Robin Mahoney on the making of Glastonbury The Movie: 30th anniversary cut

Posted 04 Sep 2026 by Abla Kan in

The year is 1993. The BBC cameras haven’t arrived yet. A hundred thousand people are in a Somerset field, completely unobserved, completely themselves. Shot in Panavision CinemaScope, Glastonbury The Movie captured the real festival, not the headline acts, but the stone circle at sunrise, the rave tents, the wandering poets, The Verve at their very first festival appearance. No voiceover. No presenter. Just Glastonbury, as it was. Now digitally restored for the big screen, thirty years on.

Director Robin Mahoney shares hilarious anecdotes from behind the scenes and discusses his journey making the film with host Sam Tyler, creator of the Sonic Fields Podcast.

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