How Glastonbury Festival is Built in 26 Days

How do you turn a farm into the worlds greatest festival? This is some of the behind the scenes of the incredible collaborative effort from organisers, contractors and volunteers to bring the iconic vibrant city, known as Glastonbury Festival, to Worthy Farm!

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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Glastonbury Transformation
0:14 Glastonbury Festival Introduction & Size
0:59 Glastonbury Festival History
1:52 Glastonbury Festival Build Introduction
2:20 Building The Glastonbury Stages
4:43 Powering Glastonbury Festival
5:39 Human Waste at Glastonbury
6:40 General Waste at Glastonbury
7:15 Glastonbury Festival Signs, Perimeter Gate & More
7:49 Glastonbury Farm
8:10 Where do the Cows go?
8:27 Collaborative Glastonbury Festival Build

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SOURCES - FOOTAGE:
Emily Eavis At Worthy Farm - BBC Music

Glastonbury Serious Stages BTS - Event Industry News

Glastonbury 2023 in 3 Minutes - BBC Music

Glastonbury 2019: Site Build - BBC Music

Glastonbury Channel - BBC Music

Glastonbury From The Archives (Pyramid) - ITV News

Rick Ashley Road To Glasto - BBC Music

Waste of 200,000 people at Glastonbury - BBC Earth

Food at Glastonbury - BBC Music

Toilets of Glastonbury - Jons Random Reviews

Before The First Glastonbury - BBC Archive

Glastonbury in 1971 - Belfast Jack

Glastonbury 1981 - Steve Hiliker

Glastonbury From The Archives (50 Years) - ITV News

Entire Glastonbury Festival 2020 - icannotgetafreename

Glastonbury Festival Build - Joey Steel

Glastonbury Fence Build 2015 - Gareth Clegg

The Rum Shack - The Common Glastonbury

Ed Sheeran Croissant Neuf - Croissantneuf1

Icon Stage Timelapse - The Guardian

Other Stage Power - Hats Baker

Arcadia Glastonbury - NME

Glastonbury Reclining Centre - Coveya

The Worthy Farm Cows - BBC Music

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#Glastonbury #GlastonburyFestival

[EverythingExplainedd]

At 2:13 when I say 'there are over 400 workers', whilst this is technically true, the source I got my information from was referring to one segment, the actual number is close to 10, 000!

[Jake_]

The BBC needs to do a full series documentary on this. From start to finish, planning, booking, construction… everything!

[acdbrnout]

I work in the events industry and was expecting to hear a load of rubbish and speculation like I normally hear when people outside events talk about events but this was pretty spot on! Nice work :)

[chriswright]

Absolutely brilliant work. Would happily watch an hour plus of Behind the Glastonbury scenes.

[EverythingExplainedd]

Would really appreciate if you left a like and subscribe as I managed to dodge the Glasto hangover and get this video researched, scripted, voiced and edited within 48 hours of my 7 hour coach journey back 😅

[holomatrix]

I'm currently sitting in Tom's Field by the Red Shed that makes the signs, working in Recycling until tomorrow (true story), glad to see that someone has FINALLY made an accurate documentary with updated and current videos of Worthy Farm including some of the backend stuff you don't usually see. Thank you 👏👏🤙

[robs]

good video. I have worked in the live music industry for over 10 years. Another fun fact is that Glastonbury grew so quick in the late 90s that it strruggled to keep up with H&S and had a huge problem with security. They then hired Festival Republic (the guys that do Reading and Leeds, Wireless, Creamfields etc) to overhaul the operations of the festival and make it how it is now. Glastonbury then took back operations when the contract with FR ran out in 2012.

[cookiethemelonfarmer]

I worked for Serious Stages as a lorry driver in 2014 & 2015. Great company to work for, best job I've had! Driving a heavily loaded old lorry around that huge site when wet and muddy could be quite interesting to say the least!

[joeysteel]

Thanks for crediting the use of my Timelapse footage. It's a honour to be a part of such work :)

[FFLIVEROBLOX]

Amazing, well explained insight to such a large scale festival. Would love to see another one for Tomorrowland or Creamfields

[neilgraves]

Absolutley brilliant insight into behind the scenes video. Brilliant ❤

[gigteevee]

This is such a great overview of what it takes to deliver Glastonbury, nice work! 👍

[DCE]

Went a few times in the early 90’s when you could get a ticket 2 weeks before it started.Great times.

[jamiesmart]

This is such a busy site. The work that goes in to it for 5 day's of fun is incredible

[GK-ilfn]

Nice work :) it was my 6th time this year and I love discovering new things every time I go. I could watch this behind the scenes glasto stuff all day!

[Rory_Arlo]

This was like therapy for my post-glasto blues! Thanks alot mate hehe :)

[Goofleball]

This is such a great video, how did you made it so quickly?!

[arghlcasey]

Nice to see Croissant Neuf get a mention!

[Twisted_RC]

My friend works as part of the lighting rig team for the stage set up. She leaves home in mid may and stays on site until mid July

[glendalindaloo]

the professional bin painters (around 10-12 I think) are on site from mid April, then the volunteers (80) from the start of June for 2 weeks(ish) also. approximately 14000 bins get painted, along with benches, poles and pedestrian gate murals, along with the large mural at the vodaphone charging arena. after that they get piled up ready to do all again next year, you can see the pile from satellite images. it also takes 26 days to recover.