Suzanne Harrington: I loved being a volunteer at Glastonbury - it's all about the love

"What began in a single field on the famous Glastonbury ley line is now the size of Bath - what used to be genuinely anarchic has grown into a cultural institution without losing its hippie heart or ethics"

Elton John performing on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Pic: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

There are music festivals, and there is Glastonbury. 

Festivals are where people go to get wrecked and listen to bands; Glastonbury is where you step into an alternative reality, a pop-up utopia where a quarter of a million people come together in the middle of nowhere, for a psychic reset and a physical workout, and leave exhausted, filthy, cleansed.