A new Pyramid Stage was introduced for the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts 2000. Other new areas included The Glade and The Left Field. The festival was headlined by Chemical Brothers, Travis and David Bowie, who played thirty years after his first appearance.
The Pyramid Stage also hosted an unusual event on the Saturday morning, with the wedding of two festivalgoers, who had written to the organisers asking for permission to get married there, taking place and conducted by actor Keith Allen in front of a small group of friends and any other festivalgoers who still happened to be awake.
Tickets and attendance This year also saw an estimated 250,000 people attend the festival (only 100,000 tickets were sold) due to gatecrashers. This led to public safety concerns and the local District Council refused any further licences until the problem was solved.
The organisers used the scheduled fallow year 2001 to devise anti-gatecrashing measures and secure the future of the festival, after the Roskilde Festival 2000 accident.
Pyramid stage FridaySaturdaySunday The Chemical Brothers Macy Gray Counting Crows Cypress Hill The Bluetones Live G. Love & Special Sauce (replaced Eagle-Eye Cherry) The Wailers Travis Pet Shop Boys Ocean Colour Scene Reef Semisonic Brand New Heavies Asian Dub Foundation Ladysmith Black Mambazo Joseph Arthur David Bowie Embrace Happy Mondays Willie Nelson David Gray (replaced Burt Bacharach) Jools Holland Sharon Shannon Yeovil Town Band
Other stage FridaySaturdaySunday Nine Inch Nails Moby The The Idlewild Bloodhound Gang Methods of Mayhem Fu Manchu A Perfect Circle Cay Rico Leftfield Death in Vegas Elastica Feeder Wannadies David Gray Coldplay Toploader Soulwax Clinic Crashland Basement Jaxx Beta Band Muse The Dandy Warhols St Etienne Dark Star Badly Drawn Boy (replaced The For Carnation) Jack Lukeman Wilt The Blue Aeroplanes Mo Solid Gold
References
External links
BBC at Glastonbury 2000