When can i arrive at glastonbury 2011

Lasers fill the sky above the audience as Coldplay performs on the main Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, on June 25, Festival goers dance in the late night Shangri-La after-hours area at the Glastonbury Festival site on June 27, Festival goers sleep as they wait to watch the sunrise from the Stone Circle area at the Glastonbury Festival site, on June 27, Festival goers walk through rubbish left in the main arena in front of the Pyramid Stage as they begin to leave the Glastonbury Festival site, on June 27, Festival goers' discarded wellies piled in the mud at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, on June 25, Volunteer workers begin to sort the first of thousands of tons of rubbish for recycling at the Glastonbury Festival recycling center at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on June 24, We want to hear what you think about this article.

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Skip to content. However, it added that the festival was an "unqualified success", and that all recommendations were about building on good practice. Glastonbury Festival organisers were unavailable for comment on the council's report. This article is more than 11 years old. The world's largest open-air music festival has sold out three times as fast as it did for Stevie Wonder on stage at Glastonbury during its 40th anniversary this year.

The festival has sold out in just four hours. Topics Glastonbury festival Festivals Pop and rock Glastonbury news. Reuse this content. It's hard to think what else they could conceivably do, which means it's hard to work out why it doesn't quite work: you'd never call it a flop, but one of those famous Glastonbury moments of mass transcendence stubbornly refuses to happen.

It could be the fact that, by the middle of their set, the rain is falling in a manner that suggests the preceding two days were merely a dress rehearsal. Heading over to the Other stage after their set finishes, you can catch the last three songs of Primal Scream 's set: there's none of the grand spectacle of U2, but as they tear through Rocks there's a genuine sense of connection with the audience that makes U2's performance feel a little removed and distant, despite their efforts to the contrary.

On Saturday afternoon, the sun comes out and Glastonbury is revealed in all its multifarious, eclectic glory. On the West Holts stage, the middle-aged Syrian vocalist Omar Souleyman is playing pounding Arabic techno — this is apparently what they listen to at Syrian weddings, which certainly makes a mobile DJ playing YMCA and the Macarena look a little jejeune — while insouciantly smoking a fag; the audience understandably adore him.

On the Pyramid, pop-rapper Tinie Tempah has to work noticeably less hard to get people moving than the Wu-Tang Clan did 24 hours previously, although the string of top 10 hits in his set probably helps. Rumer draws a far smaller audience than you might expect, given how many albums she's sold, but she covers Laura Nyro's Stoned Soul Picnic and sounds fantastic: cosseting and languid and warm. Meanwhile, the overlooked Fool's Gold fit the newly buoyant mood perfectly: songs sung in Hebrew, tinged with the kind of African influences that suggest comparison to Vampire Weekend, but more loose and fluid and joyous.

Tonight's secret guests on The Park stage are even less secret than Radiohead: the Sun has already informed the world that it's Pulp. The crowd is even bigger than the preceding night's, the atmosphere utterly different. As with the re-formed Blur's set two years ago, it's not merely celebratory, but marked with the lovely feeling of restitution, as if the crowd is trying to apologise on behalf of the British public.

As Jarvis Cocker noted at the time, one of the reasons Pulp split up was that "nobody was that arsed" about their records any more.

They seem very arsed indeed tonight: the set is a reminder both of what an engaging frontman Cocker is, and of how many fantastic songs they had, overshadowed in the collective memory by Common People: Razzmatazz, Something Changed. Anyone who cleaves to the is-the-audience-distracted theory of Glastonbury success might care to note that, up on the hill, during the latter song, a man climbs a stepladder, inflates a long blue balloon, then appears to swallow it to barely a flicker of interest.

It's a triumphant return, as is the appearance of Elbow on the Pyramid stage, three years on from the televised performance that belatedly catapulted them to mainstream fame. The line about them being The People's Band is both a cliche and a bit daft, suggesting as it does that every other band's fanbase largely comprises hamsters or chickens, but you see immediately why it's come about: the warmth radiates irresistibly from the stage, the sense of their performance as a kind of dialogue between artist and audience impossible to avoid.

The crowd adore Guy Garvey: every time he smiles, which he does a lot, in the manner of a man who can't quite believe his luck, they go berserk. They encourage him to down a pint, he gets them to sing Happy Birthday to the band, formed, he claims, 20 years ago to the day.