Performers and staff revel in the festival’s first muddy steps back to normality with Saturday’s global livestream
It is Sunday afternoon in Somerset, and Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis is darting around her farmhouse looking for coats for Haim to wear. The
Los Angeles sisters have just arrived to record their performance for Live at Worthy Farm, a global livestream – premiering tonight online and in cinemas – that will stand in for the real festival after Covid forced Glastonbury to cancel for two years running. Later this week, the likes of Coldplay, Damon Albarn and Kano will visit the farm to record their sets in the festival’s best-known locations.
Having played here three times previously, Haim know wellies are non-negotiable. But somehow, says Eavis as she appears from upstairs – passing a photo of David Bowie outside the family home in 1971 – they’ve never played one of the festival’s infamously wet years, and so didn’t bring anoraks. She delivers them to the festival office next door, now a makeshift changing room.