Glastonbury Festival Announces Ticketed Livestream With Coldplay, HAIM, Jorja Smith & More

The Stone Circle at Glastonbury, where some of the concerts will be filmed.
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– The Stone Circle at Glastonbury, where some of the concerts will be filmed.
The sacred space mimics the shape of the star constellation Cygnus the Swan, designed by Ivan McBeth and inaugurated in 1992 by the Glastonbury Order of Druids.
Glastonbury can’t take place for a second summer in a row, but fans will be still be able to watch live music at some of Worthy Farm’s landmarks, May 22.
Coldplay, Damon Albarn, HAIM, IDLES, Jorja Smith, Kano, Michael Kiwanuka, Wolf Alice, and DJ Honey Dijon have been confirmed to perform from iconic locations on Glastonbury’s vast festival site, which usually hosts some 200,000 people each June, including the Pyramid Field, where the frame of one of the world’s most famous stages will be visible, or the Stone Circle.

Tickets, which are available now, cost £20, €23, $27.50 and AUD$35. Accessible only to ticket buyers, the online event will be broadcast in full across four separate time zones, with staggered livestreams for the UK, Europe, Africa & the Middle East, East Coast North America & Central/South America, West Coast North America, and Australia, New Zealand & Asia.
Full details of each stream below.
Glastonbury promoter Emily Eavis.
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– Glastonbury promoter Emily Eavis.
After winning the Best Festival In The World Award during the NME Awards 2020 at O2 Academy Brixton, Feb. 12, 2020 in London, England.

Emily Eavis said: “After two Glastonbury cancellations, it brings us great pleasure to announce our first online livestream, which will present live music performances filmed across Worthy Farm at landmarks including the Pyramid and, for the first time ever, the Stone Circle.

“It will feature a rolling cast of artists and performers who have all given us enormous support by agreeing to take part in this event, showing the farm as you have never seen it. 
“There will also be some very special guest appearances and collaborations. We are hoping this will bring a bit of Glastonbury to your homes and that for one night only people all over the world will be able to join us on this journey through the farm together!”
The five-hour film will be directed by Grammy-nominated director Paul Dugdale, who will give fans an unprecedented look at the untouched festival grounds. The show will be co-promoted and produced by UK livestream business Driift and BBC Studios Productions.
Pollstar reached out to Driift CEO Ric Salmon, who, in his own words, has been having “very exciting few months putting all this together.”
It’s the first full-fledged outdoor show Driift is realising since launching the company with Laura Marling’s livestream from Union Chapel London, not even a year ago. The following October’s James Bay performance from London’s Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was as close to an open-air scenario as Salmon and his team have gotten so far.
“When we were doing James Bay, we were kind of half-hoping it was going to rain, because we thought it would look really cool with the lights in the Shakespeare’s Globe, we would have been able to do some fun stuff. We’re probably not quite as enthusiastic about it raining on the Farm at Glastonbury because, obviously, it makes logistics in a muddy field a lot more complicated,” he said.
Aside from the concerts, the stream will be interspersed by a spoken word narrative, written and delivered by “some very special guests,” who will guid viewers on the journey through the sacred valley in the scenic English countryside of Somerset.
“It’s being shot as a continuous thread, so when it’s pieced together it will be one continuous chronological event, with the sun going down and setting and it eventually going dark,” Salmon explained.
Ric Salmon
– Ric Salmon
Director at ATC Management & co-founder and CEO of Driift

Many fans would consider a rain-drenched festival the only authentic Glastonbury experience, yet Salmon said the production team was still evaluating whether to set up roofs over the performance stages, however, “as soon as you put a roof on something in such a beautiful expansive space it encloses the physical proximity of what you’re trying to film. We’re hoping we can avoid having roofs, there’ll obviously be lighting rigging, but roofs kind of get in the way. We’ll take a view on that a week out, and if the long-range forecast is looking dreadful we’ll have to just tweak our plan.”

The fact that arguably the world’s most famous festival is banking on Salmon and his team to produce “Live at Worthy Farm” is a testament to the quality of the productions Driift has been delivering so far.
Salmon described working with the team at Glastonbury as “greatest joy. They are such an amazing group of people, and what a privilege, you know, it is it is the crown jewel of live music in many ways.”
To Salmon, the Glastonbury “Live At Worthy Farm” stream will be a “testament to what you can do with this format, it’s so creative. Quite often there’s such rigidity to the creative arts, where you have to work within a given format. A music video tends to be three minutes long, it’s shot a certain way to convey a narrative. [On the other hand], live events with a physical audience in front of them have specific restrictions, as well.
“We’ll see how it all comes together, we’ve got an amazing plan. We just want  people, who come out at the end of watching it, to feel like they’ve had an incredible immersive experience, a journey similar to stumbling around the festival site and coming across performance spaces where you witness something crazy happening,” he explained.
Ticket proceeds will, as usual, support Glastonbury’s three main charitable partners, Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid, as well as help to secure the festival’s return in 2022.
A limited edition line-up poster for the event will also be available, with proceeds going to Stagehand, the live production welfare and benevolent fund which is helping crew who have fallen into the gaps in Government financial support during the pandemic. 
Livestream details:
Livestream #1 – UK, EUROPE, AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: 19.00 BST / 20.00 CEST & SAST / 21.00 MSK & EEST / 22.00 GST
Livestream #2 – NORTH AMERICA (EAST COAST) and  CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA: 18.00 CDT / 19.00 EDT / 20.00 ART & BRT 
Livestream #3 – NORTH AMERICA (WEST COAST): 19.00 PDT
Livestream #4 – AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & ASIA (on Sunday 23rd May): 16.00 ICT / 17.00 HKT & PHST / 18.00 JST & KST/ 19.00 AEST / 21.00 NZST
Glastonbury Festival presents:
– Glastonbury Festival presents:
Live at Worthy Farm. The poster.