Inside Glastonbury's NYC Downlow – 80s warehouses, drag queens and 'gay butchers'

The festival’s gay nightclub designed by Block9 is a recreation of a Meatpacking District warehouse, featuring a disco, sauna and sides of (fake) beef The NYC Downlow, Glastonbury festival’s first gay nightclub, opened in 2007. It’s the brainchild of set designers Steve Gallagher and Gideon Berger. They run Block9 – both a field in Glastonbury’s late-night party corner in the south-east of the site and the name of their company, which produces stages and sets f...

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