The excellent Glastonbury clean-up is underway as thousands return home after a weekend of music.About 1,000 volunteers picked up litter on Monday morning to restore the 800-acre site at Worthy Farm to its normal state when revellers don’t populate it.It is thought that 210,000 people attended the festival from Wednesday until Sunday, headlined by Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and...
As music fans descend on Somerset for Glastonbury Festival 2023, eyes are on the weather as much as the bands.An estimated 210,000 music fans will descend on the 900-acre site to see Elton John, the Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, Lewis Capaldi, and Lizzo perform at the UK’s most famous festival.Fortunately for those attending this year, forecasters have given a relatively good outlook...
There are prosaic career benefits to a big Pyramid stage slot at Glastonbury: the crowds of 100,000 people or more contain everyone from sixtysomethings on folding chairs to glitter-strewn millennials and surly teenagers, massively broadening your fanbase. But whether it stems from leylines or macrodosed cider, there’s also an intangible, unquantifiable magic in this setting that can elevate an...