In Detail

Shot using the same Panavision CinemaScope cameras and lenses as the great Hollywood epics, the film captures three days of music, magic and midsummer madness from the ground level up (with Lenny Kravitz, Robert Plant, Velvet Underground, The Kinks, Van Morrisson, and The Verve) - the point of view not of the elite, but of the festival goer.

There is no narration. No captions. No backstage access. Just the raw, unfiltered, gloriously human experience of being there. It was 1993.

The BBC had not yet arrived. The fence was still permeable. There were no phone masts. Half the people there had bunked in and hardly anyone knew who was on the main stage.

Popular culture in the UK was poised on the edge of a seismic shift. “A masterpiece” - Mike Leigh.

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