Blu-ray, DVD Release: Glastonbury Fayre

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 9, 2018
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $17.62
Studio: Screenbound Pictures/MVD


In the summer of 1971, a legend was born when organizers attempted to create a festival that would be a forerunner for an “alternative and utopian society.” The result: the first-ever Glastonbury Festival, a multi-day festival of contemporary performing arts in Somerset, England that offered contemporary music, as well as presentations of dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts.

Shot by acclaimed director, Nicolas Roeg, Glastonbury Fayre is a music-filled film of the first Glastonbury festival (it had another name the year before, but this was the first one to offer the legendary pyramid stage for which the fest is most identified). Filled with lots of footage of all manner of flower children smoking pot, dancing naked and rolling around in the mud, the film spotlights the musical line-up, which included Melanie, Terry Reid, Family, Fairport Convention, Traffic, Linda Lewis and Arthur Brown.

Shot in gloriously textured 16mm, Screenbound/MVD’s DVD and Blu-ray editions include an audio commentary by Nic Roeg and a half-hour making-of featurette.

Buy or Rent Glastonbury Fayre

About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.