Glastonbury Festival 2004

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Glastonbury Festival 2004
Location(s)Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England
Previous event Glastonbury Festival 2003
Next event Glastonbury Festival 2005
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Pennard Hill, 2004

For the Glastonbury Festival of Contempory Performing Arts 2004, tickets sold out within 24 hours amid much controversy over the ticket ordering process, which left potential festival goers trying for hours to connect to the overloaded telephone and internet sites. [1] The website got two million attempted connections within the first five minutes of the tickets going on sale and an average of 2,500 people on the phone lines every minute. [2]

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The view from the stone circle on Thursday afternoon, 2004

The festival was not hit by extreme weather, but high winds on the Wednesday delayed entry, and steady rain throughout Saturday turned some areas of the site to mud. [3] The festival ended with Muse headlining the Pyramid Stage on Sunday, after Oasis had headlined on Friday. [4] Franz Ferdinand and Sir Paul McCartney also performed. [4]

Fallow year announcement

After the 2004 festival, Michael Eavis commented that 2006 would be a year off – in keeping with the previous history of taking one "fallow year" in every five to give the villagers and surrounding areas a rest from the yearly disruption. This was confirmed after the licence for 2005 was granted. [5]

Drug usage

In the British press publications appeared about the use of psychedelic drugs by festival visitors. The magazine NME pronounced that 2004 would be "the third summer of love" due to the resurgence of the "shroom" that was praised as a natural alternative to ecstasy, which was said to be declining in popularity (LSD fuelled the first summer of love in 1967; ecstasy and LSD the second in 1988). [6]

Pyramid stage

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Other stage

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Dance tent

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New tent

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Jazzworld stage

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Acoustic stage

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Avalon stage

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The Glade

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References

  1. ↑ Donoghue, Andrew (2 April 2004). "Glastonbury site 'slow but not down'". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 20 April 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "Fans snap up Glastonbury tickets". BBC. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  3. ↑ Bishop, Tom (28 June 2004). "Glastonbury spirit defies the rain". BBC. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  4. 1 2 "2004 (25–27 June)". History. Glastonbury Festival. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "Glastonbury to take break in 2006". BBC. 18 January 2005. Archived from the original on 19 February 2006. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  6. ↑ Barnes, Anthony (27 June 2004). "Glastonbury's 'third summer of love' fuelled by magic 'shrooms". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
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