The News Review:
- Who’s next at Britain’s muddy Glastonbury music festival
- Festival screens rare Elgar film
- New festival hit by bad weather
- Straw wars rock festival
- A picture-perfect day for the Arts Festival.
Who’s next at Britain’s muddy Glastonbury music festival
Channel News Asia – Jun 24, 2007
The band which formed in 1964 and are known for hits such as “My Generation” have never played the festival in its 37-year history but are set to headline the main Pyramid stage. They will have a tough act to follow after United States band the Killers received a rapturous reception Saturday night with a blaze of light and fireworks accompanying hits such as “All These Things That I’ve Done. As the festivities continued police announced that a 26-year-old man had died after a suspected drug overdose adding that there had been 134 arrests mostly over drug allegations. Hundreds of people have also sustained minor injuries after slipping in the muddy quagmire.
Festival screens rare Elgar film
BBC News – Jun 24, 2007
Some of the clips including home movie shots of the composer at home with his dogs are thought to have never been seen in public before. The hour-long film compilation will be shown at Gregynog Festival to mark the 150th anniversary of Elgar’s birth. The footage was found about eight years ago said owners Huntley Film Archives. The shots of the composer conducting the London Symphony rchestra playing Land of Hope and Glory are believed to have been filmed by British Pathe news at the famous Abbey Road studios in 1929.
New festival hit by bad weather
BBC News – Jun 24, 2007
Bosses of the inaugural utsider Festival said near-constant rain and unseasonably low temperatures had sent costs of the event soaring. More than 10000 people attended the environmentally-focussed festival at Rothiemurchus near Aviemore. It combined music with outdoor activities. rganiser Peter Irvine said they would have to reconsider holding it again.
Straw wars rock festival
guardian.co.uk – Jun 24, 2007
It was as if it were carrying pure gold. ‘You have to do what you can’ said one man as he loaded up two cardboard boxes. He wanted to get his hands on one of the most precious commodities at this year’s festival – the one thing that would keep the entrance to his stall dry accessible to the public and free of the sea of mud that the heavy rain had brought to the fields of Somerset: straw. ‘When the truck drove past this morning I sent my colleague out three times in bare feet’ said Rachel Clements 44 from Devizes Wiltshire.
A picture-perfect day for the Arts Festival.
Free with registration – maha World-Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 24, 2007
24–The maha Summer Arts Festival is as much festival as art. Thousands of lookers and a smaller number of buyers packed the four-block walkway along Gene Leahy Mall on t.