It’s been a very full-on few months since the start of the year, and, unsurprisingly, some of my personal projects have had to take a bit of a back seat.
After a full day of work at my computer, the motivation to spend my downtime on… more computer work has been fairly limited.
That said, I’ve still been quietly chipping away when I can on the few projects closest to my heart.
One of those projects is my ongoing archiving of Glastonbury Festival ephemera – a small (read: actually quite enormous) labour of love that I have continued to dip in and out of as energy allows.
Today marks a small but satisfying milestone: the 300th item added to the collection. In this case, a 2015 hospitality ticket car parking pass.
Not the most glamorous or historically significant piece, perhaps, but a milestone nonetheless. That’s 300 items now digitised and preserved for posterity.
Part of me wishes that item 300 had been something a bit more iconic — like the 1979 programme (archived here: https://archive.org/details/glastonbury-festival-1979-programme), the 1990 event’s flyer (aka The One With All The Riots, archived here: https://archive.org/details/glastonbury-festival-1990-a4-flyer), or one of the more eccentric pieces in the archive like this first-hand account of the 1971 event by a somewhat disgusted local resident (archived here: https://archive.org/details/glastonbury-festival-1971-review-from-glastonbury-tales-by-john-a-greed) — but milestones rarely arrive dressed for the occasion.
There’s still a long way to go. Plenty more boxes of stuff to work through, and many, many more items to scan and catalogue. But with a bit of persistence (and the occasional burst of motivation), I’m hoping it won’t be too long before I’m sharing an update on item number 600.
Check out the full collection of Glastonbury Festival Ephemera here: https://archive.org/details/glastonbury-festival-ephemera?sort=-publicdate