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Proudly Printed in the Theatre and Circus Fields of Glastonbury Festival Free • Libera • Gratis Sunday 30th June 2019 PROUDLY PRINTED IN THE THEATRE AND CIRCUS FIELDS OF GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL FREE • LIBERA • GRATIS BEE THE BEST THE GREATEST ALEXIA LOUNDRAS speaks to Wolfgang Buttress about his buzzing new bee-themed BEAM installation in the Greenpeace Field “So here’s a serendipitous fact,” says for his acclaimed and similarly bee- activity of the bees. In the daytime, Wolfgang Buttress, dwarfed by the themed Hive at Kew Gardens, but he’s hidden LEDs will pulsate alongside towering larch stakes of his new always found inspiration in nature. the bees, like a graphic equaliser. SHOW ON installation, BEAM, which sits in the Moving from a council estate in When activity in the hive reaches Greenpeace Field. “There are around Birmingham to a Cumbrian village at a crescendo, there’s amazing footage of 200,000 Cornish Black bees on this 11 was, he says, “transformative.” And the inside of a beehive, which Buttress farm – that’s a bee for everyone on his work has always sought to share and his team got from detailed MRI the Festival site.” this appreciation to help bring us closer scans of a vacated hive. This coincidence pleases Buttress to the natural world. Working in total synergy with the no end. BEAM is intended to help Like picking up a scent and audiovisuals are the bone conductors – us find affinity with our trusty instantly being transported to copper buttons through which, if you pollinators. Buttress has rigged-up all another time and place, Buttress rest your head, you’ll be able to hear five of Michael Eavis’s beehives with hopes BEAM will create the installation explained EARTHEMILY EAVIS accelerometers which read vibrations emotional triggers by BBC 6 Music DJ After Stormzy’s triumphant headline set, in the hive and relay real-time data that will stay with us, Mary Anne Hobbs tells Chris Salmon that this is the best Glastonbury yet about the bees’ lives back to this keeping us tethered to our and BEAM collaborating especially fragrant, sylvan structure. bee brethren. “If you can smell physicist Dr Martin Bencsik. Despite its lo-fi appearance, this something, hear it, as well as It’s just one more lovely touch, It’s Saturday morning and, sitting in Thursday, “which was such a lovely a mind-blowing performer on a little hexagonal clearing, made up of 13 see it, the experience becomes richer,” because it’s through these vibrations her back garden with a mug of tea, moment”, watched by thousands at circus stage, or a particularly great kilometres of sustainably-sourced he says. “If you are immersed in that bees communicate. Emily Eavis is positively fizzing with West Holts. food stall or just an impromptu timber, is wired to the hilt with something, it affects you deeply.” “BEAM is about rediscovering enthusiasm about the previous night’s Thursday also saw Emily moment of kindness between camouflaged multi-sensory tech While cocooned within the walls our humility,” says Buttress. Stormzy set. make her first appearance on strangers. And I think all of that that translates the bees’ vibrations of BEAM, the only stimulus is provided “Our relationship with nature is on “I am speechless, that gig was a Glastonbury stage since 1985 is what adds up to make this place into light and sound, as they happen. by the bees. The music – based on pre- a par – we are not the most important incredible! What a man,” says (when, as a five-year-old, she played so special. There really are 135,000 “Standing here will be like having recorded bee sounds – comes courtesy thing on the planet. We’ve become the Festival’s co-organiser. “It was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on Festivals happening at once, with a conversation with the bees,” explains of BE, a band including electronic alienated from nature – and from a huge moment for us, up there with her violin on the Pyramid). This so many different memories being Buttress, “a symphony between bees musicians Ólafur Arnalds and Daniel those around us. People have never the all-time greatest Glastonbury time around, she joined her dad, made to take away from here.” and humans.” Avery, and members of Spiritualized been lonelier and I think renewing our headline performances and one for Michael, for some backing vocals at Of course, she’s hoping people This tall, lumberjack of a man, and Sigur Rós. Everything is in connection with the natural world the history books. The perfect gig. I’m his rapturously received Avalon Café take their stuff home with them too. with an unruly beard and benevolent the key of C – the same key in which will make us feel whole again.” so happy for him, it could not have show on Thursday evening. “I really feel like they will,” says Emily. blue eyes, radiates excitement when the bees hum. He’s right, of course. We need to been better. It also confirmed for “I love my dad’s sets,” she says. “We’ve made so many positive strides he talks about BEAM. Before now, Accompanying the music are be more like bees. We can learn a lot me that our crowd is the best in the “They’ve become the ultimate way with our green campaigns this year. the artist was probably best known visuals which respond to the live from them. world. Watching that huge audience to kick-off the weekend. But I’m It’s incredible to think that there will lock in and give so much back was much happier watching shows than be one million fewer plastic bottles very moving. The atmosphere was performing them. I don’t think I’ll be for the planet to deal with because incredible. But then it has been since going on tour any time soon!” we’ve stopped selling them. The most the gates opened.” After watching Stormzy’s set, eye-opening part of the weekend VOICES OF HOPE There aren’t many at Worthy Emily celebrated with a trip to the for me was not seeing any plastic Farm who’d contest that last point. South East Corner with friends. bottles in the bins or on the ground. Glastonbury’s head of music programming NICK DEWEY on first It’s become a running joke over “We started off at IICON in Block9, I think people are really starting the years that, come rain or shine, then moved to the Downlow, and then to understand how important it is hearing today’s Pyramid Stage openers the Langa Methodist Choir Michael and Emily will always off to The Common and Shangri-La to treat the land with respect, and to describe any particular year’s Festival and Unfairground. We did the whole stop living a disposable lifestyle.” We discovered the Langa Methodist He took us down there and they let So when we got back from the as the finest Glastonbury yet. But South East Corner! It was all just And what comes next for Choir on a trip to South Africa us sit in on the practice and it was trip we got back in touch with the this year, they’ll certainly be able to amazing. I couldn’t be more proud Emily once everyone has departed? with Oxfam last year. Glastonbury one of those very special experiences. choir and after a lot of work by Aoife offer a particularly compelling case. of what each area has conjured up “We won’t be slowing down for very wanted to visit Oxfam’s projects The voices were fantastic and they in our office we managed to sort “Everywhere you look, there and created.” long,” she says. “We have already and see where some of the money seemed to get completely lost in the visas and book flights for them all are wonderful things happening,” “But what I really love,” she started working on next year’s 50th that gets raised from the Festival music, dancing and clapping in this big to come over and open the Pyramid says Emily. Some of those, she says, continues, “is that a lot of the best anniversary.” Can she offer any clues? goes. Oxfam works with so many old echoey chapel. It was spellbinding Stage on Sunday morning. None of are the major moments that many moments are the ones just a few “Not really. But trust me when I say, incredible people, and we got to see to witness it and we felt very the choir have been outside South people here will have experienced: people experience. And those have we are planning a huge celebration!” how important this work is to some honoured to be allowed in there to Africa before so it will probably she mentions the fireworks on the just as much impact.” One of Emily’s And until then, has Glastonbury of the communities. watch such an intimate performance. be quite an eye opener arriving at opening night (“beautiful!”), the favourite things during the Festival, 2019 been the best one yet? “Oh While we were there, one It had that power and intensity of Glastonbury in full swing. They’re “stunning” new Glastonbury-on- she says, is to bump into people and absolutely,” she grins. “No doubt of the local drivers told us about a southern gospel choir, but obviously playing immediately before Mavis Sea, Arcadia’s Pangea creation; the ask about their personal highlights. about it – the greatest show on planet a Methodist choir that he was for my father in law Michael Eavis, it Staples on the Pyramid Stage too so it Extinction Procession; and England “And it will often be things that Earth.
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