Onesie Glastonbury History

  Whilst reading through the Daily Mail Online this morning I stumbled across this article ... It was about a couple that married in the town of Glastonbury and went on to celebrate their honeymoon at Glastonbury festival! The bride wore a lace wedding dress - short at the front, but long at the back, completed with a veil, flower headpiece and white Hunter wellies! Her husband wore shorts, a grey striped T-shirt and trainers. Although Glastonbury is an unusual place to celebrate a wedding, it is however, no stranger to crazy fashion statements! From fancy dress outfits, to morph suits, face paint, short shorts and crop tops, sunglasses and wellies and of course, onesies! With the main acts starting today, the festival is in it's prime. With over 1750,00 people expected to watch the hundreds of acts, this year is going to be fantastic. The big acts performing tonight on the pyramid stage  include Lily Allen, Rudimental, Elbow, Arcade Fire, Paolo Nutini, Skrillex, John Newman and many more! The first festival at Glastonbury was held the day after Jimi Hendirx died, with the attendance of 1,500 and an entry fee of 1. After word had 'got around', the Festival moved to the time of the Summer Solstice and was known as the "Glastonbury Fair". The First pyramid stage was also constructed in the year of 1971, out of scaffolding and expanded metal covered in plastic sheets.By 1979 the festival was now a three day event and was still referred to as the Glastonbury Fayre but with the theme of “the year of the child”. In 1981 the festival then became known as the Glasbury CND festival after CND (“Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament”) involvement. It was also the year that a new pyramid stage was built. It took two months out of telegraph poles and ex-MOD metal sheeting.  Now that CND was involved, every year the festival took place, money was raised for CND and local charities.In 1982 we seen the highest rainfall for a single day in 45 years was recorded on the Friday, and although it was muddy, it didn't put people off.  In 1984, it was the first time specific car parking areas were designated with stewards employed to direct the traffic. Radio stations even started broadcasting messages that of people did not have a ticket, then they were advised not to go.1986  was a bigger Festival than the preceding year’s event. There were additions to the farm office, communications, welfare and medical teams, the  first Classical music tent was introduced and the market areas relocated from the top of the site.1987 saw the introduction of the Womad  stage to the Festival In 1989, police were brought into the planning of the festival for the first time. The festival took the name of the Glastonbury Festival for Contemporary Performing Arts for the first time in 1990, due to the diversity of attractions within the Festival.  It was also  the twentieth anniversary of the first Festival.The Festival continued to go from strength to strength as it began to get into its stride as a  successful and increasingly popular event in 1993 and the advance only tickets were sold out by mid June!On 13 June 1994 the famous Pyramid stage burnt down in the early hours of the morning but luckily a replacement was provided.  It was also the first appearance of the wind turbine beside the main stage providing 150 kw of power for the main stage area.  Channel 4 also televised the event live in this year, and it increased the appeal of the Festival to a wider audience.The 25th anniversary of the first Festival was celebrated in 1995,  and saw the return of the two performers from the first event - Keith Christmas and Al Stewart. The tickets were also sold out within four weeks of the ticket release date. 1995 also saw the introduction of a Dance Tent.Torrential rain just before the weekend making 1997 the “Year of the Mud”. The site was also expanded to 800 acres, a daily newspaper was published by Select and BBC2 broadcast live.Over 1,000 different performances on 17 stages included a new marquee for up and coming bands in 1998, and there were better loos and a proper on-site bank.In 1999, the widest range of entertainment ever was on offer, with over 300 bands, a kaleidoscope of theatre, comedy and cultural adventures, and more than 250 food stalls!The year 2000 sawthe return of the pyramid stage (the third pyramid stage) – 100 feet high and clad in dazzling silver.  A special family campsite was also introduced to the larger camping space.Tickets were put on sale in February and sold out in weeks in 2002, in the  most long-awaited and carefully prepared Glastonbury Festival ever. It all took place in glorious sunshine. 2003 saw the  fastest selling Glastonbury Festival with tickets being sold at within 24 hours! It was widely acclaimed as ‘the best yet’. 2004 was the safest ever Festival.  ‘Working together for a greener Glastonbury". 32% of all waste was recycled, streams and hedges remained unpolluted, she-pees were installed - not to mention the coffee and chocolate were FairTrade, and on top of the £1 million paid to Greenpeace, Water Aid, Oxfam and local good causes, an additional £100,000 was donated to the Sudan appeal. 2005 said  farewell to the Dance Tent and welcomed the new, vibrant, colourful Dance Village with eight different venues! Two months worth of rain fell in several hours, but everyone pulled through and had a great time! The New Tent was also re-launched as The John Peel Stage. 2007 was another year of mud and rain, but that didn't dampen anyone's spirits. Glastonbury 2007 also strove to be the greenest one so far, with Bags for Life given out and Festival-goers encouraged not to bring loo roll as recycled rolls were provided at the Festival. 2008 was yet another good year with Jay-Z as Saturday night’s headline act.In 2009 a record number of Festival-goers (90,396) had already set up camp on Worthy Farm's rolling hills, by Thursday morning. There was  more to Glastonbury than music and this year, the Theatre and Circus areas were home to some spellbinding performances!Glastonbury celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2010, with warm days and starry nights.  As Pyramid headliner Beyoncé rocked the stage  platinum chart-toppers!Most recently 2013 surpassed all expectations...  A record was set for the fastest ticket sell out at the beginning .BBC announced all-time record viewing figures - both at home and internationally - since they began broadcasting live from the site in 1997! So, what will this year bring? With Glastonbury getting better and better each year, this one is sure to be AMAZING. If you're going to have fun at festivals, make sure you  check out our top tips to stay safe in our OnesieFestival Fashion Blog.