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Other accommodation options

Last modified: May 23, 2010


Your Festival ticket includes free camping from Wed 23rd to Mon 28th (and we’ve added extra space this year). But if you’d like to push the boat out and go for something a bit fancier, several of the Festival’s neighbours are offering alternative accommodation options.

A whole range of choices (and price levels) are on offer, from the Forest Garden Yurts situated on the hill above the Stone Circle, to the yurt love field next to Pedestrian Gate B on the east of the site and the neighbouring Tangerine Fields with pre-pitched tents and geo-domes to gypsy caravans and yurtels.

For information about these and other of our neighbours’ accommodation options, click here.

(Please note, the campervan and caravan tickets have now completely sold out.)

Kurt Jackson’s Glastonbury paintings auction

Last modified: May 22, 2010


Kurt Jackson is one of Britain’s leading painters, and a long-time supporter of Greenpeace and Glastonbury. He has created an amazing series of paintings and sketches from his residency at the 2009 Festival, which include portraits of Radiohead, Massive Attack, Lily Allen and Tinariwen as well as landscapes capturing the essence of the Festival.

Kurt’s exclusive Glastonbury paintings and sketches, which will be auctioned on Ebay in aid of the Greenpeace Environmental Trust. The auction will go live tomorrow, Sunday 23rd May, and finishes on 2nd June. Click here to check out the auction on eBay.

For more info on Kurt’s Glastonbury paintings, head to www.greenpeace.org.uk/kurtjackson. Or, for a slideshow of his wonderful Glastonbury 2009 works, click here.

Lovely.

The Glastonbury World Cup 2010

Last modified: May 21, 2010


Last year, the inaugural Glastonbury World Cup football match took place in the Pyramid field on the Thursday of the Festival. The teams were made up from users of the eFestivals.co.uk forums, with the England team beating the Rest of the World team 9-3, and Michael Eavis presenting the trophy to the winning captain. Donations were encouraged for WaterAid and the event raised an impressive £3,000.

After the success of the first year, eFestivals has decided to organise another match. We’re therefore pleased to announce that this year’s Glastonbury World Cup will take place in the Pyramid Field at 1pm on Thursday June 24th. The two teams have already been selected, but the organisers are very much hoping that Festival-goers will head over there to watch the match.

There will be pre and post match entertainment from acts including Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs and The Supernovas, and Michael Eavis will once again present the trophy to the winning team, at around 3pm.

Michael has challenged the organisers to raise £6,000 towards WaterAid‘s amazing work addressing the global sanitation and water crisis. If you’d like to donate to this very worthy cause, there’s a Glastonbury World Cup online donation page at www.justgiving.com/glastoworldcup2010. Please give generously.

While we’re on the subject of the World Cup, a reminder that the real England team’s final group game, against Slovenia on the afternoon of Wednesday 23rd June, will be shown on the Pyramid Stage screens. Should England progress to the knock-out stages, their last 16 game (on the Saturday or Sunday of Glastonbury), will also be shown at the Festival – although not on the Pyramid screens.

Survey: when are you planning to arrive?

Last modified: May 20, 2010


If you already know when you’re planning to arrive at this year’s Glastonbury, we’d be very grateful if you’d take a minute to email one of our special survey addresses (it’ll really help with giving us an idea of busy times etc).

All you need to do it select the email address which applies to you and send us a quick email (no message needed).

Arriving on Tuesday June 22nd 9pm-1am
TUE9pmto1am@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Arriving on Wednesday June 23rd 1am-8am
WED1amto8am@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Arriving on Wednesday June 23rd 8am-1pm
WED8amto1pm@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Arriving on Wednesday June 23rd 1pm-8pm
WED1pmto8pm@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Arriving after 8pm on Wednesday June 23rd (inc Thur, Fri etc)
After8pmWED@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Please get your email to us by 10am on Wednesday 26 May. As a thanks for your help, we’ll then be picking three names at random and sending them a Glastonbury T-shirt (we’ll be in touch for your address if you win).

Please note, gates to the Festival site open at 8am on Wednesday June 23rd.

Car parks will now open at 9pm on the Tuesday night before the Festival, allowing Festival-goers to arrive throughout the night.

There will, however, be no entertainment, food or facilities in the car parks and Festival-goers will be expected to remain in their cars until the Festival gates open at 8am on Wednesday morning.

Sorry, but no camping will be allowed in the car parks and it will NOT be possible to go from the car parks to the campervan fields to stay with friends on the Tuesday night. Access into the car parks will be with car park/Festival tickets and into the campervan fields will be with campervan/festival tickets only.

Please note, all public transport arrangements will stay as per previous years – ie there will be no facilities at Castle Cary railway station for early arrivals. Public transport facilities will only begin on Wednesday morning. As in 2009, there will be no amplified entertainment until Thursday.

New bike lock-up / ride from Bristol

Last modified: May 19, 2010


If you were thinking of cycling to this year’s Festival, we’re pleased to report that there’s a new bike lock-up available, near to the Yellow Gate. Bikes can be left there for the whole weekend, free of charge.

If you were planning to cycle from Bristol, you might like to join a free, organised cycle ride to the Festival. The ride leaves central Bristol on the morning of Thursday 24th June and follows an established cycle route along quiet roads. They’ll be cycling through some gorgeous countryside before arriving at the festival late afternoon. Experienced cyclists will lead the ride and a support vehicle will carry your bags from Bristol to the festival site and will deal with any breakdowns on route.  Contact cyclefestivals@gmail.com to find out more and to secure you place. Registration closes on June 17th. Spaces are limited so book early to avoid disappointment

Ticket dispatch information

Last modified: May 19, 2010


UK TICKETS will this year be sent out by DX Secure Services. Tickets will be sent to the address specified when booking. A signature will be required at the point of the delivery.
 
If you ordered more than one ticket, your tickets will be dispatched to the address you provided for the first name on your booking. If you paid your balances separately, you will each receive your own ticket.
 
It is expected that you will receive your tickets at least 14 days before the Festival starts.
 
Information about the dispatch of your tickets will be available through Seetickets who will email you with your tracking reference. You can track your ticket order via www.thedx.co.uk/glastonbury by entering your tracking reference number.

You can also obtain your tracking reference via Seetickets’ order tracker – www.seetickets.com/tracker.  To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number.
 
If you are not at home when your tickets arrive, a card will be left giving you instructions on how to arrange re-delivery (including weekend delivery options) or pick them up from your local collection office.   

INTERNATIONAL TICKETS will be sent out by registered international post. You can track your international ticket order via www.royalmail.com  by entering your Track and Trace number which is available via Seetickets order tracker – www.seetickets.com/tracker. To access the order tracker you will require your email address and booking reference number.

Leftfield line-up announced

Last modified: May 18, 2010


Following our announcement of the return of the Leftfield, Glastonbury’s “pop and politics” tent, we’re now very pleased to reveal the stage’s line-up.

This is what the tent’s curator, Billy Bragg, has to say about it: “Leftfield is back after a year’s sabbatical and the timing couldn’t be better. Come along and take part in our daily debates, stick around to see which songwriters I can pull together from around the site for Bill’s Big Round-Up, enjoy some edgy comedy in our Get Up, Stand Up spot and to top it all off, spend the evening listening to blistering live performances from artists with an activist edge. It’s all in the Leftfield. The fightback starts here!”

FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
Carl Barat
Reverend & The Makers
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly
Comedy hour
Bill’s Big Round-up
Debate: Global Solidarity
Debate: Climate Change and the Fight for Green Jobs

SATURDAY 26TH JUNE
Billy Bragg
Frank Turner
Thea Gilmore
Comedy hour
Bill’s Big Round-up
Debate: This is a Banker’s Crisis
Debate: Beating the BNP

SUNDAY 27th JUNE
Paul Heaton
The King Blues
Lucky Soul
Comedy hour
Bill’s Big Round-up
Debate: Another World Is Possible
Debate: Stop the Cuts – 6 Music/Asian network

We’ll be publishing the set times of the Leftfield, and all stages, ahead of the Festival.

Site snaps: WaterAid walk and 6 Music at Worthy

Last modified: May 17, 2010


Our latest batch of photographs from Jason Bryant features Millets’ WaterAid charity walk yesterday, Michael Eavis on a 1955 Fordson Diesel Major tractor, dragons on the new boat, toilets being sprayed, Hank the bin painter and Reuben the strong man. Jason also captured BBC 6 Music’s visit to the farm on Friday, where Lauren Laverne broadcast live with The Drums and ETC winners Ellen and the Escapades (click here to listen again to that).


 


 

Sunday’s re-sale tickets sell out

Last modified: May 16, 2010


UPDATE: Tickets for the re-sale sold out after just 15 minutes. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out. There are no further sales planned for this year’s Festival.

As we told you last week, Friday 7th May was the deadline day for Festival goers to request refunds for their tickets. A small number did, which means we now have those tickets to re-sell. And to give you all a fair chance of getting hold of them, we’ve decided to have a final official ticket re-sale this Sunday (16th May) at 12noon.

You will already need to be registered in order to buy tickets. If you are, then head to www.seetickets.com/g2010 at 12noon on Sunday. Bookings will also be taken on the phone line 0844 412 4635 but we do expect them to go extremely quickly. You’ll be able to buy parking tickets at the same time as your ticket.

Pyramid Stage openers announced

Last modified: May 11, 2010



We’re very pleased to announce that Rolf Harris will return to Glastonbury Festival next month, taking the opening slot on the Pyramid stage on Friday 25th June. The gig comes in the year Rolf celebrates his 80th birthday and will be his sixth Festival appearance.

A day later, the honour of opening the Pyramid bill goes to rising star in the hood, Tinchy Stryder, whose only previous Glastonbury appearance was at the Dance Village.

Sunday’s opening act on the Pyramid will be the Yeovil Town Band, returning to Glastonbury for the first time since 2005.

Click here to check out the full line-up as it stands.