But that news hasn’t discouraged the festival site’s most fashionable jet-set.
Emily Eavis has thanked Glastonbury festivalgoers for their commitment in attending the event, saying she thinks “the best people in the world come here”.
The 42-year-old co-organiser of the event was speaking the day after the festival opened its gates for the first time in three years after it was cancelled twice amid the coronavirus pandemic.
9. Colourful, wacky and stylish fashion choices on display during the second day at Glastonbury Festival 2022.
Eavis said that having to cancel Glastonbury in 2020 and 2021 was “a very sad and quite traumatic thing to have to go through”. Photo: Tom Wren
10. Colourful, wacky and stylish fashion choices on display during the second day at Glastonbury Festival 2022.
She added: “Particularly when you cancel and you don’t actually know when you’ll be back. But there’s been no escape from the pandemic – everyone has been hit by it to some degree. Photo: Tom Wren
11. Colourful, wacky and stylish fashion choices on display during the second day at Glastonbury Festival 2022.
“And ultimately, this is just a festival; there were greater things going on in the world. But to be able to open the gates again and bring people back together for the purpose of pure joy is such a wonderful thing.” Photo: Tom Wren
12. Colourful, wacky and stylish fashion choices on display during the second day at Glastonbury Festival 2022.
As day two of the festival gets under way, attendees “may need to take shelter if they can” as thunderstorms are set to sweep across much of southern England, a Met Office meteorologist said. Photo: Tom Wren