With more than 170,000 music fans about to descend on Mendip for this year’s world-famous Glastonbury Festival, staff at the district council have been hard at work behind the scenes. The council boasts many years of Glastonbury Festival experience between the band of staff that work on all aspects of monitoring the legendary event. Full Story: Read More
BBC News – Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis in ‘drink less’ call
Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis says he would prefer music fans to “drink much less” at the event. Festival-goers have been known to take wheelbarrows and trolleys of alcohol on to the site at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Ticket-holders for this month’s event got an email warning them not to bring alcohol in a “wheeled device”. Full Story: Read More
Local artist to fill Yeovil Town Centre with visual art
With over 50 premises currently empty in Yeovil Town Centre, South Somerset District Council has commissioned a local artist to put the spotlight on the vacant shops and explore Yeovil’s self-image through art and music. Artist, Simon Lee Dicker and students from Yeovil College Music Department will fill Yeovil Town Centre on Saturday 15 June, where you will be able to hear multiple live performances of the song ‘Pretty Vacant’ with a backdrop of large-scale prints on vacant shop windows throughout the Town Centre. The visual art will be in place until the end of July, unless the project is so successful it gets displaced by incoming businesses. Full Story: Read More