Festival review by : Steve

Glastonbury Festival 2000

By eFestivals Newsroom | Published: Thu 6th Jul 2000

Glastonbury Festival 2000

Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th June 2000
Worthy Farm, Pilton, nr Glastonbury, Somerset, England
£89 including booking fee and postage

Daily capacity: 80,000

Forget the mud of other years .. the worst thing about Glastonbury 2000 was the violence.

Any other festival, and you sort of expect it - but not at Pilton.

So what happened?

Well, nothing directly but close to us on 4 separate occassions we saw:

a Scouse group being attacked by some Welsh lads with a baseball bat (after stealing some beer)
a young couple having to put up with a Scouse lad pissing on their flare as they tried to watch the PSB
a guy ripping his shirt off, grabbing his own fllreand running into the middle of a group of lads shouting 'Come on your twats .. lets fucking go'
friends of ours getting bags nicked from their tent

Not what you need at a festival - and certainly not something I associated with Glastonbury until now. I love the festival - and hardly a day has gone by for the past 4 months when I havn't thought about it - but, unfortunately, this has left a real
sour taste.

Genuinely disappointed.

review submitted by
Steve