Editing Glastonbury Festival (section)

=== 1990s ===
Following the 1990 festival, violence flared between security guards and [[new age travellers]] in what became known as "The Battle of Yeoman's Bridge".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/glastonbury-caught-fire-battle-yeomans-bridge/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/glastonbury-caught-fire-battle-yeomans-bridge/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=When Glastonbury caught fire: the story of the Battle of Yeoman's Bridge |work=[[Daily Telegraph]] |first=James |last=Hall |date=20 June 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/glastonbury-festival-1990.html |title=Glastonbury festival for contemporary performing arts 1990 |work=UKrockfestivals.com}}</ref> Eavis was also facing increasing battles from locals over the festival, with no festival taking place in 1991. Both pressures are captured in the 1992 [[Channel 4]] documentary ''Showdown at Glastonbury''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/valley-belongs-god-somerset-locals-nearly-shut-glastonbury/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/valley-belongs-god-somerset-locals-nearly-shut-glastonbury/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title='This valley belongs to God! The Somerset locals who nearly shut down Glastonbury Festival |first=James |last=Hall |date=20 June 2020 |work=[[Daily Telegraph]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 
[[File:Glastonbury93_Jamiroquai.jpg|thumb|NME stage at the 1993 festival]]

An expanded festival returned in [[Glastonbury Festival line-ups#1992|1992]], and this proved a great success.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/HISTORY/overview.html |title=A brief history |publisher=Glastonbury festival |access-date=8 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630095849/http://archive.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/HISTORY/overview.html |archive-date=30 June 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 1992 was the first year that the new age travellers were not initially allowed onto the site free, and a sturdier fence was designed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/glastonbury-festival-1990.html |title=Glastonbury Festival for Contemporary Performing Arts |publisher=UK Rock Festivals |access-date=27 June 2011 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629062128/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/glastonbury-festival-1990.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> This success was carried through to [[Glastonbury Festival line-ups#1993|1993]] which, like 1992, was hot and dry.

In 1994, the Pyramid Stage burned down just over a week before the festival; a temporary main stage was erected in time for the festival.<ref name=bbcglastoyears>{{cite news |title=The Glastonbury years |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3808581.stm |publisher=BBC |date=15 June 2004 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-date=12 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812042609/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3808581.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> The 1994 festival also introduced a 150 [[kW]] [[wind turbine]] which provided some of the festival power.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glastonbury 1994 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/glastonbury/archive/1994/ |work=Glastonbury Archive |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-date=7 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707133238/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/glastonbury/archive/1994/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Headliners [[Levellers (band)|Levellers]] set another record when they played to a crowd of as many as 300,000 people on their Friday performance, Glastonbury's biggest ever crowd {{As of|2010|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jon Kelly BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8759752.stm |title=How do you headline Glastonbury? |publisher=BBC |date=25 June 2010 |access-date=31 March 2018 |archive-date=4 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904155236/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8759752.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:4 Goes to Glastonbury.jpg|thumb|left|''4 Goes to Glastonbury'', the first live TV coverage in 1994]]

This was the year the festival was first televised live by [[Channel 4]]; the coverage concentrated on the main two music stages and providing a glimpse of the festival for those who knew little of it. Channel 4's ''4 Goes to Glastonbury'' brought widely expanded televised coverage of the festival for the first time in 1994 and also the following year.

The TV broadcast in 1994 was a crucial factor in ensuring that [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]]'s performance at the festival achieved legendary status. As a result, living rooms across the country were able to experience what a rave might look like, and suddenly dance music, which had been ignored by the establishment and mainstream press for years, did not seem so dangerous and which would be a turning point for the music at Glastonbury.<ref name="Stuart Aitken">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/16/chime-orbital-acid-house-dance-music |title=Mistletoe and Chime: the story of Orbital's acid house |date=16 December 2013 |first=Stuart |last=Aitken |work=The Guardian |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=1 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101092910/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/16/chime-orbital-acid-house-dance-music |url-status=live}}</ref> Speaking to ''The Guardian'' in 2013 about the Orbital gig, [[Michael Eavis]] noted that it marked dance music's appearance on the mainstream agenda. "What was previously underground made it on to one of the big stages, and there was no going back from there. As the police and the council made me very well aware, the buzz had been around the raves and the market sound systems and in the travellers' fields for years. But it needed a showcase to make it legal."<ref name="Stuart Aitken" /> The gig opened the way for others such as the [[Chemical Brothers]], [[Massive Attack]] and [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]], who all played high-profile stages in the following years – developments that led to the launch of the festival's Dance Village in 1997.

1995 saw the attendance rise drastically due to the security fence being breached on the Friday of the festival. Estimates suggest there may have been enough fence-jumpers to double the size of the festival.<ref name=telegraphmishaps>{{cite news |last=Chivers |first=Tom |title=Glastonbury 2010: disasters and mishaps at Worthy Farm |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/glastonbury/7822186/Glastonbury-2010-disasters-and-mishaps-at-Worthy-Farm.html |access-date=29 June 2011 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=14 June 2010 |location=London |archive-date=23 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823090212/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/glastonbury/7822186/Glastonbury-2010-disasters-and-mishaps-at-Worthy-Farm.html |url-status=live}}</ref> This aside, 1995 proved to be a highly successful year with memorable performances from [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]], [[Elastica]], [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]], [[PJ Harvey]], [[Jeff Buckley]], [[Jamiroquai]] and [[The Cure]]. This was also the first year of the festival having a dance tent to cater for the rising popularity of dance music, following the success of [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]]'s headline appearance the previous year. The dance acts of 1995 were led by [[Massive Attack]] on the Friday and [[Carl Cox]] on the Saturday.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts '95 |url=http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/1995/ |publisher=eFestivals |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-date=25 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525143554/http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/1995/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> The festival took a year off in 1996 to allow the land to recover and give the organisers a break. 1996 also saw the release of ''[[Glastonbury the Movie]]'' which was filmed at the 1993 and 1994 festivals.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glastonbury The Movie |url=http://www.glastonburythemovie.com/ |publisher=Glastonbury The Movie |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-date=3 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103195157/http://www.glastonburythemovie.com/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The festival returned in 1997. This time there was major sponsorship from ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the [[BBC]], who had taken over televising the event from Channel 4. This was also the year of the mud,<ref>{{cite news |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3808581.stm |title=The Glastonbury Years |access-date=27 June 2011 |date=15 June 2004 |archive-date=4 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070904052828/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3808581.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> with the site suffering severe rainfalls which turned the entire site into a muddy bog.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts '97 |url=http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/1997/ |publisher=eFestivals |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-date=2 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702025138/http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/1997/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, those who stayed for the festival were treated to many memorable performances, including [[Radiohead]]'s headlining Pyramid Stage set on the Saturday which is said to be one of the greatest ever Glastonbury performances.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2007/06/radiohead-live-at-glastonbury-1997-download/ |title=Radiohead live at Glastonbury 1997 |publisher=The line of best fit |access-date=27 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909081304/http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2007/06/radiohead-live-at-glastonbury-1997-download/ |archive-date=9 September 2009}}</ref> The live recording of "[[Paranoid Android]]" from this performance, as well as others such as "The Day Before Yesterday's Man" by [[The Supernaturals]], were released on a BBC CD entitled ''Mud For It''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glastonbury-Live-97-Mud-Various/dp/B00000B6L2 |title=Glastonbury Live' 97: Mud For It: Amazon.co.uk: Music |website=Amazon UK |access-date=20 May 2014 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118160622/http://www.amazon.co.uk/Glastonbury-Live-97-Mud-Various/dp/B00000B6L2 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1998 the festival was once again struck with severe floods and storms, and again some festival goers departed early – but those who stayed were treated to performances from acts such as [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]], [[Robbie Williams]] and [[Blur (band)|Blur]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1990–1999 |url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/glastonbury-festival/biography/1990-1999 |work=Glastonbury Festival |publisher=Icons a portrait of England |access-date=29 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618163501/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/glastonbury-festival/biography/1990-1999 |archive-date=18 June 2010}}</ref> [[Tony Bennett]], however, overcame the messy environment in an immaculate white suit and tie.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1998/ |title=History – 1998 |publisher=Glastonbury Festival |access-date=23 July 2011 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905083709/http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1998/ |url-status=live}}</ref> 1998 was also the first year that attendance officially broke the 100,000 mark.<ref name=factboxreuters />

Another hot dry year was recorded in 1999, much to the relief of organisers and festival goers. The festival was again overcrowded due to fence-jumpers, but this would not prove to be a major problem until the following year, when an additional 100,000 people gatecrashed the site, increasing the attendance to an estimated 250,000 people total.<ref name=telegraphmishaps /> The 1999 festival is also remembered for the [[Manic Street Preachers]] requesting and being given their own backstage toilets; however, it was revealed by the band that this was a joke – the "reserved" sign on the toilet was not at the authorisation of the management.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gibbons |first=Fiachra |title=Red rockers wage battle of Portaloo |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/24/fiachragibbons |access-date=29 June 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=24 July 1999 |location=London |archive-date=5 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305231249/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/24/fiachragibbons |url-status=live}}</ref>

Speaking to the BBC in 2024, Michael Eavis' daughter [[Emily Eavis|Emily]] explained that her parents always planned to close the festival when they reached retirement age, with many of the festivals in the 1990s being "the last one".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2024-06-10 |title=Glastonbury 'was due to close' in the 90s and may take fallow year in 2026 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz99nvngzdwo |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> The death of Michael Eavis' wife Jean in 1999 persuaded him to continue organising the festival.<ref name=":1" />