The Beautiful South TV and radio programmes, including "The One Show", "Live at Edinburgh Castle", "Sunday Night Live at the Palladium", and Aled Jones' ITV show "Weekend". On Sunday 29 June they appeared live on BBC Two at Glastonbury Festival performing acoustic versions of second single "Moulding Of A Fool" and a cover version of Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Stream". During the summer of 2014 Paul & Jacqui performed at a series of festivals across the UK and Ireland including Glastonbury Festival, Latitude Festival, V Festival and Festival No.6. On 11 November 2014, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a world premiere of "Real
Glastonbury Thorn Glastonbury Thorn The Glastonbury thorn is a form of common hawthorn, "Crataegus monogyna" 'Biflora' (sometimes incorrectly called "Crataegus oxyacantha" var. "praecox"), found in and around Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Unlike ordinary hawthorn trees, it flowers twice a year (hence the name "biflora"), the first time in winter and the second time in spring. The trees in the Glastonbury area have been propagated by grafting since ancient times. The tree is also widely called the holy thorn, though this term strictly speaking refers to the original (legendary) tree. It is associated with legends about Joseph of Arimathea and the arrival of Christianity