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Glastonbury Festival
in the 1990s

A new decade brings another name change, and the festival continues to attract the biggest names in entertainment — plus hundreds of thousands of punters.

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Dates

Jun 22 – 24

Price

£38

Tickets Sold

70,000

Headliners
  • 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.

The first fallow year of the 1990s.

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Dates

Jun 26 – 28

Price

£49

Tickets Sold

70,000

Headliners
  • 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

Headliners
  • 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

Headliners
  • 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

Headliners
  • FriOasis
  • SatPulp
  • SunThe Cure
Key Events
  • The Stone Roses cancel their Saturday headline slot due to John Squire breaking his collarbone. Replaced by Pulp.

The second fallow year of the 1990s.

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Dates

Jun 27 – 29

Price

£75

Tickets Sold

90,000

Headliners
  • 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

Headliners
  • FriPrimal Scream
  • SatBlur
  • SunPulp

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Dates

Jun 25 – 27

Price

£83

Tickets Sold

100,500

Headliners
  • FriR.E.M.
  • SatManic Street Preachers
  • SunSkunk Anansie