Today (May 12) marks 40 days until lucky ticketholders will head down to Glastonbury 2023 with their camping gear in tow. Organisers have been slowly drip-feeding the line-ups for the dozens of arts and music stages - with many more still to be announced.
Glastonbury has now released its hotly anticipated site map for 2023, allowing first-timers to attempt to familiarise themselves with the 'festival city' and returning ticketholders to check out some of the changes. The festival site is almost 1,000 acres surrounded by eight miles of fencing as the population of Pilton swells from 1,000 to 210,000 people over the weekend.
This year's map indicates the site is going through some changes, including one area being completely removed altogether. We've put together a list of some of the key points to consider if you're heading to Worthy Farm this June.
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Cineramageddon is gone
The festival's huge dedicated cinema area has been removed completely for Glastonbury 2023. Cineramageddon had a huge cinema screen and saw the repurposing of dozens of beautiful vintage cars that you could book out and sit in to watch films.
All is not lost, however, as the vintage cars are being repurposed to create an incredible new area in Williams Green. 'Carhenge' is created by the festival's resident artist and collaborator, Joe Rush, who is constructing a Stonehenge-like structure in the middle of the area.
The former site of Cineramageddon has returned to camping. Films will continue to be shown in other areas on the site, including Pilton Palais Cinema.
Williams Green stage removed
It looks as though the Williams Green stage has been removed from this year's festival map. Williams Green organisers would often reserve slots for secret acts here, which saw the likes of George Ezra, Bastille and Jordan Cardy in the past.
This might be to make way for Carhenge, which will be based in the centre of Williams Green.
John Peel stage renamed
There has been a lot of pressure on organisers in recent years to rename the John Peel stage, traditionally the home to fiery, up-and-coming music acts. Last year, a petition was launched appealing to Glastonbury Festival to change the name amid historical sexual abuse accusations against the late disc jockey.
After 19 years, the stage - which is a pink and blue big top tent - has been renamed Woodsies. Emily Eavis said: “We’ve had 20 years of John Peel and it’s been an honour to use his name.” Organisers said the decision wasn't in response to the petition or the allegations, according to the Mail.
Changes to Silver Hayes
In Silver Hayes, the Sonic Stage - the area's unofficial main stage - is no longer and has been replaced by The Levels - a new open-air nightclub "inspired by the crossover of architecture, lighting and experimental musical art-forms". Organisers have creatively reimagined the existing Lonely Hearts Club and The Firmly Rooted Soundsystem stages as well as The Wow stage. The music line-ups have also been revealed in full. Organisers have already 'Carhenge'.
New area name by BBC Music Introducing
The new map shows the area by the BBC Music Introducing stage is now called 'The Reach' next to Silver Hayes. BBC Music Introducing supports the most exciting unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music across the UK.
Arcadia area made bigger
Arcadia, the arena with the huge fire-spitting spider, has been made bigger this year. This area comes alive at night and hosts some of the best DJ sets across the weekend, home to Four Tet, The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim in previous years.
This comes after reports of overcrowding at last year's festival - with one festivalgoer detailing their experience of being in a 30-minute standstill at the junction between The Park and Arcadia.
Changes to camping areas
Public camping is shown by the darker green patches on the map with staff camping areas represented by the paler green. It appears there is some public camping loss near the Park entrance this year. However, the loss of Cineramageddon means there is now more public camping between Paines Ground and South Park 1 - in the southern area of the site.
Other colour changes on the map also suggest staff camping has moved from Dairy Ground to Rivermead and Pylon Ground.
Glastonbury Festival is June 21-25 at Worthy Farm, Pilton
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