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Culture | Music It’s officially only a matter of days until the biggest festival of the year, and it’s time to start getting excited. And it’s not just the big acts ramping up the anticipation. Alongside the headliners ( Dua Lipa , SZA, and Coldplay) and a legend’s slot from Shania Twain, part of the joy of Glastonbury is discovering its secret areas, tiny stages and hidden bars, which host everything from talks to musical performances.

Glastonbury promises this year will be one of ‘renewal’ – and in that spirit, things are getting a bit of a shakeup around the festival, with eight brand-new spaces for festivalgoers to enjoy. Here’s our roundup of the new additions to look forward to. Pounding bass is so last year: for those in need of a little relaxing down-time, then head to the brand new Tree Stage near Woodsies (the renamed John Peel tent) for a sonic experience like no other.



Built around the remains of an old tree trunk, it features the festival’s first-ever quadrophonic ambient sound system, with four speakers placed at intervals around the edge of the stage, all pointing inwards, to make it feel like you’re being surrounded by music. “What we want is a place for people to come to..

. and marvel,” says Jamie Harley, who helped create it. “The Glastonbury experience – and I've been going for a very long time – is that of being an explorer, really.

Glastonbury has had a long history of cosmic explorers in the arts, and in thinking, and it’s.

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