Glastonbury 2025 live: Clean-up underway as organisers prepare for fallow year
Final day of festival brought major sets from Olivia Rodrigo and Rod Stewart, as controversy continues over Bob Vylan’s Saturday show
The great Glastonbury Festival clean-up is underway as hundreds of workers help to restore the site at Worthy Farm.
The festival’s clean-up team began picking up thousands of discarded items including paper cups and food containers as festival-goers began to make their way home, leaving the Somerset grounds in a steady stream.
Cleaners tackled over-flowing bins and big items such as camping chairs and blow-up mattresses, as well as slippers, flip-flops and shopping bags.
Glastonbury will not return in 2026, as the festival enters a fallow year to give the ground time to recover before the next event takes place in 2027.
Organiser Emily Eavis told the on-site newspaper, Glastonbury Free Press, she had a “huge list of things” to improve the festival ahead of its next iteration.
Meanwhile, the row over controversial performances by punk band Bob Vylan and the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap continues.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury headliner was a killer show and therapy rolled into one
At what point do grown women stop being teenage girls? It’s a question answered by Olivia Rodrigo’s catalogue and the answer is: never. A packed Pyramid Stage crowd exorcises the ghosts of ex-boyfriends past into the darkening night as Rodrigo pogos her way around the enormous stage with an energy a Sunday crowd gamely tries to match. Joined by a band, she makes the stage feel as intimate as a high-school prom with all the adolescent feelings that go with it. It’s almost a shame for anyone who’s never had their heart broken to be here: what are you getting from Rodrigo’s show if not the chance to share that specifically painful rage with 120,000 other people?
Last time Olivia Rodrigo played Glastonbury, it was 2022, she was in the first flush of fame and transcendent in the mid-afternoon sun. An audience of grown-ups embraced their inner 17-year-olds and Lily Allen came out to sing “F*** You” with her on the Other Stage. Here, in 2025, all day gaggles of pre-teen girls have appeared as if from nowhere – have they been here all weekend? – with Guts-branded socks and sparkly, much-adored outfits.
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