Sunday 26th June 2016 PROUDLY PRINTED IN THE THEATRE AND CIRCUS FIELDS OF GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL FREE • LIBERA • GRATIS mr ON THE TRAIL blue There’s more visual art at the Festival than ever before so we sent JOHN LEWIS off to sky map out a handy art route for you JOHN LEWIS lists five STAND reasons to love Jeff Lynne and his band It’s called the Glastonbury Festival at the Meeting Point, a large camel of Contemporary Performing nearby in William’s Green, and a Arts, and that includes visual art. Cancel Trident sculpture by the In the last few years, “We spend a huge amount of time Village Inn. Not far from there Jeff Lynne has duetted concentrating on art, tweaking you’ll find his Ant Patrol, where an 1 at the Grammys with the visual appearance,” says Emily estate car is held on its side by giant Dave Grohl and Ed Sheeran, got Eavis. “It’s becoming more and more red ants, while by the Acoustic AS ONE his own star on the Hollywood central to what we do here.” Stage you’ll find Boat Gull, a huge CHRIS PARKIN catches up with Emily Eavis as we head Walk Of Fame – and headlined To this end, hundreds of site- seagull whose body is formed from a to 50,000 fans at Hyde Park. “We specific pieces have been specially wooden boat. Rush has also designed into the final day of the Festival were a weird little band,” Lynne commissioned for the Festival. If the David Bowie tribute that sits told us. “Basically an ordinary rock you want to explore them, a good atop the Pyramid Stage (the Ziggy band with two violins and a cello.” place to start is The Wood, a brand Stardust flash and odd grey eye), a Shortly before this year’s Festival, And for voter turnout among people was evident again on Thursday new area of the site located near Lemmy tribute for the Other Stage Oxfam announced the release here to be higher than the national afternoon when crowds gathered in Lynne, the only constant the revamped John Peel Stage. This (a peace sign formed with spanners, of a fundraising album in aid of average? That really says something The Park for a tribute to Jo Cox, the member of ELO over the miraculously uncovered little nature an aluminium ace of spades, an the refugee crisis, featuring live about the sort of people who come to former Oxfam campaigner and MP. 2 past 45 years, formed the reserve, surrounding Peeter’s Pond, engine and a set of ram’s horns), and Glastonbury 2016 performances the Festival.” Before the Festival, Oxfam, Eavis band with Roy “Wizard” Wood, has never before been opened to the a Prince tribute near the Park Stage. from Coldplay, Muse, Sigur Rós, The vote’s result wasn’t the first and the artists appearing on Stand who had also been Lynne’s partner public, and serves as a quiet haven, Other impressive pieces can be seen Laura Mvula, Foals and many more news to test Eavis and her crew’s As One dedicated the album to Cox. in The Move. “Before that I played dotted with artworks. There’s a around the Festival. Jimmy Cauty, acts. The powerful sentiment of the mettle in the first few days of the With the album raising funds to with a band called Idle Race, who sound sculpture by Zac Greening, art scamp and onetime member of album’s title, Stand As One, could Festival. “The start was certainly help tackle the refugee crisis – an sounded like George Formby.” looking like a series of interlocking the KLF, has an installation piece in not have been more apt on Friday tricky, with the weather causing such issue close to Cox’s heart – it was bicycle frames, that makes a pleasing Shangri-La; street artist Ben Eine has morning when Festival-goers awoke problems for people arriving,” she an easy decision to make. They’ve been sampled by sound when pinged; artful lighting several wall illustrations around the to the result of the EU referendum. says. But Eavis was genuinely taken- “Jo was on the correct side of dozens of unlikely acts, by Vortex; and elaborate tree-cutting Unfairground; the Green Fields are “It was a complete shock,” says aback by Festival-goers’ resilience and politics and was always open to a 3 including Daft Punk, J from Tristram Fitzgerald. full of elaborate wooden sculptures; Emily Eavis, during a rare moment morale during that difficult opening greater conversation with all sides,” Dilla, Company Flow, 50 Cent, Some of the most distinctive and keen-eyed Festival-goers might of quiet in the site office on Saturday day. “People’s spirits weren’t dampened says Eavis. “She was non-tribal and Wiz Khalifa, and the Beastie Boys. works are the “twisted hedge” notice several pieces of Banksy lunchtime. “But we’ve got to rally at all. In fact, the atmosphere of those had incredible ideas and energy, “Sometimes it’s a stompy piano riff. sculptures by West Wales-based graffiti around the site, saying round and stick together. It was first couple of days, even with the working to bring people together. Usually it’s some quirky pseudo- artist Michelle Cain. Using tightly things like, “you have reached your amazing to see the opinion poll which conditions, was amazing. People’s To see so many people standing in classical bit in the middle of a song woven willow, she makes giant destination”, “queue here” and “the the Times did here on the site. That commitment to having a good time silence in The Park was a really which they’ll use it as the basis for sculptures of animals that look like Festival isn’t as good as it used to be”. showed just how many Glastonbury here is so unique.” emotional moment – and what a an entire song. I’m not averse to elaborate wooden topiary. A 20ft And, of course, all over the site goers voted Remain: 83 per cent. That same spirit of togetherness way to kick off the weekend.” that, as they have to pay me!” tall serpent stands in The Wood, you’ll see elaborate flag displays. With just one more day of the as do her two badgers, looking like “These have been carefully configured Festival left for you to commune Lynne joins that elite a Mr and Mrs hipster couple. If by Angus Watts,” says Eavis. “It’s all with your fellow fun-seekers, it’s club to have produced you trek over to the Field of Avalon part of a visual style that pulls the important not to waste a second. 4 the Beatles. “In 1968, as you’ll also find two of Cain’s huge entire site together. This Festival is as Eavis certainly won’t. “I love the a treat from the record company, sculptures of howling wolves – one much about visual art as music.” Sunday here. The atmosphere has we saw them recording at Abbey playing the violin, another playing this element of being the last hurrah. Road,” says Lynne. “To be working what looks like a ukulele. There are so many great things with Paul, George and Ringo – and Walk from the John Peel Stage happening on the last day and people a cassette of John’s voice – on Free to Silver Hayes and you’ll see the enjoy every last minute. Let’s stay As A Bird in 1995 was a dream Protest Wall. Commissioned by in the bubble for as long as possible!” come true. It was also terrifying!” Green Fields coordinator Liz Eliot Before we all wave goodbye to and pasted upon the Festival’s huge Worthy Farm for another year, For their 1978 Out Of old outdoor cinema screen are a Eavis had this final message: “Thank The Blue tour, ELO series of political artworks, created you to everyone for making this 5 emerged onstage from a by women from the Green Fields. such a special year. It’s always so huge fibreglass spaceship. “It was Protest pieces from previous years heartening to see the parallel universe a pain in the arse, to be honest. are located on fences around it. people create here, the positivity that The hydraulics would often Nearby, at the entrance to Silver people radiate. It brings out the best malfunction and I’d be stuck inside Hayes, you’ll see a crushed missile in people. So let’s rally together and it, like bloody Spinal Tap. And it sculpture, the first of many not lose hope.” was a bugger to move around. We junkyard works by Joe Rush of the ended up having to smash it up, ‘cos Mutoid Waste Company, a regular Stand As One is released by it was too expensive to store.” artist at the Festival for many years. Parlophone on 11 July. It’s You’ll also find his floating whale available to pre-order now from Jeff Lynne’s ELO play the attached to a steel tower near the glas.to/oxfamSAO Pyramid Stage at 4pm. Left Field, his mutant helicopter 2 THE GLASTONBURY FREE PRESS SUNDAY 26TH JUNE 2016 Q&A: BRIAN COX TV’s pop-science evangelist brought his BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage to the Festival on Friday. ALEXIA LOUNDRAS had a little chat with him Here’s former ’90s pop star, master to ask. We just tend to ask whatever have to be Einstein to understand that mix. of the floppy fringe, and every TV pops into our head at the time, which and appreciate science.