A Look Back At The Glastonbury Festival

Author: alice Date: 14 November, Category: Appealing, Visits 3146

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[The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury is a British performing arts festival, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000. In 2011 UK Music published a report stating that Glastonbury Festival contributes over £100 million annually to the UK economy] – Wikipedia

Festival goers dance in the mud in front of the Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, at the 2004 Glastonbury Festival, 26 June 2004. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Festival-goer Claire Allen prepares for wet weather at the Glastonbury festival on June 23, 2005 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Festival goers dance in the mud in front of the Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, at the 2004 Glastonbury Festival, 26 June 2004. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Crowds gather at the stone circle to see the sunrise at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 23, 2005 in Somerset, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A festival-goer enjoys a smoke at the Glastonbury Festival on June 23, 2005 in Glastonbury, England. T (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Two festival-goers pass a roll of toilet paper between toilet cubicles, during the 2004 Glastonbury Festival on June 25, 2004 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Clare Murray and Adam Wearmouth from Newcastle sit in their tent at Worthy Farm, Pilton near Glastonbury, on June 20 2007 in Somerset, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Police officers (L-R) PC Sean Skelhorn, PC Nick Hoon and Sgt Craig Osborne stand in front of the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 29 2008 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Mobile phones handed into the Lost And Found Services (LAFS) office are sorted into containers at the Glastonbury Festival Welfare Centre, Worthy Farm on July 1, 2008 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. The office dealt with over 2,000 items during the festival which included approximately 400 mobile phones, 100 cameras and 400 wallets as well as passports, airline tickets, car keys as well as tents, wellies and rucksacks. Items brought to the office in previous festivals have included prosthetic legs, a piano, wetsuits, a barristers wig and a substantial sum of cash handed in by a naked man. The office aims to have up to a third of items returned to their rightful owners and employs a team for six weeks after the festival closes to do so. Any items not claimed or identified are either recycled or given to charity. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Cars and tents can be seen from the air at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 25, 2009 near Glastonbury, England. The gates have opened for the first of the 140000 music fans arriving, at what has become one of Europes largest music festivals, but weather forcasters have warned that bad weather may be on the way. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Music fans cover themselves in mud near the main Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival on June 26, 2009 in Glastonbury, England. Heavy rain and thunderstorms have greeted the 137,000 music fans who are expected on site for what has become one of Europes largest festivals. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

The sun sets over tents at the Glastonbury Festival on June 26, 2009 in Glastonbury, England (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A woman in the crowd cheers Lady GaGa as she performs on the Other Stage at the Glastonbury Festival on June 26, 2009 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Volunteer workers sort rubbish for recycling at the Glastonbury Festival recycling centre on June 29, 2009 in Glastonbury, England. Every year the festival employs a team of 1200 volunteers – who work for four, six hour shifts for a festival ticket – to sort what can be up to 2000 tonnes of rubbish generated during the festival. The recycling of all the cans, plates, cups, plastics and food waste left by the 137,00 people who have have began leaving the site today, is started on the Friday of the festival and lasts a week – but the complete clear-up of the festival site can take until August. The festival organisers hope that more than 50 percent of all rubbish will be recycled – including 230 tonnes of compostable food and biodegradable plates, cups and cutlery. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

People pass discarded tents and rubbish on the start of the big clear-up of the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 29, 2009 near Glastonbury, England. After the 137,000 music fans leave the site, over 1200 people remain to litter-pick and sort the 100s of tonnes of rubbish that has been left behind, which can include wellies, bedding, tents, cans of alcohol and other personal effects, in a finger-tip clear-up which removes all items, including every last cigarette butt, so that the land can be returned to dairy farming. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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