Scenes from British music festivals

There is scarcely a summer weekend when you couldn't be standing in a field watching a band. Over the last few years photographer Stuart Roy Clarke has been documenting these events – and the resulting book is a snapshot of modern BritainGlastonbury, Bestival, The Big Chill, Green Man, Latitude, Sunrise… Over the last 20-odd years, the pop festival has been rebranded as a kind of middle-class entertainment: expensive, well ordered, relatively safe and about as rebellious as Glyndebourne. St...

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Scenes from British music festivals

Guardian Music — There is scarcely a summer weekend when you couldn't be standing in a field watching a band. Over the last few years photographer Stuart Roy Clarke has been documenting ... more info