A serious clean-up operation has begun at Glastonbury to return the positioning from a pop-up metropolis of 200,000 individuals to a Somerset dairy farm.
Volunteers started shifting garbage strewn throughout the 800-acre website as revellers started to make their method residence following headline performances by Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar.
They started choosing up 1000’s of discarded objects together with paper cups and meals containers after round 200,000 individuals descended on Worthy Farm for the competition.
The clean-up crew tackled over-flowing bins with waste and large objects reminiscent of tenting chairs, blow-up mattresses, slippers, flip-flops and buying baggage needing to be disposed of.
Volunteer Sean Kelly, 32, informed the PA information company: “I’ve been litter choosing day by day for hours. In the entire recycling crew there’s 2,500 of us and I’ve finished it 10 years on the trot.
“It’s similar to 2019 as a result of it’s dry, it’s a lot simpler to choose when it’s dry.
“As a rule, all the pieces is just about finished early this yr. There’s been an enormous discount in gasoline canisters this yr, however there’s been loads of vape bars and they’re the one issues you’ll be able to’t recycle.
“Most issues get recycled right here.”
Campers packed up their belongings and left in a gradual stream from the Somerset website on Monday morning because the rain descended following a competition that had defied ominous forecasts of thunderstorms and a yellow climate warning from the Met Workplace.
Highlights from the competition’s particular fiftieth yr embody history-making headline units from Sir Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish in addition to Lamar’s dramatic demonstration for feminine rights.
In the meantime, Diana Ross reeled off hit after hit when she took to the stage for the Sunday teatime legends slot.
The soul singer handled the gang to a choice of classics together with I’m Coming Out, Child Love, You Can’t Hurry Love, Cease! In The Title Of Love and on the conclusion of Chain Response pink confetti was launched from the stage.
Kendrick Lamar carried out an array of hit songs from his again catalogue accompanied by finely choreographed dancers (Yui Mok/PA)
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One other standout second was Sir Paul’s Saturday headline present the place he wowed the crowds with a show-stopping setlist which included shock visitor appearances from Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.
As he took to the Pyramid Stage, the previous Beatle turned the competition’s oldest solo headliner, every week after he celebrated his eightieth birthday.
Throughout his more-than-two-hour set, he performed a variety of traditional songs together with Hey Jude, Blackbird, Reside And Let Die, Ob-La-Di, Ob‐La‐Da and Get Again.
Dave Grohl joined Sir Paul in his first stage look because the dying of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins (MJ Kim/2022 MPL Communications/PA)
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The electrifying present was additional amplified as he launched Grohl to the stage to sing I Noticed Her Standing There and Band On The Run, marking Grohl’s first public efficiency because the dying of his Foo Fighters bandmate, drummer Taylor Hawkins.
Springsteen later joined Sir Paul for Glory Days and I Wanna Be Your Man.
As a part of the encore, via particular expertise which may isolate John Lennon’s vocals from previous recordings, Sir Paul was in a position to duet The Beatles’ monitor I’ve Bought A Feeling alongside his former bandmate on the Pyramid Stage.
On Friday, US singer Eilish headlined the Pyramid Stage, changing into Glastonbury’s youngest ever solo headliner.
Waste left by competition goers ready to be cleared at Worthy Farm in Somerset (Ben Birchall/PA)
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The competition featured numerous different memorable moments together with Greta Thunberg delivering a passionate speech from the Pyramid Stage calling on society to tackle its “historic duty to set issues proper” with the worldwide local weather disaster.
It additionally hosted an array of Ukrainian representatives, with the nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky giving a poignant deal with by way of a video message and Kalush Orchestra taking part in their first UK efficiency since they triumphed at Eurovision 2022.
Whereas heading to the competition, many artists and festival-goers needed to battle journey chaos as main rail strikes passed off in the course of the occasion and lots of flights had been delayed or cancelled.
Nonetheless, these points didn’t dampen everybody’s spirits nor may the notorious Glastonbury showers because the climate remained comparatively dry compared to earlier years.
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