When is glastonbury festival held

Unfortunately, tickets for Glastonbury are sold out, as deposits made for the festival have been rolled over for a second year. The festival has strict guidelines about reselling and transferring tickets. Security checks are carried out on arrival, and only the specified ticket holder will be admitted to the Festival. There is usually an official Glastonbury resale event a few months before the festival, but in order to be eligible to buy tickets, you have to be registered which you can do via the website.

For those who have already bagged a ticket, you must pay the full balance from the first week of March or risk losing your ticket. More info can be found on the Glastonbury official website. However, neither Fontana nor The Kinks actually played Glastonbury. Stepping into the breach was the folk-rock duo, Tyrannosaurus Rex.

This was the duo of Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn , who were in the process of moving their sound on from psychedelic whimsy to the glam rock stompers that would make them famous. At the time of their Glastonbury slot, they were working on the first, self-titled album under the abbreviated name T. The official Glastonbury site notes that Keith Christmas, Stackridge and soon to be famous singer-songwriter Al Stewart also performed.

Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have come after it. The difference is that Glastonbury has all the best aspects of being at a festival in one astonishing bundle.

Coming to Glastonbury involves a fair amount of travel, and probably a queue to get in but, when you get past these impediments, you enter a huge tented city, a mini-state under canvas. British law still applies, but the rules of society are a bit different, a little bit freer. Everyone is here to have a wild time in their own way. The Festival site has distinct socio-geographic regions. The more commercial aspects are around the Pyramid, Other and Silver Hayes, which feels as if the West End of London a Saturday night has been removed to a field and thoroughly beautified.

Unlike the West End, visitors are on every guest list, from the night time cinemas to the biggest gigs.