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Chances are that as you read this you’ll either be
engineering your waterproofs and snakebite into the
last air-pocket in your back-pack, or turning as green
with envy as the rolling hills that surround the festival
site. Glastonbury sold out this year. In a bloody
hurry. You may have heard. You’re probably still shouting
“curses!” at volume if you were in the latter camp.
Yeah, it sells out every year, but never in 24 hours.
That’s just ridiculous. The festival has of course found
itself carrying a new significance over the last couple
of years; it’s a game of survival now. And being the
only major festival remaining with a heart and a soul,
where cash flows in all the right directions and the
organiser still has a beard of such triumphant quality,
it needs to survive. And it’s no wonder with such credentials
that it just keeps growing. And growing (the festival,
not the beard). Father of the festival and deity to
many Michael Eavis still stands proud at the rudder,
but over recent years another family face has been in
ascendance, that of daughter Emily, now 23. She’s graduated
from getting under their feet at the farm to taking
a firm organisational role, particularly in relation
to the charities that Glastonbury is so intrinsically
involved with. She took time out from the blossoming
chaos earlier in the month to tell us where her head’s
at.
1. Where are you now and what can you see?
In my office in Glastonbury, with the sun shining through
the window!
2. What was the last thing you ate?
I literally just ate a sandwich.
3. What was the last thing you hated really quite
passionately?
The Marie Claire article with my festival tips in this
month’s edition, because they never even interviewed
me and I didn't say any of it! I don't stay in hotels!!
4. What was the last book you read?
‘The Art of Travel’, Alain De Botton. A brilliant take
on the psychology of travel and escapism.
5. What’s your first ever memory?
Probably the most pronounced memories have to be looking
at people from a child’s perspective at the festival,
lots and lots of feet and knees, walking all over the
farm!
6. What did you dream about last night?
I really can't remember.....it was too deep a sleep!
7. What’s the most important thing you’ve ever done?
The Fairplay concert I organised at London’s Astoria
last October, in aid of Oxfam (and the Make Trade Fair
campaign). It kicked off a lot of important moves for
me personally and it's also the first thing I did that's
apart from Glastonbury.
8. If you could see through someone else’s eyes for
a day, whose would they be?
Maybe Thom Yorke’s eyes, on the Saturday of the festival.
9. What angers you about yourself?
Anxiety
10. What are your plans for tonight?
Hmmm, probably a walk around the farm, checking out
the most recent additions to the fields! It's pretty
quiet at the moment, so I’m enjoying the calm before
the stampede!
To find out more about Make Trade Fair and in particular
the Big Noise Petition, which Glastonbury Festival
is fully endorsing and supporting, visit www.maketradefair.com.
For full line-up details and information, visit www.glastonbury-festivals.co.uk.
Line-up includes REM, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Super
Furries, Doves, Sigur Ros, Polyphonic Spree, Idlewild,
Mogwai, Athlete, Flaming Lips, 80s Matchbox, Interpol,
John Cale (Velvet Underground), Tricky, Grandaddy, Damien
Rice, Radio 4, The Delgados, Billy Bragg, The Streets,
Echo and The Bunnymen, Kings of Leon, Lemon Jelly, Squarepusher,
The Kills, The Thrills, Chemical Brothers, 2 Many DJs
and of course many many more.
www.maketradefair.com
COORDINATES interview performed by James Berry for
Crud Magazine 2003©
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