Holly Humberstone

2022 - 6 - 25

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Holly Humberstone live at Glastonbury 2022: rising star wins battle ... (NME.com)

Holly Humberstone overcomes nerves to give the crowd at the John Peel Stage a genuine and moving emotional release at Glastonbury 2022.

The energy transferred between Humberstone and her crowd eventually proves transformative. She loops her voice into a choir of beautiful, delicate sighs on opener ‘Vanilla’, before she suddenly stops multiple times – “I’m so nervous, Glastonbury!” – and takes a deep breath. In the near-year that’s followed, Humberstone’s star has duly risen.

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Glastonbury Festival: Holly Humberstone impresses after early nerves (Somerset County Gazette)

HOLLY Humberstone finished her set on the John Peel Stage with a flourish this afternoon after admitting being “so nervous” to perform at…

Thank you for being so lovely.”After playing ‘Sleep Tight’, her latest single written with The 1975’s Matt Healey, she added more charming commentary, saying: “I’m so nervous, I’ve no idea how I’m going to get through this set. After playing ‘Sleep Tight’, her latest single written with The 1975’s Matt Healey, she added more charming commentary, saying: “I’m so nervous, I’ve no idea how I’m going to get through this set. “I found myself in this strange, terrifying place,” she explained.

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John Peel: the Merseyside legend whose memory lives on at ... (Liverpool Echo)

More than 3,000 acts are slated to perform in what is the festival's belated 50th anniversary year. And a number of those artists will take to the stage in a ...

The New Bands Tent was posthumously renamed in his honour and, as the curtain rises at Worthy Farm again this weekend, his memory very much lives on. He also helped to uncover legendary artists like The Smiths and Billy Bragg, who performed in his infamous ‘Peel sessions’. Over the course of his career, John cemented himself as a firm favourite among BBC Radio listeners and also presented Top of the Pops, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

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