Izzie Derry & Dolly Mavies at Glastonbury

Having previewed the Glastonbury debuts of Izzie Derry & Dolly Mavies for you, I thought readers might like a follow up piece on their experiences.

The short & simple answer to this is to recommend that you check out their social media sits as both of them vlogged in articulate detail of their performances & wider enjoyment of the festival: so you get it in their own words & with visuals too.

Nevertheless I caught up with both of them to elicit their thoughts & here they are:

I chatted with Izzie before her Godiva Festival performance, midway between Glastonbury & her new single release ("If We Don't Laugh We'll Cry").

This is what she had to say about it all: "absolutely incredible: possibly the best week of my life I wasn't expecting to play it quite so soon but I always said that I wouldn't go to the Festival until I played. Now I've gone, I've played & it's a bit surreal I played one set on the Wednesday & one on the Thursday & I think that worked out quite nicely because the big stages weren't open then and so the smaller stages, like I was playing on, were quite crowded because there wasn't as much to go to .There were a few friends of mine there but everyone else there were like new people. There were loads of people who were just brand new to my music. It was kind of exciting to play somewhere where no-one knew who I was. I had loads of people coming up to me afterwards & saying how good I was. There was a mother & daughter came up to me and they lived in Brighton so they could follow me there, so that was lovely. I didn't meet any (big stars) but I did get to see a lot of music I was excited to see like PJ Harvey, I'm a huge huge fan of hers. I guess that following Glastonbury I'll be playing some more shows, releasing the new single & hopefully carrying on the momentum applying for shows & festivals next year that having done Glastonbury this year, we're more likely to get chosen".

Dolly was trickier to speak to: she is currently amidst a whirl of activity and so we settled for online contact which went thus: "Glastonbury was amazing….We had an incredible time, it was a dream come true and an amazing opportunity. We will hopefully return next year!"

Just back from Scotland, she also announced today an Autumn tour of Britain including Birmingham's Sunflower Lounge & the Green Note in London: prestigious dates which don't even take into account "the Glastonbury effect": these simply reflect the esteem which helped take her there. One can only speculate as to what will happen when the effect kicks in (and I imagine that Izzie's current announced dates also are yet to take the career boost into effect).

I'm sure that you feel as pleased for them as I do.