Hundreds of individuals will descend on Worthy Farm in Somerset for the Glastonbury Pageant over the subsequent few days, because the occasion returns after three years.
The pageant change into quintessential for musical-lovers, and has performed host to all the pieces from weddings to huge-scale local weather change protests as effectively.
However loads has modified for the reason that occasion first began, together with the variety of people who attend.
So, how many individuals are on the pageant this 12 months?
How many individuals are at Glastonbury this 12 months?
This 12 months marks 52 years of the Glastonbury Pageant, with the occasion beginning in 1970.
Again when it first started, tickets had been simply £1 every, with just a few thousand individuals seeing the headliners.
The occasion outgrew Worthy Farm in 1985, and the adjoining Cockmill Farm was bought so as to enable for the pageant’s growth.
This 12 months, greater than 3,000 performers and 200,000 followers will attend the occasion – the utmost capability for Worthy Farm.
What 12 months had the best turnout?
This 12 months may see the official attendance document damaged, overtaking 2002‘s pageant when 153,000 tickets had been bought with The White Stripes, Coldplay, and Kylie Minogue headlining.
Unofficially, different years have seen increased numbers, with many gatecrashers discovering their method into the pageant annually.
The biggest variety of attendees is believed to have been in 1994, when round 300,000 individuals turned up – a major variety of them who had not purchased tickets.
In response to estimates, there have been sufficient fence-jumpers to double the pageant’s measurement.
The pageant was once more overcrowded on account of fence-jumpers in 1999, and in 2000 an extra 100,000 individuals gatecrashed the location, rising the attendance to an estimated 250,000 individuals whole.
This led to public security issues and the native District Council refused any additional licences till 2002.
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