Tag: Glastonbury Festival
Security Planning Pays off at Glastonbury
Put nearly 140,000 people and hundreds of attractions – from the mainstream to the truly surreal – into several thousand acres of prime English farmland for a weekend and, without very carefully managed safety and stewarding, there is the potential for many problems. But with the long-term planning and careful site management of companies like [...]
Huhtamaki to supply pint cups to Glastonbury
More than 100,000 revellers at Britain’s most famous music festival won’t go thirsty – thanks to a local company. Gosport firm Huhtamaki has been given one of the most important jobs for Glastonbury, supplying the pint cups. More than a million pints of cider and lager are expected to be knocked back at the four-day [...]
Glastonbury Festival hopes to move year out to 2012 to avoid Olympic clash
Glastonbury Festival is hoping to take the Olympic year off, rather than the intended year of 2011, to avoid a clash with the sporting event. The Festival’s organiser Michael Eavis, has told the Western Daily Press, (here), that he hopes the ‘fallow year’ which gives the land at Worthy Farm, Somerset a chance to recover [...]
Left Field Stage will no longer feature as part of Glastonbury Festival.
The campaigning Left Field Stage will no longer feature as part of Glastonbury Festival. Festival chiefs have pulled the plug on the 5000-capacity tent, describing the move as another twist in Glastonbury’s continued evolution. A spokesman told efestivals: “Although the Left Field area will not be happening next year in its current format, Glastonbury always [...]
Glastonbury Festival licence ‘is assured’
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says the music festival will never lose its licence because it has become too important to the local economy. “The local economy gets £100m a year,” he told Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs. “So there’s no discussion about not allowing the festival a licence any more. They won’t stop it now.”
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