Glastonbury continues on its ever-evolving journey, and whilst the changes to the site weren’t quite as far reaching as they were last time, following the fallow year of 2012, there were still a number of noteworthy alterations and improvements.

Once again Arcadia continued on it’s nomadic existence, moving on from last year’s temporary home in the Other Stage field to what we are led to believe will be a more permanent siting at the top of the Park Home camping field. This to my mind was a marked improvement as it meant that the area could be fully programmed from 5pm through to 3 in the morning and there was also plenty of space for a mechanical playground, which this year included a huge car-crushing robotic hand. It also meant that one of my favourite stages, The Glade, could return to its rightful home where it was joined by two new venues; the Spaceport, which I have seen previously at Boomtown Fair, and also The Spike which was an intriguing wooden construction hidden among the trees.

In the South East “Naughty” corner Shangri-La continued with its Heaven & Hell based storyline. The back alleys were replaced by octagonal pods, each representing different departments of the Shangri-Hell corporation. The only other notable change here however was the welcome return of the Strummerville stage which found a new home in the Glasto-Latino field. Joe Rush’s Mutoid Waste, who usually show off their collection of mutant vehicles in the Unfair Ground had a new nightly “Kiss on the Apocolypse” show in the Glebeland Theatre field. It’s fair to say there were a few teething problems with this. Also in Silver Hayes a new tented venue housed the Despacio soundsystem, which I would have loved to have sampled were it not for the lengthy queues at the door.

From an infrastructure perspective it was noticeable that the hugely successful composting toilets we saw for the first time last year have proliferated around the site, almost entirely replacing the old fashioned portaloos and the need for the sludge-gulpers to move around the site in order to empty them. And yes Glastonbury 2014 did get a little bit muddy. We had a dry and warm start to the festival but heavy showers ensued on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, including one big thunderstorm which suspended entertainment on all stages for 90 mins. However the mud never became anything more than a mild inconvenience and had predominantly dried up by the end of the weekend.

Once again I’ve split my Glastonbury photos into the traditional 3 sub-galleries. So in a nutshell these are a selection of the performances I listened to, the things I saw and the people I met at Glastonbury 2014.