Glastonbury Festival 1999

Another hot dry year was recorded for the Glastonbury Festival 1999, much to the relief of organisers and festival goers. The festival was again overcrowded due to fence-jumpers, but this would not prove to be a major problem until the following year, when an additional 100,000 people gatecrashed the site, increasing the attendance to an estimated 250,000 people total. The 1999 festival is also remembered for the Manic Street Preachers requesting and being given their own backstage toilets; however, it was revealed by the band that this was a joke – the "reserved" sign on the toilet was not at the authorisation of the management.

All live B-Side tracks from REM's "The Great Beyond" were recorded on June 25, 1999, at the Glastonbury Festival: "Man on the Moon" (live at Glastonbury); "The One I Love" (live at Glastonbury); "Everybody Hurts" (live at Glastonbury).