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- This year was a muddy year with lots of bad weather. In fact, the highest rainfall for a single day in 45 years was recorded on the Friday but it was also the year of the first laser show backed by Tubeway Army’s “Are friends electric?”.
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History 1982 Again, there was CND involvement and it was this year that Western Region CND took control of the entrance gates and Mid Somerset CND took charge of all the information. This year was a muddy year with lots of bad weather.
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If 1981 was the year that saw Michael Eavis prove that Glastonbury could be a financial success , then 1982 was the year when the festival really began to establish itself as a major event on the UK festival calendar. It wasn't purely a numbers game, the number of attendees increased by only 7,000 or so, a rise of about 25%, but nothing ...
Brian Jones, 1982. "In 1982, West Region CND took on all the “gate and traffic” work on site; Sometimes we'd be staffing the perimeter vehicle or pedestrian entrances, sometimes we'd be controlling gates within the site, only allowing through vehicles with the correct passes.
The 1982 Glastonbury CND Festival took place over 3 days, from Friday the 18th to Sunday the 20th of June. It was headlined by Black Uhuru, Roy Harper, and Richie Havens.
1982 was Glastonbury’s first muddy year, with the highest rainfall in 45 years recorded on the Friday. The Festival became better established with a slew of market stalls selling everything from jewellery to scrumpy cider, and £25,000 was raised for CND and local charities.
The history of Glastonbury Festival. Welcome to the History pages, which chart the events at the Festival since it began the day after Jimi Hendrix died, in 1970.
1982’s Glastonbury Festival was involved with the Mid-Somerset and Western Region ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ for the second year. Michael Eavis asked fireworks organisers to point a...
