Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 22 – 24
Price
£38
Tickets Sold
70,000
- FriHappy Mondays
- SatThe Cure
- SunLadysmith Black Mambazo
Key Events
- Name changes to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.
- 25 Jun 1990: Riots break out between travellers and security. This results in 235 arrests and £50,000 worth of damage.
Fallow Year
The first fallow year of the 1990s.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 26 – 28
Price
£49
Tickets Sold
70,000
- FriCarter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
- SatShakespears Sister
- SunYoussou N'Dour
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 25 – 27
Price
£58
Tickets Sold
80,000
- FriThe Black Crowes
- SatLenny Kravitz
- SunWynton Marsalis
Key Events
- Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel their Saturday headline slot due to Flea having chronic fatigue syndrome. Replaced by Lenny Kravitz.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 24 – 26
Price
£59
Tickets Sold
80,000
- FriThe Levellers
- SatElvis Costello
- SunPeter Gabriel
Key Events
- 13 Jun 1994: Pyramid Stage: Stage burns down. Bad luck strikes one week before the festival. A replacement stage is used in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999.
- Festival is screened on national television for the first time. Channel 4 airs the entire thing live.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 23 – 25
Price
£65
Tickets Sold
80,000
- FriOasis
- SatPulp
- SunThe Cure
Key Events
- The Stone Roses cancel their Saturday headline slot due to John Squire breaking his collarbone. Replaced by Pulp.
Fallow Year
The second fallow year of the 1990s.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 27 – 29
Price
£75
Tickets Sold
90,000
- FriThe Prodigy
- SatRadiohead
- SunAsh
Key Events
- BBC takes over television coverage.
- Steve Winwood cancels his Sunday headline slot due to his truck getting stuck in the mud. Replaced by Ash.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 26 – 28
Price
£80
Tickets Sold
100,500
- FriPrimal Scream
- SatBlur
- SunPulp
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Dates
Jun 25 – 27
Price
£83
Tickets Sold
100,500
- FriR.E.M.
- SatManic Street Preachers
- SunSkunk Anansie