Festival No. 0000163 · Est. 1970
Who's playing, and when
Festival lineup
We need your help - registered users can drag the artists onto the correct days.
Friday
Tap + on an act to mark it as seen.
Saturday
Nothing logged for this day yet.
Sunday
Nothing logged for this day yet.
Voices from the field
Reviews
Nothing written about this edition concerts yet - pick whoever you watched and be the first.
Four questions, one answer each
Rate this festival
Nobody has said what this weekend was like
14+ acts on the bill and not one answer yet. Four questions - the lineup, the atmosphere, how it was run, and whether it was worth the ticket - and this page starts telling people what Glastonbury Festival 1981 was actually like to be at.
Every edition since 1970
Glastonbury Festival editions
Somewhere in Pilton
Where it happens
The details
- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Address
- Worthy Lane BA4 4BY
- City
- Pilton, UK
- Capacity
- 177,500
Somewhere to sleep it off
Where to stay
Apartments and hotels near Worthy Farm, Pilton for the nights of the festival. The map comes from Stay22. If you book through it, we earn a commission, which helps keep the site running.
For the record
About the artists
-
Aswad formed in London, United Kingdom, in 1975. Plays reggae. -
Chicken Shack formed in Stourbridge, United Kingdom, in 1965. Plays blues, blues rock, british blues, hard rock, rock.
-
Ginger Baker was born in Lewisham, United Kingdom, on 19 August 1939, and died on 6 October 2019, aged 80. Plays afrobeat, blues rock, jazz, jazz fusion, jazz rock, rock.
-
Gong formed in Paris, France, in 1966. Plays avant-prog, canterbury scene, experimental rock, jazz fusion, jazz rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock.
-
Hawkwind formed in Ladbroke Grove, United Kingdom, in October 1969. Plays classic rock, hard rock, progressive rock, psychedelic, psychedelic rock, rock, space rock.
-
John Cooper Clarke was born on 25 January 1949. Plays new wave, poetry, post-punk, punk, spoken word.
-
Matumbi formed in London, United Kingdom, in 1971, and split up in 1982, after 11 years. Plays reggae.
-
New Order formed in Salford, United Kingdom, in 1980. Plays alternative dance, alternative rock, dance, dance-rock, electronic, electropop, house, new wave.
-
Rab Noakes was born in St Andrews, United Kingdom, on 13 May 1947, and died on 11 November 2022, aged 75. Plays americana, folk, singer-songwriter.
-
Robert Hunter was born in Arroyo Grande, United States, on 23 June 1941, and died on 23 September 2019, aged 78. Plays country rock, folk rock, rock, singer-songwriter.
-
Supercharge formed in Liverpool, United Kingdom, in 1974.
-
Taj Mahal was born in Harlem, United States, on 17 May 1942. Plays acoustic blues, blues, blues rock, contemporary folk, country blues, electric blues, folk.
-
Talisman formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989, and split up in 2007, after 18 years. Plays aor, funk rock, hard rock.
-