SUPPORTING GREENPEACE EAVIS DAUGHTER WATERAID NOT FOR SHALE OXFAM STOP PRESS Twin Atlantic replace Chromeo for John Peel set, Sat 9.15pm Thursday, 26 June, 2014 Proudly printed in the Theatre and Circus Fields of Glastonbury 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 – New Age travellers 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 Stonehenge] 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 the Rolling Stones, 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 Emily Eavis 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, Tony Benn (1925-2014) foodie& peas, mouth- in a new prominent position in the markets, melting plaintains, Billy Bragg 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 Glastonbury Fayre – 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 Michael Eavis 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 the Left Field 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 concert 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.