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Anyone who's been to Glastonbury Festival will tell you that music is only a small part of the experience.

While the festival always boasts an incredible lineup jam-packed with renowned acts, there's so much else to see and do that you could happily not watch a single band and still have a great time.

This year one of the main attractions looks set to be a vast Victorian pier, which is making its debut at Worthy Farm.

The seaside structure was announced by festival founder Michael Eavis last week but we now have far more information about it, after speaking to the man behind the incredible project.

That man is Joe Rush, founder of the Mutoid Waste Company performance arts group, who has worked on a huge number of eye-catching structures at the festival over the decades ever since first working for Eavis back in 1985.

Some of his most notable creations include a replica of Stonehenge made out of cars in 1987 2003's Joe Strummer Memorial Tree and 2017's Cinemageddon - but Glastonbury-on-sea is his most ambitious project yet.

Why a pier?

Speaking to Bristol Live, Joe explained how the idea for the concept was born.

"I approached Michael about the idea during the fallow year," said the abstract artist, who also creates the imposing sculptures that are fixed at the top of the Pyramid Stage and Other Stage.

"He loves seaside attractions and often talks to me about the seaside rides he enjoyed going on as a child.

"Growing up in Hastings, I have always had a great love of the seaside too.

"The idea was then given the green light and we got to work."

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What's it going to include?

Joe said that the pier, which will be a whopping 60 metres in length, will have everything you'd expect to find on a common seaside attraction - even a wheel of death which daredevils will perform stunts on throughout the festival.

"I'm really excited about this project - it's going to be absolutely huge," he added.

"When completed it's going to weigh 160 tonnes so putting it all together is a massive job. We have a team to build it as well as a team to put all the entertainment on it.

"Different bits of it are being built all over the place but the majority being made in Blandford Forum.

"It's going to have everything you'd expect to find on a pier, including Punch and Judy, an arcade, carnival shows, a fortune teller, a wheel of death and more. Basically everything except the sea."

There will also be an automaton area which will include automated robots and creatures and mechanical machines, and even a 'robot band' from Berlin who will perform live.

Oh, and there will also be a crazy golf course too, which Joe said will be 'really crazy'.

There will also be a seafront

Next to the pier there will be a seafront where revellers will be able to pick up their own stick of Glastonbury rock and buy fish and chips.

"Well you can't have a pier without a seafront, can you?" laughed Joe.

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Where's it going to be?

Joe revealed that the pier will be in the Park area.

This explains what festival organiser Emily Eavis was talking about to BBC Radio 6 Music back in September when she said "The Park has got something new appearing next to it where the tipis previously were, really near the BBC presentation point, there's going to be a whole new area there."

It's safe to say we're incredibly excited to explore the pier and seafront, and we have a feeling everyone with a ticket to this year's festival will be too.