Glastonbury Festival Site, Pilton, Somerset

16th December 2007

Something a bit different today. A bit of Glastonbury festival history.

The first Festival was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died, over a two day period and before long “word had got around”. It was the Blues festival at the Bath & West Showground that had inspired Michael Eavis to begin a festival of his own although on a smaller scale.
Acts included: Marc Bolan, Keith Christmas, Stackridge, Al Stewart. Attendance: 1,500. Price: Ł1 including free milk from the farm.

Over the years the festival has become a huge success.

This year there was 137,500 tickets on sale. They were snapped up in just 1hour and 45 minutes

I thought people who had been to the festival and seen it on tv would like too see it 6 months on.
I was going to use some of my photos from this years festival to show the difference but sadly i cant find them.

Waste bins. I would not like to have the job of stacking them up like that.	Play area in the kids field.	Showers.	The meeting point.
This year the well known graffiti artist banksy apparently built a Stonehenge like thing from portable toilets. To my surprise it is still there.	The amazing dragon carving at Stone Circle.	Dragon water statue	Stone circle
Carved pole in tipi field.	The Pyramid stage	The Pyramid stage	I could not resist a little climb.
The Pyramid stage