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Proudly Printed in the Theatre and Circus Fields Thursday 22nd June 2017 PROUDLY PRINTED IN THE THEATRE AND CIRCUS FIELDS OF GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL FREE • LIBERA • GRATIS 2 THE GLASTONBURY FREE PRESS THURSDAY 22ND JUNE 2017 CINERAMAGEDDON: THE BUILD For the past few months, EMILY MACKAY has been checking in with the creators of Glastonbury’s latest mind-bending addition — a dystopian drive-in cinema 6 APRIL Oldsmobiles – and a crew putting showing American Graffiti, which is And we’ve got the screen up already. a new version with performances screening of the Glastonbury film tractor wheels on them and tank set in a drive-in. And I’m really happy We’ve just sent over a 1950s helicopter from the last 10 years. We’ve also for all the staff. We’re beyond nerves Julien Temple had been petitioning tracks and aircraft engines and about getting Stalker, the Tarkovsky – a chopper with the middle cut out got a special opening guest, but that’s at this stage. The entertainment side Michael Eavis about an alternative generally making them all as mad film about these guys who enter and joined back together, and wheels under wraps for now. Julien Temple of things is now in the lap of the cinema concept. I said, “You know as you like. Some of them will be this strange zone, in a slightly post- on it so it’s a strange little cruising gods. As well as Johnny Depp, who’s how you get this done? Ask Joe converted into fish. They’ll have Chernobyl area. It’ll really capture machine driven by two robots. That’s 13 JUNE introducing the films on Thursday Rush to be involved”. We’re calling it wireless sound systems in the car the haunting dawn vibe. We’ve got getting stared at as we speak. The night, Andrew Garfield is going a sculptural cinema field. Maybe it and for people outside the cars, two aspects to Cineramageddon: the aeroplane also caused a stir on the We’ve got 30 cars down there now, to introduce American Graffiti. should be called The Field Of Broken headphones. And we’ve bought big drive-in night-time screenings way through Glastonbury village. out of 50 that we can fit in the field. Michael’s got over-excited and put Dreams – Joe’s been buying cars that a light aircraft, a 1960s Hawker 125 that fit the post-apocalyptic mood, “What’s Michael up to now?!” We just fitted Maybelline – that’s Cineramageddon on all the crew people have had as a project, taken to from Biggin Hill. That’s going to be and then a daytime tent that will Joe Rush the Cadillac Coupe De Ville that’s T-shirts. We’re very much looking bits, and then can’t put back together the projection booth. And there’ll have a number of different genres. our tribute to Chuck Berry. Each forward to having everybody down again. It’s going to be a really great, be big old teddy boys making sure I want people to remember it. And 5 JUNE car has a very distinct character and here. Stephen Malit eclectic bunch of sculpture pieces nobody’s bashing the cars up, and whether it’s a beautiful midsummer a name. I’ll have to test-watch one film that’ll lend themselves to really girls selling hamburgers and cleaning night or an apocalyptic mud bath, It’s a learning curve. You think you’ve in each car – and the aeroplane. For great imagery. Julien’s going to have the windows. Back in the day they I think they will. Julien Temple, got there and then one of the studios American Graffiti, I think I’ll sit in psychedelic, thought-provoking, out- used roller-skates, but I can’t really Cineramageddon director doesn’t have a film in digital format, the Coupe De Ville. We’re expecting there films for the dawn slot. Have see that at Glastonbury, can you? and well, you can imagine, unspooling a queue of ladies to come tearing in we got the programme sorted yet? Oh Joe Rush, Cineramageddon 15 MAY rolls of 15mm film cans in the mud… for the special guest, Johnny Depp. no! We’re far too rock ’n’ roll for that. designer Also, the films can’t be too long. Three We’ve got barricades up. Everyone Stephen Malit, Cineramageddon There’s loads left to do, but for what films have to fit in between dusk and I tell, all the girls, no matter what Illustration by Joe Rush by Illustration producer 2 MAY plan there is, we’re still pretty much dawn. I quite like the idea that the last their age is, are like, “Oh, yeah, I’ll be on course. We’re all chopping and one will be thinning like a vampire down there!” Joe Rush 26 APRIL What stage is the programme at? painting and welding. We’ve got 60 with the dawn. We should have [Laughs] It’s in flux. But we’ve got vehicles and an aeroplane. We’ve shown Dracula! Some films had to 19 JUNE We’re not in the field yet. At the a whole set of building blocks in place got two finished cars now – an old be yanked because they didn’t fit into moment we’ve got 55 cars up in that are getting more difficult to blow Mercedes covered in grass and a 2CV the timescale. We’re going to open We’ve got to put the delicate screen on a new barn at the top – Daimlers down. We’ve got Mad Max: Fury with tractor wheels on it. Both of it with Michael on the Wednesday the front of the canvas backing screen and Chevrolets and Cadillacs and Road in black and chrome. We’re those are now going down to the site. with a screening of Glastonbury – on Tuesday, when we’re doing a test HERE COMES MEET THE HIGHWAYMAN JOHN LEWIS lists five things you might not know about country star Kris Kristofferson THE SUN He was a Rhodes He’s twice been McGee. A great performance, from He consoled Sinead Green Fields veteran and earth wisdom expert scholar at Oxford awarded American someone I cared about a hell of a lot. O’Connor after 1 University in the late 2 Veteran Of The Year. I first heard the recording a few 5 she was booed GLENNIE KINDRED explains the Festival’s deep 1950s. “I got heavily into William “That surprised me, because I’ve been weeks after she died and I cried my off stage. “This was a concert connection with the summer solstice Blake and Shakespeare; I boxed very critical of American foreign eyes out. I’m so lucky that my songs I was compering that celebrated Bob for Merton College as a 154lb policy for many years. I’m an army have been covered by heroes who’ve Dylan’s 30th anniversary in the music People have gathered to celebrate up, take a walk to the stone circle light middleweight/welterweight; brat. My dad was an air force become friends: Johnny Cash, Willie industry. Regardless of whether you the summer solstice – the longest and watch the sun lift from the I played rugby in various muddy general, my brother was a jet pilot Nelson, Muhammad Ali, Roger agreed with her stance on the Pope or day and shortest night of the year horizon. Anywhere on the slopes cow pastures and then downed in the navy. I support our troops. But Miller, Hank Williams Jr, even Elvis.” not, surely, if there’s any place where in the northern hemisphere – since of King’s Meadow, Tipi Field or The pints of ale in nearby pubs. While I sure as hell don’t identify with the you can have freedom of speech, it’d Celtic times. It’s a tribal thing; Park, facing north-east, will offer at Oxford I also answered an advert bastards who sometimes send them He dated Janis be a Bob Dylan tribute! I love Sinead, a deep need to be with your clan at a good view. in the paper for a singer. I recorded around the world.” Joplin, Joan Baez, she’s a special person, and I wrote this high point of the year. Stone Watching the sunrise isn’t four tracks under the name ‘Kris 4 Carly Simon, Barbra a song about her called Sister Sinead. circles mark the solstice sunrise crucial, though. Just take a break Carson’ with British producer and His songs have Streisand and Cherry She was absolutely damn right to throughout the Celtic lands and from the busy Festival and have songwriter Tony Hatch. They been covered by Vanilla. “That’s what they tell me. highlight child abuse in the church.” at Glastonbury we have a circle a quiet solstice moment. Sit in one were never released, and I hope they 3 dozens of singers, My memory is terrible these days, that does the same: the swan stone of the gardens in the Healing Field, haven’t survived, because they were including Elvis. “My favourite and I can’t remember some of these Kris Kristofferson plays the circle in King’s Meadow, at the top King’s Meadow, or sit with one of absolutely terrible.” has to be Janis Joplin’s Me And Bobby relationships, if I’m honest!” Pyramid Stage on Friday, 4.15pm. of the Green Fields. Commissioned the many ancient oak trees on the by Michael Eavis and built by Ivan site. The solstice marks a transition McBeth in 1992, it represents the point in the year’s cycle when we stars that make up the constellation can stop, reflect and choose to do of Cygnus and the solstice sun rises something different in our lives to ON THE RISE over the stone that represents the create positive change for the future.
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