Pilton Party 2025 – Live Music Photography at Worthy Farm with Raye and Inhaler

For one night only, the Glastonbury Festival site came back to life for Pilton Party 2025 - which is thrown annually for locals as a thank-you for having Glastonbury Festival on their doorsteps. It was an absolute pleasure to be shooting for them in 2025. I have photographed Pilton Party a couple of times before (Plan B - 2011 / The Vaccines 2012 - I'll pop a couple of these shots at the bottom)

This year it was headlined by multi-BRIT award winning RAYE, supported by Inhaler, Revelation Roots and The Outlaw Orchestra - a massive thanks to the Glastonbury Festival Press Office for having me along to cover the event.

It was squidgy under foot after a pretty horrific week of rain causing delays getting everything set up, but anyone who has been at a wet Glasto didn't bat an eyelid at a bit of mud. Friday night came and the rain held off (mostly) as RAYE delivered a brilliant 90 minute headline performance at Pilton Party set on Worthy Farm as part of Glastonbury’s annual fundraising gig.

Having not heard much about Inhale® before, they're probably the only band with a registered symbol in their name? Prior to their set, I'd noticed lots of the crowd wearing Inhale® merch and was told good things about them, they put on a great show and were really enjoyable to photograph!

Just a little note, whoever was running the lights for this set did an incredible job and made my job that little bit easier!

Support from Revelation Roots and The Outlaw Orchestra who had come through The Pilton Stage competition to with the opportunity to support RAYE + Inhale®

From Glastonbury Festival:

Glastonbury Festival’s annual ‘thank you’ fundraising gig for villagers, workers and local people – known as the Pilton Party – returns to Worthy Farm on Friday 5th September, 2025.

We’re pleased to announce the show will be headlined by multi BRIT-winning singer-songwriter, Raye, with additional performances from Dublin indie-rock four-piece, Inhaler, as well as local support, and DJ sets from Baggy Mondays and Patmandu.

Pilton Party – which was established in 1984 and takes place on an open-air stage close to where Woodsies is located during Glastonbury Festival – has previously seen appearances from acts including The Stone Roses, Coldplay, Massive Attack, Catatonia, Fatboy Slim, Plan B, Liam Gallagher, Rudimental, Wolf Alice, Placebo, Bastille, The Streets, The Libertines and Foals.