The first issue of this year’s Glastonbury Free Press was published and began distribution at the famous Somerset festival yesterday (23 June).
It features exclusive interviews with co-organiser Emily Eavis as well as musicians Fatboy Slim, R.A.E, Billy Bragg, and Neil Finn from Crowded House.
Today's Glastonbury Free Press (printed here on our vintage Heidelberg) is available for free on site now, or download at https://t.co/VHjhV3bzxJ
— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) June 23, 2022
It features exclusive interviews with Emily Eavis, R.A.E. and Fatboy Slim and much more! pic.twitter.com/0B1Ap1zZQR
Available around the site, the publication is printed in the Theatre & Circus fields at Worthy Farm on a vintage 1957 Heidelberg OHZ-S cylinder letterpress, which uses hot metal typesetting and was installed in 2013.
Festivalgoers can also pick it up at the Free Press printing tent in the Theatre & Circus fields, where they can buy souvenir Free Press posters as well. The newspaper features content from a range of writers, copywriters, and illustrators.
The printing tent also offers music fans the chance to see how printing by hand is done.
T-shirt printing is taking place at the Free Press printing tent too, with attendees able to have a special Glastonbury-themed print screen-printed onto a plain t-shirt.
Ahead of Glastonbury 2019, the last time the festival was held in person – a virtual event took place in 2020, Grafitec installed a Stahl T52-4X folder on-site to assist with the production of the Glastonbury Free Press.
Glastonbury’s gates opened on Wednesday this week and the festival will conclude on Sunday (26 June). Around 200,000 revellers are expected over the course of the festival, and headliners include Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney, and Kendrick Lamar, with Diana Ross playing the Legends slot on Sunday.
