Festivals - Part 12

Glastonbury

Glastonbury is Britain's largest music festival.  Officially, it's not just a rock and pop music festival, but a festival of all performing arts, including dance, comedy, theater, circus and cabaret.  It started in 1970 as the Pilton Festival, but it became a major rock festival in 1971.  That was the era of hippies, so of course some attendees were naked (above).

Another 1971 photo.

The festival was revived and became annual in 1981, with occasional "fallow" (skipped) years.  I have no idea what these 2002 festival-goers are protesting, but they certainly have the right idea to attract attention.

British comic Keith Allen performing karaoke with his pants down in 2002 (unfortunately pixellated).

The festival grounds are extensive.  These 2005 attendees are at a feature called the Stone Circle, the remains of a megalithic monument.  Stonehenge is only about 35 miles away.

Nudity is not rampant at Glastonbury, but it still occurs.  These runners were seen at the 2010 festival.

Sometimes the same guy keeps showing up naked.  This guy at the 2008 festival has a sign "Go green, go naked."

Here he is at the 2010 festival.  The person who posted the photo referred to him as "the naked man," so he may have had a reputation at Glastonbury.

Here he is at the 2011 festival.

Again at the 2011 festival.  The person who posted the photo commented "Only at the Stone Circle can you see a naked man walking around like it's normal."