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Oxfam’s Glastonbury 2016 live album is out now!

Last modified: August 19, 2016

We’re very pleased to announce the live album made at Glastonbury 2016 is out digitally via Parlophone now! Artists including Coldplay, Muse and Foals have contributed a song recorded during their Glastonbury sets to Oxfam Presents: Stand As One – Live at Glastonbury 2016, in support of Oxfam’s work with refugees worldwide. Click the links below to get the album now:

CD from Amazon

CD / download from Glastonbury Store

Download from iTunes

Download from Google Play

Here is the full, confirmed tracklisting.

1 Coldplay – Birds
2 Foals – What Went Down
3 The Last Shadow Puppets – The Dream Synopsis
4 Jeff Lynne’S Elo – Showdown
5 Chvrches – Bury It
6 New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
7 Years & Years – Eyes Shut
8 Jess Glynne – Right Here
9 Muse – Starlight
10 Wolf Alice – Giant Peach
11 Editors – Munich *
12 Sigur Rós – Sæglópur
13 John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
14 Richard Hawley – Tonight The Streets Are Ours
15 Jack Garratt – Worry *
16 Laura Mvula – People
17 Madness – My Girl
18 Baaba Maal – Fulani Rock
19 Jamie Lawson – Someone For Everyone *

* Download only

The album is dedicated to the memory of Jo Cox, MP, a former Oxfam activist, who campaigned tirelessly for refugees.

“We are making this special live album from Glastonbury this summer because the scale of the refugee crisis is so huge we simply had to do something,” said Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis. “We want people who are far from home and frightened to know we are doing whatever we can to help. To know the artists who play here are doing whatever they can. To know the people who love their music are doing whatever they can. Now it’s time for world leaders to do the same. All of us – Glastonbury, Oxfam, musicians and music-lovers everywhere must Stand As One to demand action for refugees.”

Coldplay said “Right now there are more refugees in the world than at any other time in recent history. They could be us and we could be them. The good news is: we can all help.”

Mark Goldring, Oxfam GB Chief Executive said, “We are very grateful to Glastonbury for bringing the weight of the music world in support of people in desperate need. I urge people to stand as one with the millions forced to flee and add their voices to some of the most famous voices in the world – buy the album, sign our petition, and make world leaders meeting in New York in September listen. Given Jo’s tireless work to help refugees both at Oxfam and beyond it felt appropriate to dedicate the album to her.”

Now is the time to show that we stand together #StandAsOne

Peregrine Eliot (1941 – 2016)

Last modified: July 22, 2016

I was so sorry to hear of the death of Peregrine Eliot. He was a true friend of mine since the 70s when he called me for advice on the creation of The Elephant Fayre. I don’t think he was listening though! He volunteered on the gates of Glastonbury Festival through the 80s, and once told me he was guilty of accepting a £50 tip for being so nice to my customers. We will miss him so much.

Michael Eavis

(Photo: Michael Bowles)

Last few days to watch the BBC’s Glastonbury 2016 coverage

Last modified: July 22, 2016

There are now just a few days left to catch up on the BBC’s amazing footage of more than 100 acts from Glastonbury 2016. Click here to watch sets in full before they disappear (they’ll all be gone by 27th July).

Brian Walker (1936 – 2016)

Last modified: July 5, 2016

Photo: Brian Walker (1970)

Brian Walker was one of the original photographers to capture the true spirit of Glastonbury. He sadly died on Friday of last week – he was adored by us all, and will never be forgotten.

Michael Eavis

Get 2016 T-shirts and posters in our web shop

Last modified: June 29, 2016

We’re pleased to report that the full range of Glastonbury 2016 T-shirts and hoodies is available in our online shop now. You can also order a very limited hand-pulled screenprint of Stanley Donwood’s incredible ‪Glastonbury 2016‬ artwork, as well as the Free Press posters by Stanley and our other designers. Click here to shop now.

All items available while stock lasts.

Sunday in pictures

Last modified: July 26, 2016

Check out our photos from a memorable final day of Glastonbury 2016.

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photos: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photos: Max Ellis

Photos: Anna Barclay

Photos: Tom Widd

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Salvador Fitzgerald

Saturday in pictures

Last modified: July 26, 2016

Some great photos from around the site on Saturday.

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: David Jensen and Ed Bishop

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Salvador Fitzgerald

Photo: Team Phaze

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Sarah Jeynes

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Sue Lacey

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Stephen Fothergill

Photo: Max Ellis

Photo: Charles Gervais

Download the Glastonbury Free Press

Last modified: June 26, 2016

Click here to download Sunday’s issue of the Glastonbury Free Press which is printed in the Theatre & Circus fields on a vintage Heidelberg press. Today’s issue features exclusive interviews with Emily Eavis and Basil Brush and our onsite agony uncle Bez enlightens us and answers Glastonbury goers’ most-pressing questions.

The paper is available at Info points around the site. Plus, you can get it from the Free Press printing tent, in the Theatre & Circus fields, where you can also buy souvenir Free Press posters.

Click here to download Thursday’s issue – featuring exclusive interviews with Michael Eavis and Steve Davis as well as top Glastonbury tips for the likes of Lars Ulrich, Chris Martin and Dan Bastille –

Our thanks to the amazing Free Press team of writers, designers and printers.

Friday in pictures

Last modified: July 26, 2016

A selection of great photos from around the Festival on Friday.

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Salvador Fitzgerald

Photo: David Jensen and Ed Bishop

Photo: Kate Stewart

Photo: Simon Westgate

Photo: Team Phaze

2016 GLASTONBURY WEBSITE POET IN RESIDENCE: JODI BICKLEY

Last modified: June 25, 2016

This year’s Glastonbury website poet in residence is the wonderful Jodi Ann Bickley, who fell into poetry in 2009 after winning the Roundhouse Poetry Slam and has since performed her poems all over the country. She went on to start a project called ‘One Million Lovely Letters’ in 2013 where she invited people to email her if they needed a lift and she would write them an uplifting, handwritten letter. She has to date written over 3000, spoken at TEDx and has become a Sunday Times Bestseller with her book ‘One Million Lovely Letters’ which is all about how the project came about and what it has become. She once cuddled Philip Scofield and Stephen Fry called her ‘A Wonderbus’.

IN LOVE

We are not made up of fairytales,
My heart doesn’t soar when you enter the room,
I am by no means weak at the knees when I’m with you.
We are not pastel pinks and hearts drawn on steamed up windows,
We are yellows, grey, violet, blacks and blues.
I am not dizzy headed and tongue tied around you.
We are not skipping down streets and stolen kisses around corners,
I don’t expect grand gestures,
We are coffee granules, the council tax bill and ex on the beach.
Shared desk space and still spooning in the midst of a storm,
Worn in shoes side by side and four day silences,
We are kids in our parents clothing, sometimes.
Scrambled eggs and panic attacks,
Red wine, fish finger sandwiches & having each others back.

We are not Pam and Jim, Nick and Jess or Marshall and Lily,
Our fall outs aren’t pretty – no instagram filter will adjust the level of dickhead
either of us can be,
Our lives fill the gaps between the profile pictures & updates,
We are messy, warm, infuriating, safe.
We are part magic & fairy dust,
We are notes in lunchboxes and stubbornness,
Condescending and inconsiderate,
A mass of fairy lights all tangled up,
Willing to spend forever straightening them out.

We are a work in constant progress,
Our heroics wouldn’t sit right in a Katherine Heigl film,
We are newly skilled jugglers of baby, pug & our love –
Plate spinning luke warm dinners & bowls of apple and pear pudding,
Every night hosts to cuddly octopus’s and dollies as dinner guests,
Architects of leaning towers of baby bouncers, bath, chairs & musical mats,
Producers of on the spot lullabies to every Beyoncé song we know,
Code breakers of what each cry means,
Survivors of screams, the worst possible noises,
In awe of what we’ve done, who we are, absolutely exhausted.
But in love.
Always in love.

COMMON GROUND

Everyone is repeating they have no words,
But we’re full of them.
As the camp wakes up to the news,
Tents come alive with profanity,
It can’t be true, can it, really?
It is.
It’s a day none of us have felt less British.
As those around us crack open breakfast wine and shout for revolt.
I think we’re pretty safe in the knowledge that it’s nobody’s here fault.
So let’s trudge on through the mud,
And sing out loud our protest songs.
As the country is divided – in this field we belong,
Embrace your fellow Glastonberry,
As they are feeling just like you,
Goodbye old friend,
We’ll miss you a lot,
Our little mate the EU.

WE ARE IN

We are in,
call us dreamers, wallflowers, anything.
we are headliners and 3am toilet queuers,
magicians and end of exam celebrators,
first time performers and festival veterens,
jugglers and toddlers on shoulders,
comedians and nine to fivers,
cabaret queens and romantic breakers,
dancers until dawn and early nighters,
cello players and jeremy corbyn,
dance DJs and rabbit hole fallen,
sunrise returners and toasty eaters,
no boundaries between us,
hand in hand with old friends,
whilst embracing the new.
together, allies, family, kin.
In.

WHISPERS

It’s 10.30, the camp has been awake for hours as we start stirring.
Haven’t sleep in like this for eight months now, tiny babies just don’t seem to allow it.
Lay awake, basking in the not yet dirty/muddy/oh my gosh we slept in until 10.30 feeling, when we hear:
“Whoever she is, she needs to be into military history and small packages”.
We listen in, much because these guys sound like they could be on Made In Chelsea and half of me wants to see them in case it wrecks the illusion, but we step out.
They’re talking about Rob.
Rob is their housemate.
Rob likes quizzes,
I’m not sure how good he is but his friends seem to think he’s a bit of a quizzical genius.
That’s where the compliments stop, as they tell us about an intimate mole he’s got and how he doesn’t really get out a lot, only to walk around Chelsea in a blazer he loves.
His standards are high, he rates girls out of 10 and would never go near a five, six or even seven. Actually, Rob will only ever go for eights or higher. Rob is looking for someone to love him.
But in my honest opinion,
If I had to say something super true – from what we’ve heard about Rob,
I wouldn’t give him more than a 2.