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Thursday, 26 June, 2014 Proudly printed in the Theatre and Circus Fields of Festival FREE ALL WE ARE SAYING IS... GIVE PEACE A CHANCE…

Yoko Ono wait until 2015 I didn’t want to wait featuring members of the amazing The wishes will then all be collect- collective desire for peace in the and also to think of a day when we that long! Why not now?! So I was Yo La Tengo, I will also be installing ed, sent to me and then will be kept world. will have world peace. Together we really thrilled when the Festival I have never been to Glastonbury, arlier this year I played two wish trees at the Green Kids Field. I underneath Imagine Peace Tower in can make it! organisers said that they not only and I can’t wait! Who knows what Esmall shows in Dalston in And I came to tell you what fun wanted me this year but that they I will see! The line-up is amazing it is to work for world peace. It’s London and another musician who wanted to give me a really good slot and, for me, coming from the avant came said to me that he would love on Sunday night on the Park stage. I “I came to tell you what fun it grade world, it’s so great to see so the most fun work there is now in to see me do a similar type of show, was a happy girl! much diversity and experimenta- our planet. So let’s get together and but at Glastonbury. And I got very As well as performing at 6pm is to work for world peace” tion. I would like everyone who have a lot of fun! Hope to see you excited about that - so excited that on Sunday with a new incarnation hope everyone who can will go and Reykjavik, Iceland - in memory of comes to the Festival to have fun, there. when people were saying I should of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, make a wish and attach it to the tree. my husband John Lennon and our keep their minds open to new things I love you! yoko x A Kiss On The Apocalypse “The whole place is buzzing” Georgie Pope “Our creatures feed on the excesses “It’s funny,” he says, “after the Chris Salmon similarly high spirits. “It’s such a giant promenade. Now is a time for of human consumption! There’s Battle of the Beanfield in 1985 fantastic moment when the gates aimless strolls, taking in the sights t’s just a rock and roll show been an apocalypse – we’ve [when police prevented a convoy of ’m so excited,” grins Julia, one finally open,” she says. “After all and sounds. “Ireally… love and death and ravaged the earth for too long – from gathering “Iof the first people to make it the build-up, all the planning and all “I love the Wednesday,” says Rob, rock and roll, yeah, that’s what it’s and these are the mutants that have at ] and Michael through Pedestrian Gate B when the about,” says Joe Rush, legendary emerged – like a phoenix from the invited us here, it was right here in the hard work from so many people here for his sixth Glastonbury, and ashes.” Glebeland that we started. So it’s Festival’s gates open on Wednesday who help to create Glastonbury, the relaxing on a bench up above The creator of the Mutoid Waste morning. “The whole place is The Phoenix, which breathed fire full circle, in a way.” entire site suddenly comes alive. I Park. “On all the other days, I’ve got Company, of his newest and most buzzing. Everyone in the queue spectacular show to date. His last year over , is In 1987, Joe’s gang built their love watching everyone coming in, a plan of acts I want to see – most now on display in Glebeland, the own Stonehenge at the Festival, was being so friendly to each other. mutant creations – part machine, full of anticipation.” of which I’ll probably struggle to northern end of Theatre and Circus, from wrecked cars. Which is a bit It hasn’t even really started yet, but part black magic – are being brought where the show will take place of a concern as my car is parked I already feel like I’m having a great By lunchtime, with tents pitched actually make it to! But on the first to life in a story which director and a few well-earned power naps day, you don’t have to worry about tonight at 9pm and at midnight on by his portable office. “Oh, you time!” She heads off towards Big Letmiya Sztalryd promises will be Saturday and Sunday. It’s a story should be worried,” grins Joe. Ground, arms laden with camping snatched, the site is awash with peo- that. You can just go where your legs something extraordinary. told in six acts (plus a “sexy teaser,” “I remember [Theatre & Circus gear. ple. Because the main stages don’t carry you. It’s all looking amazing “The stars are mutants made from adds Sztalryd) based on a tableaux founder] Arabella Churchill looked Over at the farmhouse, Glaston- get going until Friday, the opening too. It feels like it’s going to be a industrial remains,” she explains, created by Joe Rush, who first came at that sculpture and told me, ‘It’s bury organiser is in day of the Festival feels like one good one!” leaning against their portable HQ. to the festival in the eighties. great, but that’s my car…’” 2 The Glastonbury Free Press Thursday, 26 June, 2014 Festival TowerLeft Field Tower to of be renamed strength after friend of the Festival

Pete Paphides chicken, rice and champion of the Left, (1925-2014) foodie& peas, mouth- in a new prominent position in the markets, melting plaintains, from where we’ve continued to be the beating hat did festival-goers was EXACTLY political soul of the festival. eat in the early 70s? as heavenly as I his year, we’re celebrating This year will be our first without Tony WDid they eat? Looking remembered. the tenth year of mixing pop Benn, who has been a massive presence at through the booklet that came with Wandering Tand politics at Glastonbury Left Field since the early days. When asked – the 1971 triple off the Festival. to suggest an epitaph for himself, he suggest- album released after the second beaten track The first Left Field was pulled ed that he’d like his gravestone to read ‘He Festival – it’s by no means clear some time together by Geoff Martin and the encouraged us’ and at left Field we aim to they did. Certainly not the willowy in the 1990s, my Worker’s Beer Company in 2002. carry on his work by offering encouragement flower-haired hippy-chick whose future wife and I found a grotto We had a small marquee opposite to those who are weary from the long struggle expression suggests she receives of serenity in which a man who where the ATM machines are to- for a fairer society. most of her vital nutrients via looked as if he had leapt straight day. The stage was knee-high. Tony We invite festival goers to come along and sunlight. Certainly not a succession out of J.R. Tolkien’s brain frying Benn spoke and I played. attend our panels from midday to 3pm. This of happy cadavers with beards and comfrey pakoras over a campfire. After a couple of years, we moved year we will be covering the politics of food- drums apparently “finding their The following year, we squealed to a much larger tent at the Meeting banks, the rise of feminism, hearing from the own place in a cosmology that with delight (and relief) when Place. It was a busy corner and, af- parties to the left of Labour, discussing what involves earth, heaven and man.” we returned to the Permaculture ter allowed us to put next for the student movement and holding a So what did those early revellers Garden (for that’s where it was) up Monument, you direct action training workshop. eat? Finally, you get your answer, and found we hadn’t imagined him. could see our bright red star from By the time we all gather again at Glaston- Illustration: thanks to a fleeting reference to the Part of the furniture everywhere on the festival site. bury in 2015, there will have been a general Tom Hovey volunteers charged with the task of Inevitably, some concessions In 2007, when we launched the election and we will be hearing from Ken Liv- manning “free kitchens”. Further disappear whilst others have Jail Guitar Doors initiative with ingstone and others on Sunday about down is a reproduced slip of paper been there for so long that their a featuring some of the why it is crucial that we defeat the which itemises the outgoings for association with Glastonbury is participants of our first JGD in- Tory led coalition next May. that year’s Festival: “Rice – £40”. akin to that of the ravens and the tervention at Guy’s Marsh prison The whole thing kicks off at Grain and photosynthesis may Tower: Le Grande Bouffe with in Dorset. While the rain poured midday tomorrow when we will be have been enough to see our parents’ its bubbling vast swamps of hot down outside, we raised over £1000 hosting a tribute to Tony Benn fea- generation through their maiden sausagey loveliness. The sitty- in donations from the appreciative turing Michael Eavis and myself festival experiences, but times down Moroccan pizza place handily crowd. That evening is my favour- With our eclectic mix of topics, have moved on. The first time you located at the first intersection as ite Left Field memory of the whole speakers, comedians, songwrit- go to Glastonbury, your main focus you ascend your climb up to the ten years. ers, rappers and bands, we hope might be centred around music; the Green Fields. And, of course – Yam After taking a break in 2009, we to do Tony proud. second time, though, much of your The Kassava. Yam The Kassava returned the next year, rejuvenated, Come along and recharge your energy is focused on relocating that is the culinary brainchild of Colta amazing sushi platter/Moroccan Pakera. Most of the time you’ll find stew/Goan mackerel curry you had Colta at home on Barbados, but in Where’s your bottle? two hours after discovering the the summer she kindly descends Cider Bus and your hunger reached upon Glasto to bring her native Press Reporter critical mass. Nothing in your life cuisine to the revellers of . prior to that point had tasted that By doing so, she has raised n a renewed effort to reduce The Great Festival Re-Boot good. The more makeshift the the cash to put all of her children the number of plastic bottles stall looks, the more miraculous through education. If you’re Ion site at Worthy Farm, the By Small Steps Project it feels when you find it again the passing, do try her spicy fish platter. Festival has teamed up with next year. That’s how I felt when It’s amazing. Or, if all this endless WaterAid to deliver clean tap I reacquainted myself with the choice and dandy dining sounds water to thirsty Festival-goers en year old Thida does not attend Small Steps every year at Glaston- clean up is a massive operation. It is Carib Cafe over at Jazz World a little far too removed from the all weekend. Volunteers will be Tschool but instead gets up every bury Festival. These dedicated a sad fact that the more left behind (now West Holts), and found that original spirit of the Festival, boiled refilling your water bottles at eight morning to scavenge on an inhabit- their Jerk Mon platter – fire-grilled rice remains a plentiful option. cheery WaterAid stands marked by individuals are given the opportu- by Festival goers, the more is sent blue droplets on the Festival maps. ed rubbish dump with her younger nity to see what it must be like for to landfill instead of being recycled. The water that flows from the F siblings. She does this without pro- scavengers all around the world and There are some fantastic small estival’s 400 taps is stored in three WHAT THE TWEETERS SAY vast underground reservoirs at the tection on her hands or feet, just so raise money through donating 50% organisations helping us and mak- northern tip of Worthy Farm, and she can feed herself and her family. of their ticket cost. ing sure the clean up is as green as Friends getting in touch to say it’s going to rain at is the same quality as mains water This is a reality for many children #Glastonbury: The C21st equivalent of your Gran across the UK. possible. Festival Reboot collect old ringing you to tell you who’s died. – @ A feminist issue like Thida in Cambodia and all over wellies from the site, pair them up laurenlaverne WaterAid’s blue huts are replicas the world in developing countries. and ship them to the families that of water kiosks the charity has Small Steps Project is a UK char- set up all over the world as part have also taken a we work with in Romania. And for The sun is shining. The flags are flying. The tent is up. Poetry of its work promoting sanitation. ity working with these children to small step by creating the soundtrack those wellies that can’t be saved, in the making.– Poetry&Words @GlastonburyPoet According to Samantha McGowan improve their futures. We believe of Water Aid, as well as a basic for our new documentary – Children they are made into other products human right, this has become a that no child should have to live like of the Dump – which is being pre- that are sold to buy sanitary items *Puts hands over ears* GLASTONBURY ISNT feminist issue: “Not having clean Thida and her siblings. We provide for women in disadvantaged areas. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA water or somewhere safe to go to miered this weekend at the Pilton LA LA LA LA LA LA LA – Dawn O’Porter @hotpatooties the toilet affects women and girls shoes and emergency aid whilst also Palais on Saturday at 3pm. You can visit Festival Reboot this (who isn’t coming to the Festival this year) more than anyone.” creating sustainable solutions. And there are some steps that Fes- weekend in the Green Futures Field, WaterAid, one of the Festival’s main charity partners, will be col- There are lots of others who also tival goers can take to help children where you can drop off any unwant- After seeing at Hurricane tonight I’m fairly lecting signatures across the site to believe that this situation should like Thida too by helping us turn ed wellies. And there’s another drop confident they are going to blow some minds at Glastonbury help persuade UN leaders that clean be eradicated. This includes the 40 waste into aid. off bin in the Kidz Field, especially – Jamie MacColl @jamiemaccoll water for everyone, everywhere by 2030 isn’t just a pipe dream. people litter picking on behalf of Glastonbury is a huge site and the for little wellies. Glastonbury Police @Policeatglasto: We’ll be encouraging campers to set up informal ‘Tent Watch’ schemes at #glasto this year. Find out more — Glastonbury Police @ Policeatglasto Breakfast served 8am – 1pm American buttermilk pancakes & finest smoked Gloucester lastonburyLetter receives thou- £56of of CDs tothe catch up on artistsweek… opportunity to release your news to Old Spot bacon drizzled with butter & Maple Syrup sands of words of thanks, who are appearing. I plan to invest the best bidder, as a fund-raiser!!! — Beat Hotel Glasto @BeatHotelGlasto Gadvice, abuse and general in a better lightweight airbed, The secret recipient of the line-up chit-chat every year. Here’s one and on it goes. YOUR EVENT announcement could prove quite UK massive me and @ellismuzicchild goin be performing of our recent letters: CREATES A LOT OF INCOME IN exciting (or am I just mad????). at Glastonbury with @RobboRanx this weekend!! It goin MANY INDUSTRIES. Sorry it’s a long email, but wanted be crazy!!! Dear Organisers, I had a thought earlier this to share my experiences over the — Wayne Marshall @Wayne_Marshall I have to say, apart from us being month!!! People were all guessing years. No doubt you all know in so damn excited about the festival who was the final headliner. I had your offices how much the festival this year (I’m doing my wife’s head a hair-brain idea. It was... imagine means to us, but if not, do pass on All I am thinking about is Glastonbury Glastonbury in, always talking about Glasto), do if Emily told me the secret, I went my sincere thanks to all.If you need Glastonbury la la la laaa — King Charles UK @ people realise how much revenue to the press and said I’ve been any help on catering equipment KingCharlesUK is generated by Glastonbury privileged to be told. The press (second-hand, I strip out – for free), Festival??? Last year, I invested in goes to Emily, who confirms. or new equipment (at my net cost), my third Glasto Tent, a smasher, but I get the best price from the press or help if the gas detectors go off in 2014 has been a tuff year so far and at last I have something at £450. Every year, it’s a stock-up for an exclusive release of the the waste process plant (which they Illustration: to smile about I will be Djing @Glastonbury on sat :-) — Roni of the latest “small-light” camping announcement. The money given by do each year as the “waste” level Perry Size @ronisizebristol gadget: solar chargers, ultra-light the press goes straight to a Charity! suddenly rises - wonder why???), chairs, degradable food bags, you The whole crazy thought did call me any time, I’d be totally glad name it. I went out last week to buy make me wonder if there was an to help. Thursday, 26 June, 2014 The Glastonbury Free Press 3

Back to uni John Lewis

The Free University Of Glastonbury William, it was offers stimulating literary conversation – and a short-back-and-sides f you’re in need of a trim this weekend, try the Crow’s Nest Istage each morning, where the giving new meaning to Daft Punk frozen bananas, Crayfish Bob’s Free University Of Glastonbury will reallyDave Henderson andsomething Hall And Oates. fresh water fare – as recommended be hosting its unique “Philosophy At Psychedelic Psaturday, on, er, by , the jerk chicken of Haircuts”. urking beneath the renamed Saturday, you can don loons and Fancy That, vegan and vegetarian “You can have your hair cut by a top Tony Benn Tower, next to patchouli oil and freak out to TOY, wholefood at Goodness Gracious, Soho snipper whilst best-selling author Lthe site’s biggest bar, with Temples, The Moles, Coves, The American pies from The Great Alain Stephen explains philosophy to pop-up club nights and mucho Bevis Frond, Fujiya & Miyagi and Stone Baker, and the Raymond you,” says the stage’s curator Mathew music, William’s Green is one of Blanc-approved Thoroughly Clayton. “I wanted Alain to give a talk the Festival’s newest venues, with Wild Meat Company – just don’t about his latest tome, This Book Will a reputation for staging cool bands tell Mozza. Make You Think, but he insisted he’d who get big – , The And, for that hungover Sunday only do it with a hairdresser in tow. His 1975, , morning moment, you can check theory is that when we have our hair cut , etc. The Smoke Fairies as the day fuses out The Smyths. They said it we move into a particularly receptive, On the road between the Pyramid krautrock, prog and acid folk into a could never happen: … reflective state, ideal to understanding and Acoustic stages, it kicks off dreamlike soundscape. Marr… ‘Hand In Glove’! Well, complicated ideas.” with movies tonight, followed by Between grooves, you can chow okay, they’re a tribute band, but Even the resolutely hirsute – or the DJs, live bands and The Ol’ Dirty down at a veritable snack haven, by Sunday they’ll look like the bald – can enjoy Free University of Brasstards and Guilty Pleasures with unlikely combos including real thing. Glastonbury. Each day from Friday to Sunday, from noon to 3pm, Mathew will talk to authors about anything that takes their fancy. Tomorrow, will doubtless discuss stone circles, krautrock and his extraordinary He’s only gone and booked… a ballet! new novel; while Saturday sees (of ) and Viv Mark Cooper Albertine (of The Slits) talk about their A group of women stand centre he’s brilliant at spectacle that the First World War. By latest memoirs. stage and open their hands and actually means something and Dust September, 1914, some Other guests provide relief from suddenly they are enveloped by delivers a kind of raw physical 750,000 young men had music. Mark Kermode talks about clouds of dust. A single male theatre that was almost enlisted in movies and the role of the critic, John dancer - a lone soldier - watches as shocking on the the British Crace discusses literary theory, Matt if from the rampart of a trench as dimly- lit stage of the Army. By Sewell shares his love of birdwatching, the troop of women come together Barbican. the end while Dr Alice Roberts talks about and unite their stretched-out arms There’s a similar “evolution without the fossils”. together forming the spine of a direct rock n “You won’t find this sort of thing single creature. Choreographer roll appeal to anywhere else on the site,” says Akram Khan’s extraordinary single composer Jocelyn of the Mathew. “There’s always a Q&A, but act piece, Dust, was originally Pook’s score that conflict, guests often hang around afterwards commissioned for the English builds to a striking central 37 million and talk further. And it happens in the National Ballet and Artistic section that locks into a pulsing people had Crow’s Nest, the most beautiful spot on Director Tamara Rojo as one of four beat that’s part hip-hop, part died. Whatever the site!” meditations on the First World War Kodo drummers. Khan’s piece age you are at this that opened at London’s Barbican isn’t so much about men or Festival, you’re only a few back in April under the banner, soldiers but about the women who generations forward from the Lest We Forget. It was a brave bore them, waited for them, nursed men and women of Britain programme, combining works them and longed for them. There’s whose lives were rearranged choreographed within the classical something striking, truthful, about and often ended by The Great The V&A ballet tradition and others you’d Dust that deserves a big stage, a big War. The previous night’s call contemporary dance. Dust crowd and a big occasion. headliners, , return finished the evening and calling it And there will be just that sense again and again to the First sayProfessor hey! Bill Sherman contemporary dance doesn’t begin of occasion about Sunday June 29, World War with endless to do it justice even as it draws 2014 to which the English National rows of white crosses brilliantly on breathtaking dance Ballet, Dust and those who gather to accompany f you search the Victoria & skills, particularly in the closing at the Pyramid to feel the power Master of Puppets. IAlbert Museum’s collections for duet where a man and a woman of this piece can only serve. The Dust is another way ‘Glastonbury’ you get an earthenware cannot quite keep hold of one day before will be exactly 100 of marking what began 100 years bowl, a woollen coat, a pair of chairs by Where are all the cows? another. years since Archduke Ferdinand ago and both Metallica and this the great 19th-century designer Pugin Press reporter wear any wristbands, though. As Khan proved at the opening was assassinated in Sarajevo ballet are what Glastonbury and and some atmospheric photographs They’d get covered in cow shit! If ceremony of the London Olympics, precipitating the beginning of this moment are all about. of the ruined Abbey. No famous orthy Farm is a prize- someone tried to chuck me off I’d musicians, no maps of stages and loos, winning dairy farm, but say “alright – you go and milk the no protest posters, no wellies, no mud. Wduring the Festival there cows!” All that is about to change as the isn’t a cow to be seen. We paid a world’s oldest and largest museum of visit to Pam Taylor, who manages Who does the milking? art and design becomes the new home the herds at Worthy Farm, along We’ve got a team of five milking for the archive of the world’s longest- with her husband John, to find out at 3.30am and 3.30pm. We need THURSDAY TOP TIPS: DAYTIME running popular music and performing where the cows are hiding. to be finished by eight to catch the arts festival. Thanks to our blockbuster milk tanker. You think it’s early, show on last year, that Where are all the cows? but most of the time he’s there The main stages don’t open until tomorrow, but there is plenty going on today. no longer sounds bizarre: the V&A is In the shed. They’re more happy in waiting for us to finish. Here are Georgie Pope’s recommendations for Thursday daytime fun. now known for guitars and glitter as there anyway than being out in the well as silver and ceramics. But the elements. I don’t know why people In the early days, a Glastonbury two institutions, as it happens, have get it in their head it’s better being ticket included a pint of Worthy Sweet Thursday! Choose Climb The Park’s ribbon Play on the Helter Skelter much more than Bowie in common. outside. Better in and dry, with Farm milk. Is there between a pancake in the tower and admire the view and swingboats in The V&A also grew out of a radical your grass given to you, not anywhere on site we 1 new Arcadia field, churros 5 below and the hand-woven 9 – preferably before you’ve gathering of cultures and creative having to find it! can get some Worthy con chocolate at the Meeting wicker wonder above sampled the fine ales on sale at making (the Great Exhibition of 1851), produce these days? Point, Strumpets with Crumpets the Avalon Café (where there’s and it became the first museum to What’s it like sharing We sell to Medina, in the Park or a slice of cake in Head to Bella’s Field also live music from breakfast feature a restaurant, artificial lighting a farm with a and they have a stand the Treehouse… to witness the debut time til the wee hours) and an in-house photo studio. Its festival? at the Festival, so I 6 performance of the extra- founders saw their collections as ‘the No difference. It’s suppose that some of it Have a skateboarding ordinary Anthropic Organ, an Allow yourself to be true teachers of a free people’--just as the same work. turns up! lesson, or marvel at installation and show starting accosted by some of Michael Eavis made this festival an Michael looks after us 2 the masters on the its tour of the UK in the heart 10 the hundreds of wacky enduring and inspiring place for ‘the better, because he can How long will it take Greenpeace skate park, built of Theatre and Circus, from 11 and wonderful walkabout acts expression of free-thinking people’. afford it. to get back entirely from FSC (Forest a.m. milling around the Theatre and The archive in shape for the cows? Stewardship Council) timber Circus fields will help to make the V&A a museum Are the cows If it gets all churned from sustainable sources Try your hand at the Toad for the 21st Century, and the V&A disturbed by up in the rain there’s no Hall didgeridoo workshop, Join the jammers playing will help to preserve the legacy of the crowds and grass and it’s later. Last Look out for Shakti Sings 7 at 11am in Green Futures in Strummerville, the Glasto: they will help new generations music? year the weather was – the 120-strong red-clad (and again on Sunday if you’ve 11 area named after the of cultural pilgrims to appreciate the They don’t notice. On Thursday good and they were back really 3 roving choir which implores missed it!) former Clash frontman and long- powers of imagination and the vitality evening – when they test the early. We aim by August. It’s festival-goers through the time friend of the Festival of ancient ideals. speakers – they put their heads up amazing to see the team clearing medium of song to ‘Love to Farm Fancy a movie? Sita and run about a bit, but they calm up. They’re in a big line and you and Leave No Trace’ Sings the Blues is being …and finally have a down 10 minutes after, and then can see the clean area behind and 8 screened at 6pm in the well-deserved cuppa they carry on as normal. all the mess in front. In 2007 – Have a cider and boogie solar-powered Groovy Movie 12 in the Permaculture that was the worst one – we didn’t to The Mighty Peas at the Picture House, Green Futures Garden. Be sure to return your Does the Festival interrupt your think people had left because they 4 elegant Bandstand in the and Ender’s Game is on in cup and get a pound back work? all left their tents up. But the cows heart of The Markets, 4.30pm the Pilton Palais Cinema Tent, No, it’s alright. It gets a bit harder still had the fields back in a few Acoustic Field, 3pm to move on and off the farm. I don’t weeks. 4 The Glastonbury Free Press Thursday, 26 June, 2014

Tonight’s the night for bouncing… Our 2014 ETC Winners: M+A John Shearlaw beats, is the perfect way to tune in he recalls. Within a few years he’d Chris Salmon many people really enthusiastic for What should people expect if they to Glastonbury 2014. hooked up with fellow Bristolians our music even before knowing the come to watch you? First up, in the evening, is the f you ever needed a crash course and the foundations +A were selected from result. It's always quite hard to describe on the sheer size and variety of extraordinary coup from Block9, of the Dance Village were slowly what you're doing. But if we need I who will be mounting the official Mthousands of acts as the Glastonbury Festival’s musical built. winners of the Festival's 2014 Has winning ETC had a positive to define some category I could say heritage, tonight’s low key openings tribute to the late Frankie Knuck- So tonight’s the night for wander- effect for you guys? pop-electronic music with exotic les in NYC Downlow. Legendary Emerging Talent Competition. and sound tests all around the site ing. From the market sound systems Their prize is a Sunday morning slot Definitely! We’d been playing in and bossa nova influences. will give you everything you need house DJ David Morales, flying in in Hurly Burly and Babylon Upris- the UK for a while but never made for the occasion, will be playing a on West Holts (they also play the This is your first time at the Fes- – and more. ing – where the DJs play from the Rabbit Hole on Sunday evening). the most out of it. Winning ETC al- tival. Are you staying for the full three hour set. At the same time, a lowed us to have more feedback and From the well known areas, to the world away in Silver Hayes, Despa- deck of a racing speedboat – take a We gave them a shout. weekend? markets, to the outer fringes of the tour up the hill to Shangri-La and gave us the possibility to play more Yes we’re staying for the whole cio launch the first of their four Congratulations on your ETC festivals and interesting gigs. Greenfields, Thursday is DJ day, gigs of the weekend. It’s part of the Unfairground. Also celebrating victory. How did it feel to win the thing. Really looking forward to with some of the biggest names in Glastonbury Festival folklore that a second year is The Temple, with contest? You're playing two sets at the Jurassic 5 and Metallica. music – past and present – limbering Malcolm Haynes – now the major its flying DJ booth. Christened by Well it definitely was a surprise. Festival as your prize. Are you Finally, what's coming up next for up low key stylee for tomorrow’s domo of Silver Hayes – rocked up Dusky last year (and they headline Mainly because in the beginning excited? M+A? thundering cacophony from all the to Worthy Farm as a DJ in the late there on Saturday), it’s a dance floor we were uncertain whether to go to Yes, of course! Who wouldn’t be? We have a new EP set for release main stages. Blundering around 1980s. “Just me and a Transit van, a – and a light show – worth seeking the live finals in Pilton or not. We early in August and we are already today, keeping your ears tuned for sound system and a pile of records,” out. thought that the situation probably working on new material that will wouldn't have been so appropriate make people dance until Glaston- for us. But it was nice to see so bury 2015! Golden Attitude Press Reporter watch acts on the Pyramid Stage,” “And hundreds of performances are says Claire, whose attention to de- interpreted by professional signers, veryone should be able to enjoy tail recently earned the Festival the so everyone can enjoy the debates, EGlastonbury Festival to the full, Gold level of the Charter of Best poetry and comedy acts”. and it is the job of Claire Elsam, Practice from Attitude is Every- The list of signed events and head of Accessibility, to make sure thing, who’ve been working with BSL services goes up daily on the they can. the Festival since 2005. “There are DeafZone tent, located next to the “The wheelchair-accessible plat- accessible toilets, washing areas, Information Tent by William’s form is one of the best places to bus service and camping,” she adds. Green.

Illustration: Tom Hovey THURSDAY TOP TIPS: NIGHT TIME Plan your Thursday night with these top tips from Chris Parkin Getting things off to a good Get on the groovy train with Philanthropy is fun with parp are the New York Brass Baggy Mondays where Reni the Workers Beer Company 1 Band (they’re actually from 5 hats, Northside fans, and 9 where volunteers donate their Queen of the Green Yorkshire, mind) with a clutch of bellowing like are all wages to charity and a rag-tag crew Georgie Pope the quest to save the planet. It’s also the magic! Something special is reworked pop smashes. Greenpeace welcome. Hang around for The 2 of comedy rockers, Balkan folkies, an amazing networking opportunity happening in the Green Kids Field. Stage, Green Fields, 5pm. Bears at 1am. Stonebridge Bar, The DJs and freestyle songwriters rule Almost a third of the Festival site for the 3,000 or so people that We had a call from Yoko [Ono] ’s Park, 7pm. the stage. Bread & Roses, from is covered by the Greenfields. To work in all the different parts of people, saying they had read about Head to Theatre & Circus 3pm. find out what goes on South of the the Greenfields – they inspire each the great Oak Tree on our website, for Wheel Of Four Tunes After unearthing Rudi- other! and wanted to do something special at Sensation Seekers mental and , A global electronic-pop ‘railway line’, we had a chat with 2 there. You’ll have to go and see. stage, where only the spinning Black Butter Records soundtrack includ- Liz Eliot, founder of the Glaston- 6 There is an incredible assortment wheel will decide what you present the bubbling electro- 10 ing Sweden’s Diplo- bury Festival Greenfields of interesting people: how do you People often say that the hear. A crazed mutation of house of My Nu Leng. Earn early approved dancehall-pop star manage them all?! Greenfields has an elemental feel. a wedding disco and a rave. bragging rights in the “I saw them Elliphant. La Pussy Parlure For someone who’s never been to I feel we all share the same core What do you think they mean? Sensation Seekers, 11.30pm. first” stakes. BBC Introducing, Nouveau, Silver Hayes, from 8pm. the Greenfields, how would you values, and there’s a strong sense of We’re strongly influenced by the Silver Hayes, 9.30pm. describe them? collectivity. We all feel incredibly elements. In the Healing Field, it’s Another dance music giant Poet Kate Tempest returns It’s a place to demonstrate ways of privileged, actually, to work in explicitly laid out as Wind, Air, is on the decks over on every For some stompin’ hillbilly to Glastonbury with her living that tread lightly on this earth such a place. There’s an amazing Water and Earth. In the rest of the 3 loon’s favourite stage, Glade, sounds with a Cajun kick, 11 incisively witty hip-hop – lifestyles that make little impact sense of empowerment in working Fields we have the water dragon, where acid house turned trance 7 get yourself to the Croissant opus Everybody Down – one of on this fragile planet. There are so together to achieve a glorious aim. the stones, a lot of music – that’s legend Sasha will be winding back Neuf stage in the Green Fields 2014’s best albums. Don’t miss many beautiful ways of doing that air, isn’t it?! – and of course fire. the years for clubbers of a certain for CC Smugglers’ late-night set. her. The Rum Shack, The Common, – and the Greenfields is an amazing There are some great All our fires are lit from the embers vintage. Glade, 10pm. Croissant Neuf, 11pm. 9pm. showcase of it all! food stalls in the Greenfields – of the Nagasaki bomb in ’45. A any top recommendations? monk lit a flare from the embers New Build - featuring Last year Michael Eavis Before Metallica growl What do you see the Greenfield’s Oh, it’s all very good – organic, and kept it alive ever since. They ’s Al Doyle and gave his long-suffering fans from the Pyramid Stage purpose as being? freshly prepared… I like the Thali brought it to Glastonbury town 4 Felix Martin - bring their 8 what they’ve always craved: 12 watch their psyches There are many purposes, but the Café. They won the Good Food about 10 years ago and they keep techno-pop to WOW! in Silver his own star-turn on the mic with being explored by infamous life central one is that people can have [award] on Radio 4. it alive, and light all our fires from Hayes. Then stick around to The Vodka Jellies Karaoke Band. coach Dr Phil in Some Kind a good time, and leave us feeling it: the Green Futures fire, the Peace see East India Youth and Route Special guests are promised again of Monster, one of the funniest they have taken away something What else are you excited about Dome, and the fire at the top of 94 continue the electronic-pop this year. Avalon Café, 7pm. music documentaries ever made. important when they leave… this year? King’s Meadow. That’s what we’re explorations into the night. Pilton Palais, 9pm. something that will help them join I’m excited about experiencing doing – spreading the fire of peace! WOW! Silver Hayes, from 8pm.

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