Glastonbury 2009

THANKS GOES OUT.

Thank you to Greenpeace, Chess Club and all who came along and enjoyed "The Departure Lounge" at this year's Glastonbury. And a massive Thank you to all the performers who came and played. This has been our best year yet. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we can't wait to see you all again next year. Click here to see who played.

Other successes on the Greenpeace Field this year!

· The Direct Dialogue team signed up over 300 new supporters on site

· Our miniature Sipson village, staffed by friendly campaigners and Sipson residents, signed up over 7,800 new beneficiary owners to Airplot

· Sipson village also featured mouthwatering horticultural displays by our good friends at Rocket Gardens and Garden Organic

· 300 people showed for our human ‘NO’ to the third runway at Heathrow, which received widespread coverage on ITN, the BBC, the Observer and the Daily Mail

· We had enthusiastic visits to the field from the organisers Michael and Emily Eavis

· Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid, the festival’s ‘Joint Charities’, worked in partnership to engage punters across the site

· Our new film about the Kingsnorth Six – A Time Comes – was watched by thousands of cinema field goers

· The globe shaped Climate Rescue Station backstage hosted 4 days of amazing musical performances by acts including Baba Maal, Tinariwen, The Mad Cows and Dub FX, as well as hosting two press conferences by Michael Eavis

· Over 750 people married each other in our mass Sunday wedding ceremony, conducted from the top of our Out of Control Tower by a Minster of Fun

· Our clean, hot, climate friendly showers were used by over 7,000 visitors during the course of the festival. Free eco friendly shower gel was generously provided by our friends at Ecover.

· We secured several new Big IF sign ups including KT Tunstall, Billy Bragg, Keith Allen and Mark Thomas

· We gave out 6 new Green Traders Awards

· Our airport themed Café Tango served up delicious organic veggie food and juices to hundreds of hungry festival goers

· The biggest and best FSC skate ramp yet saw awesome show boarding from the world’s top skaters

· Our ‘Out of Control’ climb tower, run by our friends from The Castle Climbing Centre in London, saw visits from over 1,200 enthused new climbers of all ages without an injury in sight!

· CAT talked alternative energy at our information point

· Our guests from Circus Kinetica and the Recycled Orchestra taught hundreds of intrigued visitors how to play recycled metal and glass instruments (see link below)

· Our beautiful wooden plane arrived on site, landed, provided seating for tired field visitors through the weekend and has now taken off to spread the word, flying on air and truly duty free!!!

Job well done!

Click here to hear more about what Greenpeace are doing at Glastonbury.

Click here for the full line-up.