Museum gathers 45 years of festival history, from old posters and programmes to unseen films
Glastonbury archive in pictures
For just £1 a ticket, the little music event advertised on a cheaply printed red-and-black poster was very good value. It was happening at a nice farm in the wilds of Somerset from Saturday 19 September 1970, and not only was there a hog roast, the promise of "food at fair prices" and "sheltered fields for camping", but the headline act was that chart-topping band the Kinks. And for anyone bored by the music, there was also the promise of "a lightshow, lightship, diorama and films, freaks and funny things" and even free milk from the farm.
The tickets this year cost £210, and the V&A Museum will want some of them, as well any surviving copies of the 1,500 tickets advertised in 1970 as "available by post from M Eavis Esq". The museum, beginning with a large hoard from the Eavis family, is creating a permanent archive celebrating the history of the longest-running festival of its kind in the world: Glastonbury.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 20 hours ago.
Glastonbury archive in pictures
For just £1 a ticket, the little music event advertised on a cheaply printed red-and-black poster was very good value. It was happening at a nice farm in the wilds of Somerset from Saturday 19 September 1970, and not only was there a hog roast, the promise of "food at fair prices" and "sheltered fields for camping", but the headline act was that chart-topping band the Kinks. And for anyone bored by the music, there was also the promise of "a lightshow, lightship, diorama and films, freaks and funny things" and even free milk from the farm.
The tickets this year cost £210, and the V&A Museum will want some of them, as well any surviving copies of the 1,500 tickets advertised in 1970 as "available by post from M Eavis Esq". The museum, beginning with a large hoard from the Eavis family, is creating a permanent archive celebrating the history of the longest-running festival of its kind in the world: Glastonbury.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 20 hours ago.