Glastonbury

What: The largest green­field music fes­ti­val in the world and a hall­mark of the British art cal­en­dar, Glas­ton­bury see’s the biggest inter­nal rock and pop acts in the world, com­bined with thou­sands of sup­port­ing dance, com­e­dy and music artists descend­ing on the peace­ful vil­lage of Pil­ton, Som­er­set.

The fes­ti­val is also syn­ony­mous with both tents, and due to its loca­tion in a field — mud, with some 135,000 rev­el­ers (not includ­ing the acts) required to bring and pitch their own tent for the dura­tion of the fes­ti­val, which along with some 300 ven­dors offer­ing cheap food — with show­ers known to be at a pre­mi­um, all of which helps form a free-spir­it­ed tent­ed social com­mu­ni­ty and makes  Glas­ton­bury a unique cel­e­bra­tion of the best of  the arts and music in a free and unique way.

When: Glas­ton­bury takes place over the course of 5 days cen­tred around the last week­end of June, with the Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and sun­day fea­tur­ing the three main head­line acts per­form­ing on the pyra­mid stages. Every five years the fes­ti­val will take a break – known as the ‘fal­low year’ with the inten­tion being to give the land, organ­is­ers, and the patient local pop­u­la­tion a break from the fes­ti­val.

Where: Glas­ton­bury takes place in the UK, in the vil­lage of Pil­ton, Som­er­set across almost 900 acres of land totalling almost 9 miles in perime­ter – which is enough for the cre­ation of mul­ti­ple art and music stages and the accom­mo­da­tion of 135,000 rev­ellers in tents.

Dura­tion: Glas­ton­bury takes place over 5 days, with per­for­mances on the Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day start­ing from ear­ly morn­ing and last­ing all the way through till mid­night, with thou­sands of acts and enter­tain­ment on dis­play in dif­fer­ent stages and loca­tions tak­ing place over the course of the 5 days.

Tick­ets: Tick­ets for Glas­ton­bury are heav­i­ly sought after, with some two and a half mil­lion com­pet­ing for just 135,000 tick­ets. In order to pur­chase tick­ets, indi­vid­u­als must first reg­is­ter on the Glas­ton­bury tick­et­ing web­site [glastonbury.seetickets.com] with a pass­port style pho­to and then be ready at their com­put­ers on the sale date in mid-Octo­ber to try and secure tick­ets which are lim­it­ed to six per per­son, and cost £265 not includ­ing a £5 book­ing fee and require a £50 fee deposit up front – with a lim­it­ed re-sale for tick­ets also tak­ing place in the April before the sys­tem again at [glastonbury.seetickets.com].

Need to Know: Bring what the British call ‘Wellies’ – welling­ton boots for your feet and a com­fort­able pair of shoes as the shows often involve a large peri­od of stand­ing – and due to the crowds and dis­tance between each act it’s rec­om­mend­ed to plan your day around one or two acts instead of try­ing to jump from one stage to the next.

Final­ly make sure to keep an eye on and secure your valu­able, despite the free nature of the fes­ti­val, tent theft and lost items do unfor­tu­nate­ly occur at Glas­ton­bury.

More Infor­ma­tion: For infor­ma­tion about the line-up, rec­om­mend­ed tents, and nav­i­gat­ing Glas­ton­bury see [ https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/] to reg­is­ter and pur­chase for tick­ets head to [glastonbury.seetickets.com].