The gates to Glastonbury 2023 have just opened

nme.com:

Glastonbury festival site, officially kicking off this year’s festival.The gates officially opened at 8am this morning (June 21), permitting entry to ticketholders who have been arriving at the festival site since 4pm yesterday (June 20).

Emily Eavis was in attendance to welcome festivalgoers and there was a queue snaking around the site with people at the front telling NME they’d been there since yesterday afternoon.As the gates opened Eavis declared: “Welcome to Glastonbury,” before she did a countdown to huge cheers.

You can view footage below.Glastonbury 2023 will welcome over 200,000 festivalgoers and stage a full bill of music, entertainment and much more up until the early hours of Monday morning (June 26).A post shared by NME (@nmemagazine)#Glastonbury2023 gates are open!

Here’s to an amazing few days on the farm! pic.twitter.com/iHVJG49yGe— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) June 21, 2023This year’s edition sees the iconic event make its return to Worthy Farm, and will feature headline performances from the likes of Guns N’ Roses, Elton John, and Arctic Monkeys, alongside the likes of Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Måneskin, Fred Again..