Just incase you hadn’t heard enough debrief on Glastonbury, I thought i’d journal some of my key take aways here for you 🫧𓇼𓏲*ੈ✩‧₊˚🎐
Things I learnt:
Buy a blackout tent for 2027. Because if you only come home from Stone Circle at 10am, you’re not sleeping in that heat.
Don’t pre-mix all of your tequila before the festival with fresh Orange Juice (with bits) because then it will sit in the heat for like 4 hours and become undrinkable and then you’ll end up drinking only Buckfast for 4 days (not the worst tbf).
When your management says ‘try get some BTS content’ before the festival, don’t take one video of you peeing on the first day and then completely forget after that.
If Charli-xcx is at your stage before you play, don’t have an anxiety attack and hide in a corner for 45 mins. And if you do (which I did), don’t be too hard on yourself about it.
What a ‘Rainbow Road’ is. And no I can’t explain it here and if you don’t know what it is, sorry :)
Favourite performances:
The Prodigy
No notes. It was my second time seeing them and they exceeded the first. The impact they’ve made on music and my life is indescribable. What a fucking HONOUR.
Hodge b2b Ploy
I don’t know what was in the air in Assembly Sunday night but this was definitely my favourite DJ set of the festival. Tech-house with very subtle bass-y references and moments.
Amyl & The Sniffers
This band makes me feel so insanely proud to be Australian. Amy is so powerful with her voice both musically and politically. It feels dumb to say this because i’m SURE everyone knows who they are… but if you don’t, please go follow them. We all have so much to learn from them.
Kneecap
If I’m being completely transparent, I’ve never been a huge stan of Kneecap’s music (although I do think they have incredible energy as performers and some of the production on their tracks slap). What was so special was definitely the importance of that moment in time. Viewing an act that some pathetic cowards who RUN our music industry tried to stop from performing because of their self serving, genocidal beliefs. Kneecap are so eloquent in the way they get their message across and I felt truly lucky to witness them laugh in the faces of those who thought they could stop them.
HiTech
I mean, they’re just always so much fun. They were the first act we saw when we arrived on the Thursday and it was the perfect way to get my booty shaking. There’s also something about that Detroit old school way of djing and how their blends make zero sense that makes me so fucking happy.
Tracks that made me gasp:
When Call Super played: Anxiety - Docheii
When Jorg Kuning played: Roy of the Ravers - EMOTINIUM
A little about my San Remo set:
If you CBF hearing me indulge, the main headline is: I was extremely anxious but grateful.
If you’ve read any of my interviews from the past, you’d know I suffer from pretty bad social anxiety and really went through it during 2024. It’s funny because people alwaaaaays say to me that ‘wow, when you’re djing you look so confident’ and truthfully, I am! Once I’m on the decks, i’m in a different place and I feel safe and at ease. But fuck me. The hour before this set was one of the worst I’ve had professionally. My phone was BLOWING the hell up with people trying to get backstage. The backstage was this insane mecha of A-List celebs that Charli and George had brought along and i’d never felt so out of place in my life. All I wanted to do was be in a sweaty club or dirty green room that is like 1x1 meters in size lol.
I’m definitely not the first person in the arts you’ve heard say this but it really was a reminder of how weird this space is. We are at our best and confident when we’re creating or performing, but then before and after, we’re expected to put on a different kind of performance that isn’t familiar or comfortable.
All I wanted to do in that moment was hide, but instead I was trying to make conversation with people who kept asking me “are you ok?”. And then spiralling further because I thought my friends thought I was being rude because I didn’t want to talk to them or wouldn’t reply to their message requests to come backstage.
I know these are all trivial problems and it feels stupid expressing them with everything going on in the world, but I guess I just hope that a small insight inside my brain might help normalise these feelings for anyone else who goes through it. Online it looks like the craziest, wildest party, but inside my head it’s a big shit show of fear, dread and unease. That being said though, once I hit play on that CDJ - everything left my head and I had one of the best hours ever :)
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