The Gen recently caught up with various North East pop acts following their appearances at the 40th Glastonbury festival to find out all about their experiences at the world's most famous festival.
This year's festival had an unprecedented amount of acts from the North East playing including Frankie and the Heartstrings, Detroit Social Club, Field Music, Beth Jeans Houghton and Let's Buy Happiness.
Frankie and the Heartstrings played a secret stripped down acoustic gig to followers of the Guardian Music blog's Twitter site alongside an explosive set on The Park stage.
Their drummer Dave Harper, who has written an exclusive Glastonbury tour blog for The Gen said: "We played a gig at the worlds greatest festival. Grabbed its throat and throttled every last piece of its POP chakra".
Harper continued: "You know it's going to be a sterling weekend when the first person you see is Jarvis Cocker. We spent a lot of time at the stone circle or being ambushed by Detroit Social Club who seemed to have mobilised a Sunderland battalion for some kind of hippy mission"
For the full exclusive blog go here and check out a Glastonbury tour video on the band's website.
Detroit Social Club singer David Burn told The Gen all about their Glastonbury experience: "The crowd were amazing. We had nearly 2000 people in, the biggest crowd for an opening band in 7 years apparently, so you can't ask for much more than that. Especially as we clashed with Rolf Harris!" He also confessed to the hippy activities which so disturbed Dave Harper: "I spent a lot of time up at Stone Circle talking to strangers, mentally unfit for anything else!"
To read the full exclusive DSC interview check here.
The Gen made time to chat with Field Music's Peter Brewis, who said that the festival was an "amazing experience" for the band despite the journey becoming a bit logistically difficult when one of their cars broke down en route.
"We didn't know quite how big it would be. We enjoyed our second show, on the Queen's head stage more than the first performance on the John Peel stage as it was more intimate". When asked who else he managed to watch at the festival, Brewis said that he caught a few songs by Scissor Sisters but unfortunately missed Kylie appearing and also checked out the Pet Shop Boys "It was amazing theatre. I sometimes think that Field Music aren't really a festival or outdoor kind of band. What works at a festival is something completely over the top." "We met up with Frankie and the Heartstrings and were being daft mackems together" he added.
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