While "biggest" can mean either the highest attendance or the most iconic, Sunday night is widely regarded as the biggest and most climatic, featuring headline sets designed to close the festival on a high note.
His band The Levellers still hold the record for biggest ever crowd watching the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, an estimated 300,000 at the festival in 1994. The Levellers have had 14 top 40 hits, including Just The One and Beautiful Day, and now Mark Chadwick will be performing in Southborough this November.
The biggest crowd at Glastonbury is widely considered to be the estimated 300,000 people who saw The Levellers perform on the Pyramid Stage in 1994, a number boosted by gatecrashers due to laxer security, though it's often cited as the total festival attendance for that year, with security much tighter today making a repeat unlikely. For more recent, officially managed large crowds, Elton John in 2023 and Dolly Parton in 2014 drew massive numbers, with Elton's set reaching around 120,000 on the Pyramid Stage alone, a huge figure for modern, controlled festivals.
In 2000 the phoenix rose from the ashes. Using designs based on the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, Pilton villager Bill Burroughs constructed a Pyramid Stage four times the size of the original. The glittering 30m steel structure now covers 40m x 40m, uses four kilometres of steel tubing and weighs over 40 tonnes.
Olivia Rodrigo will be closing out Glastonbury Festival 2025, with Rod Stewart performing the Legend's spot - here's who's performing on Sunday, June 29.
🚮🗑️ Glastonbury Festival is over for 2025 and won't return until 2027 ➡️ bbc.in/4lxOF7E. For context. The pyramid stage looks like that every night of the festival.
Shale died of a heart attack whilst using a portable toilet cubicle at the Glastonbury Festival. Prior to the discovery of his body, he had been reported missing for 18 hours.
Not according to the ticket terms and conditions. No sleeping in cars on site. So if you are caught by someone patrolling the car park you will most likely be asked to leave. Nothing to stop you sleeping in the car in a lay-by or in the side roads near the festival though.
What drinks can I take to Glastonbury Festival? You can take alcohol into Glasto, but only in plastic or metal bottles, as no glass bottles are permitted on site.
The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo are headlining the Pyramid Stage, with other highlights including Charli XCX, Doechii, Rod Stewart, Loyle Carner, The Prodigy and Wolf Alice.
Deep Purple was recognised by The Guinness Book of World Records as the "globe's loudest band" for a concert at the London Rainbow Theatre, during which the sound reached 117 dB and three members of the audience fell unconscious.
Who is the oldest person to appear at Glastonbury?
At the age of 80, Stewart is one of the oldest artists to perform at the festival, but not the very oldest. Burt Bacharach played the Pyramid stage in 2015 at the age of 87, while in 2022, Paul McCartney headlined the week after his 80th birthday.
Lee Anderson is called "30p Lee" because he claimed in 2022 that people struggling with poverty could cook nutritious meals from scratch for around 30 pence a day, suggesting a lack of budgeting and cooking skills was the issue, not food insecurity, a remark that drew widespread criticism for being insensitive and out of touch. The nickname stuck as his critics, including food poverty campaigners, ministers, and opposition MPs, used it to highlight his controversial views on poverty and the cost of living crisis, notes The Guardian and Sky News.
These included 27 reports of violence against a person, 22 drug offences, 13 public order offences, and even one report of 'miscellaneous crimes against society'. Of the crimes committed, most involved a 'crime-related incident' and 'violence against a person'.
Glastonbury Festival has reported that profits more than doubled last year, as it faces criticism for being too "corporate". The festival, based in Pilton, Somerset, brought in £5.9m in pre-tax profits for the year to March 2024 - up from £2.9m the year before.
Glastonbury 2025 is in full swing, with The 1975 bringing an emotional, but definitely not political headline set on Friday night. Lorde and Lewis Capaldi both made surprise appearances on Friday.
What times do the bands start and finish? The first acts hit the stage at around 11 O'Clock each morning and there is a curfew on the main stages of midnight on the Friday and Saturday and at 11:30pm on the Sunday.
