn't deserve to be at the fest, but that the top billing should go to someone more contemporary with the average ticketgoer beneath one of the countless flags whipping in the breeze.

Maybe they hadn't heard there's more to the picture than meets the eye?

Neil is being backed these days by The Chrome Hearts, his new band formed less than a year ago that features includes guitarist Micah Nelson (son of Willie Nelson), bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo (both from Promise of the Real - which is Micah's brother's Lukas' band), and organist Spooner Oldham.

So there you are kids, some youth in the band compared to, say, Crazy Horse.

Not only were the whippersnappers lucky to hear Neil both rock out and pick up the acoustic for some tender tunes, but he's far more the epitome of punk than many of acts a third his age.

Last year after agreeing to be part of the 2025 Glasto, he quickly backed out when he heard the BBC were a partner. It was "too corporate" for his taste. He thought it was just a fun weekend on a hippie farm. But then things got sorted, as the locals say, and he was back on the bill.

But noticeably he was not on the BBC broadcast of the show which sounds like was his choice, not theirs. Too bad the Beeb couldn't iron that out because ol' Neil was fantastic.

Rod Stewart Reunites With Ron Wood

Speaking of classic rock icons, Rod Stewart, at 80, dominated The Legends slot of the Pyramid Stage Sunday (6/29).

In just his second visit to the farm (the first was when he headlined in 2002), the singer currently on his One Last Time tour eased through over 20 tracks over his long and hit-filled career.

Near the end of the set he brought out his Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood and the pair sang "Stay With Me" which there are five versions of on the Faces at the BBC box set we reviewed last year.

It really is inspiring to see and hear two guys up on that stage who have clearly lived lives, not only still standing but dancing around having a great time playing that raucous music they laid down over 50 years ago and barely missing a beat.

Rod's dance card is full this year as he will be touring around a lot of North America including a half dozen dates in Vegas.

Get your tickets on Rod's website.

Rod Stewart One Last Time Tour

July 8 – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, North Carolina
July 11 – BankNH Pavilion, Gilford, New Hampshire
July 12 – TD Pavilion at The Mann Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 15 – Broadview Stage at SPAC, Saratoga Springs, New York
July 18 – PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
July 19 – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
July 22 – Budweiser Stage, Toronto, Ontario
July 25 – Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Connecticut
July 26 – Xfinity Center, Mansfield, Massachusetts
July 29 – PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, North Carolina
August 1 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, Georgia
August 2 – Coca‑Cola Amphitheater, Birmingham, Alabama
August 5 – Brandon Amphitheater, Brandon, Mississippi
August 8 – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, Illinois
August 9 – Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, Indiana
August 12 – Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan
August 14 – Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, Tennessee
August 15 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, Missouri
September 20 – Agua Caliente Casino, Rancho Mirage, California (rescheduled)
September 21 – Vina Robles Amphitheatre, Paso Robles, California (rescheduled)
September 24 – The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
September 26 – The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
September 27 – The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
October 1 – The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
October 3 – The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
October 4 – The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada