0:00:01 > 0:00:09CHEERING
0:00:17 > 0:00:19The festival could come and go.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22I mean, it could go in a wink, couldn't it?
0:00:22 > 0:00:23It's very open to fashion.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30200,000 people might decide at some point it's not fashionable any more.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36COWS MOO
0:00:36 > 0:00:41But the farm and the cows and the tradition of the dairy is lasting.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43You know, it's there for ever, really.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47This farm is what I'm made of.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54COW MOOS
0:01:01 > 0:01:02Michael, is it true that you...
0:01:02 > 0:01:06occasionally you would sing to...sing hymns to the cows sometimes
0:01:06 > 0:01:08in the old days. Is that true or not?
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Actually, my father used to sing hymns to the cows.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13No, I didn't do that. No.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15I played The Kinks to the cows.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18- Er, Lola. You know Lola? - What, you played Lola to the cows?
0:01:18 > 0:01:20I have played Lola to the cows, yeah.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23And I'd play it into the dairy itself.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24With a long pipe.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29So the bass was absolutely fantastic.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34# Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy
0:01:34 > 0:01:40# But when I looked in her eyes, well, I almost fell for my Lola
0:01:40 > 0:01:42# Lo Lo Lo Lo Lola... #
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Smell that.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Lovely, isn't it?
0:01:47 > 0:01:50# Lola, Lo Lo Lo Lo Lola... #
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Naughty girl!
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Michael, what's this field called?
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Actually, this is the main arena.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02OK? Look at the grass.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05No fertiliser. It's all naturally grown grass.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07It grows like rhubarb.
0:02:07 > 0:02:12In fact, I shouldn't really drive over it, actually.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17So 100,000 people can actually stand in this field at the same time
0:02:17 > 0:02:20and watch Dolly Parton or The Who or something.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Or Kanye West, actually.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Kanye's the headliner this year.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Kanye's going to shock and please the crowds, I'm sure.
0:02:28 > 0:02:33MUSIC: Runaway by Kanye West feat Pusha T
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Ah, Finn. HE LAUGHS
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Finn's there. It's always nice to see Finn.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Michael, how many cows are there at Worthy Farm?
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Well, we've got 400 cows and 400 followers.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05That's all the young cattle coming on behind their mums.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08And it's quite important to me that the cows should actually
0:03:08 > 0:03:13graze for at least 100 days a year.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16And... Oh, there's John.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18We've been grazing these fields for 150 years.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23And I've milked my own cows for 40 years.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26That's virtually nonstop, you know, but I also focus on the festival
0:03:26 > 0:03:29and worrying about whether Primal Scream are going to play or not,
0:03:29 > 0:03:31all that sort of thing.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34I was waiting for the phone to ring while I was milking,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37so I had to put a land line, wire it up to the milking parlour,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39so that I could take the calls while I was milking.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43So it's hardly focusing 100%...
0:03:44 > 0:03:48..on the farm, is it? Do you know what I mean?
0:03:48 > 0:03:53# I was blind, now I can see
0:03:53 > 0:03:58# You made a believer out of me
0:03:58 > 0:04:01# I was blind, now I can see... #
0:04:01 > 0:04:06There's farm work, then there's farm work at Worthy Farm.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I get up every morning, what - about 4.15 in the morning?
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Especially this time of year. It's lovely. Birds singing, quiet.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14I tell you, I'd hate to be on a bloody...
0:04:14 > 0:04:19commuter into Bristol or something where you've got to sit in the car for an hour and a half.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22I feel sorry for those poor people. I couldn't...ugh!
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Tried it once. Yeah, didn't like that. You can't consider it a job.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Anybody who says farming is a job has got it wrong.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28It's a lifestyle.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Cos those cows are here and they need looking after
0:04:31 > 0:04:36and checking 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39COWS MOO
0:04:48 > 0:04:50So, Pam, have you got a favourite cow?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Yes. This one.
0:04:52 > 0:04:53And she's called Jojo.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57What do you like about her?
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Well, she's just so friendly.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- Isn't he? Yeah. - SHE LAUGHS
0:05:01 > 0:05:05We'm here 365 days a year.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09You know, come rain or shine, so you do get, you know,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11you do get attached to them.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14You don't like nothing happening to them.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Up, hey.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Up, hey.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19It's a way of life to me.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22All my parents, my grandparents, all been dairy farmers.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25All Pam's family, all farmers.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28It's a way of life, rather than a job.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30I wouldn't know what to do.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Can you imagine doing anything else?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36I'd like to work in Boots, you know, and smell nice all the time!
0:05:36 > 0:05:38SHE LAUGHS
0:05:41 > 0:05:44I mean, John and Pam would know every single cow.
0:05:44 > 0:05:49They know their cows better than they know their grandchildren.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51It's extraordinary commitment.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58SLOW SOLO BANJO
0:05:58 > 0:06:03SLOW SOLO BANJO
0:06:03 > 0:06:05All right?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09That is the best thing for this farm.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11That heap of silage there, that will see us
0:06:11 > 0:06:14through the whole year for feeding the cattle
0:06:14 > 0:06:16and it's all covered with the sheets,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20nicely protected from the sun and rain by the sheeting.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24And Stephen does that to perfection. Look at that. It's so tidy.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29This is why we win the Gold Cup, you see, because we're tidy farmers.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31And now we come to the big one.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37This wonderful Gold Cup, the NMR/RABDF Gold Cup, 2014
0:06:39 > 0:06:43and the winner of the Gold Cup...
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Please congratulate Michael Eavis!
0:06:45 > 0:06:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:06:51 > 0:06:55'It was a complete surprise when they called out Michael's name
0:06:55 > 0:06:57'but I couldn't have been more chuffed for him.'
0:06:57 > 0:07:01All his work he's put in over the last 60-70 years has come to fruition.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03You can't beat that one little bit
0:07:03 > 0:07:08'and the culmination was them calling out Michael Eavis' name from Worthy Farm. Fantastic.'
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Apart from being married and having kids and that, whatever, that was the highlight of my work life.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Absolutely fantastic and it's been a lifetime ambition for me,
0:07:19 > 0:07:22to win the Gold Cup. I never, ever thought I'd do it.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26'He loves it. He wants to win it another two times now, at least.'
0:07:26 > 0:07:28So yeah, we've got our work cut out now.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29HE LAUGHS
0:07:38 > 0:07:42Today, however, we're here to celebrate the Gold Cup.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45I'd like now to hand over to Michael to talk about the farm.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Michael Eavis, thank you.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49OK, thank you very much.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57There's nothing better to me than to win this award.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01I never thought we'd actually win it.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04I tell you what, I'm going to win it again!
0:08:04 > 0:08:06HE LAUGHS
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I know Michael's been presented with the marvellous Gold Cup.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12I'd just also like to present him with this farm sign.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16- Oh, thank you. - Fantastic. Well done.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Lovely, OK?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21The farm always comes first, you know.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22The festival comes second.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26The rock 'n' roll and the glamour of all that stuff, you know,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29it's not really in the same league.
0:08:30 > 0:08:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:35 > 0:08:43I want to thank this wonderful man who's had us for 40 years.
0:08:43 > 0:08:48Happy birthday, 20 years. He's here tonight. Michael Eavis.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:50 > 0:08:56# Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you
0:08:56 > 0:08:58# Happy birthday
0:08:58 > 0:09:01# Happy birthday to you
0:09:01 > 0:09:03# Happy birthday... #
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Let's modulate to D flat.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09- # Happy birthday. - # Happy birthday to you... #
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- Tell me, Michael, is it true that in 1970, the ticket was a pound... - Yeah.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15..and you got free milk? Can you tell me about that?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Well, I didn't know what I was doing in those days.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19It was only a pound to come in,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23because a pound in those days was quite a lot of money.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Especially to a farmer.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28So I thought "Oh, well. I'll give the milk away, then."
0:09:28 > 0:09:31And so it was included in the pound.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34So it was really good value, it was.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37The Kinks were going to play and they pulled out.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39They quite rightly thought that we were amateurs
0:09:39 > 0:09:42and we didn't know what we were doing.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45COUNTRY MANDOLIN
0:09:49 > 0:09:53Do you want to get through there, or not? What do you think? What?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Are you nervous?
0:09:56 > 0:09:59I tell you, I'm a good driver, you know.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04- Are we going to be stuck here, Michael?- Well, I think we're stuck. Yeah, I think we are.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05I think that drop's on your side.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Yeah, it was a bad move, wasn't it? Yeah.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15This is it. This is the view of a lifetime, really.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18I mean, for me, because it's my...
0:10:18 > 0:10:20I mean, it's my heritage, you know.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Er...
0:10:22 > 0:10:26And my great-grandfather came to where that red...
0:10:26 > 0:10:29There's a red building down there and that's where his house was.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31He was a great preacher and my father was
0:10:31 > 0:10:34and my grandmother ran the Sunday school in the village.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38And it's part of that Methodist background.
0:10:38 > 0:10:43They were positive people and we've inherited that tradition
0:10:43 > 0:10:46of looking at life in the best possible way.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51They'd be proud of you now, wouldn't they, winning the Gold Cup and everything you've achieved?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Oh, yeah, the Gold Cup, yeah, they would love the Gold Cup.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56I'm not sure about the festival. What do you think?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Can't tell, can you?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Never know, will we?
0:11:02 > 0:11:08# Love divine, all loves excelling
0:11:08 > 0:11:13# Joy from heaven, to earth come down
0:11:13 > 0:11:20# Fix in us thy humble dwelling... #
0:11:20 > 0:11:22I've forgotten the words!
0:11:22 > 0:11:25HE LAUGHS
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Yes. That's fine.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- Let's try and get these brackets on. - OK.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- Right.- OK?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36OK. This is the moment.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41This is the moment of truth. One, two, three. Up.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46A bit more? Hang onto this one. Wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Well done. There we are, look.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58HE LAUGHS
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Yeah, perfect.
0:12:02 > 0:12:07Nice blue sky behind, isn't it? Lovely, isn't it? Eh?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Right, we're going to leave it up there until we get the next one.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13HE LAUGHS
0:12:16 > 0:12:18George. Do you like the white ones?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Where does the milk go?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- It goes to the dairy. - It goes to the dairy. Spot on.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30It goes to London.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34And it goes to London. Yeah, that's absolutely right.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35'I take him every day.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39'For at least an hour a day, every single day. Including Sundays.'
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Let's have a look. Whoa!
0:12:41 > 0:12:44This is Grandpa's favourite, this one. Look.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Isn't she lovely? And she's so clean.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52'He's very, very bright. He's very, very into it.'
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Look at this nice sort of spotty one there.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57The calves, they're very little.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Yeah, they are very little, aren't they?
0:13:03 > 0:13:09And when you're a big boy, I hope you'll keep it going for another 100 years, maybe.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Let's hope so!
0:13:15 > 0:13:17'And he can do it, I'm sure he can do it.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21'That's why I'm doing my best, I'll tell you that.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25'Got to keep it going, cos it's so deeply ingrained in my body,'
0:13:25 > 0:13:28my blood, and everything. In my bones, even.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Er... And he can do it. I'm sure he can do it.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36So fingers crossed, eh?