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Upload your Glastonbury photos

Last modified: July 6, 2015

If you got some good photos at this year’s Festival, then we’d love to see them. You can upload your pictures to our Gallery page by clicking here (you can also post your pics from previous Festivals at the same link).

Sunday in pictures

Last modified: May 11, 2016

Here are our photos from the final day of what was a wonderful Glastonbury 2015.

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Max Ellis

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Chris Salmon

Photo: Alexia Loundras

Photo: Chris Salmon

Photo: Edward Bishop / David Jensen

Saturday in pictures

Last modified: July 13, 2015

Our team’s photos from the fourth day of Glastonbury 2015.

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Max Ellis

Friday in pictures

Last modified: July 2, 2015

Here’s our selection of shots from around the site on Day 3 of Glastonbury 2015 – when the main stages opened.

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Edward Bishop / David Jensen

Thursday in pictures

Last modified: July 2, 2015

Check out our photos from the second day of Glastonbury 2015.

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Max Ellis

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Edward Bishop / David Jensen

Wednesday in pictures

Last modified: July 2, 2015

On the day the gates finally opened, this is where we’ll be posting our photos from around the site.

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Max Ellis

Photo: Jason Bryant

Get Glastonbury 2015 merch in our online shop

Last modified: June 29, 2015

If you didn’t manage to get hold of a Glastonbury 2015 T-shirt at this year’s Festival, but would still like a souvenir, you can get the full range of shirts from our online shop. The shop also contains some web exclusives:

– Limited edition signed Pilton Moons artwork prints, signed and numbered by the artist, Stanley Donwood
– 2015 logo T-shirt
– Enamel Glastonbury logo mug

Click here to head to the shop now.

Live updates from around Glastonbury 2015

Last modified: June 28, 2015

Throughout this year’s Festival, our team of writers will be roaming around the site, posting updates, photos and videos to our @glastolive Twitter feed – giving you a flavour of what’s going on at Glastonbury 2015.

Our team of writers over the Festival is Chris Salmon, Alexia Loundras, Jon Andrieson, Chris Cundy, Luke Scholefield, John Lewis, Chris Parkin, Bethany Crowe, Alastair Smith, Jodie-Mae Finch and Minnie Wright. Our live coverage is powered by EE super-fast 4G network.

Check out the latest posts on the feed below:

Tweets by @GlastoLive

2015 Glastonbury Website Poet in Residence: Pete the Temp

Last modified: June 28, 2015

We’re pleased to report that this year’s Glastonbury Festival official website poet in residence is Pete the Temp. Mr The Temp (BA, MA, PDF) is a poet, educator and loop pedal artist. He has performed at over 20 UK festivals making him as common a sight in a festival field as a portable toilet. In recent years he has worked with the British Council and been featured on BBC Radio 4, World Service and Newsnight. He’ll be sharing his poems with us throughout this year’s Festival…

A Valid Thing to be Doing With Your Weekend?

Welcome to the future becoming itself

Streams of human energy pulsing
Between sources of light, sound and heat.

Big tops the size of central banks
But with higher rates of interest.

Bass lines that would be banned
In certain totalitarian regimes

A wide gazed lady identifying herself
with a toy parrot tied to an upturned broom

Reggae that floats like ganga smoke.
A giant turtle of love.

A lady who’s job it is to use both nostrils
To play three recorders at once.*

A gang of dub step grannies
On motorised shopping trollies.

Bright green thoughts chatting up the future.
Revolutionary ideas shaking hands (and fists)

Brain fibres slowly tearing open
Hearts learning to speak new languages

Millions of hairs standing up
To be listened to by Billy Bragg

And a man who thinks that it is acceptable to sit
On a frankly collapsible chair

Reading a book.

*Please note this is a comprehensive list of absolutely everything that happened at Glastonbury 2015.

Healing Fields

I believe
That some cancers
Are caused by not being able
To shout into the air
What you feel
When you feel those feeling.

Make Glastonbury tickets available
On the NHS.

Welcome Party

Welcome to Glastonbury:
Symphony of the unnecessary,
A glorious cacophony
Of bowel throbbing bass lines
And bleeding sound frequencies,
A city of flags
and youthful virility.

A Mecca for pilgrims
of music and mischief,
A sludgefest wasteland,
of abandoned bits of Millets,
A carnival of abandoned logic.

Welcome to Glastonbury:
A petri dish community,
A conspiracy
Against the tyranny of normal,
Dull and lonely.

Come on a journey
To Shangri-La!
On a camel chain gang
Of bulgy eyed gurners
Staggering through
An epidemic of insomnia,
Shepton-Malleted
Mud clad munters
Rising like orcs
From the bowels of Mordor

Welcome to Glastonbury:
We’re sinners all of us
And we love it!
We are your technicolour
Summer vomit.
Your mass desecration
Of cultural convention
Your Glastonbury.

A Letter Home

Dear Mother,

I hope one day you’ll learn to understand
And accept what I have to tell you.

Last night I fell in love with a bass bin.

I didn’t know that I am bass sexual
But I am.

It said something to me that
Gave my soul a hard on.

I am going to spend the rest of my life
Learning the language
Of its monosyllabic heart.

Goodbye.

Get Serious

If Occupy London
Had 175,000 tents
Full of protesters,
Its own printing press
And an underground
(three million litre)
Reservoir system

Would it have enough to draw on
To bring down the financial system?

If Tahrir Square, Egypt,
Had a 1200 acre territory
A 45 year history
And was a living , unfolding
City of revolution

What future
Could the Arab Spring blossom?

If Occupy Wall Street
Drew 2000 acts
To rock 100 stages
And had more headliners
Than the Wall Street Journal

What kind of party
Could it overthrow?

Would you be a revolutionary
If it was as fun as Glastonbury?

The Giant We

We is
cloud defyin’,
wellie stampin’,
bass munchin’, sound bleedin’,
eye bulgin’, mud splattered,
bass battered, butt shakin’, accessorizin’,
retweetin’, phone losin’, programme borrowin’,
flag followin’, celeb huntin’, queue formin’ queue
jumpin’, fence jumpin’, jumper wearing, jump jump, jump,
jumpin’, kick drum beatin’, beatin’, beatin’, mate losin’, mate makin’,
mate matin’, portable loo pooin’, steam punkin’, steaming punk pukin’,
vitamin lackin’, liver killin’, shower needin’, shower gettin’, gettin’, get in,
yurt breathin’, practice bein’, Dali Lama lovin’, lovin’, lovin’, crystal eatin’,
herb consumin’, lay line dancin’ stoned circle, campin’, glampin’, stampin’ singin’
staggerin’, fallin’, gernin’, splashin’, risin’, huggin’, swellin’, record breakin’, Tribe of LOVE!!

The Republic

The Republic of Youth
Detonates nukes –
Swirling fists of sound and light
Against the thickening grey
Of an aging sky.

Like a power plant feeds
On bituminous sludge,
It sucks on pipelines of young blood
And oozes liquid YES from bass bins.

A totalitarian regime of music,
A revolutionary adventure of why the hell not
A sprawling Sim City festival metropolis,
A hedonist refugee camp.

Pete Bearder

‘Glastonbury’ by William Blake

I wandered tho’ each churning field
Near where the churning music flows.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of mash up, marks of whoa!

In every cry of every man,
In every munters cry of weheaah!
In every marquee, in every tent,
The mud forg’d maniacs I hear.

Pete Bearder

Pray for Rain

What do you want:

the Sun to 7am you,
yell MORNING
from a resounding
naked sky,
make you crawl
to the grass
like a foetus
from your sizzling
egg yoke tent,
make you breakfast
for the Gods of Party?

You are not that breakfast.
You are dinner,
or a late lunch
(three courses).

You’ll be digested
by the mud
in you own sweet time.

Glastonbury – To Take

• A kazoo,
• A bugle
• A bag full of noise
• ~~Water~~
• Vodka
• A small pot of laughter
• A tentless chat up line
• Your last bits of youth (In a sack / in a trailer /
in appropriate behaviour)
• Some nuts (Not pistachios they won’t last the train)
• Oranges for immunity
• Trench foot cream
• A tissue for your eyes when they start to bleed from laughing
• A mat designed for breathing
• Crystals designed for healing
• Something to roll up with
• A small container filled with love
• ~~A list~~
• A sense of misdirection
• A map to Mr Party’s house
• A acceptance that next week will be rubbed out
• Your friends
• Your children
• Your gran
• Yes, your gran!
• A light
• A lighter
• An Inner light
• A spare inner lighter
• Condoms
• ~~Waterbaloons~~
• Extra condoms
• Bin liners
• A trolley to carry around the good memories you collect

Leave everything else behind.

Download the Glastonbury Free Press newspaper

Last modified: June 28, 2015

Today’s issue of the Glastonbury Free Press newspaper – printed in the Theatre & Circus fields on our vintage Heidelberg printer – is available now from Info points across the site.

SUNDAY’S issue features: interviews with Emily Eavis and Dynamo, poem by Patti Smith, Pete Paphides on Festival food, John Lewis trying to see 10 headliners in one night and final day bingo. Download a free PDF of Sunday’s newspaper

THURSDAY’S issue features: Jarvis Cocker‘s letter to Florence + The Machine, interviews with Michael Eavis and John Cooper Clarke, John Harris on Pussy Riot, Pete Paphides on Festival food and Glastonbury staff, performers and broadcasters remembering their first time at Glastonbury. Download a free PDF of Thursday’s newspaper