Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury is a unbelievable event. So many young people in a community which is self-governing and tolerant. It verified my belief that despite everything, humanity really does want to get on with itself. Michael Eavis is a genius for making it happen." Tony Benn, 2003.Glastonbury Festival of modern Performing Arts (to give it its full name since 1990) has been run by Somerset planter Michael Eavis at Worthy Farm, Pilton - near Glastonbury in Somerset - since 1970, and he continues to run it with massive enthusiasm. This is the mother of all festivals.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 too much numbers in 2000, many enhancements in safety and general administration have been made, and many of the problems related with the Festival have been reduced or eliminated totally. The local Council has hailed 2005 as a great achievement, and the prospect of the festival seems assured.