Glastonbury Festival 1985

Glastonbury Festival 1985
Location(s)Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England
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Glastonbury CND Festival 1985 was attended by 40,000 with tickets costing £16. The festival included performances by Echo & The Bunnymen, Aswad, Joe Cocker, Style Council, The Boomtown Rats.[1] and Ian Dury.[2] The festival had grown too large for Worthy Farm, but neighbouring Cockmill Farm was purchased.[3]

This year saw a wet festival with considerable rain; Worthy Farm is a dairy farm and what washed down into the low areas was a mixture of mud and liquefied cow dung. This did not prevent festival goers from enjoying the knee-deep slurry in front of the Pyramid Stage.

Pyramid stage

Friday Saturday Sunday

Other stage

Friday Saturday Sunday
  • Asaah Papa and Graffi Jazz
  • The Ariwa Posse
  • Poison Girls
  • Toxic Shock
  • Green on Red
  • Steve Payne & Guests
  • Eduardo and Antonio
  • The Happy End
  • OVA

References

  1. ^ "Glastonbury Festival – 1985". glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  2. ^ https://music-events.api.bbc.co.uk/events/enmbj5/play
  3. ^ "Glastonbury 1985". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2011.