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Glastonbury 2007 pt1: the build-up

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William of Walworth said:
Good. I hope that Roy/LV can add to possibilities that Michael/Glastonbury might SACK Clear Channel, the corporate scum! :mad:
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depressing thought innit :(
 
Having said that, the likelihoood of him getting a licence on his own is very slim. He took on Mean Fiddler because the council wanted him to share responsibility/liability. I'd guess he'd have to sigh up another partner.

Why the fuck am I concerning myself with this now? :D
 
Yes it is seeing as there's been a year off every 5 years since 1991 :)
Although I doubt anyone chez Eavis was particularly displeased with that!
 
moose said:
Having said that, the likelihoood of him getting a licence on his own is very slim. He took on Mean Fiddler because the council wanted him to share responsibility/liability. I'd guess he'd have to sigh up another partner.
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Fair enough, but Michael needs to get someone marginally more fluffily corporate** involved ... than those Clear Channel twats ... :mad:

**I post within the bounds of realism ... ;)
 
Crispy said:
Yes it is seeing as there's been a year off every 5 years since 1991 :)
Although I doubt anyone chez Eavis was particularly displeased with that!
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they all seemed really chilled over the weekend.

it wasnt just the eavis' - the rest of the crew were getting a bit worn down. and they needed to watch the footy ;)
 
moose said:
Having said that, the likelihoood of him getting a licence on his own is very slim.
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i doubt he'd want to - he's getting on (70 last year) and he doesnt want full on duties. and he's severely lacking a suitable sucessor despite his large family
 
wiskey said:
it wasnt just the eavis' - the rest of the crew were getting a bit worn down. and they needed to watch the footy ;)
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First World Cup year since 1979 (or before, whatever) that has coincided with the a non Glasto year!!

World Cups of 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 have ALL coincided with Glastos!! ....

Not this time!!!

:cool: :) :cool:
 
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Velouria said:
I have seen people claim a public right of way does run through at least part of the site
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Though I've never been, that looks like bollocks to me:

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Ordnance Survey maps are usually definitive - takes a court case to add a right of way that's not on them...
 
More information/speculation on Glasto structures :

Glastofreak said:
http://www.answers.com/topic/glastonbury-festival

An interesting article about Glastonbury that goes on to say that the live side of Clear Channel Entertainment has been sold off to form a new company called Live Nation with a UK subsiduary Live Nation UK. Information on Live nation can be found here

http://www.answers.com/topic/live-nation

There is a part of me that thinks that the new company has been set up to confuse the issue of Clear Channel but looking at all the interests they have this is probably not true. Glastonbury is only one festival, the biggest and best but only one, a company as large as Live Nation has plenty of other fish to fry. So will ME go with Live Nation, someone else (possibly with MB involved), or say sod it, I know how its done, thanks for the information, we will do it ourselves?

Live Nation has done some terrible things such as
In 2002, Clear Channel was sued by the US Justice Department for not allowing people with diabetes to bring medically necessary supplies, including syringes used for insulin, into concert venues. Clear Channel changed their policy shortly afterward.
But if they did work for ME I wuld have thought that there exact involvement would be carefully worked out before hand.

An outside group would also need carefull negotiations as to there boundarys also would they have the necessary experiance?

The do it yourself option has one major problem would the local authorites allow ME to do it himself?
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Useful links/information above, amid the speculation.

The question of what's going to happen for 2007 is still unclear, a little bit of it appears in part to have been answered though. I'm told, secondhand, that 'Infoman' on TOS (The Official [Glasto] Site) has confirmed that Melvin Benn** will be taking at least a month off in 2007 to help with Glastonbury.

Details of this very unclear at this stage ....need to check TOS directly when I can get to it ... and see my footnote ...

**Long standing Mean Fiddler employee, named licencee of the Glastonbury Festival since 2002. Still seems to be employed either by Clear Channel or Live Nation UK [not sure just now!] but if that information from Infoman is correct, looks like he will be released by them to work directly with Glastonbury .... but just for a month?? Surely would take much longer than that ....
 
Just had a cast around TOS message forums and can't find the relevant bit relating to Melvin Benn ..... not very familiar with the layout of that forum though .... :confused:
 
William of Walworth said:
The question of what's going to happen for 2007 is still unclear, a little bit of it appears in part to have been answered though. I'm told, secondhand, that Melvin Benn** will be taking at least a month off in 2007 to help with Glastonbury.
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deep joy :(
 
wiskey said:
glastonbury the film will be on bbc2 on saturday (15th) at 10:30pm

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The old 1971 film (Glastonbury Fayre) or the new film?

The 1971 film is available for download allegedly ;) [a telecine version] and is also allegedly due for a DVD release sometime soon ...
 
wiskey said:
glastonbury the film will be on bbc2 on saturday (15th) at 10:30pm

:)
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Is this the Julian Temple film for sure??? The one released earlier this year and which I never managed to get it together to get to the Ritzy for???

(There's another, older, Glasto film, not necessarily the 1971 one because there was a more recent one than that, both of which are moderately to better than that good, but neither of which I'm so desparate to see again .... :confused: )
 
William of Walworth said:
Is this the Julian Temple film for sure??? The one released earlier this year and which I never managed to get it together to get to the Ritzy for???

(There's another, older, Glasto film, not necessarily the 1971 one because there was a more recent one than that, both of which are moderately to better than that good, but neither of which I'm so desparate to see again .... :confused: )
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this is the new one

Glasontbury The Movie (1995) is also a very good film - i thought it summed up the festival really well and avoided most of the main stage bits focussing more on the other bits
 
Cheers folks, time to do battle with the DVD player/recorder again, I'm still learning ... :confused:

Will watch on Sunday night, or if too drunk/knackered/late after Lambeth Country Show Day 2, on Monday night :)

I think this showing should be more widely advertised ...
 
Julian Temple's film of Glastonbury is the dogs bollocks!!!!

William of Walworth said:
Some Radio Times online confirmation ...

10:30, BBC2, Saturday :)
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And I've now just watched the DVD of Julian Temple's film ... all the way though! I was late to it, but worth the wait!!! :cool:

I thoroughly recommend watching this masterpiece of documentary history as soon as possible. I recommend that to all people who have any opinion of any kind at all about Glastonbury, positive, negative, or inbetween ... :eek:

It's the business as a weirdly produced, much edited and chopped about, chaotic, disorganised, shambolic sort-of history of the monster .... very critical, very celebratory, mud and sunshine ... a distorted reflection of the EVENT OF OUR ERA ...

Watch this film soon. Indeed, watch this superb film now ... :D

Preferably while on drugs ....

<skins up again :p >
 
Saw the first ten minutes the other day, and I agree with William: it seems to be perfectly edited to provide that kind of slightly hallucinatory what's-going-on?-oh-what-the-hell-just-go-with-it feel of Glasto.

Tee hee. My little brother texted me on Saturday afternoon, very excited, to say he had just bought the DVD of this...
Ah, the folly of youth. :p
 
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