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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.

Not here? Experience Glastonbury 2016 on the BBC

Last modified: June 25, 2016

Watch live performances straight from the Pyramid Stage, Other Stage, West Holts, John Peel, Park Stage as well as the best new talent on the BBC Introducing Stage all on the BBC Glastonbury website.

Over 100 video performances are available for 30 days after the festival. BBC iPlayer and BBC’s Glastonbury website are home to the performances, teamed up with photos, special features and exclusive Tipi Sessions.

BBC Two will broadcast from Glastonbury over the weekend, including performances from this year’s headliners. James, Underworld, New Order and festival extras will be shown on BBC Four. Here’s the TV schedule.

Get your personal slice of Glastonbury with the BBC Music app straight to your phone with exclusive live performances, interviews and playlists from the artists you love. Here’s how to download the app.

BBC Radio will broadcast over 50 hours of coverage this year. BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music are the stations that will host the coverage; presenting full sets, tracks and day highlights.

Trevor Nelson will offer listeners Adele’s headline set, live on Radio 2 at 9pm, Saturday 25th June. Coldplay’s set will be played live on Radio 2 at 9pm, Sunday 26th June. Here’s the radio schedule.

International watchers can access exclusive video content on the BBC Glastonbury website. Over 120 tracks and performance highlights from all artists will be available. BBC Music’s Tepee sessions are included for viewers outside the UK.

Thursday in pictures

Last modified: July 26, 2016

Some amazing photos from day two of the Festival, taken by our team of photographers.

Photo: Max Ellis

Photo: Joe Hayhow

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Team Phaze

Photo: Max Ellis

Photo: Salvador Fitzgerald

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Stephen Fothergill

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Anna Barclay

Wednesday in pictures

Last modified: July 26, 2016

Some great photos from the first day of the 2016 Festival.

Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Andrew Allcock
Photo: Andrew Allcock

Photo: Charles Gervais

Photo: Tom Widd

Photo: Anna Barclay

Photo: Jason Bryant

Photo: Salvador Fitzgerald

Tuesday in pictures

Last modified: June 22, 2016

Here are some snaps taken on Tuesday before the gates opened on Wednesday.

Photo: Charles Gervais

Glastonbury site fully open for business

Last modified: June 23, 2016

1.30PM UPDATE FROM GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL

We’re pleased to report that the Festival is fully open for business. All ticket holders are welcome to travel to the site, where traffic is moving as it usually does for the Festival. Please expect to queue, but we will get you in.

Thank you for your patience and help with this today.

We look forward to seeing you for a great Glastonbury.

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If you’re coming, here are a few tips…

Last modified: June 21, 2016

If you’re coming to the Festival tomorrow, here are a few useful last minute tips…

Site snaps: one day to go

Last modified: June 25, 2016

Here are some more photos by Jason Bryant from around the farm, with just one day to go until gates open…

Jo Cox tribute in The Park now on THUR at 4pm

Last modified: June 22, 2016

On Thursday 23rd June, at 4pm, we will be holding a tribute to Jo Cox on The Park Stage to celebrate what would have been her 42nd birthday. Join former colleagues for a moment’s silence and rally in Jo’s memory.