Glastonbury Festival 2000

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Glastonbury Festival 2000
Location(s)Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England
Previous event Glastonbury Festival 1999
Next event Glastonbury Festival 2002
Techno music is played on a sound system at dawn, Glastonbury 2000. Glasto.jpg
Techno music is played on a sound system at dawn, Glastonbury 2000.

A new Pyramid Stage was introduced for the Glastonbury Festival of Contempory Performing Arts 2000. Other new areas included The Glade and The Left Field. The festival was headlined by Chemical Brothers, Travis and David Bowie, who played thirty years after his first appearance. [1]

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The Pyramid Stage also hosted an unusual event on the Saturday morning, with the wedding of two festivalgoers, who had written to the organisers asking for permission to get married there, taking place and conducted by actor Keith Allen in front of a small group of friends and any other festivalgoers who still happened to be awake. [2]

Tickets and attendance

This year also saw an estimated 250,000 people attend the festival (only 100,000 tickets were sold) due to gatecrashers. This led to public safety concerns and the local District Council refused any further licences until the problem was solved. [3]

The organisers used the scheduled fallow year 2001 to devise anti-gatecrashing measures and secure the future of the festival, after the Roskilde Festival 2000 accident. [4]

Pyramid stage

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Other stage

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References

  1. ↑ "Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts '00". Efestivals. 27 January 2003. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "A Glastonbury Wedding". Girls in Rock. 14 September 2003. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "Do not under-estimate the council's work". Mendip District Council. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Glastonbury 2001 cancelled". 4 January 2001. Retrieved 18 October 2022– via news.bbc.co.uk.
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