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The Atlantic’s In Focus blog has 44 amazing photos from this year’s Glastonbury Music Festival, which just wrapped up this weekend and featured a surprise appearance (and return to the stage) by Radiohead.
This weekend, more than 175,000 music fans gathered at Worthy Farm near Glastonbury, England, for the 2011 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. The attendees, who set up tents and braved the mud, were treated to performances by U2, Wu-Tang Clan, Crystal Castles, Paul Simon, Ke$ha, and many more. The five-day festival wrapped up last night with glowing reviews for the performances by headliners Beyonce and Coldplay. Today, volunteer clean-up crews are out in full force, tidying up the trampled farm grounds. Gathered here are some scenes from this year’s festivities in Glastonbury.
Some really amazing shots in there; definitely check it out.
England’s massive Glastonbury Festival has finalized its 2010 lineup, with U2, Stevie Wonder, and Muse at the top of a bill of over 300 bands and DJs. The festival takes place the weekend of June 25th-27th and also includes the likes of Broken Bells, Broken Social Scene, Femi Kuti, Groove Armada, George Clinton with Parliament / Funkadelic, Hot Chip, Jack Johnson, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Mos Def (with full live band), Norah Jones, Orbital, Pet Shop Boys, Phoenix, Snoop Dogg, The Flaming Lips, The Black Keys, The Hold Steady, The National, Vampire Weekend, Willie Nelson, among many, many others. Glastonbury 2010 is already sold out.
Happy Monday, dudes. I just caught this amazing photo gallery on one of my favorite non-music blogs, The Big Picture, and I thought it was a good way to start out the week. The Glastonbury Festival just wrapped up yesterday and there’s a fantastic set of photos over at that said blog. I won’t even preview any of them here because they’re so good, so just go check them out for yourself.
Over the weekend, appoximately 190,000 people made their way to Worthy Farm in western England to attend the 2009 Glastonbury Festival. Attendees came to see performances at what is billed as “Europe’s largest open-air music festival” on many stages over four days – headliners included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and a reunited Blur. Rainy weather did little to dampen the mood, as attendees enjoyed themselves in tent cities, concert performances, dance tents, and the surrounding countryside of Somerset, England. Collected here are a handful of images from this year’s festival.
