Carhenge

This summer, Carhenge returns in monumental form to Glastonbury Festival 2025, marking 40 years since Joe Rush and the Mutoid Waste Company first invaded Worthy Farm with their music, art & mayhem. 

Standing once more in William’s Green, the colossal henge, built from 24 mutated vintage cars, each standing stone a car dedicated to the heroes and builders of our alternative Rock and Roll world, this year including an artistic tribute to the late Keith Flint, whose band The Prodigy, will close The Other Stage on Sunday night. 

Within these totemic pillars we bring you an eclectic line-up of street musicians, ranking DJ’s, hardcore garage punk band, Carnival drummers and wild and free jam sessions. Any time, day and night, something is bubbling at the ‘henge

Featuring: 

Fireball Sessions, the genre-defying live music series curated by drummer and musical director MckNasty (Joshua McKenzie), ignites the henge with spontaneous and collaborative performances from emerging and established artists, rooted in Black music. An immersive and electrifying expersion, filled with energy and passion.   

Finnish garage rock rebels US, fresh from tours with Electric Six and studio sessions at the Libertines’ Albion Rooms, bring their charged blend of R’n’B and rock swagger. 

Cam Cole, the one-man blues-grunge-rock dynamo returns to the festival  with his full-throttle sonic circus, delivering explosive street-born energy that’s captivated audiences around the globe.

Back for 2025 is percussionist and composer Jo Bucket (Jonathan Pierre), with his beats, buckets and unique energy. 

Bringing the party are the Notting Hill Carnival collective. For a fourth year, they’ll parade through the site in full colour with costumes, steelbands, DJs, and that unmistakable Carnival spirit.

New for 2025 is a Busker’s Stage, where each day a curated lineup of grassroots performers and travelling musicians will bring spontaneous, raw sound direct to the henge. 

As always, Joe Rush’s mechanical dreamscape will evolve through light, sound, and performance. When the drums pause, immersive soundscapes will fill the void—ambient sonic journeys delving into the lives and legacies of the countercultural icons represented in the henge, with music, memory, and spoken word.

Since 1985, Rush and his crew have helped shape the mythos of Glastonbury with works that are as rebellious as they are memorable —from the vast hydraulic Phoenix that emerged from an inferno on the face of the Pyramid Stage during the Rolling Stones’ 2013 headline set, to post-apocalyptic drive-in auditorium, Cineramageddon, the immersive Unfairground, the Victorain-style Pier at Glastonbury-on-Sea and the iconic Joe Strummer Memorial Tree.