Back in Glastonbury, Chris, from Oxford, went to the first event at Worthy Farm, then called Pilton Pop, Folk and Blues Festival, held in 1970.
“I was at Catholic boarding school. I bunked off and wandered around carrying my school uniform in my bag. It was completely free and anarchic,” he said.
“It completely changed my life. A lot of the stuff that was being talked about 10 years ago is now mainstream.
“People thought you couldn’t run a stage on renewable power, now it’s really quite easy to do.
“Whilst the music has diversified incredibly over the past 20 years, the politics here remains steadfastly left-wing.”
Should the festival though become more welcoming to those with other political views?
“There’s probably a few Tories here, a sprinkling of Reform,” Chris said.
“But this is about positive joy, fun, progress and creating a better world. Quite a lot of that tends to align with the left.”
Ms Sarkar agrees.
“You can’t have everything for everyone,” she said.
“If you want, you can set-up your own Reform music festival and I’m sure the ever entrepreneurial Nigel Farage has considered it.”