Stuart Roy Clarke's scenes from British music festivals

Big Green Gathering It’s good to see the old ways and traditions being continued… A crowd of dancers get down and dirty in a convenient hole in the Mendips Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Dodging The Mud Glastonbury Festival Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Espies a Morning in the Comfort of His Troop Glastonbury Festival Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Four Single Young Men And A Girl Tented Up Top Reading Festival Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Killing Themselves Laughing Glastonbury Festival Revellers creased up with laughter. The caption from the book reads: ‘Five in the morning. Each time they reinvent and announce the joke it gets better’ Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Making A Furry in The Sand Shambala Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Mud-Wrestling Takes Off Glastonbury Festival Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Phonecall from The Water's Edge Glastonbury Festival A man surveys the rising waters surrounding his tent. Not the nicest way to wake up. The organisers had built flood defences by the next festival, in 2007 Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Street-Wise Seller Meets University Boys Reading Festival An enterprising local accosts punters on their way to the site. He stands a good chance of a sale if the balloon hat seller’s luck is anything to go by… Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Hot-tubbers Can Afford to Relax Shambala Hot tubbers taking it easy down by the lake at Northamptonshire’s Shambala. The site for this year’s festival remains, as ever, a closely guarded secret. Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Performer Awaits Her Turn Beside The Dressing Room Green Man Linda Beecroft of Brooklyn duo Golden Animals waits to go on stage at the Green Man festival at Glanusk Park, Brecon Beacons, in August 2009 Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk Two Sharks in the Goldfish Bowl Glastonbury Festival Photograph: Stuart Roy Clarke Photograph: guardian.co.uk