Watch the live build as Glastonbury Festival gets ready for 2025

With each passing day, in preparation for this year’s highly anticipated event, Worthy Farm is getting to look more and more like the world-famous Glastonbury Festival we all know and love.

The legendary Pilton-held event returns this summer to Worthy Farm and will run from the 25th to the 29th of June — ahead of its scheduled fallow year in 2026.

For most of the year, the Festival site is a working dairy farm and looks totally different to when the event takes place.

However, some structures do remain static on the ground year-round, with one of them being the Pyramid Stage in its skeleton frame structure form, resting amicably in the Somerset countryside fields of Worthy Farm.

Many Glasto fans like to follow the site build progress in real-time as it all starts to take shape in the run-up to opening day.

The webcam, which is hosted by the BBC and located on the Festival grounds, allows fans to watch the build progress take place live right in front of their very eyes in real-time, as iconic stages and constructions arise from their deep, long sleep while reappearing to form the majestic Brigadoon known as Glastonbury Festival.

The build, which starting point traditionally tends to be marked by the dressing commencement of the iconic Pyramid Stage, normally takes place over an approximately 60-day period.

This year, looking at the webcam, the Pyramid Stage sheets (which cover the bare skeleton structure) were dropped off on Friday morning, 4th of April at around 11am, and were set at each of the stage’s corners ready to be raised for when the build team get the go-ahead.

Looking at the webcam, the Pyramid Stage sheets (AKA covers / skin / dress / finery / frock) appear to have been dropped off earlier this morning (around 11am) at each of the stage’s corners — ready for the big dress-up day commencement ahead of Glastonbury 2025… 🔎👗👀 pic.twitter.com/CaehccKjur

— Glasto Fest Feed (@GlastoFestFeed) April 4, 2025

Six days later, on the 10th of April 2025, the iconic Pyramid Stage finally began to get dressed after the covers (which were lying on the ground beside the iconic structure) were raised up and cloaked over the Port side of the mothership — as seen in the gif below.

And so it starts… The Pyramid Stage is finally starting to get her pretty party frock on in preparation for this year's Glastonbury Festival! 🙌✨ LET'S GO, GLASTO! 👗💃 pic.twitter.com/S0hRYlaiz9

— Glasto Fest Feed (@GlastoFestFeed) April 10, 2025

Meanwhile, elsewhere on site, days after the Pyramid dressing commencement, the infamous Long Drops started being taken out of storage in mid-April and could clearly be seen getting assembled in some areas of the site, as early as the 22nd of April.

Some West Holts build progress was then spotted on Monday, the 28th of April, after being captured that morning at around 9:30am, from 1000ft high in the sky — as shown in the video below.

Fantastic footage of the Glastonbury Festival site captured this morning (around 9:30am), from 1000ft high in the sky, showing the build coming along nicely — Filmed by Tom McMeakin of Sky Riders School… Lovely! 🪂💨🍃 pic.twitter.com/8LRMoL9urJ

— Glasto Fest Feed (@GlastoFestFeed) April 28, 2025

The green room marquees, shown below, which are situated to the right of the Pyramid (if you’re facing it), started going up on the 6th of May in preparation to house the artists’ dressing rooms and hospitality lounges at this year’s Festival.

Two days later, on the 8th of May, the iconic Ribbon Tower started getting assembled, and as of the 26th of May, stands tall with hat on head n’all.

The 4-meter-tall caterpillar-like Super Fence started peeking on the webcam on the 10th of May. Once completely assembled, it will run 8km around the perimeter site, while securing the Festival grounds, and by doing so, enabling Glastonbury to continue to obtain its operating licence.

Elsware, the Park Stage began going up on the 12th of May, while the Other Stage — which is the second largest Stage at the Festival after the iconic Pyramid, and whose history stretches back to the expansion of the Festival in the late 1980s — saw the first crance working on its grounds just one day later, on the 13th of May.

With less than 30 days to go until Glastonbury opens its gates to the public on the 25th of June, and as more containers carrying equipment continue to arrive on-site intermittently, we can expect the build to grow in intensity as more iconic stages and venues come to life once again to create the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. You can now continue following the build via the BBC Glastonbury webcam, here.

Glastonbury 2025 Map

Earlier this month, Glastonbury officials released the first public version of the Glastonbury 2025 map ahead of this year’s highly anticipated festival.

The new map, which became available via the Festival’s official website on Saturday, 17th May, features several changes and adjustments.

You can now view the first high-quality public version of the Glastonbury 2025 map by clicking here, as well as read all about the latest additions and omissions in our detailed breakdown here.

Lineup News

Organisers have recently been gradually releasing separate line-up posters for the many areas, stages, and venues across the site in the run-up to this year’s Festival. Those who’ve been revealed so far include the Acoustic Stage, Field of Avalon, West Holts, Silver Hayes, Croissant Neuf, Shangri-La, Kidzfield, Woodsies, Glasto Latino, The Glade, Left Field, Theatre & Circus, San Remo, The Common, Arcadia, Pilton Palais, Unfairground, Block9, The Park, Greenpeace, and most recently Carhenge, and Terminal 1.

Before the string of posters began to drop, the first main line-up poster was revealed earlier this year (6th March), in which it confirmed that headliners The 1975, (previously announced) Neil Young, and Olivia Rodrigo will all be taking to the iconic Pyramid Stage on Friday 27th, Saturday 28th, and Sunday 29th of June, respectively.

Rod Stewart was also announced as this year’s Sunday afternoon tea-time Legends slot performer. Other names featured in the ever-growing bill include Loyle Carner, Charli XCX, Biffy Clyro, The Maccabees, Lucy Dacus, Father John Misty, RAYE, Wolf Alice, The Prodigy, Doechii, St. Vincent, Gary Numan, Deftones, Scissor Sisters, The Libertines, Wet Leg — and first-time appearances from Alanis Morissette, Doechii and En Vogue.

With almost all of the areas and stages’ lineups now having been announced, we can expect the full bill, including stage times, to drop any day now, as traditionally this tends to happen sometime at the end of May / beginning of June.

That said, there are many artists who ‘self-confirm’ before the official announcements by divulging the news via interviews, social media or website listings to accompany the ever-growing Glasto rumours.

Click here to view our daily updated list of acts confirmed, rumoured and unlikely to perform at Glastonbury 2025, so far.

Ticket Opportunities

The final batch of General Admission tickets for the 2025 Glastonbury Festival sold out in just 19 minutes last month, after going on sale at 9am on Sunday, 27th April.

Keeping with tradition, only pre-registered buyers could access the online sales as part of Glastonbury’s continued drive against ticket touting.

Hundreds of thousands of Glasto-fans were up bright and early, ready at their computer screens in the second of two ticket resales for the chance of buying tickets for Glastonbury 2025 — after tickets completely sold out when they originally went up for sale last November.

Last November saw the first main wave of tickets, which included tickets packaged with coach travel selling out in just 32 minutes, before General Admission tickets were all snapped up in 35 minutes.

Despite all tickets being sold out, there are currently 6 competitions running for the chance of winning Glastonbury 2025 tickets.

Along with this year’s Tony’s Chocolonely ticket competition, offering fans the chance to win one of 5 pairs of tickets to this year’s Glastonbury Festival, other competitions include Absolut, Clipper Teas, and Brotheres Cider, who have once again been confirmed as the ‘Official Cider’ of Glastonbury Festival for 2025.

Click here to view our daily updated list of all the competitions for the chance of winning tickets to this year’s Glastonbury Festival.