Hello! Glastonbury 2017 is almost upon us and things are looking amazing here on the sun-soaked Worthy Farm. We’re all incredibly excited.

If you have a ticket, we wanted to update you with some extra information about entrance to this year’s Festival, in light of the recent tragic events in Manchester and London.

As always, we have put in place all necessary measures to maximise public safety, working closely with the authorities. But Festival goers can also play their part in keeping Glastonbury safe and secure, so we’d very much appreciate it if you’d read and digest this message.

PLEASE PACK LIGHT

First up, we encourage you to pack as light as you can. For security reasons, all ticket holders will be subject to extra searches of their vehicles, their bags and their person at this year’s Festival.

This will make entrance slower than in previous years. Please be patient if there are queues, and please cooperate with any security requests and all searches.

Also, bring plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated on your journey and in the entrance queues. And please wear suncream and a hat if the sun is shining.

We do appreciate that you’re going to be staying on the farm for several days, but the less you bring, the quicker you’ll get through the gates. As a general rule, we would ask you to only bring as much as you can carry yourself. It really will make things quicker.

There will be separate search lanes for those with large luggage and trolleys, and we anticipate that these lanes will be significantly slower. So, please think: do you really need that camping chair? Can you manage without that extra food and drink? Remember, you can buy pretty much anything you need here on site.

We would also ask you to put luggage tags on all of your bags and belongings with your name and mobile number, so that we can identify them as yours.

Also, please do not wrap your bags / kit in the thick plastic wrap you sometimes see at airports. Your bags will need to be accessible for searches.

If you’re driving and you really do need to bring more than you can carry, then we would advise you to make separate trips to your vehicle, by exiting and re-entering (just make sure you hold on to your ticket and pass out to do this).

There will be plenty of staff and police around, so if you have any queries or concerns, please don’t hesitate to speak to them.

PLANNING YOUR JOURNEY

As in previous years, the car parks will open at 9pm on the Tuesday night (June 20th) before gates open. Festival gates will then open at 8am on Wednesday morning (June 21st). There will, however, be no entertainment or facilities (other than toilets) in the car parks and Festival goers will be expected to remain in their cars until the Festival gates open.

In the past few years, the vast majority of Festival goers have chosen to arrive on the Wednesday, so we anticipate that security queues into the event will be at their longest on that day (June 21st).

If you would prefer quicker access to the site, then we would suggest arriving on Thursday (June 22nd) or Friday (June 23rd), when queues are likely to be considerably smaller.

DOWNLOAD THE APP / FOLLOW US ON TWITTER

There are some great ways to get the very latest news updates from Glastonbury Festival, up to and including when you’re on site.

Download the official Glastonbury 2017 app (out today!) to get the latest news from the Festival to your device – as well as a very handy map and line-up planner. When you install the app, make sure you Allow Notifications, so that we can send alerts direct to your home screen.

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Follow @glastofest on Twitter – and then sign up for Tweet Notifications (more info here) to get alerts to your home screen whenever we tweet.

MORE INFORMATION

– To check out our suggested Packing List, click here

– For info on getting to the Festival by coach, train, bike, bus or car, click here

– For lots more advice and info on facilities at the Festival, click here

Published: 5 June 2017

As always, Glastonbury Festival presents a brilliant selection of bars across the site. With more venues than ever, you’ll never be far from your favourite tipple. Whether it’s real ale, a pint of local cider or a fabulous cocktail, you won’t be disappointed.

Firm favourites such as the Meeting Place, West Holts Bar, the Cockmill, Avalon Inn, the Park Bar and the Cornish Arms will be making a welcome return and are all stocked to the brim, ready for your arrival.

On Thursday night in the Glade Bar we’re getting freaky with a Day of the Dead tequila party – paint your face, try a frozen margarita and dance til the early hours! If whisky is your thing, there will also be a dedicated Tennessee Whiskey Bar within the Meeting Place serving cocktails, straight on the rocks or by the jug.

So to help you on your travels, why not visit one of the many bars at the end of your journey or at the meeting place to catch up with friends. The variety of bars is endless, find your favourite!

Glade Bar

Come down to the Glade Bar on Thursday night when a taste of Mexico comes to Glastonbury. Join us for our tequila night and live life in its most vibrant form at our blacklight party! Try our strawberry frozen maragarita or treat yourself to a jug of Paloma!

With its feet planted firmly in the future, the G-Stage Bar is an ode to the techno-gyptians of tomorrow. Come inside our monolithic pyramid, slowly being sucked skyward by the ethereal high priests of the Glade. All hail the Gods of Techno!

West Holts Bar

The West Holts Bar holds the torch for the Jazz world field of yesteryear with a music policy that encompasses all strains of jazz/soul/rock with emphasis always being on originality & quality. Featuring an Aztec-style frontage with our Foxes standing guard, come in, bring your friends and dance the night away to in this friendly and colourful venue. Although a great place to sit back, chill and enjoy the live music taking place on the West Holts stage, in between artists the West Holts Bar will be featuring its own entertainment, including the Festival-Famous “Big Fat Festival Quiz” which will be making a welcome return.

The Meeting Place

Come and meet your friends at The Meeting Place! This market bar has become a firm favourite and returns to take its rightful place opposite Williams Green within the festival’s street and food market. This is the perfect place to meet your friends, kick back, and as the sun goes down, try to stop yourself from dancing as our DJs bring the beach bar vibes to the heart of the festival. Treat yourself and your friends to a cocktail pitcher from our Tennessee Whisky Bar – sharing is caring!

The Cockmill

This rustic, traditional bar filled with cosy snugs offers the finest choice of craft and real ales at Glastonbury Festival. Located in the heart of the Acoustic Field, the selection of twelve ales, including three local Somerset ales, will be sure to keep any beer aficionado happy. Away from the hustle and bustle of the main Festival, the Cockmill also offers beautiful panoramic views of the site, and one of the best night time scenes.

Craft Cider Stall at Williams Green

Featuring cider lovingly made in the heart of Somerset with the finest apples, located in William’s Green, come for a pint of refreshing appley goodness.

Park Bar

This fantastically multi-coloured venue features a colourful Bollywood theme and specialises in a range of local ales, making the Park Bar the place to be in this iconic field. Sit back and relax, and you could almost begin to believe you’re sipping the finest beer under the vibrant lights of the blue city of Rajasthan.

Brew Bars

Dotted around the site are the newest additions to the Glastonbury bar offerings – our Brew Bars bring you classic and premium spirits with a range of gins for all you gin lovers, craft beers, sparkling prosecco and the fabulous frozen maragritas – perfect to quench your thirst in the glorious sunshine. Find the Brew Bars in Silver Hayes, the Glade and by the Bandstand.

The Hop & Liquor

A great man once said “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”. You will be more than happy with our choice of beers, ecstatic about our cocktails and overjoyed by the atmosphere. On Thursday we’re bringing you a very special DJ set from Savages – don’t miss it!

Avalon Inn

One of the wonders of the Glastonbury world – the medieval Avalon Inn – will be appearing once more in the legendary Field of Avalon. Order a beer and have some banter with the serving wenches, sit in comfort a stones throw from the Avalon stage and soak up the atmosphere

The Cornish Arms

This Cornish Ale Pub is situated in the heart of Glastonbury main town and just beside the Leftfield Stage. The bar will be serving a selection of fine festival beverages including Cornish ales like Proper Job, delicious rum cocktails and espresso martinis. A welcome space to sit down, put your feet up and listen to the DJ’s. An easy going meeting spot in the middle of town for further adventures to the main stages and beyond. Don’t forget DJ Nipsy’s ‘Bloody Mary Dub Breakfast’ in the mornings!

Rock the Kasbah

The Glastonbury famous Rock the Kasbah returns for another year, providing festival goers with the best chill out bar experience Glastonbury has to offer. Located between West Holts and Leftfield, Rock the Kasbah is a Moroccan themed experience ever festival goer must see! With amazing scenery and a magnitude of colour, Rock the Kasbah will play host to a variety of acts over the weekend. So why not sit back on our cushions, look up at the star lit ceiling and enjoy the incredible Glastonbury atmosphere.

The Chameleon

From the Wednesday Night Silent Disco, to the Giant Twister Board, The Chameleon Bar is like no other! This multicoloured funky venue offers the best nightlife between the Pyramid and Other Stage. From your old skool to your current anthems, Chameleon bar is one not to be missed! From 10am until 3 am daily, our bar staff will be waiting to supply you with ice cold drinks whilst you play on our garden games, watch live acts and hopefully some Glastonbury sun. So make sure you come down to visit us, and DO NOT miss the Wednesday night Silent disco. Always a festival favourite!
This year, we have 3 acts: Tony Bowen- Our Human Jukebox, Rachel Bettesworth and Mary Spender.

Ridge and Furrow

Located in the cabaret field in the striking pink and blue big top this bar is always an great place to visit with an eclectic music policy that is perfect for lazing around in the sun or later on, dancing under the moonlight. As well as a fully stocked bar there will be a wide variety of cocktails on offer and who knows – you might even see a flying pig or two!

The Open Arms

Located just off the main drag opposite the Greenpeace field The Open Arms is the festivals newest live music venue. As well as bar offering cocktails & ales there will be coffee and mocktails for those wanting to stay focused. If you or your band would rather be on stage than off it, drop in and ask for the stage manager.

Theatre Bar

This is our 4th year in the theatre and circus field offering a wide range of ales lagers wines and spirits all mixed up with an eclectic selection of Djs playing until 3am.

Craft Tavern

A new addition to the theatre and circus field situated next to the Theatre bar. The craft tavern will have a range of craft ales and lagers from around the world, come and try something new.

TRICKETTS

At the very top of the site, adjacent to the Glastonbury sign is ‘Tricketts’, a wooden shack serving craft ales, great wines as well as all the usual bits and pieces. A trip up the hill is a must to check out THE best view in town!

Glastonbury Festival has over 500 food traders on site offering an array of exciting eats for Festival-goers and crews. The choices are endless with a variety of delicious, world cuisine available across the site. Whether you fancy eating Vietnamese, Italian, Indian, Caribbean, Turkish, or go looking for pies, burgers or a good old fashioned bacon sandwich, there is loads to choose from. There are also a large number of vegetarian and vegan stalls and specific dietary requirements can be catered for by a number of traders.

Affordable food is very important to us and many of our traders are again helping festival goers go easy on the pocket. ‘Food For A Fiver’ has over 300 traders taking part. £5 options could include a breakfast roll and a drink, a £5 main course or maybe a meal deal of two coffee and two cakes. Participating traders will display a Food for a Fiver sticker and information on their menu board.

2017 is the eleventh year of the Festival’s Sustainable Traders Award where we choose one food and one non-food trader who have made the most progress in improving their sustainability over the year. We also award the Best Dressed stall for the trader who we feel has made the most effort in making their stall look fabulous and present a People’s Choice Award to reward the trader you think is extra special – look out for the voting call on the Glastonbury Festival Twitter.

This year The Park celebrates 10 years at Glastonbury with their biggest line-up ever. The Flaming Lips return to the Festival for the first time since 2010 to headline Friday night, with Warpaint back in The Park on Saturday and Kano making his debut, topping the bill Sunday night. Sleaford Mods, Songhoy Blues, Sampha, Angel Olsen and Sigrid also come to The Park for the first time for performances on the over the weekend.

The Park is organised by Emily Eavis and situated in the far South West corner of the Festival overlooking the whole site. Besides The Park Stage there are late-night manoeuvres in the Stonebridge Bar, Rabbit Hole, HMS Sweet Charity, Crow’s Nest, Silent Disco, Bimble Inn and Treehouse, as well as bars, cafes, the Free University of Glastonbury, markets (including a book shop), art installations, tipi villages, a 17-metre Ribbon Tower and a working Forge.

Lodged in the markets between John Peel, the Pyramid and Silver Hayes, The Beat Hotel serves up an extensive drinks menu, 1950s Beatnik-inspired stylings and a bumper DJ line-up to soundtrack just about every part of your day. Whether you’re looking for soothing tunes and a Bloody Mary (from 10am daily), soulful sunny afternoon vibes, or a late checkout with one of the many guest DJs at the helm, no reservation required here: this hotel is open to all.

Check out their line-up poster and drinks menu below, and for full info head to their area page.

Another great batch of photos from Jason Bryant on the farm.

Here are Jason Bryant’s latest photos from a sun-soaked Worthy Farm, with a week until 2017 gates open.

The Green Fields are inviting you to come and join them at the Stone Circle in the Kings Meadow at 12noon on Thursday 22nd June, to help send message of peace to the world by creating the biggest human Peace sign ever (the record to date is 5,814 people). They’d like you to stand together and feel the love, light and joy of being united amongst the free thinkers, to show we are in this together and we all have a voice.

We spoke to Beth Llewellyn, the organiser of the Peace Garden in the Green Fields, who had the idea for the human Peace sign:

“I’ve been involved in creating the Peace Garden in the Green Fields for many years, and I’d been thinking about how there are so many more people in this world who want peace than there are with anger in their hearts. Peace starts within ourselves, and Glastonbury Festival really is built with the power of love from the whole crew. So when I was working on a new part of the Peace Garden and I saw a drawing of the peace sign in the soil, I thought, ‘Why don’t we get together the fields, and make this sign around the stone circle with people whose intent is for peace and not to be threatened by the few?’ We’re just doing it for love. I’m really looking forward to it.”

We’re very pleased to announce three major new additions to the Glastonbury 2017 line-up.

First of all, legendary Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is confirmed to bring his new solo project to The Other Stage on Saturday 24th June at 5.45pm.

We’re also excited to report that the Festival will welcome its first ever astronaut! Mike Massimino is an American engineer and NASA astronaut, who flew on two shuttle missions to repair the Hubble Telescope. He will be speaking at the The Free University of Glastonbury, whose programme of talks take place in the Crow’s Nest at the top of The Park. Massimino will appear at 2pm on Friday 23rd June.

Finally, we can also reveal that Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp is the guest of honour at our new drive-in movie area, Cineramageddon. The actor will will introduce his personal choice of films, screening through the night on Thursday 22nd June, and discuss his selections with Cineramageddon curator Julien Temple. Click here for the Cineramageddon area pages and listings. Each of Depp’s choices has a special significance to the actor:

THE LIBERTINE: “This is one of those films that got lost in the shuffle. It’s a film that a lot of people on which worked very hard, and one that I am very proud of.”

WITHNAIL & I: “No film has ever made me laugh more, or filled me with so much joy… and dread! For me, this is perfect cinema. Genius.”

DEAD MAN: “Jim Jarmuch’s epic visual poem. It’s unlike anything else. A film which means many different things to many different people.”

We can also reveal the full Glastonbury 2017 line-up poster, designed by Alister Sieghart (who has designed Glastonbury’s official posters and tickets for decades).