LONDON (AP) — This week, hundreds of music lovers from throughout the U.Okay. and past will flock to a farm within the southwest of England for the legendary Glastonbury Competition of Up to date Performing Arts. However simply what number of?
Discover out on this information to Glastonbury — and all of its quirks — by the numbers.
210,000: Full capability of the competition
The competition’s present license permits as much as 210,000 folks on-site, together with followers, employees and performers — however, this 12 months, a couple of thousand fewer tickets have been bought, to keep away from overcrowding.
The closest village of Pilton has a inhabitants of round 1,000 folks. In the course of the competition, although, the realm turns into the seventh-largest largest metropolis within the U.Okay. (greater than double that of close by Tub, which has a inhabitants of round 94,000).
1,200,000: Pints of beer stocked throughout greater than 100 bars
Brooklyn Brewery’s pilsner has been the official beer of Glastonbury since 2023, maintaining festivalgoers properly lubricated. This 12 months, they’re making ready greater than 1.2 million pints of lager for a scorching and thirsty crowd. That is equal to 2 standard-size swimming swimming pools.
And that’s regardless of Glastonbury’s B.Y.O. standing, distinctive at British music festivals the place bringing alcohol in from the skin is often prohibited. At Glastonbury, for those who can carry it, you may drink it, and it’s not unusual to see wheelbarrows and small trailers being pulled into campsites with a weekend’s price of provides of foods and drinks.
120,000: Largest-ever crowd for one set
The headliners on the long-lasting Pyramid Stage historically entice the largest crowds, and Elton John’s 2023 farewell gig attracted greater than 120,000 followers as he closed the competition. Paul McCartney pulled in additional than 100,000 festivalgoers for his headlining Saturday evening set in 2022.
4,000: Variety of bogs
In addition to commonplace transportable bogs, the greater than 4,000 bogs embrace the notorious “long drops” — lockable, open-air bogs arrange on excessive with an enormous concrete gutter round 10 toes (3 meters) under (wanting down not really helpful) and “compost loos,” with a bin of sawdust positioned exterior to scoop and scatter over your small business. There are additionally each males’s and ladies’s urinals for a speedy pee!
Against this, there are scarce few public showers. Organizers as an alternative suggest a “good ol’ fashioned stripwash and making do.”
3,972: Performers throughout 120 levels this 12 months
This 12 months’s headliners are English indie rockers The 1975 on Friday, Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Younger on Saturday and American pop star Olivia Rodrigo closing on Sunday. But when that’s not your factor, there are 3,969 different acts to select from.
35: Minutes it took for 2025 tickets to promote out
Tickets for this 12 months went on sale in November 2024, greater than 6 months earlier than a single performer was introduced, but the overall admission tickets bought out in 35 minutes. The resale spherical in April noticed remaining tickets promote out in simply 20 minutes.
1970: Glastonbury’s beginning 12 months
This doesn’t imply this week is the fifty fifth version although, as historically the competition takes a fallow 12 months roughly each 5 years to permit the farmland to get better. The final official fallow 12 months was 2018, however the competition’s fiftieth anniversary in 2020 and the next 12 months’s version have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Should you’re contemplating making Glasto plans for subsequent 12 months, do not hassle: 2026 is a fallow 12 months.
1,000: Acres constituting the competition’s web site
That is equal to 500 soccer pitches or roughly 733 commonplace American soccer fields. That makes it the world’s largest greenfield music and humanities occasion.
1,000: Cows residing on the farmland
The remainder of the 12 months, that’s — the people and the cows do not cohabitate in the course of the competition. Worthy Farm, the place the competition is held, is a working farm with 500 milking cows and 500 younger inventory. In the course of the competition, organizer Michael Eavis sends the dairy cows for a brief keep on the Glastonbury “Moo-tel,” a big shed primarily based away from the motion, whereas the remainder go off to graze additional afield.
400: Meals stalls
The greater than 400 stalls go properly past the standard competition burger, providing nearly each kind of world delicacies you may think about. Plus the Brits love a “meal deal” (a combo of a major meal and a drink or facet dish) and Glastonbury is not any exception with 6-pound (roughly $8) meal offers provided throughout the location to maintain issues inexpensive.
30: Arrests made in 2024
Twenty-one of those have been for drug-related offenses, however the competition retains a low crime price total.
8: Kilometers across the perimeter fence
A “Super Fortress Fence” was put in in 2002. Earlier than this, there have been tens of hundreds of gate-crashers yearly. Some jumped the fence, whereas others tunneled below, “Great Escape” model. Eavis put in the impenetrable fence after he was fined in 2000 for breaching licensing circumstances.
5: Days the competition web site is open for enterprise
Ticket holders can get entry beginning 8 a.m. Wednesday to pitch their tents and bag one of the best spots. Whereas there may be leisure and music over the primary few days, the primary levels begin up on Friday morning and run by means of Sunday evening. All festivalgoers should go away by 5 p.m. Monday, when the location formally closes.
5: Most headlining appearances of any band
Coldplay has headlined the Pyramid Stage a report 5 occasions. They first topped the invoice in 2002, adopted by 2005, 2011, 2016 and, most lately, 2024. Arctic Monkeys, Muse and Radiohead are amongst an elite group of artists who’ve headlined 3 times.
3: Banned objects that will shock you
Among the many record of banned objects you would possibly anticipate, together with narcotics, weapons and fireworks, are the much less assuming Chinese language lanterns, physique glitter and gazebos. The primary two are verboten due to environmental issues — a pair cows have died from ingesting the remnants of a Chinese language lantern! — whereas a sudden rash of gazebos would take up an excessive amount of house within the busy campsites.
0: Variety of plastic bottles bought on-site
Glastonbury banned single-use plastic in 2019, putting in extra ingesting water fountains across the web site and inspiring festivalgoers to deliver reusable bottles — for water or another liquid of selection, after all.
