Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. [...]
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Michael Eavis has reportedly started making plans for Glastonbury Festival’s 40th anniversary next year.
The festival organiser and daughter Emily are said to favour a bill made up exclusively of acts that have played at the event over the past four decades.
“Michael and Emily want to make next year’s festival the most memorable ever,” a source [...]
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Heavy showers of rain overnight and into the Monday morning caused headaches for drivers leaving the Glastonbury Festival site in Pilton.
Cars stuck in the mud caused big delays and one driver told the BBC it took four hours to leave the Somerset site.
Traffic was heavy on Monday with major delays on the A37 southbound from [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009
Bruce Springsteen cost the festival organiser Michael Eavis £3,000 when his set breached the 12.30am curfew by nine minutes.
Mr Eavis said: “I gave him ten minutes and he took nine. I’ll pay the fine, £3,000. Paul McCartney — 2004 headliner — paid me back. I’m going to pay the Bruce Springsteen one myself. It’s not [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury founder, will stand down as the music festival’s organiser in 2011 to make way for a “new generation”
The 73-year-old Somerset farmer, who launched the festival 39 years ago, said he plans to hand over the reins to his daughter Emily and her fiance.
Previously, he said he would keep going until his [...]
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Michael Eavis has reportedly called an emergency meeting amid fears that Glastonbury could be affected by swine flu.
The festival organiser is concerned that further outbreaks of the virus in the UK could mount pressure on him to cancel this year’s event.
“So many people gathered in one place is a risk, and if the Government wanted [...]
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Glastonbury festival organisers have provoked the wrath of local residents by reducing the size of the catchment area for free tickets.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis has kept on good terms with residents of Pilton, Pill and Sticklynch, three tiny villages near the site, by handing out free passes to compensate for the noise and disruption caused [...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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 likes to [...]
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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.”
