Sunday 30th June 2019 PROUDLY PRINTED IN THE THEATRE AND CIRCUS FIELDS OF FREE • LIBERA • GRATIS

BEE THE BEST THE GREATEST ALEXIA LOUNDRAS speaks to Wolfgang Buttress about his buzzing new bee-themed BEAM installation in the 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. 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. This is, without question, the involved with in a suburb called Langa was even more poignant with them feels like just the tonic to kick things women’s World Cup victory on I didn’t know anything about. Like best Glastonbury ever.” who were rehearsing that night. being Methodists like himself! off on the Sunday morning. 2 THE GLASTONBURY FREE PRESS SUNDAY 30TH JUNE 2019 Q&A: JONATHAN PIE KATIE GLASS speaks to British actor and comedian Tom Walker, the man behind satirical news reporter Jonathan Pie

Jonathan Pie, the fictional TV news democracy as we know it. There’s Is political correctness killing In our privilege-checking-era, You’ve said Corbyn started Manifesto was really interesting. reporter created by Tom Walker, also some knob jokes thrown in to free speech in comedy? does being a Straight White Pie – how? If it’s possible for a manifesto to be has become a cult figure perfect for keep it light. George Carlin always used to say Male limit what you can Pie was a reaction to the media interesting – which it isn’t, obvs. this era of political Armageddon. that the comedian’s job is to find the speak about? deciding Corbyn wouldn’t last. Pie’s furious, funny, foul-mouthed You’ve been chastised as a line where you shouldn’t cross – and For what my Straight White Male Well so far, he’s seen off two Tory What are your views on Brexit? rants – apparently caught when he “right-wing mouthpiece” but then gently step over it. Nowadays, opinion is worth: it shouldn’t. Ever! Prime Ministers and two leadership Is it a goldmine for satire? thinks he’s off-camera – cheekily you say you vote Labour. Where most comedians generally stay a few If you’re pre-judging the limits of challenges. His performance in the last The referendum shouldn’t have cut though the gloss and bullshit of do you sit politically? feet away from that line. I think that what any given individual can election, when the media, the pollsters happened. It was reckless to vote for so much mainstream media to get to Because I take the piss out of WOKE comedy isn’t a bad thing. express, simply based upon their and many of his own parliamentary a referendum without having a plan the heart of their subject. No target everyone, I’m often seen as alt-right But it has to be careful that it doesn’t gender, their sexuality or their skin party had written him off, was an as to how to implement either result. is safe, as he dismantles everything or far-left depending on who you’re become puritanical and, as such, colour, then something’s gone badly amazing achievement. Whatever you It was reckless to trigger Article from Trump to Corbyn, Korea to talking to. These days, if you take humourless. wrong somewhere. might think of him or his politics – 50 without a plan. And reckless Kim Kardashian. He performed in the piss out of the left, you must be or his approach to Brexit – you can’t to sign on the dotted line with the the Astrolabe Theatre on Friday. a Nazi. If you take the piss out the Is any subject too offensive to Does Jonathan Pie reveal your deny the media got it wrong and that EU before asking Parliament what Tories or Trump, you’re a snowflake. write about? mistrust of the mainstream he does have a certain electability. it thought. This is what happens What were you up to at I happen to think that free speech Offence and humour are very media? when parliamentary democracy Glastonbury? is the cornerstone of democracy closely linked. Shock is a useful tool My view of the media isn’t as Are you still a Corbyn fan? clashes with direct democracy. But Trying out some new material for and that the left’s obsession with in comedy. Playing with people’s cynical as the character suggests. Am I or is Pie? Pie would be: as a subject for satire? Well, Jesus. my upcoming Fake News Tour. The identity politics over class politics sensibilities is what it should be about. A free press is the cornerstone “A socialist in charge of a socialist It’s fucking gold. Watching an entire show touches on Trump, Brexit, is ripe for satire. This apparently Especially with political satire. Politics of a free society. If you dismiss party, what’s not to love?” I’m political system and constitution inequality, the environmental makes me a far-right Nazi apologist, is a very personal thing. So, to have the MSM you are doing exactly a bit more pragmatic. Everyone in collapse under the weight of its catastrophe we’re facing. And if most Guardian columnists are those views challenged sometimes what Trump is doing. Attempting Westminster has their part to play in own arrogance. If you can put aside ultimately it’s about how we come to to be believed. A Labour-voting, can cause a visceral reaction. But, just to undermine the media by making the Brexit omnishambles, and Brexit the overwhelming feeling of sadness terms with the fact that we seem to Greenpeace-supporting, freedom- because someone is offended doesn’t us mistrust it in its entirety. shouldn’t be the prism through which and despair, it’s pretty fucking be facing the end of Western liberal loving, Trump-hating far-right Nazi. mean they are right. That is extremely dangerous. we view everything. The last Labour funny really! RETURN TO SENDER Naked The magic of sending a postcard from Glastonbury, courtesy Ambition of Festival Postcards, is as strong as ever finds CHRIS PARKIN EMILY MACKAY draws back the curtain on Hester Moore started coming to and cycling out to Pilton to meet for their pitch. “Stallholders would a revealing photo project Glastonbury in 1981 as a child when the postman, though.” stand at the top of the hill and his mum and dad came up with the Nowadays, Moore – or one a lady called Sheila would shout At Glastonbury, the original spirit idea of selling hand-printed postcards of his team – cycles offsite twice ‘GO!’ Everyone would run down and of festivals is never far under the under the “old wonky tree” opposite a day to post messages addressed to grab their spot! There’s a little more skin, no matter how fancy we get the Cider Bus to pay for their visit. locations all over the world, sent by paperwork these days,” he says. on the outside. And photographer His dad, an artist, “had a beautiful Festival-goers and even performers. Moore also remembers when Tom Hunter, chief protagonist of the old flatbed roller printing press that “So they can write home when the original Pyramid Stage went Naked Truth Photo Booth, is intent every card was made on.” they’re on tour, we have cards and up in smoke back in 1994 – a little on getting it all out in the open. Nearly 40 years on from selling postboxes by the Pyramid, Other more vividly than others might do, Renowned for his social their first design, which you can and West Holts dressing rooms,” he perhaps. “We had a card that featured documentary work bringing the see opposite, and Festival Postcards explains. “I’m sure there are a few flames on the Pyramid Stage – dad dignity of classical painting to subjects remains a beloved fixture at the gems in those boxes.” designed it the week before the fire including squatters, travellers and taxi top of the Green Fields. And it’s all The magic of posting a card to that burnt it down!” drivers, Hunter began his project at thanks to Michael Eavis. friends and family members in the But for Moore, Glastonbury the 2017 Festival, inspired by his own “After about five years of long real world – or sending something is still very much Glastonbury. He family history. “My parents went to queues and always selling out of home to remind yourself that you doesn’t think he’ll ever tire of being the Isle of Wight festival in 1970, and postcards, Michael suggested that it were ever here – hasn’t changed for here. “I’ve grown up at the Festival my mum’s got some old photographs was time to get a proper stall,” explains Festival-goers, even if so many other and seen a lot of changes,” he says, that became part of my childhood Moore, who still stocks some hand- things at Glastonbury have. “but really, it’s the same as it has folklore, on the beach with all these printed designs today. “It was a few Moore loves listening to his dad’s always been. That’s why it always naked figures dancing in circles.” years until we started selling stamps old stories about traders competing feels like coming home.” Hunter has been part of the festival scene since his teens and later worked with Block9 and the Miniscule of Sound at Glastonbury. The Festival, he says, still holds some THEY’VE GOT THE CURE of that original hippie spirit, but, thinking back to those photos, he BEN HEWITT looks back at 40 years of broken bones and welly rub with Glastonbury’s Festival Medical Services wanted to liberate it in a rawer form. In 2017, Hunter went round the Shangri-La area early in the day – Glastonbury is all fun and games a big operation is a year-round job, anymore,” says Howes. “I remember Most patients seen by Howes and toilets and had to be completely sober consent being key – quietly until someone gets hurt – but if although preparation starts in earnest one girl who was seen with his team have fairly routine injuries hosed down before anyone could presenting his idea to people. They you’re one of the unlucky ones who around Christmas time. indigestion and given some antacids. – sprains, strains and soft tissue check him over. clicked with the concept straight ends up needing some professional Things have changed a lot since She returned a few hours later in injuries are common complaints – Each story Howes recounts is away. For some, the rush of nudity medical care, at least you’ll be in safe Festival Medical Service’s first advanced labour – there were some and there are those maladies typically a testament to the skill, compassion was hard to let go. “Twice, people got hands. It’s been 40 years since Chris Glastonbury Festival in 1979 – red faces among the team. It’s strange associated with soggy weekends at and care you need to be part of the so excited that they came out of the Howes, formerly a GP in nearby including the type of injuries they to think that baby may have been Worthy Farm. “Welly rub and trench Festival Medical Services team. booth naked and security guards had Shepton Mallet, and his partner first encounter. Banning candle flares has coming to the Festival for years now, foot keep our nurses and podiatrists “Many years ago, a girl collapsed to ask them to put their clothes on.” organised a team of local doctors at stopped “nasty eye injuries from hot with its own children.” busy in wet years,” he says. in front of the Pyramid Stage,” For others, it was an emotional the Festival. wax”, Howes tells us, while putting Patient confidentiality stops remembers Howes. “Our team got to experience. One young woman from “Things were very basic,” Howes up the fences curbed the violence- Howes from divulging too many her quickly, resuscitated her and she Liverpool was so happy to be accepted tells us. “We had a big marquee related injuries that were more details about some of the more was airlifted to hospital – but when as she was that she cried. And one but very little medical kit.” Today, common in the ’80s and ’90s. “Before colourful cases he’s encountered the helicopter took off, everyone of the most memorable images for though, Festival Medical Services the superfence, a lot of people climbed down the years, although some was showered with litter. Hunter was a couple in their 60s. “It’s encompasses more than 800 people, in and ended up with badly cut hands lighthearted war stories do stick “The next day, her boyfriend not the six-pack, the perfect bum or ranging from doctors, nurses, physios and fractures,” he adds. out. Like the two young lads who turned up with a box of chocolates the pert breasts; it’s that if people look and dentists to receptionists and Some conditions have become tried cider for the first to thank the crew for saving her comfortable in their own skin, they IT support; and resources including increasingly prevalent, while others time and got so blitzed they slept life. That must be 30 years ago now. look beautiful.” a main medical centre, seven other less so. “In the early days we used through everything, and the I wonder if she still comes to the If you too are ready to uncover onsite facilities, two pharmacies and to have at least one Festival baby poor chap who stumbled Festival? I should love to hear from your naked truth… well, we’ll see all an X-ray department. Planning such each year, but that doesn’t happen into one of the old long-drop her if she does.” of you down at Shangri-La. SUNDAY 30TH JUNE 2019 THE GLASTONBURY FREE PRESS 3 CROSSWORD FOR GOODNESS SAKE DAISY HEARN finds out what WaterAid and ANSWERS Greenpeace are up to at this year’s Festival

1 2 3 4 5 6 F R I D A Y W U T A N G WaterAid – one of Glastonbury’s Elsewhere, the Greenpeace Field three worthy causes along with is celebrating biodiversity by helping 7 A S L E P O Greenpeace and Oxfam – is Festival-goers reconnect with nature 8 9 10 ensuring its message goes home and the habitats we depend on – T H U M A N C A M E L with Festival-goers this year. Their a connection that is at the root of limited-edition enamel badges, the charity’s work. W O A N Y I F designed by the likes of Ringo Starr “We want more people to be 11 12 and The Cure, and free from refill able to witness that everything is F H O U R S U C C E S S kiosks, promote the importance of connected,” says campaign director 13 14 I L C I L T clean water as part of WaterAid’s Pat Venditti, gesturing to the Access Denied campaign. Extinction Museum, where framed 15 16 T I D Y U P N E W A C T “The Festival brings people closer art of extinct species decorate to the issues that WaterAid deal with the walls. This year’s Greenpeace 17 E B R Y D U around the world,” explains Anna Field also features a T-shirt 18 19 Hedges, special events manager at printing service, a bee-powered art P E Y R O U X D A V E WaterAid. “Festivals can be the first installation, as well as its mainstay 20 21 time people have thought about not skate ramp and Drop Slide, the sides A S E R F R S having instant access to water or of which are emblazoned with 22 23 having to queue for the toilet. With campaign slogans. B J O R N F T W I S T E D our Access Denied campaign, we’re “We are facing a crisis with B C S S A trying to raise awareness of the fact both the climate and biodiversity,” that no one should be denied access says Venditti. “We want to inspire 24A L W A Y S 25S H A G G Y to basic water, toilets and hygiene people to take action when they get facilities anywhere in the world.” back home.”

The Gospel JEFF GOLDBLUM: HE’S A JAZZ MAN According to Glastonbury JOHN LEWIS caught up with the actor before his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra play the West Holts Stage at 2pm today BY POET IN-RESIDENCE VANESSA KISUULE H e cut his teeth playing they guested, and we got a bit pally. we were doing in north California! to muck about on the piano and sing made it! I’m in a show with the great 1 piano in bars and hotel Then, a few months later, a friend She became the guest of honour. She songs together. He loved his jazz! Thad Jones! lobbies... took me to one of their big outdoor was about 100 years old at the time Such a muchness and just Two soft eyes to drink it in. There’s no such thing as a bad gig. concerts. I was at the side of the stage – she lived for a couple more years, He always wanted to be He hasn’t ditched the You always learn tons, even from and, for the encore, they grabbed I think, before she passed. She turned a jazz pianist... acting... The unbuckled truth is this: 5 6 it has never been about music, the worst musical experiences. me and said, “You gotta join us!” So up in this sequined gown and started I came from Pittsburgh, Oh, I have just finished When I was 15, back in Pittsburgh, they told me the chords to some song bopping around, belle of the ball. So as did two of my piano heroes – a film called The Mountain. It’s I used to go around bars and hotel and I ended up playing along with here’s to you, Mildred! Errol Garner and Ahmad Jamal. set in 1954. I like it a lot. It’s a very though the open jaw of sound sits wide as a whale’s and the lounges, offering to play the piano. I them. It was my one true brush with I always wanted to sound like artful, poetic movie, directed by the reverb swells like oceans and He knew David Bowie... absolutely loved those experiences. I rock ’n’ roll! them. I grew up listening to Duke great Rick Alverson and also starring we sing ourselves throatless mean, as a jobbing player, you play 4 I was filming the Robert Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Hannah Gross and Udo Kier, about plenty of places where nobody cares His big band is called Altman movie Nashville I remember my dad taking me to see the underbelly of American identity. it is more: gospel guts untangled, what you’re playing. But you try and 3 the Mildred Snitzer in 1974, and a few of us went to the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band I play a rather controversial doctor in a pile of clock-hand kindling for make it fun in one way or another. Orchestra... see David Bowie playing at the in Pittsburgh when I was young – the Pacific Northwest who pioneered the ritual bonfire of time. All of us It’s the same with acting. It can be a When I formed this jazz band Nashville Municipal Auditorium, that was a real thrill. Then, in 1971, lobotomy surgery in the ’40s and ’50s, a thick straggle of trapped noise voiceover or an advert or something, a while ago, I needed a name so on his Diamond Dogs tour. The age 19, I got my first Broadway and who is also a cult leader. And I’ve but I can still make sure I have a I named it after a pal of my mum’s show was amazing, and David was role – a part in a musical version of also been working on a 12-part series turned luminous. We ooze out grand old time. back in Pittsburgh, called Mildred like something from another planet. The Two Gentlemen Of Verona, at for National Geographic, The World like the spilt milk of a sunrise, Snitzer. I liked her and I thought it About ten years later I was filming the St James Theatre, written by According To Jeff Goldblum. It’s stretched out like yawning dough He once joined was a funny name. She was an old the John Landis comedy Into The Galt MacDermot, who wrote Hair. about explaining the complex science drunk on Lazarus laughter. 2 Aerosmith, briefly... girl when I was young, and I wasn’t Night, where me and David both had I was absolutely astonished that Thad behind the most mundane things. That was a fluke. I had even sure if she was still alive, but roles, and I got to know him a little Jones was playing trumpet in the And I’m doing a second album for READ THE FULL POEM ON hosted Saturday Night Live when amazingly she showed up at a gig more. A lovely, lovely guy. We used orchestra pit. I thought – man, I’ve Decca too, so it’s all go for me. GLASTONBURYFESTIVALS.CO.UK MAKE, DO AND MEND MINNIE WRIGHT hunts for unusual things to do in the Green Fields

MAKE A SWORD (OR WAND) quartz crystals adorning the Dragon, methods to create a bespoke ring Geoffrey the Wandsmith and his Slater informs me, are “karma creds”. from naturally-shed deer antlers. As team, located in the Greencrafts But leave the moss. “It keeps him you do. There’s even free necklace- Village, will show you how to turn warm in winter,” we’re told. making sessions if you pop in during a chunk of wood into your choice the Greencrafts happy hour, every of sword or wand, teaching turning LOOK INTO YOUR FUTURE day from 10am. and shaving techniques so that you My guide is Madame Maggie, and walk away with a beautiful – and we’re seated in the front of her pink TAKE A SAUNA possibly magical – implement of tent, located on a row of palm readers The Mad Hat is home to a warm your own making. in the Healing Fields. Cheerfully shower, cold plunge pool and a overheating in Wednesday’s scorching swimsuit-seems-optional sauna. If CLEAN THE DRAGON sun, Maggie tells me – a sceptic – you’re brave enough to embrace close While trying my hand at a series of uncannily accurate facts proximity with semi-naked/naked woodturning, I meet Slater the about my emotional state and general strangers, this is the place to de-stress. Dragon-Keeper (her choice of life situation, before sincerely advising The Green Fields is big on chilling name), who directs me to a truly me not to allow anyone to “trap” me. out, with massages, reiki, yoga and soul-enriching activity: cleaning homeopathy available at every turn, the Glastonbury Dragon, near UNLEASH YOUR INNER VIKING and a delightful combo of music and The Stone Circle. All are welcome, Go back in time with Guerrilla chai at the Lizard Café. If even that’s Bill Harkin’s 1971 drawing of his dream for the original Pyramid Stage. The drawing will appear in the although space is limited at any given Archaeology in the Greencrafts too much, the Permaculture Garden Festival’s 50th anniversary book, Glastonbury 50, published by Orion on 31 October. time. All it costs to polish the rose Village and use traditional Norse is the Festival’s most tranquil spot. 4 THE GLASTONBURY FREE PRESS SUNDAY 30TH JUNE 2019 “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME” Dan Smith, from Pyramid Stage stars Bastille, addresses your most pressing Festival concerns BY PETE PAPHIDES

Anyone even passingly familiar with How would you convince a non- friend, I guess there’s a statistic about How do you cope with post- liquid. That left me devastated because blended together, into one happy mass. the work of Bastille will know that Brit to come to Glastonbury? Glastonbury being the size of Oxford Glastonbury bereavement? I think Haribo is one of the most And like my Haribo steak, it’s unique, their dashing head honcho Dan Smith MAREN once it’s been constructed – so that VICTOR important things in life. But, hey, life because even if you made another one, is just the sort of empathetic soul “Well, I’d focus on the fact that its might give you an idea of the scale. “I don’t, personally. I cope very badly goes on, so I left and when I came the flavours wouldn’t blend in the who would listen intently and offer appeal extends, way, way beyond You’re guaranteed to see some of the with it. It’s like the Boxing Day of the back later at night to get a jumper same way.” wise counsel if you were to happen music. That’s the first thing to establish. most interesting, funny people all in summer isn’t it? The best thing you because it had gotten really cold, upon him, say, at 4am in Shangri-La It’s not so much a music festival as one place – both on and off stage. And can do on the day to come back from I find that my beloved Haribo had Is there anyone here you love in a moment of emotional disrepair. a weird, brilliant parallel universe then there’s the charitable causes that Glastonbury is surround yourself solidified into a ginormous Haribo enough to fish their mobile phone So, faced with the prospect of finding created in a bunch of fields for the it benefits. There are certain other with people who were there, so it’s steak! So that turned one of the out of the toilet? LOUISA someone to follow in the footsteps weekend. You can’t really do justice well-known festivals in America a gentle letdown, possibly with an worst scenarios into one of the best “My best mate Sophie. I’d do it for of past Glastonbury Free Press to it by comparing it to other festivals. that Glastonbury gets compared to, emotional hug of a film. My plan for things that could have happened in my some musicians too. Rosalía. Can agony aunts such as Charli XCX This is my tenth Glastonbury and and that makes me laugh, because Monday afternoon is to go and see entire life. Ever since that moment, I construct a rod to fish it out. No? and, um, Bez, Dan was at the very we’ve only played it four times. I went Glastonbury wipes the floor with Toy Story 4. Or maybe Inside Out – the hallowed Haribo steak has never Well, fuck it. It’s Glastonbury. top of our wish list. Hours before when I was at uni and have come them. It’s borderline impossible to not that would be a good one. The moral been re-created, despite a lot of effort There’s always some hand sanitiser a triumphant Pyramid Stage set, Dan every year since with my mates. The have a good time.” of that is that being sad is part of life on my part. However, this year is somewhere nearby. I went travelling made the time to assist some of this year we played the John Peel Stage, and sometimes being sad can be good prime Haribo steak cooking weather with some friends in India last year year’s Glastonbury revellers with I was camping that weekend. Then the I’m so obsessed with having and healthy – and that’s the perfect and I’ll be doing my best. And really, and we were on this overnight train a range of searching questions. year after that, we weren’t booked to an epiphanic moment that post-Glastonbury message.” the thing about the Haribo steak and there wasn’t any food and we had play – we had to play three different I keep jinxing it by overanalysing incident is that it’s a bit like life, isn’t some stuff that we found at this sort- How do I pull the super-hot guy festivals in three different countries situations that I should just What’s your personal life hack it? In life, you go through moments of market stall on the road just before in the South East Corner? ALEX on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. simply be enjoying. Any tips on for camping for four days? where, metaphorically speaking, your we got on the train. We realised when “Ooh, um, pickpocket his line-up, then But I’d already bought a ticket, so how to live in the moment? EDO SOPHIE Haribos have melted – and maybe we got on this train for this 15-hour have a little flick-through and see I came and camped on the Tuesday to “Try and distract yourself as much “I’m not the sort of person you’ll find at that moment you might feel like journey that there was no food and what he’s circled. And even though the Friday morning and tried to get as as possible. Do as much as you can cooking a three-course meal over giving up, but if you stick around, you one the more dignified moments of he can’t hear you over the blaring much of the Glastonbury experience and you won’t even notice. The good a little gas camping stove. I’m happy might come back to find a colossal my life was starving at 2am on this music, start screaming about how as possible, because that’s how much times will emotionally blindside to get by on crisps and cereal bars. Haribo steak waiting for you. That train and realising the only thing much you’ve enjoyed all the gigs he I love it. And I left that Friday you when you’re least expecting it. My greatest Glastonbury culinary was my Glastonbury fairytale, really. I had was this dirty muddy cucumber happened to be at. That’ll seal the deal morning, not having slept for three But I do sympathise, because I’m moment? The last time it was this It was also a metaphor for the Festival and washing it from top to bottom and he won’t be able to resist you. Or days, with tears rolling down my face. a neurotic overthinker and very hot, I went back to my tent and itself. Because in any field at any given with hand sanitiser and washing and impress him with your dance moves. I got picked up by our tour manager regularly manage to undercut what went through my shopping bag of moment, you have all these different eating it whole. And it worked! It It’s easy to win over people here, in the tour bus and we drove to should be amazing life moments with food I’d brought with me and was flavours of people blended into one. tasted weird and it probably got me because everyone here wants to be Holland for a festival. But going back an intravenous drip of horrendous heartbroken to discover that my Everyone is intermingled in ways a lot more pissed than a cucumber loved a lot.” to the question from our non-British cynicism and self awareness.” giant bag of Haribo had melted into they wouldn’t otherwise be. They’re normally does.” RUNNING UP THAT HILL How a Thursday-morning fun run can be the ideal start to your Festival, says EMILY MACKAY

Have you ever looked down from The route starts with an The atmosphere really is great, likely to be bullied or, indeed, to be the heights of the Ribbon Tower extremely bracing jaunt up the hill with stallholders, stewards and all- a bully. It’s certainly different from in The Park and thought: wouldn’t behind The Park Stage to take in the night Festival-goers alike cheering us the seethingly pass-agg atmosphere this be a beautiful place to go for view from the “Glastonbury” sign, on, with only a few grumbles to the of some amateur races. a run? It’s not for everyone, reaching Hickson’s favourite section, but the effect that early-morning exercise is “Part of my philosophy when peak cardio intensity at a festival, key word is “fun”. It’s an inclusive not really in the Festival spirit. “There dealing with violence and bullying but Professor Dr Andy Hickson race, not one for personal-best setters. is a lot of positive stuff,” says Hickson, is to deal with negativity in positive from anti-bullying theatre group There’s too many bottlenecks and “but even the negative stuff is more ways,” says Hickson. “A lot of that is Actionwork has your back if you do. wrong turnings, for starters. like ‘Oh, I’m just going to bed!’ and looking after ourselves, feeling good Lifelong runner Hickson is also “For some people, having a break ‘how can you do that?! No! You’re about ourselves, feeling courageous, a longtime Glastonbury-goer and for in their training isn’t something they doing my head in!’ rather than jibes.” confident and empowered. If we the past seven years he’s organised want to do, and they hear about this When we reach the Cider Bus, can get some of that, then we can a Thursday-morning 5km (or 3.1- and think it’s a perfect opportunity,” two helpful young boys crack out start giving confidence to other mile) Glastonbury Fun Run from says Hickson. “And there are new their water guns to douse grateful people. I always think about when the Green Futures Field to the Cider people that just like to see the site (and very hot) runners. It all ends you’re on an aeroplane and they talk Bus, along the best route possible to from a different perspective, get in a big mutual round of applause, about when the oxygen mask comes avoid crashing into sculptures, bin to know where certain things bringing to mind what down, to put yours own on first lorries and early-bird revellers. The are. Other people just do it Hickson said before before you help others.” first year the run took place there for the reaction, for we set off on our Post-run, the analogy of the were 12 hardy souls, but word has the camaraderie. run – about how oxygen mask is perhaps a little too spread. This year’s run on Thursday And so they can fitness and exercise close to home for this writer. But saw well over a hundred runners – tell their mates: can help boost whatever your fitness level, it’s an a new record – gathering for pre-run guess what I did at people’s confidence undeniably great way to start your You can buy this poster by Oink Creative from the Glastonbury Free stretches at 9am. Glastonbury!” so that they’re less Festival with your head held high. Press tent in the Theatre & Circus Field. Other posters are available.

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CLEANING UP Check out KIDS SAY THE FUNNIEST THINGS A SLICE OF LIFE Head to the Tipi CHOPPED AND SCREWED ARISE! The legend of King LAUGH A MINUTE Join an Shangri-La’s imposing Gas Tower – Take your budding stand-up Field for a free children’s pizza- Internet sensation Cassetteboy, Arthur is brought to life at the hour-long laughter yoga session at a 360-degree digital arts area made comedians to the Green Kids’ making workshop from 10.30am. famous for his satirical cut-and-paste Pilton Palais, from 7.15pm, in Joe the Humblewell Tipi in The Park entirely out of plastic collected from Comedy Club at 12.30pm, with There’s a puppet show at the Circus videos, performs at The Glade with Cornish’s family-friendly adventure on Sunday, from 12.30pm. It’s organised beach cleans around the a showcase from 2pm. of Dreams, too, from 3pm. DJ Rubbish, from 3.50pm film, The Kid Who Would surprisingly vigorous, apparently. South West. Be King. BAD VIBES Prepare yourself MAD SKILLS YUCK Circus, in BOOM! BOOM! Don’t miss your FIND A HIGHER STATE OF ABBEY DAY Keep the Glastonbury for the week ahead with John the Theatre & Circus Big Top from last chance to catch the rogueish SUSTAINABLE TUNES Catch some CONSCIOUSNESS US rave DJ vibes going by visiting the town’s Carpenter’s suitably post-apocalyptic 3.13pm, deliver some fabulously Basil Brush, 3pm, and amazing solar-powered music at Croissant Josh Wink turns up the heat Abbey. Your wristband gets you in classic, Escape From New York, at feminist and very funny comedy magician Dynamo, 5pm, in the Neuf in the Green Fields. Edgy post- at Block9’s dystopian high-rise for half-price for the next week. Cineramageddon, 2.20am. acrobatics. Don’t miss it. Kidzfield Big Top. punkers Scalping perform at 11.30pm. construction Genosys from 11pm.

CHECKING OUT It’s The Beat FAR OUT, MAN The wonderful, WE’RE ROLLIN’ Check out The SISTERS OF AVALON Gal Pals EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL FOOD FOR A FIVER Running low Hotel’s final year, so join the farewell multinational Vanishing Twin Common’s bonkers new venue, bring their queer dance party to THING? The Bootleg Beatles will get on cash? You can still eat like a minor party tonight with Seth Troxler, DJ bring their hauntological psych-pop, Samula: The Portal, a space inspired by intersectional feminist venue The the Acoustic Stage crowd bellowing member of royalty thanks to the 300 Tennis and Daniel Avery from 8pm reminiscent of Broadcast, to The the Cenotes of Mexico. Hospitality Sisterhood in Shangri-La, from along to their reliably ace Fab Four food stalls signed up for the Festival’s until very, very late. Rabbit Hole, 9pm. Records take over from 1am. 10pm-4am. tribute. From 5.20pm. cheap eats scheme.