‘festival of contemporary performing arts’
The mass of tents which is Glastonbury
Worthy Farm, Pilton, England, 23rd June - 27th June
When is comes to open-aired festivals Glastonbury is the king with over 100,000 people attending each year. Glastonbury began the day after Jimi Hendrix died (19th September), in 1970, the price back then was one pound along with free milk from the farm, a hot bargain indeed.
This festival takes over 350 hectares of farmland and becomes a musical festival heaven with many stage and hundreds of artists.
Glostonbury 2009 was a huge success despite the death of Michael Jackson who was set to play, the atmosphere remained good. Michael Eavis, the founder of Glastonbury and owner of the farm its held on hailed Glastonbury 2009 as "the best Glastonbury ever" and going my stories I’ve heard its hard to argue. Despite heavy rainfall on the Thursday, performances went ahead as planned on the Friday. Both performers and festival goers powered on in the spirit of nature and music with the impressive fire show providing warmth.
Glastonbury 2010 is already sold out, those lucky enough to have secured tickets will be hearing the likes of U2, Stevie Wonder, Hot Chip, Florence and the Machine, Shakira, MGMT, Dizzee Rascal and many many more famous and wonderful bands and solo artists. Glastonbury has the largest variety and number or acts set to preform, it puts the likes of Oxygen and Electric picnic to shame. This year tickets cost £185 (€210) plus booking fee, although expensive is still better value than Oxygen and Electric Picnic as you get 4 days a much more choice.
Unfortunately like Ireland the weather is unpredictable so don’t pack only flip flops and hot pants only to find yourself knee deep in mud and freezing. The 1997 Glastonbury festival has gone down in history as the “Year of the Mud” luckily this did not get festival goers down as they partied anyway muddy yet content.
For very detailed and informative information about Glatonbury go to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
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