Glastonbury festival 2009 - more than just music

by Daniel Finnan

Article published on the 2009-10-06 Latest update 2009-10-12 17:23 TU

The 'Other' stage at the Glastonbury festival 2009
(Photo: Daniel Finnan)

The Glastonbury festival has a hippy past stretching back to the 1970s when Michael Eavis decided to turn his farm in Pilton, Somerset into an enormous party. In 2009 it attracted some of the music industry’s hottest acts, but it is more than just music. Besides the anything goes ethos, there’s an agenda for change which embodies the philosophy of one of the world’s largest greenfield festivals.