Overview
- The festival opened on Friday May 22 with gates, stages and site infrastructure finished and organisers saying they expect roughly 100,000 people across the weekend.
- Strict entry rules are in force: every attendee and bag may be searched, only one A4-size bag (W21cm x H30cm x D8cm) is permitted, no outside alcohol is allowed and last entry each day is 9pm.
- Event organisers published a detailed banned-items list that includes drugs, drones, large umbrellas, professional cameras, glass and nitrous oxide dispensers to protect crowd safety.
- Local travel measures have started with multi-day road closures on the A183 and A19 corridors, no-parking zones and shuttle buses run by Big Green Coach from Park Lane, Heworth Metro and Belmont Park & Ride.
- Lineup changes were announced on Friday morning: Horsegirl withdrew due to illness and Danny Howard will perform a back-to-back DJ set with a secret special guest, for which Patrick Topping has been widely speculated but not confirmed.