Michael Eavis
The latest news and comment on Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis
Coldplay at Glastonbury review – Chris Martin takes tens of thousands on the adventure of a lifetime
Fireworks! Lasers! Confetti! More fireworks! Coldplay pull out every last stop for their record fifth headline performance, and you’d be churlish not to love it
New year honours 2024: awards for Shirley Bassey, Mary Earps and Michael Eavis
Author Jilly Cooper and actor Emilia Clarke also honoured
Glastonbury 2023: festival officially begins amid torrential downpours
Gary Lineker joins Michael Eavis to celebrate social homes built near Glastonbury site
Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, Elton John: all-male Glastonbury headliners a ‘pipeline’ problem, says Emily Eavis
‘We’re trying our best,’ says organiser as she unveils first 54 names on 2023 lineup and calls on music industry to develop headline-worthy female acts
Glastonbury 2023: Emily Eavis addresses concerns over £340 ticket price
Co-organiser Emily Eavis blamed the increase on the ‘enormous rises in the costs of running this vast show’ and the continuing fallout from the pandemic
‘It’s everyone coming back together’: why 200,000 of us couldn’t wait to get back to Glastonbury
Peter Blake portrait of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis unveiled
Other lives
Robert Richards obituaryOther lives: Fixer at Glastonbury festival who produced a film about the event in 2006
The Guardian picture essay
Behind the scenes at Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm – photo essayCulture in peril
Glastonbury: PJ Harvey, Jarvis Cocker, George Ezra and Róisín Murphy join livestream bill
Glastonbury festival site to offer family-friendly camping over summer
With 2021 event off because of Covid, Worthy Pastures will offer ‘back to basics’ tents but definitely no bands
Culture in peril
'We all need human connection': Emily Eavis hopes for livestreamed Glastonbury showExclusive: festival organiser says this year’s cancellation won’t bankrupt the event and that 2022 will be an ‘enormous high’
From Bowie to Beyoncé: Glastonbury's 50 greatest moments
Michael Eavis: Glastonbury could go bankrupt if it can't be staged in 2021
Club culture
'Michael Eavis didn't know what dance music is': a history of rave at GlastonburyAt some point in the late 80s – though no one remembers exactly when – Glastonbury festival became a nexus of the traveller, free party and acid-house scenes, and the festival was never the same again
Glastonbury weather to be sunny and rain-free, forecast shows
Highs of 27C suggest the festival’s record temperature is likely to remain unbroken, but sun is set to shine with less than 5% chance of rain
Glastonbury founders to celebrate 50 years in behind-the-scenes book
Glastonbury 50 also features contributions from stars including Adele, Jay-Z, Dolly Parton and Noel Gallagher. Plus, read an exclusive excerpt
Glastonbury tickets for 2019 sell out in half an hour
Brief letters
Personality missing from BBC sporting contest
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