Glastonbury 2024

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Neon Moon invited Cambridge Chronicles to Glastonbury Festival to document what unfolded in the Theatre & Circus tent and the atmosphere around the site. The work mattered for another reason too: it was Dom, our advertising studio director, photographing Glastonbury for the first time—and it also happened to be his first ever music festival.

Festival Coverage

Event Photogray

Highlight Videography

Client

Glastonbury

Services

Photography

Videography

Challenge

Glastonbury can swallow you whole. It’s enormous, unpredictable, and packed with “headline moments” that can easily turn coverage into a highlight reel with no real point of view. The brief was to document a specific world within the festival, but still convey the wider energy that makes Glastonbury what it is. We also wanted the work to feel lived-in and honest, especially because we intentionally sent someone who’d never experienced a festival before.

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Capture

What we did

We treated the commission as both documentary and dialogue. Dom photographed and filmed the Theatre & Circus tent, then followed the rhythm of the festival beyond it—capturing the texture of the paths, the crowds, the costumes, and the little collisions that only happen at Glastonbury. We leaned into what Dom kept noticing in the moment: that the festival isn’t defined by its scale or even the artists, but by the people who turn up and build the atmosphere around them. After the shoot, we sat down with Dom and shaped his reflections into a story about what the project meant to the studio, what surprised him, and why the experience felt bigger than a single weekend. One of those surreal details says it all: filming Coldplay at the Pyramid Stage, turning the camera, and seeing Tom Cruise walk past as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

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Outcome

The final work captured the Theatre & Circus tent as its own pocket universe while still carrying the wider Glastonbury feeling—warm, weird, communal, and constantly in motion. Internally, it marked a first for Cambridge Chronicles: our first commissioned music festival, and a turning point in how we think about festival storytelling as a studio. Dom summed it up in two words that became the project’s headline truth: life changing. It didn’t just shape what we made on-site; it pushed us to chase more of this kind of work—bigger cultural moments, stronger documentary instincts, and coverage that makes other people feel like they were there.