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	Glastonbury festival toilets - legendary Glasto loos
		According to the festival organisers the toilets are cleaned and the slurry pits are emptied at least once a day - there were 22 poo trucks emptying in 2004.
		Glastonbury's festival licence states there must be 300 metres of urinals.
		Glastonbury festival uses one million gallons of water over a period of five days.
	www.new-age.co.uk /glastonbury-toilets.htm (1256 words)

	Glastonbury Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippy ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.
		The festival takes place in South West England at Worthy Farm between the small village of Pilton and Pylle, six miles east of the town of Glastonbury, overlooked by the Glastonbury Tor in the mystical "Vale of Avalon".
		This was also the year the festival was first televised by Channel 4, concentrating on the main two music stages it provided a glimpse of the festival for many who knew little of it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glastonbury_Festival (2961 words)

	Glastonbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry spot on the Somerset Levels, 30 miles south of Bristol.
		The Joseph of Arimathea legend relates to the idea that Glastonbury was the birthplace of Christianity in the British Isles, and that the first British church was built there at Joseph's behest to house the Holy Grail, 30 or so years after the death of Jesus.
		Glastonbury and Street was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glastonbury (921 words)

	Glastonbury Festival - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The festival is celebrated at the Worthy Farm in South West England, between the villages of Pilton and Pylle.
		The festival is put together by the owner of the site, Michael Eavis (who had formed a company for this purpose called Glastonbury Festivals Ltd.) with help from the local farmers.
		The festival shal not be held in 2006.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Glastonbury_Festival (419 words)

	Glastonbury travel guide - Wikitravel
		Glastonbury is a small town (9,000 inhabitants) in the English West Country county of Somerset, some 20 miles (35 km) south of Bristol.
		Glastonbury is best known for the myths and legends surrounding both Glastonbury Tor, a prominent hill rising up from the surrounding flat landscape, and Glastonbury Abbey, which together have made the town a thriving centre for mystical, new-age, alternative spirituality.
		Glastonbury is also well known for the annual Glastonbury Festival, a summer music festival that has been likened to the equivalent of an ongoing Woodstock music festival.
	wikitravel.org /en/Glastonbury (346 words)

	Glastonbury 2007 - Festival News
		Glastonbury 2007 is back after a year off and looks set to be bigger and better than ever before.
		Glastonbury tickets are now on on sale and are available from See Tickets. Tickets are only available to those who have pre-registered.
		Glastonbury Festival 2007 takes place from June 22nd to June 24th 2007 at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
	www.festivalnews.co.uk /glastonbury (129 words)

	Glastonbury Festival 1999
		Glastonbury Festival 1999 has now been and gone.
		This is my account of the Glastonbury 1999 festival, the second Glastonbury Festival I have been to.
		What a man Michael Eavis is. He still went ahead with the festival despite the death of his life long partner Jean Eavis a month before the event.
	www.blasdale.com /pictures/1999/Glastonbury99 (141 words)

	Photo ID for Glastonbury Festival in bid to stamp out touts \| 24dash.com - Communities
		And festival organiser Michael Eavis is planning for this years event to be the biggest, with an extra 25,000 tickets going on sale to the public.
		Mr Eavis said the festival area had been enlarged and an extra 25,000 tickets would be available, with a record 137,500 people expected to descend on the site.
		Subject to being granted a new four-year licence, the festival is due to be held on June 22 -24.
	www.24dash.com /communities/15155.htm (422 words)

	Pilot Guides.com:Glastonbury Festival
		Glastonbury is the largest outdoors festival of music and performing arts in the world which each year hosts some of the biggest and best artists in the world.
		Glastonbury town and the surrounding region is the undisputed centre of spiritual England and is considered one of the oldest religious sites in the country.
		Glastonbury Tor is open to visitors throughout the year, and it takes just 25 minutes to climb to the summit.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/europe/england/glastonbury_festival.php (2225 words)

	TJM - Trade Justice Movement - News, 24 Hours for Trade Justice
		Revellers at Glastonbury are joining the fight for trade justice and sending messages to their MPs as part of 'Scale Up for Trade Justice'.
		Over 3,000 people at Glastonbury have signed up to fax their MP so they can lobby them 'virtually' from the festival for trade justice.
		Anyone at the Festival interested in finding out more should go to the Trade Justice Movement stall in the Green Futures field where they will be able to join the lobbying and send a message to their MP.
	www.tjm.org.uk /news/glastonbury2003.shtml (329 words)

	Glastonbury Festival 2005 Is Go!
		Founder Michael Eavis and festival organisers were celebrating last night at a hearing that saw Mendip village councillors vote 12 to 0 in favour of the event taking place in June.
		Dozens of 'noise monitors' to patrol inside and outside the festival site, a move designed to offer a more proactive approach in silencing offending sound systems before complaints from residents could be made.
		However, representatives from the emergency services reported that all seemed to be well with the festival, with police even considering cutting the number of officers patrolling the site due to the plummet in crime figures over the last four years.
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=62194 (570 words)

	Glastonbury Festival, 2002 Event Reviews - UK - Hippyland
		Glastonbury Festival first began with a small number in 1970, but has now grown to be one of the biggest events of its kind in Europe, alongside the Roskilde Festival.
		Unfortunately, that was also the year the festival was cancelled as the local council refused to grant the organisers permission due to the excessive amount of festival-goers who had jumped the fence the previous year.
		But despite the strong security, Glastonbury Festival remained the unusual celebration of culture it has always been — it even had its advantages, as the crime rate, for example, was down by 50%.
	www.hippy.com /php/review-241.html (826 words)

	The Glastonbury Festival: 1970 to 1979
		Kerr had woken up during the previous year’s festival on Glastonbury Tor to the view of a rainbow touching Worthy Farm, and saw this as a sign telling him to organize his own fest.
		But, this is Glastonbury, and miracles are rife – especially with God himself on site to dish them out, and according to festival veteran Anth Ginn “God was there…!” Ginn explained to the 1999 Festival Programme “…he shared a tent with a bloke from Nottingham.
		A yound David Bowie headlined this second Glastonbury, however due to the late running of bands during the day he was billed to finish, he was unable to squeeze his set in before the curfew.
	www.hannahmorezider.co.uk /Glastonbury/70to79.htm (835 words)

	McCartney Rocks Glastonbury Festival
		Glastonbury was first held in 1970 on Michael Eavis' Worthy Farm near Pilton, 120 miles southwest of London.
		The festival was canceled in 2001 after crime and crowd control problems a year earlier, and reinstated in 2002 with tightened security, including a 12-foot steel fence around the 900-acre site.
		The English National Opera was scheduled to stage the third act of Wagner's "The Valkyrie" at the festival on Sunday.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-06/27/content_343195.htm (305 words)

	Kylie to headline Glastonbury festival - Music - www.smh.com.au
		She's more suited to sequins than mosh pits, but Kylie Minogue is to be one of the headline acts at this year's Glastonbury Festival in Britain.
		Minogue is to close the three-day festival in June with a hi-tech extravaganza, organisers said.
		Festival founder Michael Eavis said he had rejected Minogue's previous advances to get on the bill at Glastonbury.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Music/Kylie-to-headline-Glastonbury-festival/2005/04/11/1113071906402.html (179 words)

	Glastonbury Festivals -
		Every year we make a new website which like the festival dies off and a new creation springs up on the ground where the old one left it's seed.Â Often the information, maps and guidance that you seek is not finally settled untilÂ much nearer to the event.
		There are many other reputable sources of information about Glastonbury Festival, so many in fact that we don't even know about them all!Â Below we mention a few.Â If you can recommend any others that you think are worth including a link to please get in touch via our contacts page.
		The GorgeÂ has been a site to help many with information about Glastonbury Festival, there are line-up rumours, weather reports and the very important countdown.
	www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk /information.aspx (695 words)

	Glastonbury Festival
		Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (to give it its full name since 1990) has been run by Somerset farmer Michael Eavis at Worthy Farm, Pilton - near Glastonbury in Somerset - since 1970, and he continues to run it with massive enthusiasm.
		The Festival normally takes place on the last full weekend of June, and is known to take a year off now and then to give both the land (a working farm) and the locals a chance to recover.
		After problems with excessive numbers in 2000, many improvements in security and general organisation have been made, and many of the problems associated with the Festival have been reduced or eliminated completely.
	www.efestivals.co.uk /festivals/glastonbury (290 words)

	Glastonbury 2004 - Day 3 @ Worthy Farm, Somerset : festival review
		Four days of festival lunacy are really starting to take their toll on the group, with everybody on a comedown or generally downbeat.
		The beauty of Glastonbury is the experience and the moments while you're there, be it from a band, drugs or the enormity of it all.
		In the first of our special four-part focus on festivals for 2007, we chart a dream itinerary of festivals.
	www.musicomh.com /festivals/glastonbury-3.htm (902 words)

	CNN.com - Glastonbury festival 'best ever' - Jun. 29, 2003
		This year's Glastonbury festival was the best ever, organiser Michael Eavis said as the event drew to a peaceful and harmonious close.
		The new image of Glastonbury as a safe and secure venue for the major festival came alongside the retention of its unique alternative elements.
		Part of the proceeds from the festival are given to Greenpeace, Oxfam and Water Aid to support their work for the environment and against hunger and poverty.
	cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/29/glastonbury (537 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts special reports \| Special report: Glastonbury 2003
		We put some festive spirits on the spot as the weekend wound down.
		Jun 30: In the third and final instalment of her festival blog Isabel tries crowd surfing at the Pyramid stage before bidding farewell to Worthy farm at sunrise.
		Jun 22, 01: The Glastonbury festival is on this weekend, and it's guaranteed to be mud-free.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /glastonbury2003/0,12902,908092,00.html (607 words)

	Glastonbury Festival Tickets, Buy, Schedule, 2005, Sale, Cheap Glastonbury Festival Tickets
		This page also has the Glastonbury Festival Schedule for the tour dates and venues that they will be at.
		Glastonbury Festival Tix are sometimes hard to find but we will have them for places like New York, NY, Los Angeles, LA, Boston, and Houston, TX.
		Sometime we even have Cheap Glastonbury Festival Tickets that are a real bargain for our customers that are Glastonbury Festival fans that are in search for 2005 Glastonbury Festival Tickets or even 2006 Glastonbury Festival Tickets.
	www.findticketz.com /event/Glastonbury_Festival.htm (262 words)

	Glastonbury Festival Day 2 @ Worthy Farm, Pilton : festival review
		Saturday at Glastonbury 2005 had a lot to live up to given the number of stellar performances the previous day.
		The conditions remained overcast and there were now certain parts of the site that were inaccessible due to the alarming volume of mud (which meant the queues for wellies were allegedly up to two hours), but thankfully the bill was once again mouth watering.
		Interpol were one of the bigger and more exciting names on the festival bill, so it was no surprise that their dusk slot saw most of the muddy surroundings of the Other Stage filled up with keen onlookers.
	www.musicomh.com /festivals/glastonbury-2_0705.htm (896 words)

	MUSIC-Glastonbury-Festival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Festival goers carry a child across a flooded field after torrential rain on the first day of the Glastonbury music festival, Glastonbury, England, Friday..
		LONDON (AP) - British music fans were dripping with excitement Friday, as torrential rains delayed the start of the Glastonbury Festival, one of the highlights of the summer music calendar.
		The storm, which broke after days of hot sunshine, temporarily cut power to the main stage, while the main dance tent was damaged by lightning.
	www.recorder.ca /cp/Entertainment/050624/e062413A.html (340 words)

	The Glastonbury Festival 1971
		Those who attended this bash attest that this was something out of the ordinary, the festival transcended the usual obstacles to having a great time.
		Glastonbury Abbey is supposed to have been built as a spiritual successor to Stonehenge and in accord with the same hidden elements of geometry and numerology.
		Probably because being a student at the time I was so damn broke that I could not afford it, also perhaps because the 1970 Festival was deemed to be such a fiasco that many people thought that half the bands would not turn up.This was NOT uncommon in those days.
	www.ukrockfestivals.com /glasmenu.html (1612 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Soaked Glastonbury gets under way
		The Glastonbury Festival is under way after suffering serious disruption when storms tore across its site at Pilton, Somerset, on Friday morning.
		Broadcasters were also affected - the set constructed for BBC Three's coverage from Glastonbury was flooded while Radio 1's Jo Whiley had to abandon her live broadcast after a river close to the corporation's compound burst its banks.
		Four police horses had to be moved out of the festival after their stables flooded.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4618015.stm (642 words)

	Glastonbury Festival (UK) - Festivalwise (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite increased ticket security and entry guards, Glastonbury still maintains a nonchalant reputation, where everyone from ‘earth lover’ to bad arse scally can chill out, go nuts or ‘find themselves’ in a field with the others of the hundred thousand strong crowd.
		2001’s festival was cancelled due to the foot and mouth epidemic.
		Glastonbury is known for everything from fire eating to knitting.
	www.festivalwise.com /festival.asp?id=1455 (429 words)

	Glastonbury Festival to be webcast - ZDNet UK News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All you high-tech Glastonbury lovers have been given a state of the art contingency plan if the rain turns the annual music festival into another mud-fest.
		PlayLouder.com, the official Internet sponsor of this year's Glastonbury Festival, will be webcasting some of the performances from the Festival for up to four hours a day using QuickTime streaming technology.
		A special hour-long compilation of Festival highlights will be available on the site for three months after the event is over.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,2079597,00.htm (317 words)

	Glastonbury Festivals -
		Michael Eavis, the founder and organiser of the Glastonbury FestivalÂ wasÂ delighted to pick up his CBE from the QueenÂ in a ceremony at Â Buckingham Palace this week.
		We are proud to announce that Glastonburyâs photo tickets, introduced for 2007, as a means to combat ticket touting, were voted Best Innovation in the UK Festival Awards.
		For other peformers, the Festival is again runningÂ Glastonbury's New TalentÂ Competition.Â Over 50 performers or groups that entered the competition last year played at Glastonbury 2007, with the winner, Liz Green, having a spot on the Pyramid Stage.
	www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk (408 words)

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