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Friday June 23 to Sunday June 25, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Way Ahead:
Tickets: £89 [Buy]
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It’s almost become a cliche to say that there’s no festival like Glastonbury, but anyone who goes soon understands. This year 100,000 people will head to Worthy Farm, 30 years after the original festival, and they’ll find an event that’s as much about sitting in a field as it is about watching top bands. When people say they go to Glastonbury and don’t see a single band, they’re not lying. As organiser Michael Eavis told us, ‘There’s so much else going on other than just music.’
ATMOSPHERE:
With a sprawls over 800 acres of Somerset countryside, you can be as involved or uninvolved as you like at Glastonbury. Chill in the healing fields, or get sweaty in the dance tent. The choice is yours. But if you go with a see-what-happens attitude and an open mind, you won’t go far wrong.
DON'T MISS:
‘We’ve increased the dance music, because there’s such a huge demand for it now,’ says Eavis of The Glade, an all-new, open-air dance stage in the trees. ‘We’ve got all sorts of people that wanna play there, but we can’t say who they are ’cos they’re not charging us much and they’re all top people So we’re making up names for them to disguise who they are. Not even the record companies know they’re playing.’ Also worth looking out for is the new ballroom dancing area, being run by Roy, an ex-hippy convoy leader, underneath the railway line. And for children or drum ’n’ bass historians, check out the excellent kids area where, according to Eavis, Roni Size formed his group. ‘He was teaching kids music on the Bristol Community Bus and in the evenings they all got together and he actually started his band here’.
HANDY HINTS:
Eavis says you should look around the edges of the festival for surprises. ‘Last year I amazed myself. I was walking around, saw a hole in the ground and they said ‘hey Mike come down here!’ So I went down and it was all lit up with candles and there was a chap playing a grand piano. There was tiered seating. It was terrific, all done undergound! I mean it couldn’t have been safe down there, but I didn’t know anything about it!’
TICKETS:
Tickets cost £87 (plus £2 ‘handling’ charge) including camping, parking and a programme upon arrival. Accompanied children under 14 are admitted free. Caravans and living vehicles require a seperate advance ticket (£25).
CC: 01159 129 129
By post: Postal applications should be sent to Glastonbury Ticket Unit, The Hollows, St James Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FW. Cheques or postal orders for £89 payable to ‘Glastonbury Festivals Ltd’.
GETTING THERE:
By train: from Paddington to Castle Cary BR, where a free coach shuttle to the site runs for ticket holders. (info: 0345 4849500)
By coach: National Express run regular services from Victoria direct to the festival site. (info: 08705 808080)
By road: Take the M4 to Bristol, then follow the signs to Shepton Mallett. From here the site will be well signposted. Traffic news on the festival’s radio station, Avalon 87.7FM.
Camping: see ticket details above.
INFO:
www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
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CONFIRMED LINE-UP SO FAR (THE FULL LINE-UP WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON JUNE 5):
PYRAMID STAGE
CHEMICAL BROTHERS, TRAVIS, DAVID BOWIE, EMBRACE, WILLIE NELSON, BURT BACHARRACH, HAPPY MONDAYS, LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, OCEAN COLOUR SCENE, THE WAILERS.
OTHER STAGE
MOBY, NINE INCH NAILS, LEFTFIELD, DEATH IN VEGAS, MUSE, BASEMENT JAXX, BETA BAND
JAZZWORLD STAGE
REPRAZENT, GROOVE ARMADA, MOLOKO, THE WAILERS, NITIN SAWHNEY, MORCHEEBA, FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE, TERRY CALLIER, G-LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE, ANDY SHEPPARD, LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, SIDESTEPPER, YAT KHA, JOHN MARTYN, OZOMATLI, HORACE ANDY, RONNY JORDAN, JAZZ JAMAICA, ERIK TRUFFAZ, SUGARMAN 3
DANCE TENT
DAVE CLARKE, JOSH WINK, KELIS, UTAH SAINTS, NICK WARREN, EAT STATIC, LUKE VIBERT AND BJ COLE, BANCO DE GAIA (DJ SET), MANCHILD, ELEMENT, BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE, JUSTIN ROBERTSON, FREESTYLERS, KOJAK, MICKEY FINN, APHRODITE & MC FEARLESS, DJ KRUSH, PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, GILLES PETERSON, MINT ROYALE, THE HERBALISER
NEW BANDS TENT
FLAMING LIPS, BADLY DRAWN BOY, BEN AND JASON, BROADCAST, CONTEMPO, COUSTEAU, DOVES, ELLIOT SMITH, IT'S JO AND DANNY, JJ72, KENT, MOTORHOMES, MY VITRIOL, OOBERMAN, ORANGE CAN, RAE AND CHRISTIAN, SPEARMINT, TERRIS, WHEAT, YO LA TENGO
ACOUSTIC TENT
MIKE SCOTT, G-LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE, PRIORY OF BRION FEAT. ROBERT PLANT, JACK L, EZIO, JIM DEVLIN, MATTHEW JAY, HOTHOUSE FLOWERS, HANK WILLIAMS III, ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART, SUZANNE VEGA, PAUL CARRACK, ERIC BIBB, KATE RIGSBY, EILEEN ROSE
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