Through the ages
Glastonbury Festival through the ages
How the event changed without becoming just another giant festival.
Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The music, the fields, the food, the crowds and the effect on the place around it.
2025 review
Glastonbury 2025: surprise became part of the programme
A weekend where secret sets, scale and huge communal moments all competed for attention.
2024 review
Glastonbury 2024: pop confidence and maximalist spectacle
Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA and a year when the biggest stages leaned hard into scale.
2023 review
Glastonbury 2023: huge crowds, unexpectedly human moments
A festival remembered for both enormous headline scale and unusually intimate emotional moments.
2022 review
Glastonbury 2022: the comeback year
The first full festival after the pandemic felt less like a relaunch and more like collective release.
2026 fallow year
What the fallow year is actually for
No main festival in 2026: a deliberate reset for land, infrastructure and the people around Worthy Farm.