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Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A first look at Glastonbury's main stages for 2025
GLASTONBURY Festival is well and truly underway with both main stages awaiting major stars this year. Both the Pyramid Stage and the Other Stage are being set up in preparation for opening shows - with the Pyramid already hosting an opening ceremony circus act. READ MORE: Glastonbury Festival's 2024 opening night drone show READ MORE: Glastonbury 2025 drink prices At the top of the Other Stage, you can spot three insects - including a butterfly and a stag beetle. For the first time since 1990, 'The Dreamweaver's Journey' played on the main stage - allowing festival-goers to enjoy acrobatics, circus performances, and an aerial odyssey. The Pyramid Stage was flocked to for the Glastonbury Festival 2025 opening ceremony last night. (Image: Harry Mockridge/Newsquest) Here's your first look at the Other Stage for Glastonbury Festival 2025. (Image: Harry Mockridge/Newsquest) Following this, the yearly Glastonbury tradition of fireworks kicked off around 10:45pm yesterday (June 25). Some festival-goers may feel a bit let down by the fact that there is no drone show at this year's opening ceremony. A show that was first brought in last year. However, that won't be the case with everyone, as last year, when the Somerset County Gazette watched the show, some people had a lot to say. The biggest crowd reaction – at least where one of our reporters was sitting – was laughter in response to a shout of 'put your lightsaber down, you t***'. The offending piece of Star Wars merchandise being waved around was soon lowered by its owner. There were calls for music to be played from the main stages whilst the drone show went on, however, this was likely not possible due to the festival's licensing agreements for its main stages, which open on the Friday. As last year, there was no music during the opening ceremony again. Stay tuned for an upcoming review.
BBC News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Glastonbury 2025 opening ceremony kicks off festival with a bang
With tents firmly pitched and wristbands secured, revellers spent the first night of Glastonbury Festival exploring the more obscure and eccentric attractions on queued through the night to be among the first to enter the gates of Worthy Farm on Wednesday, brimming with excitement. As night fell, for the first time in 35 years, the event hosted an opening ceremony from a theatre and circus act in front of the Pyramid with the main line-up not starting until Friday, crowds also flocked to the traditional opening fire ceremony in the Green Fields' Sacred Space. The audience at the immersive aerial performance were asked to tune in and hum along to the movements of a digital cyclist on screen at the Pyramid Stafe, creating a "collective soundscape".Glastonbury organisers described the performance, named The Dreamweaver's Journey, as a "beautiful chaos of sound". Elsewhere on site, others leaned into nostalgia and indulged in a 90s singalong at the Greenpeace stage. The official opening of the ambient Tree Stage saw meditations, celebrations, offerings and the ceremonial lighting of the Tolpuddle fire, which stays burning continuously from dusk till dawn. The evening culminated in a fireworks display, seen from both ceremonies, which ignited the sky with blazing trails and colourful people gathered at the Tipi Village, The Stone Circle and at the base of the Glastonbury sign to watch the reporting by Paul Glynn
