Here’s Jason Bryant’s latest photos from Worthy Farm, as the Festival really starts to take shape.

Thatchers Cider will be at Glastonbury Festival again this year. In the second of its three year partnership with Glastonbury, Thatchers Gold will be on tap in the Festival’s bars.

The family-run Somerset cidermaker will also be hosting four of its own craft cider bars, which will feature its traditional oak aged ciders, Heritage and Cheddar Valley.  The open fronted bars will be situated around the site at William’s Green, between the Pyramid and Other Stage, near the Bandstand, and close to the John Peel Stage.

Martin Thatcher, Managing Director and fourth generation cidermaker at Thatchers Cider says: “We’re delighted to be back at this amazing festival. We want our four new craft cider bars to give Festival goers a real West Country welcome.”

For more information on Thatchers Cider, head to their website.

Here are Jason Bryant’s latest batch of snaps from Worthy Farm, with the Festival only a couple of weeks away. Look out for the bin maze – which actually serves the very helpful purpose of allowing Hank and his painting crew to be able to easily check all of the bins’ designs.

In April, the live finals of our 2015 Emerging Talent Competition took place in Pilton, with Declan Mckenna crowned the winner. Declan won a slot on one of the Festival’s main stages, plus a £5,000 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation. The judges gave second place to Newcastle’s Shields, with Sheffield’s K.O.G. and the Zongo Bridage taking third place. Both acts received a £2,500 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation.

Happily, the broadcast students from Solent University were on hand to capture all eight acts, and you can see a song from each of them below. We’re pleased to confirm that all eight will be performing various slots at Glastonbury 2015, notably on Thursday when all eight of them will play at the Rabbit Hole.

Declan Mckenna – Brazil (Winner)

Shields – A Good Start (Runner-up)

K.O.G. & The Zongo Brigade – Jabulani (Runner-up)

Isaac Lee-Kronick

Jakl

Princess Slayer

Lucy Kitchen

MoD

Dotted around the Festival site, the five Glastonbury Festival Information Points offer help and advice about Festival facilities and their locations. But as well as being a fount of all Festival knowledge, the Information Points also offer handy things like free site maps, bin bags, sunscreen, condoms or just a friendly chat. They’ll even post your mail home for you! And the main Info point, at William’s Green, is open 24 hours throughout the Festival.

The Info team will also, once again, be offering a Twitter service, with questions sent by Glastonbury goers to @glastoinfo answered by their team of tweeters (full details of that to follow).

For a full list of Information Point services and opening times click here – and you can see their locations on the map below:

We’re pleased to announce that the official Glastonbury 2015 mobile app is now available to download, for free. The app, which has been built by EE, is the only official mobile app for this year’s Festival. It’s available for devices using Apple iOS and Android. Click the buttons below to download the app now.

The official 2015 app builds on the success of last year, keeping the popular programming guide, which allows you to build your personal line-up.

It also lets you connect to Facebook so you can see your mates’ planned line-ups too. And there’s even live BBC streaming from six stages, as well as catch-up.

The app also features an interactive map. New for this year is a fresh design and the ability to share map pins to help coordinate places to meet, or show people where your tent is.

It’s hard to think of Glastonbury Festival with just one stage, but until 1983 it was just the mighty Pyramid. Recognising the need to cater for a growing audience, Michael Eavis invited the organisers of Bristol’s legendary Ashton Court Free Festival to produce a second stage at Glastonbury. So at 12 noon on Thursday 22nd June 1984, a collective called Musicians Against Nuclear Arms strolled onto a little stage to help kick-start the festival. Over the decades the Marquee Stage evolved into the Second Stage, the World Stage, One World and the Jazz World, before becoming today’s West Holts.

Throughout these changes two principles have cemented West Holts’ foundations, allowing its development into one of those quintessential Glastonbury experiences: it’s got to be about the music and the vibe has got to be right!

There’s the unique and eclectic musical programme that fuses cosmic world beats, pop, rock, soul and disco from around the world whilst showcasing both established and new artists to an audience keen to explore musical adventures with like-minded people.

Check out this year’s West Holts line-up below – and click here to visit their area page to read more about their history and for a preview of this year’s acts.

Check out Jason Bryant’s latest batch of photos from Worthy Farm as the Festival gets ever closer.

This year, the Pilton Palais cinema tent (located in the Acoustic filed) celebrates 32 years of bringing an eclectic selection of films to Glastonbury Festival, catering for all tastes. For the first time ever they are opening on Wednesday afternoon until midnight. There’s an amazing array of films being shown across the Festival’s five days, including a surprise advance preview screening of a film for younger viewers and a selection of silent movies being re-scored live by Minima.

Click here to visit their area page for lots more info and screening times.

PRS for Music represents over 110,000 songwriters, performers and music publishers. The society’s role is to ensure they get rightfully paid whenever and wherever their music is used.

Glastonbury is working more closely than ever with PRS for Music in 2015. Many of the songwriters from acts performing on the iconic Pyramid and Other stages this June are PRS for Music members. This makes Glastonbury an important platform for the society’s members, and allows their music to be heard and enjoyed by an audience of millions.

A proportion of each Glastonbury ticket sold goes back to the PRS for Music members, providing essential revenue for them to continue creating. This means the 135,000 Glastonbury festival goers purchasing tickets are directly contributing to the growth of the UK live music scene.

Visit the PRS for Music website to find out more.

This year, PRS for Music in conjunction with PRS for Music Foundation also partnered with Glastonbury on our Emerging Talent Competition. The winner, London singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, received the PRS for Music Foundation Talent Development prize which is £5,000 to use towards taking his songwriting and performing to the next level. The contest’s two runners-up, Newcastle’s Shields and Sheffield’s K.O.G. and the Zongo Brigade, also each received £2500 from PRS for Music Foundation.