Glastonbury 2025 has finally opened his gates to the excitement of everyone at Worthy Farm. BBC Radio 6 marked the moment by broadcasting Nick Grimshaw’s Breakfast Show live, launching 58 hours of extensive festival coverage set to air until Sunday, June 29th. This live signalled the start of Glastonbury 2025.
Grimshaw was then joined by Glasto’s organiser Emily Eavis, who couldn’t contain her excitement: “Do you know what, really good, we’ve come from the gates, which was very exciting. Me and my dad today just opened the gates, and it was so lovely. Welcoming everyone in, full of joy, excitement, anticipation… It was a really joyous occasion.” The opening staff was made out of Emily and her dad as well as Sudanese volunteers from Oxfam. There was also a countdown and a band, making a truly memorable welcome. Grimshaw noted hearing the “amazing roar” of the crowd from across the site, a sound Eavis described as the “most joy filled city in the whole of the United Kingdom for the next five days.”
For the family, Glastonbury’s first day and gates opening is always an emotional moment: “It’s the best and most exciting, lovely, heart-warming feeling actually. I think it’s one of my favourite moments of the whole weekend. It’s all about these people having the best time over the next five days. It’s sort of quite moving when you think about the lengths that people go to make it good. The volunteers are really dedicated, they’ve been picking up stones in the arena or sewing crochet hearts onto branches, or painting bins and posts and making everything beautiful.”
She also shared her excitement about the exciting new opening ceremony for the Pyramid Stage: “We’re using a choir and some drummers, the refugee choir, and we’re going to scatter them through the crowd, and we’ve got some amazing artists who are going to be doing all kinds of trapeze. It’s not really about big names and all these headlines, it’s about celebrating the arts in all its forms.”
Emily Eavis wants one thing and one thing only for the crowd of music lovers and it’s to go home with a heart full of “optimism, hope, love, joy and peace”.
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