How Glastonbury Festival is Built in 26 Days

How do you turn a farm into the worlds greatest festival? This is some of the behind the scenes of the incredible collaborative effort from organisers, contractors and volunteers to bring the iconic vibrant city, known as Glastonbury Festival, to Worthy Farm!
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Glastonbury Transformation
0:14 Glastonbury Festival Introduction & Size
0:59 Glastonbury Festival History
1:52 Glastonbury Festival Build Introduction
2:20 Building The Glastonbury Stages
4:43 Powering Glastonbury Festival
5:39 Human Waste at Glastonbury
6:40 General Waste at Glastonbury
7:15 Glastonbury Festival Signs, Perimeter Gate & More
7:49 Glastonbury Farm
8:10 Where do the Cows go?
8:27 Collaborative Glastonbury Festival Build
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Glastonbury Serious Stages BTS - Event Industry News
• Glastonbury 2015 - Ser...
Glastonbury 2023 in 3 Minutes - BBC Music
• Glastonbury 2022... in...
Glastonbury 2019: Site Build - BBC Music
• Glastonbury 2019: The ...
Glastonbury Channel - BBC Music
• Glastonbury Channel
Glastonbury From The Archives (Pyramid) - ITV News
• Glastonbury Festival f...
Rick Ashley Road To Glasto - BBC Music
• Rick Astley: The Road ...
Waste of 200,000 people at Glastonbury - BBC Earth
• What Happens To The Wa...
Food at Glastonbury - BBC Music
• Video
Toilets of Glastonbury - Jons Random Reviews
• Video
Before The First Glastonbury - BBC Archive
• 1970: MICHAEL EAVIS be...
Glastonbury in 1971 - Belfast Jack
• Glastonbury Festival 1...
Glastonbury 1981 - Steve Hiliker
• GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 1...
Glastonbury From The Archives (50 Years) - ITV News
• Glastonbury Festival f...
Entire Glastonbury Festival 2020 - icannotgetafreename
• Entire Glastonbury Fes...
Glastonbury Festival Build - Joey Steel
• Glastonbury Festival B...
Glastonbury Fence Build 2015 - Gareth Clegg
• Glastonbury Fence Buil...
The Rum Shack - The Common Glastonbury
• The Rum Shack @ Glasto...
Ed Sheeran Croissant Neuf - Croissantneuf1
• Ed Sheeran - Grade 8 (...
Icon Stage Timelapse - The Guardian
• Timelapse footage show...
Other Stage Power - Hats Baker
• Glastonbury Festival 2...
Arcadia Glastonbury - NME
• Arcadia Glastonbury 20...
Glastonbury Reclining Centre - Coveya
• RECYCLING : GLASTONBUR...
The Worthy Farm Cows - BBC Music
• The Worthy Farm Cows (...
SOURCES - ARTICLES:
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#Glastonbury #GlastonburyFestival

[@EverythingExplainedd]

At 2:13 when I say 'there are over 400 workers' , whilst this is technically true, the source I got my information from was referring to one segment, the actual number is close to 10,000!

[@Mabrennan2012]

Hey, firstly, great video. First time I've seen anyone actually show what goes on behind the scenes. You did miss one significant part of the infrastructure which my company provide 70% of. And that is Showers for all the significant crew areas, 460 shower heads to be exact showering some 30,000 - 40,000 people per day. Getting all the infrastructure in place to make that happen alone is a year in the planning. Very close co-operation between Glsstonbury and my company Greentree Mobile Showers. Keep up tye good work, if you want to see more beyond the scenes at large festivals Hola.

[@dreadrasta2481]

Yes I did see the clip they had over 100 workers on site providing power showers stalls bars kitchens day and night. It's good to open people's eyes that they are just fields before all the hard work unsung workforce all coming together so the festival can live

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@Mabrennan2012 thank you so much! Wow that is interesting, there could easily be a 2 hour movie made on each aspect of setting up the festival

[@Mabrennan2012]

@EverythingExplainedd Well if you want a proper look behind the scenes at some of the largest events in the UK and Ireland and what it takes to make it happen send me a Direct Message. I'll do my best to help, I think people would be really interested in you following say a staging Crew for a couple of events, a toilet company, shower company, cabin company, fencing company etc. There's at least a 20 min video in each area. Nobody in the public really knows or understands what it takes to make these things happen. Glastonbury is a beast but this happening in multiple sites up and down the country every weekend between May and September. Let me know if you want me to hook you up.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@Mabrennan2012 Hey yeah that would be super great, I'd love to make content on anything like that. My personal twitter is @CjayBarker if thats easier

[@JPA65]

The BBC needs to do a full series documentary on this. From start to finish, planning, booking, construction… everything!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Agreed, i'd love to help partner with them

[@georgewebb7991]

That IICON stage is 🔥🔥🔥

[@EverythingExplainedd]

YES BRO

[@acdbrnout5101]

I work in the events industry and was expecting to hear a load of rubbish and speculation like I normally hear when people outside events talk about events but this was pretty spot on! Nice work :)

[@EverythingExplainedd]

PHEW, I was particularly worried as I had to research, script, voice, edit & create the thumbnail within just over 24 hours & the info isnt that readily available so that makes me happy, THANK YOU

[@chriswright4677]

Absolutely brilliant work. Would happily watch an hour plus of Behind the Glastonbury scenes.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you, im gonna contact Glastonbury to see if I can work with them create unique BTS content for their socials. Gotta shoot ya shot ay!

[@joeysteel4658]

Thanks for crediting the use of my Timelapse footage. It's a honour to be a part of such work :)

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thanks so much for the legendary video! I hope you don't mind me using

[@holomatrix]

I'm currently sitting in Tom's Field by the Red Shed that makes the signs, working in Recycling until tomorrow (true story), glad to see that someone has FINALLY made an accurate documentary with updated and current videos of Worthy Farm including some of the backend stuff you don't usually see. Thank you 👏👏🤙

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Love that! Hope you get home soon… I actually can’t believe there is not ONE KZbin video about ‘How Glastonbury is built’ until this. I know there’s 1,000,000 more things I could’ve mentioned but it’s honestly so hard to find accurate info & good b-roll

[@robs720]

good video. I have worked in the live music industry for over 10 years. Another fun fact is that Glastonbury grew so quick in the late 90s that it strruggled to keep up with H&S and had a huge problem with security. They then hired Festival Republic (the guys that do Reading and Leeds, Wireless, Creamfields etc) to overhaul the operations of the festival and make it how it is now. Glastonbury then took back operations when the contract with FR ran out in 2012.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! thats very interesting, wouldnt have thought it was the same people as Cream

[@glastomole9570]

Greatest show on Earth. Fact.

[@FFLIVEROBLOX]

Amazing, well explained insight to such a large scale festival. Would love to see another one for Tomorrowland or Creamfields

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thank you! Would love to make one on them soon

[@cookiethemelonfarmer]

I worked for Serious Stages as a lorry driver in 2014 & 2015. Great company to work for, best job I've had! Driving a heavily loaded old lorry around that huge site when wet and muddy could be quite interesting to say the least!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Oh nice one, I bet that was a nighhhhtttnaaaaare!

[@gigteevee6118]

This is such a great overview of what it takes to deliver Glastonbury, nice work! 👍

[@EverythingExplainedd]

appreciate that!

[@OVGryffindor]

Super interesting video, was at the festival this year and I love seeing the behind the scenes information!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! I wish there was more information around so I could do more

[@Blooga_]

Very concise and well narrated video, Thank you!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! glad you enjoyed it

[@gavinkaufmanworld]

Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing 😁

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thanks Gavin!

[@D1CE579]

Went a few times in the early 90’s when you could get a ticket 2 weeks before it started.Great times.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

damnnnn much easier times

[@davefb]

Our first, 2008, I got tickets 2 days before, from HMV !

[@RJA]

Internet and phones have ruined that sadly, impossible to get tickets 2 days before unless you're famous/know someone

[@GK-il3fn]

Nice work :) it was my 6th time this year and I love discovering new things every time I go. I could watch this behind the scenes glasto stuff all day!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

love that! I hope Ill be able to go that many times, do you ever have issues getting tickets?

[@Alex-tv6xt]

Very well articulated and informative video!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thanks Alex! Got back from Glasto at 9pm Monday and managed to get it out in less than 48 hours

[@Alex-tv6xt]

@@EverythingExplainedd dedication mate!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Would really appreciate if you left a like and subscribe as I managed to dodge the Glasto hangover and get this video researched, scripted, voiced and edited within 48 hours of my 7 hour coach journey back 😅

[@daireoreilly5593]

Really fantastic video. Was there as well. One of the coolest things I’ve ever done. Must go back.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! its truly a life changing place isnt it. I will try every year

[@davefb]

We were in spring ground this year and saw that incredible coach park for the first time... WOW thats some operation!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@davefb yeah its insane isnt it! Lukcily hours was only 1 hour late but the traffic took a while

[@keithlos1497]

Excellent overview. Thanks

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KDDale-rn7fd]

Absolutely great video I spend all summer working on different festivals (including this years Glastonbury) and its still so interesting to see all the other sides to it

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Oh thats cool! What did you do for this Glasto? I loved it that much I think i'd rather go back there to work than to not go at all if I don't get tickets!

[@KDDale-rn7fd]

@@EverythingExplainedd I was working for an artist as opposed to the festival itself I worked for aitch as a sound engineer mainly looking after stage and monitor related things (wireless mics, in ear monitors, stage cabling and the likes)

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@KDDale-rn7fd oh nice, sounds interesting, do you get time to explore the festival aswell?

[@KDDale-rn7fd]

@@EverythingExplainedd not really we are only there for the day of the performance so its pretty much all just go go go, however you do get a little bit of time to catch up with people the sound engineering community is relatively small and as Glastonbury is so large you end up seeing a lot of people you haven't for a while so its nice in that sense

[@wobber999]

Brilliant video, thank you for sharing

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Anytime, thank you!

[@user-pf9nw5tk3d]

Great and thorough vid with lots of history! It has however just made me miss Glastonbury terribly

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! you can watch it every week for the next 50 weeks..

[@Rory_Arlo]

This was like therapy for my post-glasto blues! Thanks alot mate hehe :)

[@EverythingExplainedd]

anytime, we have to take what we can for post festival blues

[@olliec1319]

Great content mate, I just watched to the end. Yeah, when you go for the first time it's truly mind blowing. Despite what you've heard about or videos you've seen you can't imagine the scale and the detail until you've been there.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! wait, does that mean it gets alot less magical the more you go? Totally right that words and pictures dont justify how amazing it is

[@bigdocus]

​@@EverythingExplainedd It's always magical. Just the first time you see it usually surpasses all expctations so when you return that sense of amazement isn't there so much. At least it wasn't for me but everyone's experience is different 🤗

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@bigdocus that makes alot of sence, I suppose you lose that 'wondering around amazed' asepct

[@bubblebloxyt]

This was really interesting, thanks!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brain_spill]

Very interesting video. Hopefully will get tickets next year!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! I hope you do aswell (and that I do)

[@shitshow3398]

Thank you so much for this video and facts

[@EverythingExplainedd]

you're ever so welcome!

[@shitshow3398]

@@EverythingExplainedd ty

[@shitshow3398]

!

[@arghlcasey]

Nice to see Croissant Neuf get a mention!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

great small stage with a great history!

[@tracyyy99]

This was good...Well done.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thank you very much!

[@olirichings8682]

This is such a great video, how did you made it so quickly?!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thank you, no idea really just motivated by the short time frame I had to be relevant after getting back. Took me weeks for me to make some of my other videos, this took 30 hours!

[@davemitchell8756]

Very interesting video 👍👏👏👏👏

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thanks Dave!

[@Bullitain]

Great video

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you!

[@baggy79]

Very interesting 👍

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thanks Baggy

[@sanderschat]

Fooooooook well done!!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

yesshhh

[@Dropthebeatonit]

This video is UHmaaaaazin!!!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

you're amaaaazzzinnn

[@robertkirwan29]

nice work

[@EverythingExplainedd]

cheers Robert

[@garethkickback]

cool to see you used some of my videos building the fence

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! I put your name in the bottom left and linked in the description, hope you dont mind

[@glendalindaloo]

the professional bin painters (around 10-12 I think) are on site from mid April, then the volunteers (80) from the start of June for 2 weeks(ish) also. approximately 14000 bins get painted, along with benches, poles and pedestrian gate murals, along with the large mural at the vodaphone charging arena. after that they get piled up ready to do all again next year, you can see the pile from satellite images. it also takes 26 days to recover.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Oh wow thanks for this comment super interesting! I wish I could have made this video double the length to include things like the benches etc but its SO hard to find accurate information. I cant believe there isnt a full length documentary yet showing the full process of Glastonbury from planning, building, running the festival and recovery

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@Hero-qt1ik hahah

[@glendalindaloo]

@@Hero-qt1ik they do have to find semi-professionals like yourself when desperate, but mainly we are upmost professionals 🙃

[@seanyem]

Great work on this video mate, Spot on with your research, This may habe been your first time, But it GUARANTEE its wont be your last, First of MANY. This year was my 6th, And luckily another Sunny one, ive missed all the muddy wet ones. 2019 was the worst for heat tho! Hope you enjoyed it, well... I KNOW YOU DID.. ✌️☮️💚

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thank you so much!! Yeah for sure gonna try every year, people say ‘it’s still just as fun if it rains’ but part of me doubts that…

[@haydnjames9158]

Cracking video mate, I'd wondered for a while how long preparation goes on for in terms of the physical festival site.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Thanks Haydn! So did I and was shocked to see there wasnt a video on KZbin about it so thought I had to make one myself

[@yeknommonkey]

Unbelievable scale of production. Makes the entry price actually seem like a bargain. It truly is another world being there. Can’t wait to go again.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

When you think of the cost of seeing 5 artists individually these days, thats probably well over the £335, never mind all the extra things you get with it and the fact you could see 20+ artists if you wanted

[@humourless682]

Do you feel that its racist to exclude black and asian people, who simply cannot afford £350?

[@Charlie666-]

​@@humourless682I'm not sure where I start with this comment 😂

[@humourless682]

@@Charlie666- From the TV coverage, very few black or brown faces in the audience, and even less on the stages? Lots of ranting about "refugees welcome here" but I didnt notice anything in the media at all, about the free tickets, which had been given to groups representing refugees, so a few could have attended?

[@foryou6888]

​@@humourless682Do you think its racist to say a whole ethnicity cannot afford x amount?

[@revista101]

Pure Journalist!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

is that a compliment? ahha

[@flyagaric23]

Respect to all the the volunteers.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Truly

[@truckatadders]

I'm a chauffeur, I had to drop off & then collect a passenger who was staying at the farmhouse, 1st time down there & OMFG 😳😳 the scale of the place, but I did think....where are the cows?? Thank you for enlightenment 🙏🏻

[@EverythingExplainedd]

haha sounds like a fun job! The cows seem to have a good time!

[@neilwatson4461]

Really interesting video this, I've got no interest in going to a festival like this, hate camping, i much prefer a hotel with a bar, restaurant, bed and bathroom but i do love seeing the logistical side of it and how it gets set up then taken down again, a real team effort all round

[@Rumpfunk]

Yup

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Fair enough, yeah it is super interesting!

[@xHydrahex]

I love Glastonbury, cant wait to experience it myself!!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

I was the same before I went, but now I am 100000x fold, I now understand why people go back every year, already worried I wont get tickets for next year. Maybe Emily Eavis will see this and help me out!

[@xHydrahex]

@@EverythingExplainedd Hoping you get to go every year!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@xHydrahex thank you! and you

[@wotreeclapton]

Quite literally, the best festival in the world.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Factual statements only

[@lookship]

Never really been a fan on the IICON stage. Big into EDM and DnB so the Temple is where I normally scuttle off to on a night and that's a massively impressive structure. Took the in laws this year for their first time and they were amazed at the infrastructure and how well they cater for 200k+ people. Sat here watching with mega sunburn 😂

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Mate Temple is mad isnt it, wish I saw the secret Fred Again set there, whch part did your in laws enjoy the most?

[@lookship]

@EverythingExplainedd father in law loved The Hives and Guns N Roses. Mother in law only wanted to see Elton, but really enjoyed Tom Grennan too. Watched Fred on the Other Stage. I didn't realise he'd done a secret set. I saw Disclosure had done a set somewhere around Block 9 which would have been class to see. Me and the Mrs were walking past the BBC introducing stage and I heard Katy B. Turns out Target brought her out and she played all the bangers.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@lookship love that, Disclosure were there??? damnnn I want to see them live so bad

[@stuartvarvel27]

All the vegan and vegetarian having good time on cattle farm! Only protest when it suit!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

I went this year and I am currently not vegan nor veggie, how does that work@

[@peanuts2105]

I was a freelance lighting technician for one the lighting hire companies. Two weeks of shitting in a bucket with disturbed sleep and mud. Never again.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Now that sounds ROUGH

[@Bestssword]

Bring on Glastonbury 2024

[@EverythingExplainedd]

did you get tickets? I didnt :(

[@hamertofall95]

Great video, i've recycled 6 times and saw the hard work that goes into keeping it clean, happy you had a great time!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

thank you! how is that job? it was mega

[@zackova6307]

Do this for Tomorrowland aswell !

[@EverythingExplainedd]

ill try too for next year

[@Competent-rides]

🔥

[@EverythingExplainedd]

[@StephenAPA]

They should build up the security fence when everyone is in and not let out the festival goers till all the litter is picked up. 😂

[@EverythingExplainedd]

the fence dos keep people in anyway! they just open the gates

[@StephenAPA]

@@EverythingExplainedd keep the gates locked till after the litters been picked up and tents been packed away then.

[@SimonPeddy1978]

This festival is more big Tomorrowland?

[@EverythingExplainedd]

maybe not bigger no

[@ih1917]

Off topic, but I wish they’d bring back that Sam Fender performance from 2022 :( I can’t find it anywhere on the internet now

[@EverythingExplainedd]

that set was sooo good, is it not on iPlayer?

[@OVGryffindor]

Sadly the sets are taken off iPlayer after 60 days!

[@Katherine-zi6mw]

Do they give the pasture some time before the cows go back on there to graze??? Just thinking about all the puke, beer and wee that is deposited on it over the weekend of the event 🤔

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Yeah, the festival is cleaned up pretty quickly, and also a year off every 5 years so the land can properly recover

[@Katherine-zi6mw]

@@EverythingExplainedd so how long after the end of the festival do the cows go back on there to graze? Days? Weeks? Months? 🤷‍♂️

[@Katherine-zi6mw]

@@EverythingExplainedd My question is about the cattle grazing... not about how long the land is given to recover, you misread the first question.

[@FakkaDrerrieNL]

Still noting compared to the zwarte cross 🍻🚜

[@EverythingExplainedd]

whats that?

[@HouseofFabarge]

k. 😸🤯🌊🌊🌊

[@jamiesworld1690]

Why these stages construct around the 1st if June to a week early I would do it a month in advance

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Unsure

[@TheMrdominator1997]

I wonder how many get in through Luther channels another 30k perhaps?!?

[@EverythingExplainedd]

is that the underground network? arnt they blocked off?

[@dreadrasta2481]

Cannot believe there was no mention of Aggreko without whom there would be no power to provide electricity for any of the activities to even happen...

[@EverythingExplainedd]

At 5:12 there is a screenshot of them mentioning the generators, it’s honestly so hard to find concrete research

[@TheMrdominator1997]

Surprised they don’t keep the icon stage up the cows might enjoy that

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Cow Techno in Block 9

[@M1n1Cooper]

Imagine being the farmer who owns the land all those years ago little did he know then that he was saying yes to people like Elton John and Ed sheeran

[@EverythingExplainedd]

a small dream turned into this!

[@MrMaster2262]

Hats off to the 💪people that have to clean up all that sh💩t and get it back to lush green farm fields... imagine what they must find!! 😆

[@EverythingExplainedd]

some pretty disgusting stuff I imagine

[@Terry-Tibbs]

I find it is best to avoid all on site toilets . Its best to just use a unoccupied tent

[@EverythingExplainedd]

hahahah this made me laugh, I honestly dont think the toielts are THAT bad, just a bit stinky

[@34bally]

Cool video but kinda got turned off with the “renewable energy” part as I would imagine all the delivery trucks, forklifts and tractors were running on diesel…

[@EverythingExplainedd]

fair enough, im just going off my research and sources! Im sure its not perfect but making strides towards being so each year

[@34bally]

@@EverythingExplainedd not a dig at you just pointing out the hypocrisy. The cows grazing around the pyramid stage was funny…

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Fair enough! Yeah I thought the intro was perfect if I do say so myself

[@liberatumplox625]

To be honest it should just be rebranded "The Hypocrisy Festival." It's attended by droves of wealthy, champagne socialists who this year managed to hang a banner that read "We see no borders here" from the perimeter defence that dwarfs the one at the US border. They chanted "Refugees are welcome here!" But presumably they don't mean the festival - as many Brits would struggle to pay for the ticket and take the time off work - let alone a refugee. When interviewed, it transpired that they didn't mean that refugees were welcome in their homes either - the majority citing lack of space. I suppose they just mean "put the filthy refugees with all the other dirty poors." I'd watch and cheer if the whole thing burned down - but that's the only scenario - from which I could derive a quantum of entertainment.

[@seanward4545]

​@@liberatumplox625you can moan all you want but at least you don't have to live next to it... (And before it's said, alot of people can't afford to move because of high housing prices)

[@tasty_fish]

Wow, what is temporarily the UK’s 28th largest city run entirely on renewable energy. Now there’s a thought for head-in-the-sand politicians.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

impressive huh

[@user-co1oe4hd4s]

What about water

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Couldn’t find too much solid interesting info about the water, apart from its from Bristol Water and that it’s clean

[@inh415]

Footage of arcadia was using propaine not bio fuel.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Did it not use bio fuel?

[@inh415]

@@EverythingExplainedd The footage is of propaine from a different year. They Used Biofuel this year with a different flame system.

[@MrWighteagle]

it takes longer than 26 days to build. Its about 3 months.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Yeah just the bulk of stuff kicks off in June 1st but yeah some stuff takes longer, I mean it’s Bascially a full year from the end of one!

[@MrWighteagle]

@@EverythingExplainedd generally starts around mid april, and will take about 6 weeks to tear it down . its only half a mile from my house!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@MrWighteagleoh fair enough thank you! Do you get free tickets for living close or is that just a rumour?

[@MrWighteagle]

@@EverythingExplainedd I couldnt possibly comment 😉

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@MrWighteagle that will do for me!

[@MrChilledstep]

I wonder why they even bother taking it all down if only to put it all up again 9 months later. I could imagine it's more sustainable to just keep the infrastructure erected permanently, especially if the cattle they rear on it only numbers 1000. Anyone know?

[@EverythingExplainedd]

cows need to be cowing

[@contactjd]

A lot is hired in from 3rd parties rather than owned, so moves around the country from one festival to another... There is also a story about the pyramid not getting planning permission, so built as a 'temporary' structure

[@guyzip]

Do the same video on Tomorrowland, your view count will be in space

[@EverythingExplainedd]

I will for sure try too next year

[@darenreynolds8824]

There 3000 just from the bbc , thats just free guests .

[@paul3962]

400 workers! And the rest. More like 10,000

[@EverythingExplainedd]

that was a quote from a BBC video I watched '2019: The Build', it must have been referring to a specific section as I also thought that was low but cant find any official figures

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Iv left a new pinned comment to mention this, thanks Paul, whilst 'over 400' is tehcnically true it needed correcting! I wish there was a good place of information for all of this

[@liamwilkinson5563]

Try 3 months.....

[@EverythingExplainedd]

yeah just it gets really fast in the last 26 days, its techncially all year round really

[@bobbydazzle1937]

Then 300 days to clean up

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Not quite

[@anthonywhyteakathedorsetan1573]

Met Mike evis down Lyme Regis today what a lovely guy but his health isn’t good

[@EverythingExplainedd]

yeah really sad to see, hopefully he gets better

[@anthonywhyteakathedorsetan1573]

@@EverythingExplainedd his wife was lovely too, it was nice to sit on a bench on the sea front next to him and his wife and talk about everything but Glastonbury etc and they loved it, I know grace Gillian very well as son goes to my boys school and a few others is in mikes band it’s all Esculated with Celebes etc recently

[@michelledamage2782]

It is not built in 26 days... people start on the site in APRIL... I know this as I lived in the area, know people who work on it and even people who live on the farm all year round. So... sorry, this claim is incorrect.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

if you watched the full video I do mention that! Its bascially an all year round operation rather than 26 days, that is referring to when things really 'ramp up' and most workers are on site before the festival begins

[@DnB-BMX]

***Smarmy voice*** "Including a certain ED SHEERAN when he was just 19 years old" .... OHHHHkayyy?

[@tombyrnerocks]

BBC Muisic

[@EverythingExplainedd]

The GOATS

[@julianaylor4351]

The cows don't care, just get on with it, you're interfering with our grazing. 🐄🐄❤😁 Some London buses and taxis use bio fuel, too. Those composting toilets would have been contaminated if Glastonbury had ignored the pandemic.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

those cows be chillin

[@ThompterSHunson]

Poor cows. They live all year in the land and they don't have free access to the festival. Pffff.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

they should be vip

[@ThompterSHunson]

@@EverythingExplainedd Mooo!

[@lxp]

Bad for the env. I'm sure they will say otherwise though

[@EverythingExplainedd]

If we didnt do anything bad for the environment there would be no events at all, just have to try and reduce and offset

[@lxp]

@@EverythingExplainedd that's it though isn't it. They'll get everyone to change the way they live to fit their standards, but basically any company can do whatever they want no matter the cost. I'm going to guess that f1 cars are going to be ragging it around, concerts with 40 trucks rocking up. As long as we're not forced to count every bit of co2 then I don't care, but it's going that way

[@guth21776]

Its just a cash grab, He sold his soul

[@EverythingExplainedd]

he created the greatest festival in the world whilst running a farm, major respect

[@guth21776]

​@@EverythingExplainedd He did create the best festival in the world but it turned into McDonalds of festivals .He headland Elton john. he brought out from the old folks home Chrissy hynd. Its A CASH GRAB. its all white middle class people that could come straight from DONT STOP OIL . its fake

[@liberatumplox625]

It's appalling. I used to attend "illegal raves" and Glasto just seems like the antithesis of that spirit. Thousands of consumerist mongoloids, all fenced in together, chanting empty, neo-marxist sophistry. Fuck me, it makes my skin crawl.

[@dave9456]

Ruined by the delusional woke brigade

[@EverythingExplainedd]

?

[@garethparkman3677]

so it's not built in 26 days :)

[@EverythingExplainedd]

nope but mostly! it technically never stops being built!

[@andrula]

While watching this, I was distracted by the fact that you can’t pronounce your ‘th’ words properly! There is no ‘f’ in thousand!! 😃

[@EverythingExplainedd]

yeah I'm 25 and still havn't fixed that, I am aware tho

[@Ryback1992]

Hypocrisy on a biblical scale

[@EverythingExplainedd]

which part?

[@Ryback1992]

@@EverythingExplainedd Which part isnt?

[@EverythingExplainedd]

I don't really understand what you're getting at

[@Ryback1992]

@@EverythingExplainedd I mean the event not your video! A bunch of holier than though climate/eco/social justice warriors preaching to the world from an event behind a huge wall to keep illegals out, generating thousands of tonnes of plastic waste, dumping thousands of tents to landfill, running on diesel generators (no they are not all renewable fuel - take it from someone on the inside)! I could go on and on, that's just the tip of the hypocrisy iceberg.

[@Ryback1992]

Not to mention the fact that it becomes the busiest heliport in the UK with all the climate preaching celebrities coming and going.

[@laviniajohnson9210]

How much rubbish do the eco warriors leave behind on the green and no so pleasant land?

[@EverythingExplainedd]

theres naturally going to be some rubbish with 200,000 people, but its all cleared up pretty quickly

[@Will-hr1qq]

Even the micro plastic?

[@nikpashen5907]

Utter Bollocks! 26 days. Do the research! I have friends working 3 months before and 3 months after. 26 days. My arse!

[@EverythingExplainedd]

I mean its bascially a full year operation! Its just the bulk of things kick off at the start of June so its around 26 days when things REALLY kick off, but yeah like I said technically its built in 365+ days but that doesnt make for a compelling video

[@SOMEBODYGETASPONGE]

Very eye-opening. Quite a large operation, seemingly well executed. Not that I have ever been, but I do enjoy Glasto from my sofa most years 🫣

[@EverythingExplainedd]

its fun from the sofa, but even more fun being there

[@tomazevic007]

overrated

[@EverythingExplainedd]

boo

[@ANTHONYBOOTH]

so sad that Glastonbury today is too commercialized ...no worries, as we create new festivals with new artists we will keep those quiet so that we can enjoy a pint of Guinness and a zute...- and not get mugged over for entrance fees...

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Commercialisation is inevitable as something grows, doesn't always mean thats wrong. In fact I think Glasto has managed to keep its charm whilst growing which is so hard to do

[@th3thrilld3m0n]

Yeah glastonbury is no where close to the most iconic festival in the world, especially considering you said it has an attendance of only 200,000??? My local city's major music festival, EDC Orlando, hosts around 400,000. EDC, Tomorrowland, and Coachella are all way more iconic than this. Even Creamfields is bigger. And, some of these fests are only built in 2 weeks.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

Size of a festival has NOTHING to do with how iconic it is. History and prestige to both its artists and festival goers. Dont get me wrong, all the festivals you listed are amazing, and have their own unique attributes, but none have as much history. For example your first sentence, if you think EDC Orlando is more iconic than Glastonbury because it has more people...

[@stienogamez8296]

It is not nearly the greatest festival in the world

[@EverythingExplainedd]

What is?

[@stienogamez8296]

@@EverythingExplainedd Tomorrowland as an example, so much better and more beautifull.

[@EverythingExplainedd]

@@stienogamez8296 fair enough, I really want to go to Tomorrowland!