Photos: Radiohead, Ed Sheeran to headline Glastonbury Festival

Festival goers gather in the Stone Circle to watch the sun set at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England.The gates to the festival opened on Wednesday for five days of the world’s biggest greenfield music fest headlined this year by Radiohead, the Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran among many others. Besides contemporary music, the festival is also known to host other performing arts. (AFP)

Updated on: Jun 22, 2017 5:50 PM IST

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Festival goers gather in the Stone Circle to watch the sun set at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England.The gates to the festival opened on Wednesday for five days of the world’s biggest greenfield music fest headlined this year by Radiohead, the Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran among many others. Besides contemporary music, the festival is also known to host other performing arts. (AFP)

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The Festival is considered as a major event in British culture, inspired by the ethos of the hippie, counterculture and free festival movements. Michael Eavis hosted the first festival after seeing an open-air Led Zeppelin concert in the 1970’s. (AFP)

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Revellers gather at Worthy Farm in Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival in Britain. (REUTERS)

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Some 175,000 people are expected to attend the festival in sizzling temperatures. (AFP)

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Revellers shelter from the sun as they attend the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, England. (AFP)

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Festival goers are sprayed with water as they cool down at Worthy Farm in Somerset. (REUTERS)

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Owing to a string of terror attacks in Britian, security measures in the festival have been increased. (AFP)

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A revellers walks past tipi tents at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset,England. (AFP)

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A skateboarder performs to entertain festival-goers at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts during the opening day of the festival on June 21. (AFP)

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A woman waits to receive customers on her stall at the festival in England. (AFP)

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A bonfire featuring a large wooden phoenix burns at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England. (AFP)