In Photos: Silver Hayes at Glastonbury 2025

Silver Hayes returned this year with five stages and a stacked programme spanning DJs, artists and speakers. Throughout it all, the area remained a place of discovery, community and – as this year’s guiding theme put it – a reminder that optimism is a political act.

This year at Glastonbury, Silver Hayes upheld its reputation as a forward-thinking, future-facing corner of the festival. The area played host to a rich mix of sound system culture, electronic music, visual art, and community-driven programming, with new spaces, returning favourites, and meaningful collaborations that reflected both innovation and intention.

At the heart of Silver Hayes, The Information became home to Black At Glasto – a grassroots initiative that began as a group chat in 2024, and this year was Glastonbury’s first venue dedicated to Black creativity and culture. Across the weekend, the hub came alive with artwork, music, literature, wellness sessions and workshops.

Elsewhere, the new Sunflower Soundsystem stage – created in collaboration with Floating Points and the Magical Mushroom Company – offered an audiophile’s dream: a six-stack rig inside a dome tent, with surprise sets from Four Tet, Avalon Emerson, Cosmic Tom and more. It was also the first large-scale live music stage to be insulated using mycelium – a biomaterial grown from fungi.

Last year’s Assembly venue returned with a new design and a line-up that included the likes of TraTraTrax’s Verraco, while Levels was expanded to accommodate even more dancers for its heavyweight bookings. Lonely Hearts Club kicked off with a raucous debut from HiTech, who were joined onstage by George Riley, and later in the weekend hosted a standout set from For Those I Love. Firmly Rooted welcomed a special takeover curated by Nicholas Daley and Nabihah Iqbal, with friends like Sherelle, Don Letts and Bradley Zero dropping in.

Here’s what it looked like.