A classicist at Glastonbury: 'Headbanging in raincoats? It's as English as Gardeners' Question Time' - The Guardian

Our chief culture writer is a Glyndebourne veteran, but has never been to the world’s biggest music festival – so what did she make of the spectacle, the songs and the hedonism?

Its a cliche you overhear people saying to their first-timer friends as they enter the site: Glastonbury festival is a city, in which 200,000 people live for just less than a week and which has no pu… [+7679 chars]

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