After two years of mud and rain, Glastonbury 2008 bounced back with a weekend of fine weather and fabulous music, performance art and ever so much more. A little rain prior to the event saw the attending masses draw in a sharp, nervous breath, but all the smattering of rain did was keep down the […]

After the triumph over adversity that was Glastonbury 2008, expectations were running high for the 2009 Festival. The ticket deposit scheme proved to be a successful and popular initiative, helping the Festival to sell out eight weeks before gates opened. When they did, the crowds flooded through them in droves: by the Thursday morning, a […]

Click below for photos from the 2011 Festival.         With a fallow year scheduled for 2012, this was the last Festival for two years. Tickets sold-out the day they went on sale and when gates opened on Wednesday morning, tens of thousands of revellers made their way in – a full two […]

Once again the heart of Worthy Farm, the Field of Avalon will come alive again with the spirit of Albion fayre. Like an island in the sea of Glastonbury, the Field of Avalon maintains its unbroken connection to the earthy Eden. Once part of the Greenfields it remains as one of the original areas still […]

Welcome one and all to the greatest show on Earth, The Kidzfield 24! There is no other place on earth like The Kidzfield and we invite everyone of 12 and under to experience the wonder and Magic that lives here! The Kidzfield and Glastonbury Festival are committed to the UN Charter for Child Rights. We […]

Introduction Since it began as a small-scale event on a dairy farm in 1970, Glastonbury has become one of the world’s biggest festivals. Each year, more than 140,000 ticket-holders enjoy entertainment at over 100 stages across five days, in the heart of Somerset. You can read a brief introduction to the Festival here. The ethos […]

Paid work The number of people employed full-time directly by the Festival is relatively small, and largely in administrative roles, including: -Finance, licensing, customer services, and general administration -Infrastructure, procurement & coordination of temporary infrastructure, site design & layout (AutoCAD knowledge preferable) -Site, sanitation, environmental and ground works Please note, the Festival offices are in rural […]

Our accredited photographers (and a polar bear) outside the press tent at Glastonbury 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY AT GLASTONBURY Glastonbury Festival welcomes media interest in our unique event and we try to accommodate coverage wherever possible. However, the Festival does have a media access policy and this extends to photography. If you wish to take photographs at […]

A note from Michael Eavis Glastonbury Festival was founded in 1970, long before people began to become concerned about climate change. Yet even then all the milk, the cider and the straw came from the farm. We were green then, and we are just as green now. These days, of course, everyone has woken up […]

First of all, thank you to everyone who handed something in at last year’s festival, you made a lot of people very happy! Until the end of Monday 1st July you can head up to the LAFS (Lost and Found Services) tent at the top of Big Ground (up the hill, to the right of […]