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Glastonbury Festival started in 1970, tickets were free and the farm give out free milk to festival goers. The festival was paid for by the organisers to avoid becoming commercialised, and consisted of poetry, theatre, dance, music and any entertainment that the festival crowd would make themselves. Glastonbury Festival became known as 'Glastonbury Festival of contemporary arts'.

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Registering through the Glastonbury Festival website

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Registering for a ticket - Written text as evidence

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Registering for a ticket - Written text as evidence

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Following the formal, clear instructions to register for a ticket before the ticket sale, to ensure you have a registration to purchase a ticket. The festival website also makes clear that you will need to have other people's registrations to be able to buy tickets for them. Which then leads to more of an informal conversation in the WhatsApp group, making sure that each individual has registered and creation of the spreadsheet.

The lack of colour to this page suggests the formality of the instructions to register. There is only one way to register, there's no other way to be able to purchase a ticket and can only be purchased through the Glastonbury website.
The way this has been written on the website is very clear, so it does not leave space for any questions or confusion. Therefore, if anyone does purchase tickets from another website or someone does try to purchase tickets without registering, then they will be able to see on the website why their ticket would be invalid or why they have been unable to purchase tickets on the date of sale. This message being on the website could also be used for any legal evidence / used in law. (Mace, 2005 p:3-5)

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Setting up devises ready, checking whole group is awake and ready for ticket sale

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Our social relationship and social hierarchy is exampled in this WhatsApp screenshot. An 'admin' member confirming that the rest of the group is awake and ready to try for tickets, again members of the group relying and trusting more experienced members knowledge.

Members of the group replying "here miss" relates back to our school days and a part of British culture when answering to authority (a teacher checking the register), making sure everyone is present. (Mace 2005, P:8)

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Messages via WhatsApp discussing nerves before tickets go on sale.

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Conversation via WhatsApp before tickets go on sale

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Conversation via WhatsApp before tickets go on sale

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Due to the challenge of being able to get a ticket, there is a huge amount of pressure and build up of nerves on ticket release day. Therefore, the social interaction via WhatsApp reflects this. There is an unspoken rule within the group that the only conversation that takes place on WhatsApp once the ticket sale has started is the confirmation of tickets, to know who is left without a ticket.

These messages demonstrate "everyday literacy practice" (Mace 2005, P:18), a conversation within a friendship group. Using informal language, that is personable and has friendly tone to our conversation. Throughout the conversation, you can see the use of emojis and Amanda has put a 'x' at the end of her message, which gives a warm tone to the message, usually seen as a 'kiss', the same as it would be used in a birthday card. This displays how this literacy practice has been developed and transferred into digital literacy. (Mace 2005, P:18)

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Creating a spreadsheet with name, Glastonbury registration number, post code and card details, before tickets go on sale.

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Snippet of spreadsheet created within WhatsApp messenger group

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Snippet of spreadsheet created within WhatsApp messenger group

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One group member will create a spreadsheet with 4 groups, then send the spreadsheet to the whole group so we know who we will be trying to purchase tickets for, due to the maximum amount of tickets you can purchase being 6. This is where numeracy is mainly used within our group.

We also discuss any changes that need to be made to the sheet via WhatsApp.

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'Glastonbury Dalins' WhatsApp group created to plan for Glastonbury Festival.

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Group of 22 participants, all added together by the participants who are labelled 'group admin'. We discuss the best way to be able to secure every member a ticket and create a spreadsheet, splitting us into smaller groups.

Everything discussed in this group leads to the overall outcome.

Messages to this group can be sent or received anytime, there's no specific location or environment that messages need to be sent in. The group is informal, but organised.

Those who have been to the festival on previous years, and who have more experience getting tickets are the admin of the group, who add new members and give the best advice in order for each member to be able to secure a ticket. There is a slight power structure within the group as those who are unfamiliar with getting a ticket rely on those who are for the best advice and to be able to help them get a ticket.

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Informal social media group to discuss topics regarding Glastonbury Festival.

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Participation in 'Glasto chat' (Vernacular literacy)

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Participation in 'Glasto chat' (Vernacular literacy)

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People involved in the group share a common interest of the festival, they are part of the festival community, they read and post articles that they find interesting, or some group members will ask questions regarding the festival, which will then spark up a conversation in the comments. This group has been created by Glastonbury Festival fans, not by actual event organisers.
The texts discussed may be official, but the way they are posted and discussed are vernacular.
This group has members who have never been to Glastonbury Festival before, so they use the group to ask questions, and some members who have been going to the festival for over 10 years. There is a range of different generations, the older generations describe what it was like to be at Glastonbury Festival at that time.
(Barton & Hamiton, 2012: p,252-7)

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'Glasto chat' is not regulated by an outside authority, but still has its own rules and regulations that the admin of this group will maintain.

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A member from the facebook group 'Glasto chat' describing her experience of Glastonbury, from the first time she went in 1990.

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Jenkins talks about her own Glastonbury Festival experiences, and mentions how different it is now. Going from buying tickets through the car window for £32.50 each, now they cost £250 and upwards. This goes to show how much Glastonbury Festival has evolved over the years.

Jenkins' post has its own informal language, and has the use of emojis, but the message is still clear. Her writing almost matches the excitement and fun that she has experienced at the festival. Jenkins has not thought about the way this post is written, or if anything has been misspelled, it has been specifically written to let members of 'Glasto chat' know about her life changing experience there, what the festival used to be like and to wish ticket holders a great weekend. It could be said that Jenkins may not use formal writing very often, however, if this post had been written formally then it would take away the current feel for the piece. However, this post still uses comas and fullstops, basic grammar. What you can clearly point out from this post is that it has been written on a smartphone, so this would also effect the writing due to how millennials are used to typing messages through a smartphone. Jenkins has also included pictures with her post, which adds to the overall effect of her post about her Glastonbury memories. The use of emojis are also common throughout this post, which is also a modern practice of digital literacy. Emojis are used to decorate or emphasise the message. Jenkins uses a music note, a poo, a wineglass, people dancing and a smiley with a cowboy hat. This would symbolise the music, the 'long drops' (toilets), alcohol, dancing and exuberance or adventure. Numeracy is also used throughout Jenkins' post, for example, when mentioning the previous ticket price.

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The ways in which attending Glastonbury has changed

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The ways in which attending Glastonbury has changed

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Buying specific outfits to take to Glastonbury Festival:

In the picture above, I bought this yellow one piece purely to wear at the festival, then bought the bucket hat to match there. The same as you would buy new clothes to go on holiday.
My group of friends and I, who attend the festival discuss prior what outfits we are going to purchase before hand. As Glastonbury Festival has become a global phenomenon, and very commercialised, to be able to attend when so many people across the world are attempting to get tickets is a privilege, so selecting certain outfits to be able to post pictures on social media in them is part of attending the festival for the younger generations.

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Barton, D. and Hamilton, M. (2012) Local Literacies: reading and writing in the community 2 nd Edition Oxon: Routledge

Mace, J. (2005) Literacy events, practices and values. In J. Mace and E. Fowler (eds) Outside the classroom: researching literacy with adult learners Leicester: NIACE

Eavis, M. and Eavis, E. (2019) Glastonbury: Trapeze, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd