Woodsies Area Glastonbury

19/06/2024

Leeds’ finest Yard Act are storming the Woodsies Stage on Saturday at 19:30, and James from the band is here to hype up what’s going to be an absolute belter!

18/06/2024

2024 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition WINNER Jayahadadream is appearing on the Woodsies Stage on the Sunday of this year's festival at 11:15 and she's as hyped as we are!

You can also listen to Jaya's interview with Worthy FM here:

https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/jayahadadream-wins-2024-emerging-talent-competition/

17/06/2024

We are delighted to have Kim Gordon joining us on Woodsies Main Stage.

Since co-founding the seminal Sonic Youth in the early 80’s, Gordon has remained at the nexus of music, art and (more recently) books and film. In 2019, Kim Gordon’s debut album No Home Record received wide-ranging critical acclaim, including from The New York Times ("The art star queen of New York cool”), The Guardian (“brilliantly weds noise textures to pop dynamics”), Sunday Times ‘Album Of The Week’ (“brutally good), Vogue (“immediate, loose, and liberated....as ferocious as she’s ever been”), and Pitchfork ‘Best New Music’("thrilling solo debut lives at the vanguard of sound and performance”). Earlier this year, Kim Gordon released her second solo album The Collective, recorded in Gordon’s native Los Angeles also to critical acclaim with the New Yorker describing her as a “lifelong radical still at the peak of her powers.”

Don’t miss her on Sunday at 18:30 - 19:30.

Photo: Danielle Neu

15/06/2024

KMRU is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. KMRU has carved out a serious and definitive space on the list of essential authors in ambient-experimental music-one of the most prolific and innovative artists in his field. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. Experience his work on the Tree Stage at Glastonbury on Friday night.

13/06/2024

A special message from The Vaccines! Come and kick off the party at Woodsies Main Stage on Friday from 16:30 -17:30, come rain or shine!

11/06/2024

Your Woodsies Stage day splits and times are here and we’re beyond excited to share these with you.

See you down the front for what will be three days of incredible live music!

11/06/2024

The full Tree Stage line-up is here.

New in the Woodsies Area the Tree Stage offers an extraordinary program of performances bringing together art, science and music for the ultimate audience experience.

With an immersive, quadraphonic sound system and decked with stunning visual displays, the 4000-capacity circular stage provides an open-air listening experience, centred by an ancient Oak and overlooking Glastonbury Tor.

Complementing the Main Stage, the Tree Stage runs till 3 am over the weekend with an opening ceremony on Wednesday and a full Thursday program featuring new and cutting-edge electronica, fully immersive audio-visual sets and legendary experimental musicians.

Find us in the North West Corner of the festival.

10/06/2024

Professor Brian Cox in conversation with Martin 'Youth' Glover

This year sees the introduction of Glastonbury’s first-ever open-air ambient Stage, aiming to explore the universal, existential, metaphysical and naturalistic through music, art and natural science. Who better to guide us on this journey than Professor Brian Cox?

Join him in conversation with Grammy Award-winning producer and musician, Youth, as they explore topics from black holes to dark matter, string theory and new potential universal law of nature. Journey through particle physics, astronomy and the darkness at the heart of our galaxy with extraordinary astrophysical and cosmological visual displays.

Head down to the Woodsies Area on Friday morning to begin the weekend’s celebrations packed with extraordinary audio-visual performances.

04/06/2024

Don't miss Gossip at Woodsies Main Stage on Saturday.

Returning with Real Power, pioneering Northwest trio Gossip’s first album since 2012, Beth Ditto, Nathan Howdeshell and Hannah Blilie are back together and reunited with super producer Rick Rubin, who helmed their 2009 opus Music For Men. The result is a comeback of magnum force that celebrates the galvanizing might of music, the joy of creative expression, and the power of chosen family in the aftermath of collective and personal trauma.

“When we began, so much about Gossip was about running away—that was always in the music,” says Ditto. “We survived. We came from nothing, and we got the f**k out of there. And to be here 20 years later and still making music together is just incredible.”

“What a way to come back after years of being gone: to come back strong and with purpose and so much joy and gratitude, but also getting out a lot of that f**k-the-world kind of energy,” says drummer Hannah Blille.

We can’t wait!

03/06/2024

An exciting teaser of the experience to come!

Saturday night at Midnight on the Tree Stage… an Immersive Album Listening Experience…

‘I wanted to give people an opportunity to listen collectively to this specially created immersive version, to really feel this music as it was intended to be fest, before anyone has heart it’ (Jon Hopkins on the first listening experience at the ICA)

The results of Jon Hopkins joyful enterprise in sonic divination will be available for everyone to experience at the Tree Stage in the Woodsies area.

Some 2 months out from its official release, audiences are being given the opportunity to experience Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming album RITUAL (Domino) in its entirety at The Tree Stage.

The kinetic counterpart to Jon’s most recent release, the celebrated innerspace odyssey Music For Psychedelic Therapy, the new work is a single track, 41-minute ceremonial epic, built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant, it is a culmination of themes explored throughout his 22-year career.

Credit: Benedict Priddy – playback video from the first listening experience at the ICA.

28/05/2024

MERLIN SHELDRAKE

Tree Stage: Wednesday 21:30-22:30 & Thursday 12:45-13:30

Merlin is the biologist and author of "Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures", a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize.

Merlin will be contributing towards the opening of our Tree stage In conversation with Emily Eavis on the new Tree Stage and our Panphysic connections to nature.
Merlin will lead us through a really exciting display of his microscopic fungi images.
Merlin’s second performance on the Thursday will be accompanied by a subterranean soundtrack composed by Cosmo Sheldrake. A wonderful collaboration is at hand...

26/05/2024

’s newest release Lattice 002 is the second of a series curated alongside record label Mesh.

The album invites artists and producers to stretch the boundaries of their creativity, offering listeners an auditory experience that blends cutting-edge electronic beats with references from across the musical spectrum.

His track, Gated Thoughts, offers up a pointillist, broken-beat-inflected dose of electronica.

Don’t miss him on the Tree Stage on Friday for an unforgettable live A/V set on Glastonbury’s first-ever open-air ambient stage.

Artwork by Colin Droz

23/05/2024

Introducing the wonderful who will be performing an ambient set on the ‘Tree Stage’ on Thursday at 22:40. She will be creating a fully immersive audio-visual experiencebased around her latest album, Cavaglia. The album takes us on a journey through the Swiss mountains, incorporating the natural world into its very fabric with field recordings, live strings, vocals and electronics.

03/05/2024

Wondering around the woods at night….it all comes alive✨✨✨✨✨

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30/04/2024

30/04/2024

The Woodsies Area 2024 line-up is here!

Born in 2023, Woodsies is Glastonbury’s vibrant and verdant area in the North West corner of the site, a hub for live music, heart-warming fires and enchanting treetop adventures.

This year the Main Stage offers an energising line-up spanning indie rock and pop, Irish rap, punk, metal to chart music and plenty more to get you dancing with both new and well-established acts. From Indonesian all-female rock band Voice of Baceprot, who will be kicking things off on Friday morning, to the incredible James Blake closing the stage on Sunday night, following other headline sets from Gossip and Jamie xx.

New for 2024, the Tree Stage is an immersive outdoor venue. Set beneath an oak décor canopy, the Tree Stage is zeroing in on the ambient and experimental, opening into the arts, folk, science and the elements of music. Highlights include Jon Hopkins - RITUAL - Exclusive Album Playback Listening Experience and a dive into the microscopic lives of fungi with natural scientist, Merlin Sheldrake. Main performances will take place in darkness after the Main Stage headliners finish running til 3am on Friday and Saturday and 2:30 am on Sunday.

Linger late into the night to explore the enchanted area that is The Wood. Dappled in sunlight during the day, the Wood becomes an enchanted fantasy land at night with an aerial walkway through the tree canopy. Check out the Wood’s Bar with two house bands playing rare grooves, world and jazz or immerse yourself in the heartwarming blaze of the Tolpuddle Fire.

With so much to explore, we can’t wait to welcome you in June! 🌳🎵🌸🎸

29/04/2024

Catch your favourite bands on the main stage!
and linger longer for more magic to reveal, a late night immersive area after the main stage closes…

…Introducing the all new outdoor venue the ‘TREE STAGE’ … coming soon.

Follow your way though the wood, engage in the mesmerising light and sound installations…let yourselves be enveloped new illuminated experiences.

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28/04/2024

Woodsies is Glastonbury’s new vibrant and verdant area in the North west Corner 🌀✨

What’s new this year is the expansion of the areas eclectic sound✨
along with the willow sculptures who come out and sing

🌳Immerse yourself in the trees🌳
✨Join us on this new musical journey✨