Festival Sounds
By Bilal and Tilly
Lighthearted music festival podcast from Bilal and Tilly. We love Glastonbury, we chat about loads of others too such as Green Man, Isle of Wight, Reading and Leeds, and End of the Road. We interview artists about songwriting and causes that are important to them. We chat to festival founders and people who bring festivals together.
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Latest episode
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UK festival line up chat
Tilly and Bilal dust off the mic and get back to some festival line up chat, including Isle of Wight, Reading and Leeds, All Points East. We are not talking about Kanye - we recorded before the news. -
Joshua Idehen on his journey to music festivals
Please hit the follow button on Apple Podcast for a bonus episode discussing the songwriting process for "Mum Does The Washing" that will be release later this week. Joshua Idahoan was a breakthrough act at music festivals in the summer of 2025 pl… -
Glastonbury Festival 2025 Recap
Finally we release our Glastonbury 2025 recap. Please follow us if you want to stay in touch with our episodes over the winter. Link to Primary School Bangers tour Random act chatting about lions - Otto and Astrid -
Echo 17 founders on how they built a festival
Echo 17 Festival was created by the team at How to Build a Festival Podcast. The festival is this weekend (20 September 2025). Cat, Rachel and Ross join Tilly to discuss what's on, how they created it and the biggest challenges they faced. Tickets ar… -
Fiona-Lee on Glastonbury and writing the song Mother
Tilly and Bilal sit down with singer-songwriter Fiona-Lee to discuss their debut at Glastonbury Festival, where they opened on the BBC Introducing stage on the Thursday. Find Fiona-Lee on Instagram here Fiona-Lee shares what it was like experiencing… -
Glastonbury Festival Coachpool 2025
An episode for the journey into the festival, maybe for the last thirty minutes before you reach the site. In this episode Bilal and Tilly record on the go, using their new mobile microphones and travel through fictional Bristol to their fictional … -
Nina Arya and her forthcoming set at Glastonbury 2025
The incredibly talented Nina Arya is playing BBC Introducing at Glastonbury Festival at 15:30 Sunday She chat to us about how she found out that this is playing Glastonbury and her songwriting process. Give her a follow on Instagram and check out he… -
Glastonbury 2025 secret set rumours and cool smaller stages
We are joined by Dominic who previously recorded with us on going to Glastonbury solo. In this episode we chat about rumours for big name secret sets at Woodsies and the Park as well as our favourite smaller stages. -
Pulp at Glastonbury 2025? And artists away from the main stages
No Tilly this week, just Bilal. In our 50th episode we go back to the start with our very first guest, Grahame. We chat about lesser known artists away from the big stages and maybe we now know who Patchwork are? -
GlastoCast's Jessi and the best Glastonbury campsites
Please give us a follow on Apple or Spotify This week Jessi joins us to discuss which are the best campsites at Glastonbury and a little bit about volunteering at Oxfam.