We’re very pleased to report that Glastonbury was named Best Festival at last night’s NME Awards in London. Michael and Emily Eavis were there to collect the award, which Glastonbury won for the fifth consecutive year!
Thank you to everyone who voted for us!
We’re very pleased to report that Glastonbury has been named International Music Festival of the Year at the 29th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards in LA. This is the twelfth time that the Festival has won this prestigious award.
“We’re absolutely thrilled to have won the Pollstar Best International Festival Award again this year, “ said Michael Eavis (pictured above at the 2016 ceremony). “Over the last decade or more, the support and recognition from Pollstar’s voting public has meant so much to us.”
Michael Eavis has today announced that next year’s Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza will take place on Saturday 4 August, 2018. Although the Festival itself will be taking its fallow year in 2018, the Extravaganza will return to the Abbey’s spectacular surroundings for the 22nd time. The bill is yet to be announced, but the event’s last five headliners – Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Ray Davies, Robert Plant and Bryan Ferry – give an indication of the calibre of acts Eavis has attracted to the event in recent years.
Michael Eavis said: “When we had our last fallow year, in 2012, Charles Hazlewood took the date for his Orchestra in a Field. But we’ve had such a great run of Extravaganzas in recent years that we wanted to keep up the momentum, and we’re already in discussions with some fantastic performers. It’s shaping up to be another wonderful event for the town, its residents and its local businesses.”
Ticket prices have been held for the sixth year running, with the popular Extravaganza gift vouchers on sale from today, December 6. Click here to buy now.
Vouchers can also be bought from the Abbey shop – to be redeemed for adult or child tickets. Advance prices are adults £35 and £20 for a child aged six to 16. Any remaining tickets will be available on the gate, priced at £40 adult and £25 for a child. Accompanied children aged five and under do not require a ticket. Booking and postage fees apply. Terms and conditions apply.
Photos: Andrew Allcock
A limited numbers of this kids T-shirt – which sold out at Glastonbury 2017 – are now available in our web shop. It uses a design posted to Michael Eavis by Peggy Mimnagh (age 10) from Bristol!
£6.80 from every £8 T-shirt sold goes to MOAS‘s work providing life-saving aid and medical care to the world’s most vulnerable migrant communities.
By popular demand, reproductions of classic Glastonbury line-up posters from across our history are now available to order in our online shop! Click here to order.
We’ve also added a new Glastonbury mug, featuring the design painted on the wall of the meeting room in Glastonbury Festival’s Worthy Farm offices. Artwork by Somerset-based artist Paris (who was also responsible for Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto artwork). Click here to order.
Earlier today, Michael Eavis welcomed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to Pilton to celebrate the beginning of the final stage of his landmark social housing project.
“These are houses for village people to live in and they will never be sold,” says Michael Eavis. “My dream was to have 50 houses available for the Festival’s 50th anniversary in 2020. Today we are one step nearer to making that dream a reality.”
The first building project started in 1990 as 10 houses known as ‘Oathills’, the original name of the field. Then, ten years later came the completion of ‘John Burn’s Cottages’, 12 houses funded by Hastoe Housing. The land and the stone were provided free of charge from Worthy Farm, with contributions for dressing the stone from the Workers Beer Company, who provide bars at the Festival. HRH Prince Charles opened John Burn’s Cottages and met the tenants in 2010.
Now we have completed another 13 houses, working with the Guinness Partnership and builders EG Carter, known as ‘Maggie’s Farm’. These were visited by David Beckham this year, who planted a walnut tree.
Plans are now well ahead to complete the whole scheme with a further 15 houses to make a total of 50, which will coincide with the Festival’s 50th anniversary year, 2020.
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Tuesday 7th November, 5pm-late
Trinity Centre, Bristol
Workshop tickets are free, but sign-up is required. Click here for tickets.
5.30-6.15pm
EMILY EAVIS IN CONVERSATION WITH HUW STEPHENS
A half hour in conversation session, with time at the end for Q&A, featuring special guests Emily Eavis who will discuss her career, the role of the festival in developing artists and the importance of regional development
6.20-7.20pm
AN INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC FUNDING
This panel will give crucial insight into available support for emerging artists and their upcoming projects. Experts will outline funding schemes, giving top tips while also discussing the impact funding can have on the careers of artists. The panel will also discuss ways in which regional artists can build a buzz in order to attract support of up to £15,000 through PRS Foundation schemes including the Momentum Music Fund.
With special guests including:
Kate Hutchinson, Journalist (Chair), Joe Frankland, PRS Foundation, Lande Yo, Muncie Girls (Momentum Funded artists), Aled Chivers, Chiverin Music (Manager, Fenne Lily, and PRS Foundation Advisor), Laura Lewis-Paul, Saffron Records (PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner)
7.20-8.00pm
NETWORKING SESSION AND MEET THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT EXPERTS
Guests available to network with include:
• Jude McArdle, Association of Independent Music (AIM)
• Claire Rose, PRS for Music
• Davy Wales, PPL
• Nick Green, Arts Council England
• Andrew Warnock, The Musicians’ Union
• The Featured Artist Coalition (FAC)
• Owen Parry, Multi-Track (Bristol Music Trust)
• Richard Pitt, BBC Music Introducing
• Laura Lewis-Paul, Saffron Records
• Dan Moore, BASCA
• Mark Bowers, BIMM Bristol /Bojo Management
Here are Jason Bryant’s amazing photos from last night’s sold out Pilton Party, where storming performances from Bastille, Declan McKenna, Arcadia Roots and UK:ID helped raise thousands for Pilton village funds. Big thanks to everyone who came along!
Follow the official Pilton Party Twitter account, @PiltonParty2017.
Glastonbury Festival’s annual ‘thank you’ fundraising gig for villagers, workers and local people – billed since the 1990s as the Pilton Party – returns to Worthy Farm on Friday 1st September. Topping the bill this year will be the incredible Bastille, who were last in Pilton to play a triumphant set on the Other Stage at Glastonbury 2016. Since then, they’ve seen their second album, Wild World, top the album chart and win Best Album at the 2017 NME Awards.
Also on the line-up is the fabulous Declan McKenna, who won our Emerging Talent Competition in 2015 and whose wonderful debut album, What Do You Think About The Car, has just been released by Columbia Records.
Two winners from the long-running Pilton Working Men’s Club ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition, UK:ID and Arcadia Roots.
Locals had the chance to buy tickets on Saturday 5th August when the Festival opened the doors of its Glastonbury town office in Northload Street at 11am. There was a second chance to buy tickets in person on Monday 7th August from the Festival’s office on Worthy Farm.
Following those in-person sales (which were only advertised locally), the 2017 Pilton Party is now completely Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who’s bought tickets – we’ll see you on Sept 1st!
Here are some pictures from yesterday’s sun-soaked 2017 Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza, which featured fantastic performances from the Black Dyke Band, Corinne Bailey Rae and headliner Brian Wilson. Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a great day. If you missed out on our limited edition Extravaganza T-shirts & Free Press posters, we’ve added a few to our web shop.
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