Car parking

Car parking signs have been put up on the roads leading into Pilton, in preparation to direct Festival traffic.

The Portakabins which house the banks and cash machines have arrived.

Barrel-painters are out in force all around the site, painting and decorating the rubbish bins ready for the Festival.

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis was out and about, checking on the set-up in the Green Fields. You can listen to an interview with him talking about the countdown to Glasto, how he's feeling about this year's Festival, and the artist line-up, by clicking on the audio link at the top of this page.

There are two tents up in the Dance Village which is new to the Festival this year. There will be a series of tents, bars, lounges, performance areas and open-air stages in this new area.

The ID Spiral Chillout, where there'll be global, ethnic and psychedelic music, is also under construction in the Dance Village.


The frame of the Jazz World Stage is in place, and parts of the Other Stage are being lifted into place by a crane.

Benches are being fixed together all around the Festival site.

A wooden structure called the Sunrise Gateway is being built by a local chainsaw sculptor in the Croissant Neuf field. It will be in the same place as the wooden scorpion was in 2004.

The John Peel Stage, formerly the New Bands Tent, is in the process of being set up.

WaterAid toilets have arrived in the King's Meadow at the top of the Green Fields, and the wooden griffen, also in the King's Meadow, is still under construction.