Charlotte Church, Ken Livingstone, & Pussy Riot for Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival 2015

Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2015
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£220 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 198,000

Last updated: Thu 18th Jun 2015

Charlotte Church, Ken Livingstone, Molly Scott Cato, Pat Kane, and Shami Chakrabarti will appear at Glastonbury Festival on Sunday in a Left Field debate to talk about politics.

They will be part of a discussion about the ‘calamitous change’ the next five years could bring, "The next 5 years threaten calamitous change – the NHS could be privatised, the unions outlawed, the UK dissolved and England become an independent country outside the EU. So join Labour’s Ken Livingstone, the Green Party, musician and ‘Yes’ campaigner Pat Kane as well as the legendary Shami Chakrabarti and Charlotte Church for some A class discussions on the next few years and beyond. Chaired by John Harris, Guardian journalist."

Throughout the long weekend the LeftField will host lunchtime debates. On Friday there's Pussy Riot in conversation, with founding members of the art collective, Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova and Maria (Masha) Alekhina, focusing their attention on the actions of the Russian government and human rights violations at home and abroad, chaired by John Harris, Guardian journalist.On the same day the LeftField debates 'Venceremos! The New Radical Movements' with Podemos, Syriza, Radical Independence Campaign & Independents for Frome with Cat Boyd, Pippa Goldfinger, Marina Prentoulis, and Sirio Canós.

Saturday has 'Feminism without Borders' with Reni Eddo-Lodge, Black Liberation Collective, Shanice McBean from Sisters Uncut, Sue Marsh, and Zrinka Bralo of Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum discussing some of the issues facing self identified women today and how these struggles and fight backs interact. Plus the big topics affecting us all fracking, TTIP & housing with Jasmin Stone, Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now, Zoe Blackwell from Frack Free Dee.

Sunday's talks also include Worker’s Rights including the living wage, and zero hours contracts with GMB's Elly Baker, East London Strippers Collective, Stacey Clare, Mark Serwotka from PCS & Matt Wrack and chaired by John Harris, Guardian journalist.

For more information see the (LeftField debates page).

Farmer and Festival founder Michael Eavis said of the tent, "The Worker’s Beer Company and myself started the Left Field Tent, following our tradition of campaigning for CND and helping the miners who were totally destroyed by Maggie in the Eighties.
And before that there was the huge surge of interest in the Green movement’s efforts to clean up our country when the eco warriors arrived here in all their glory in the seventies.

"Fortunately for us all, Billy and Juliet have now picked up the baton. Their passion and integrity is what’s needed to run the Left Field Tent to fight for a change and give our poorer people just half a chance to live decent, happy and worthwhile lives."

This year's headliners are Florence + The Machine, Kanye West, and The Who. The line-up is vast but here's a few of the other names who will be appearing over the five days - Lionel Richie in the teatime legends slot, Patti Smith & her band, Rudimental, Deadmau5, Paul Weller, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Suede, The Chemical Brothers (live), Belle & Sebastian, Clean Bandit, Jungle, Jamie XX, Gregory Porter, Super Furry Animals, Jon Hopkins, Sharon Van Etten, Kate Tempest, Wolf Alice, Perfume Genius, Hozier, Father John Misty, Courtney Barnett, Fat White Family, La Roux, Death Cab For Cutie, Kasai Allstars, FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks), Modestep, Circa Waves, Peace, Young Fathers, The Moody Blues, Pharrell Williams, Alt-J, Motorhead, Mary J Blige, Alabama Shakes, Paloma Faith, The Waterboys, The Fall, George Ezra, and many, many more.

This year's sold out Glastonbury Festival runs for five full days from Wednesday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2015 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset.

To see who is playing where and when see our Glastonbury Festival 2015 line-up page.

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