40 m. ago Glastonbury 2025 in pictures as revellers arrive at Worthy Farm

Festival goers are arriving in the masses as the UK's biggest festival gets underway

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47 m. ago Glastonbury 2025 live: Music fans battle traffic to Worthy Farm after gates open

Organiser Emily Eavis and her father, festival founder Michael Eavis, have opened the gates to Worthy Farm today, allowing thousands of music fans to set up camp

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70 m. ago Rod Stewart’s health struggle and his drastic action to get through Glastonbury

As Rod Stewart prepares to take Glastonbury 2025's coveted Legends slot, the 80-year-old crooner has overcome recent health issues and made a steep investment to make sure the gig goes ahead

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79 m. ago Glastonbury 2025 full lineup, stage times and schedule for Pyramid Stage, Other, Woodsies and more

Around 3,000 performances will take place at Glastonbury this year

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80 m. ago Full list of Glastonbury 2025 headliners as festival returns

Hundreds of acts will appear across the festival's many stages this weekend

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90 m. ago ‘Poor management leads to fatal crushes’: how Glastonbury and others are dealing with big crowds

After disasters such as Astroworld and scary bottlenecks at last year’s Glastonbury, Emily Eavis and crowd experts explain how they’re trying to make events safeIn the last two decades the British festival season has ballooned in size to become not just a critical part of our cultural life, but the economy at large – worth billions of pounds, and numbering as many as 850 events last year. But as Glastonbury kicks off this weekend and the season enters its peak, there are a growing number of controversies around crowd safety and management.In April, London Assembly member and Conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall echoed Metropolitan police concerns about the potential for a “mass casualty event” at Notting Hill Carnival this year, and in May, the Mail on Sunday published an anonymous Glastonbury whistleblower’s allegation that the festival is a “disaster waiting to happen Worst-case scenario, people are going to die.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Glastonbury 2025 live updates: Festival fans battle traffic to get to Worthy Farm

Organiser Emily Eavis and her father, festival founder Michael Eavis, have opened the gates to Worthy Farm today, allowing thousands of music fans to set up camp

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3 h. ago Can you headline our ultimate Glastonbury quiz? Put your Worthy Farm knowledge to the test

Think you know Glastonbury inside and out? Test your knowledge with this ultimate quiz, covering everything from muddy mayhem to iconic headline moments, as the 2025 festival returns to Worthy Farm

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3 h. ago Glastonbury Festival 2025 opens its doors as revellers begin to pour in

Around 200,000 music lovers are set to gather at the UK's biggest festival

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3 h. ago Glastonbury Festival 2025 gates open as thousands come early with booze already flowing

Thousands of music fans have excitedly descended on Glastonbury to spend the next five days cavorting to the biggest acts, such as Rod Stewart, Olivia Rodrigo and Kneecap

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4 h. ago Revellers pour into Glastonbury Festival as gates open for 2025

Organiser Emily Eavis and her father, co-founder Sir Michael Eavis, cheered as the gates opened.

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4 h. ago Glastonbury Festival 2025: Thousands descend on Worthy Farm as gates open

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis opened the gates to Worthy Farm at 8am on Wednesday

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4 h. ago Glastonbury Festival 2025: Thousands of ticketholders descend on Worthy Farm as gates open for five

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis opened the gates to Worthy Farm at 8am on Wednesday

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4 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 live updates: Gates open ahead of The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo and Neil Young headline sets

Organiser Emily Eavis and her father, festival founder Michael Eavis, have opened the gates to Worthy Farm today, allowing thousands of music fans to set up camp

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5 h. ago From Kneecap to Jeremy Corbyn: A brief history of politics at Glastonbury Festival

From chants of ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ to the gloom generated by the EU Referendum result and now controversy over Kneecap’s 2025 performance, Glastonbury has been the site where campaigners call for peace, justice and reform for years

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5 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 live updates: Gates open today ahead of The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo and Neil Young headline sets

Emily Eavis will open gates to Worthy Farm today, as Met Office forecasts a mostly sunny festival week

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6 h. ago Chunky trainers, vintage sportswear, and brat shorts: What to wear at Glastonbury 2025

As 200,000 people prepare to descend on Pilton's famous fields, Olivia Petter offers some advice to those looking to stay on trend

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6 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 full lineup, set times and clashfinder for each stage

Fans can now work out any clashes between sets, and which stages their favourite artists are playing

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7 h. ago ‘Pop music can be so scared to offend’: Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, the Argentine duo subverting machismo

After going viral with their Tiny Desk concert, the impish pair are heading to Glastonbury. They explain their ‘no shame, no fear’ approach – and their ridiculous muscle suitsOver impeccable jazz-funk arrangements and Latin percussion, a man in a furry blue trapper hat raps like he’s inhaled a Benson & Hedges multipack, while his partner brings lip-curling, hair-twirling attitude to his own lyrical delivery. This is Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso’s Tiny Desk Concert, an online performance that turned the two Argentine vocalists into global sensations almost overnight after it came out last October. It has now racked up 36m views and Rolling Stone has called them “the future of music”.Some eyebrows were raised, though, by the English translations of their lyrics: crude, daft, often hilarious tales of parties, sex and girls – even, accidentally, goes one punchline, the same one. “We’re always having fun and trying to confuse people,” Amoroso explains on a video call from Madrid, during ...

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17 h. ago The BBC DJs who WANT things to go wrong at Glastonbury and their tips of who to watch

Radio DJs and TV hosts Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq recall their Glastonbury festival which went wrong and must see bands in 2025

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