Glastonbury 2025: has interest 'dipped' after complaints over this year's line-up?

Glastonbury is as popular than ever, but complaints about the lineup reveal its generational challenge

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock since 1970 you will be aware of the five-day Glastonbury festival held every June (apart from “fallow” years to rest the land and the organisers), near Pilton in Somerset. Glastonbury is as much a pillar of the English summer as tennis at Wimbledon or opera at Glyndebourne. It’s a white, middle-class rite of passage and an easy win for people wishing peer approval and the cultural capital that comes with th…

Glastonbury 2025: has interest 'dipped' after complaints over this year's line-up?

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Glastonbury is as popular as ever, but complaints about the lineup reveal its generational challenge - Global Comment

Adrian York, University of Westminster Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock since 1970 you will be aware of the five-day Glastonbury festival held every June (apart from “fallow” years to rest the land and the organisers), near Pilton in Somerset. Glastonbury is as much a pillar of the English summer as tennis at Wimbledon