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2023 saw Glastonbury return, firing on all cylinders. Joining the Green Fields, which have always been powered by renewable energy, this year every generator across the Festival site was run entirely on palm-oil free, sustainable HVO renewable fuel. This, along with the new temporary wind turbine powering the food stalls at Carhenge, added to the […]

  SPEAKERS FORUM, GREEN FUTURES FIELD 2023 PROGRAMME Click here for talk descriptions Wednesday 21st  1pm Ocean Protection – Will McCallum 2pm Living and working like the climate is changing. – Rebecca Gibbs 3pm Adventures in Democracy – Jamie Kelsey Fry 4pm Progressive Alliances and Climate -Frances Foley 5pm  Activists Masterclass Jamie Kelsey Fry 6pm […]

Ticket price: £280 Capacity: 210,000 After a two year Covid break, Glastonbury Festival returned at full strength in ’22. ‘It’s great to be back!’, a quote from a delighted Emily Eavis during the build, became the headline for the first issue of the Glastonbury Free Press, the official site newspaper. And the world’s media were […]

Science holds the solutions to the challenges we face, today and in the future. Researchers from four UK universities teamed up to create Science Futures, a science-themed area of the Green Futures field, where you can explore how science shapes our daily lives in ways you might never have imagined. Forge your own journey of […]

Ticket price: £248 Capacity: 203,000 With a new permanent licence approved by Mendip District Council in July 2018, the Festival spent the fallow year preparing for the return in 2019. Following another fast ticket sale (all 135,000 weekend sold in under 36 minutes), the first news to emerge was a gamechanger: a ban on single-use […]

The unofficial Best View of the festival site, nothing sums up the quintessentially British seaside holiday destination quite like the Glastonbury on Sea Pier. The Victorian style Pier is an authentic traditional seafront. Brainchild of Glastonbury Festival resident artist and founder of The Mutoid Waste Company Joe Rush who designed the 60m-long Pier, modelled on […]

As the official crew t-shirt made clear, 2014 was the year of four headliners. Arcade Fire (first revealed at the end of 2013), Metallica, Kasabian and of course, Dolly Parton, who graced the front page of every national newspaper in the UK (and thousands more around the world) on the Monday morning as everybody made […]

Information on this page will be updated ahead of Glastonbury 2023. We’re delighted to report that the Heidelberg printing press – used to print the GLASTONBURY FREE PRESS newspaper, and a ton of posters besides – has survived the winter in the Wagonshed at Worthy Farm. Now oiled up and given a clean bill of […]