Eavii interviewed on Grauniad

[jackarmy]

5 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

it's not a great site. I don't think it's big enough either (with usable space), tho it dependsa what size the want to make the new fest.

Aye, lots of hills. Although with the budget they'll have I'm sure they could make that work (Boomtown manages fine on that front I hear)

With a new event like this they could also increase the number of ticket + coach packages to free up room potentially...

[Pinhead]

Do I read that right - is that a potential 2 year hiatus for Glasto until 2020 then?

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Pinhead said:

Do I read that right - is that a potential 2 year hiatus for Glasto until 2020 then?

Michael: Well, it’s certainly in the air at the moment. We’re very much still at the planning stages. We’ve talked about 2019 for the event away from Worthy Farm, but it could well be 2021.

Emily: Yes, I think we’re most likely going to come back here in 2019 after the fallow year in 2018, when there will be no event. Then 2020 is our 50th anniversary. And 2021, we may then do a show somewhere else, which we’re calling the Variety Bazaar. But none of this is set in stone.

[bexj]

Just now, Pinhead said:

Do I read that right - is that a potential 2 year hiatus for Glasto until 2020 then?

No, i read it as off in 2018, Worthy Farm in 2019 and 2020, new site in 2021

[Crazyfool01]

mean while on the other famous Glastonbury site the top topic is ..... cups of tea !!

 

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[giantkatestacks]

The guardian changed my question. Ah well. So awful about Prince. Still gutted.

[stuartbert two hats]

5 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

mean while on the other famous Glastonbury site the top topic is ..... cups of tea !!

 

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This colour

[Pinhead]

12 minutes ago, bexj said:

No, i read it as off in 2018, Worthy Farm in 2019 and 2020, new site in 2021

Hmm. You're right. However, 'none of this is set in stone'. A two year Glasto run followed by another 'year off'? All getting complicated and irregular. Interesting times.

[Crazyfool01]

6 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

This colour

I like it a nice muddy brown colour !!

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

They also confirmed what we all thought and suspected anyway:

We open the ticket site slowly so that they’re not gone in 30 seconds and people have a fair chance. But within an hour, you’ll know whether you’ve got one.

So they deliberately sell tickets slowly so it seems fairer to everybody, it's scary that they could decide to sell them in a couple of minutes if they wanted!

[DropBeat]

Great reading, some nice new info and really good to get the commitment to Worthy Farm underlined like that. 

Look forward to the new area, hopefully it really helps spread the crowds out. Quite enjoy an evening in the Park area so will be good to have a new area nearby to explore.

[shoptildrop]

If this new cinema area is near the park does this mean some more camping areas are lost??

[bennyhana22]

14 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Hmm. You're right. However, 'none of this is set in stone'. A two year Glasto run followed by another 'year off'? All getting complicated and irregular. Interesting times.

If it is to be 'not in the same year as Glastonbury', then they'll have to have a shorter period to fallow after 2018, or wait until maybe 2023 to put on Variety Bazaar, and it sounds as if they're keen to do it before that. I could see it being a more regular, 'rigid, four G's to one VB. Repeat.

Ben

[bennyhana22]

46 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

you took the words right out my mouth .. just the small matter of a president to deal with now !! lets just hope on that one !!!!

He's not TBC, is he...?!

That'd be a helluva late afternoon Pyramid set!

Ben

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, bennyhana22 said:

He's not TBC, is he...?!

That'd be a helluva late afternoon Pyramid set!

Ben

im gonna hope for a muddy one !! think they threw mud in the early days ... does he get the dalai lama slot ?!

[Crazyfool01]

or talk climate change in the green fields ...

[bennyhana22]

7 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

im gonna hope for a muddy one !! think they threw mud in the early days ... does he get the dalai lama slot ?!

Oh crazy! I think we got our wires crossed there - I was making a Meat Loaf reference!!!

The Donald^TM wouldn't make it through Gate A!

Ben

[Sawdusty surfer]

29 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

They also confirmed what we all thought and suspected anyway:

We open the ticket site slowly so that they’re not gone in 30 seconds and people have a fair chance. But within an hour, you’ll know whether you’ve got one.

 

Folk that spend two minutes trying to get a ticket fail, then give up.

[fatyeti24]

54 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

mean while on the other famous Glastonbury site the top topic is ..... cups of tea !!

 

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There's another Glastonbury site?  Can't be that famous!

[Familiar2billions]

The new area by the park sounds brilliant! They had the drive in cinema screen the first year i went and it was lovely to sit there under the stars buzzed up watching a film.

[Rumblestripe]

Looking at the map of last year's festival, "west of Park" is Dairy Ground or Paines . Now it's a while since I camped in Dairy but I don't recall much of a slope? Surely you need a decent slope to give a view of a big screen so I would have though it might be above the Park Stage where the Glastonbury sign is? Which is also not used for camping it's a bit of an empty area with the BBC platform about halfway up and Crow's Nest at the top.

Anyway the people who were posting on the Variety Bazaar thread that this was going to the last one evs can chill out.

Have an Orang smile.

Edited January 20, 2017 by Rumblestripe

[Quark]

Meatloaf - yes please. 

Tea - number 3.

[Keithy]

16 minutes ago, Quark said:

Meatloaf - yes please. 

Tea - number 3.

Meatloaf? That gives me an excuse to share this amazing story.

http://ronancasey.ie/2011/08/one-more-thing-gets-thrown-up-on-stage-and-im-leaving/

"Get back on that stage ya bollocks"

[ghostdancer1]

1 hour ago, Rumblestripe said:

Looking at the map of last year's festival, "west of Park" is Dairy Ground or Paines . Now it's a while since I camped in Dairy but I don't recall much of a slope? Surely you need a decent slope to give a view of a big screen so I would have though it might be above the Park Stage where the Glastonbury sign is? Which is also not used for camping it's a bit of an empty area with the BBC platform about halfway up and Crow's Nest at the top.

 

Dairy Ground (2016 version) is a bit too north and out of the way IMO. the camping bit directly to the west of The Park perhaps, but that might be too close to Arcadia?

if they re-jigged some of the fencing at the very south of The Park (to the left of the stage), they could open out a path through to South Park 2 and take some of the general and staff camping from there, which is on a slope.

[hurdy]

1 hour ago, Keithy said:

Meatloaf? That gives me an excuse to share this amazing story.

http://ronancasey.ie/2011/08/one-more-thing-gets-thrown-up-on-stage-and-im-leaving/

"Get back on that stage ya bollocks"

Brilliant