0:00:02 > 0:00:08This programme contains very strong language
0:00:08 > 0:00:09Thank you!
0:00:09 > 0:00:15# It's here, it's here Every teardrop is a... #
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0:00:22 > 0:00:25- Thank you.- # Oh oh-oh oh
0:00:25 > 0:00:28# Oh oh oh. #
0:00:28 > 0:00:32APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Good night. Thank you very much! Thank you.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40CHEERING
0:00:48 > 0:00:53When the shows come to an end on the Pyramid stage,
0:00:53 > 0:00:58a pilgrimage of 100,000 people winds its way uphill through the rain
0:00:58 > 0:01:01and mud to a far corner of the festival.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04And another Glastonbury begins.
0:01:07 > 0:01:14From the glass coffin of genre, a startling new sound breaks forth.
0:01:15 > 0:01:22Like a defiant Methuselah mouse gnawing through the cables
0:01:22 > 0:01:26of mythology and coming up in Rockefeller Plaza
0:01:26 > 0:01:31to see the statue of Prometheus look down.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37To Gipsy children dared upon the shore
0:01:37 > 0:01:44and the cable snaps in a riotous carnival
0:01:44 > 0:01:47erupting on the Utopia bypass.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52The cavalcade of doom and dirty deals
0:01:52 > 0:01:57grinds to a halt while the revellers
0:01:57 > 0:02:00storm across the frontier shouting,
0:02:00 > 0:02:04"Viva la musica!"
0:02:04 > 0:02:07DANCE MUSIC
0:02:08 > 0:02:10# Hey hey!
0:02:12 > 0:02:13# Hey hey!
0:02:15 > 0:02:17# Hey hey!
0:02:18 > 0:02:21# Hey hey hey hey!
0:02:22 > 0:02:23# Hey hey!
0:02:27 > 0:02:29# Hey hey!
0:02:31 > 0:02:33# Hey hey!
0:02:37 > 0:02:39# Hey hey!
0:02:42 > 0:02:43# Hey hey!
0:02:51 > 0:02:52# Hey hey! #
0:02:52 > 0:02:55CHEERING
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Anyone can put on U2 or Beyonce or Coldplay.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00I mean, that's not clever, is it?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04All the inventive stuff that we do like the Travellers Field
0:03:04 > 0:03:07down in the southeast corner, that's the new stuff we do.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11It's so mind-blowing and it's so inventive,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15it's just pushing the boundaries of performance, isn't it?
0:03:18 > 0:03:22INDISTINCT VOICE AND SOUND EFFECTS
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Good evening.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04WHOOPING
0:04:04 > 0:04:06I think I've died and gone to heaven.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11- You sexy thing.- Oh, no, it's Shangri-La.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15It's visions of the future.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Sometimes visions of an ideal future.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Sometimes visions of a sort of nightmare future.
0:04:21 > 0:04:26Without Utopia we would be nowhere. Without that idea of us moving on.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31# Manchild, will you ever learn?
0:04:31 > 0:04:36# Manchild look at the state you're in!
0:04:37 > 0:04:42# Manchild, you gonna make me cry
0:04:43 > 0:04:48# Manchild, manchild
0:04:48 > 0:04:51# Manchild
0:04:52 > 0:04:56# Apple of your eye
0:04:57 > 0:05:04# Manchild, he will make you cry
0:05:04 > 0:05:08# Manchild, he will take you there
0:05:08 > 0:05:10# Manchild... #
0:05:10 > 0:05:13MIX OF MUFFLED VOICES
0:05:13 > 0:05:19REVERBERATING MUSIC
0:05:35 > 0:05:38BING-BONG OF PA ANNOUNCEMENT
0:05:38 > 0:05:43PA: "Please be aware, as this area is contaminated."
0:05:43 > 0:05:47SIRENS WAIL
0:05:47 > 0:05:50"If you have been contaminated,
0:05:50 > 0:05:55"please make your way to the decontamination chamber."
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Everyone's given up on the state of the planet.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00The slums are being left to rot.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03They're going to colonise a new world. This one's ending.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05It's viral ridden.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07This is the last break ever being everything
0:06:07 > 0:06:09gets transported off to the new world.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13WHOOSHING
0:06:59 > 0:07:06OPERATIC SOPRANO VIBRATO
0:07:06 > 0:07:08My nickname for the farm is actually Shangri-La.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13In a valley full of romance and of beauty and of fun -
0:07:13 > 0:07:16away from the harsh realities of the real world.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17When they come back from anywhere,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20they say, "We're back in Shangri-La again."
0:07:20 > 0:07:23It's a romantic sort of concept
0:07:23 > 0:07:26of living in pure pleasure and fantasy.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- PJ HARVEY:- # The West's asleep Let England shake
0:07:32 > 0:07:36# Weighted down the silent dead
0:07:38 > 0:07:40# I fear our blood... #
0:07:40 > 0:07:43All the early paradises are islands
0:07:43 > 0:07:44that appear from the mists
0:07:44 > 0:07:46once every seven years.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51If you can actually get there, then your life will be blissful for ever.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55For a weekend or a week, that's Glastonbury for people.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57This could be heaven or hell
0:07:57 > 0:08:00depending on your perspective.
0:08:00 > 0:08:06I believe that it is our chance to be free and to look after each other.
0:08:06 > 0:08:12# ..For you to come home and tell me... #
0:08:12 > 0:08:15# Indifference... #
0:08:15 > 0:08:17It's just got all the extremes here, you know.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21It's got humanity all coming together and seeing what happens.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24When people come here, they forget their daily worries,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27the mundane sort of reality and they can become,
0:08:27 > 0:08:30for a few days, just completely free -
0:08:30 > 0:08:33where they can do what they like and act how they like.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37They haven't got to worry about the sor of constraints of every day.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40You can just be who you want to be at Glastonbury.
0:08:40 > 0:08:46People feel free. People feel relaxed. It's in our genes almost.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Midsummer. Get together with your friends
0:08:49 > 0:08:52outside and enjoy yourselves.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Welcome.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH
0:09:20 > 0:09:22This man is typical Glastonbury man. Fantastic.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25And Glastonbury is fantastic place to go.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29This is my first time in my life I come to Glastonbury.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Fantastic! I have a little sleep and a lot of amusement.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- Yes.- Yeah. Little sleep.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41For you, what is Glastonbury about? In a nutshell.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46It's just getting away from the hustle and society,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49and getting away from all of these...
0:09:49 > 0:09:53- Getting away from the pressures. - Getting away from this is like not actually being on the Earth..
0:09:53 > 0:09:59- It's like a little city here. - Yeah.- A broken city.
0:09:59 > 0:10:05It looks like a reflection of how the world's going to go if we're not careful.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Like a lost paradise.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09OLD-TIME PIANO PLAYING
0:10:13 > 0:10:18'This is tapping into a very English surrealism, carnival,
0:10:18 > 0:10:21'fairground, festival of fools.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24'Going back to a sort of rural idyll
0:10:24 > 0:10:27'to somehow find a native British art.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30'Utopia has that thread running through it.'
0:10:30 > 0:10:33- Amazing.- Oh, my god.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- Look at that. What the hell is here? - Yeah.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- THEY LAUGH - This is crazy.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- It's amazing.- It is amazing.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Who wants to play Crack It?
0:10:55 > 0:10:57This is like Disneyland but crazy.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59All the people are really fascinated.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03Like, "What is this all about?" "What the hell are you doing?!"
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Stopping and asking you like, "Why?"
0:11:06 > 0:11:10"Why have you turned the Beetle car into a frog?"
0:11:10 > 0:11:14And it's great, that bewilderment. You get some people who are scared. Some think it's scary.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16You know it's muddy, it's full of old punks and, you know,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19we all look a bit rough, and we've been here for weeks,
0:11:19 > 0:11:23and we're muddy and smelly, and there's giant monsters everywhere.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26There are people that think it's a bit scary.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32We're just this little vision of possibilities, you know.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34And it's a happy world. It's not a sad world.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36It's not a world where people are in terror.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40This is a world where people are in enthusiasm and creation.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43And once you've seen it, you can't unlearn it.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45You can't go no, this doesn't exist again.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50Children come and they go, "This is what I want to do when I grow up."
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- What the hell is going on here? This place is crazy.- It's mad, isn't it?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01It looks like a broken place or something but it's funky.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03I think this place comes alive at night-time.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- Yeah, yeah.- It's a night-time place. - Are you coming tonight?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- We're doing the fire show. - I can't imagine it at night.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12I sleep in the helicopter. That's my bedroom.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Me and my girl are living there. Visually, it's great,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18but it's the worst sound clash in the world cos we've got the Acid House stage
0:12:18 > 0:12:21playing into us that way
0:12:21 > 0:12:23and Chalky's Church of the Holy Roller playing into it that way.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25It's just a massive sound clash.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30You know, I like vibes, and the more noise that's going on,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33and people and happiness, the better I sleep.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38# When the music hits the groove it makes you want to move
0:12:38 > 0:12:40# Do your thing
0:12:40 > 0:12:42# Yeah #
0:12:42 > 0:12:48'Most people are not aware that the festival really started in 1914,'
0:12:48 > 0:12:50just before the First World War,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54with this guy who was a classical composer.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58He was an early socialist, a member of the Communist Party,
0:12:58 > 0:12:59but looked like a hippy.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04And he wrote what is still the longest-running opera in the West End of London,
0:13:04 > 0:13:08based on the Arthurian romance, The Immortal Hour.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10It's a sort of concept album before its time.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14It's become another one of the legends of Glastonbury almost.
0:13:14 > 0:13:20The sort of assembly halls have sort of been recolonised by the new generation.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Oh, hello, hello, hello.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- Trying to get me in the mood. - Getting you in the mood for what? - Glastonbury, I watched you...
0:13:26 > 0:13:29'The first time I actually worked here for Michael Eavis,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31'I had to cover'
0:13:31 > 0:13:34this place where the articulated lorries turn.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38It was raining like this, basically, at the time,
0:13:38 > 0:13:42it had just started, and he drove up and I said, "What about this shelter, Michael?" He said, "Why?"
0:13:42 > 0:13:46I said, "Well, you know, to shelter people from the rain."
0:13:46 > 0:13:48And he said,
0:13:48 > 0:13:49"It won't rain."
0:13:51 > 0:13:58Er...it was raining, but he'd said it with so much authority that I believed him, it was true.
0:13:58 > 0:14:03It stopped raining five minutes later and didn't rain again. I thought,
0:14:03 > 0:14:05"This is rather a strange person -
0:14:05 > 0:14:08"a man of some potency."
0:14:08 > 0:14:11The way he kept a straight face, you know, without a touch of irony.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14"It's not going to rain."
0:14:14 > 0:14:16- Hello, how are you doing? - Thank you for the festival.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18'People sort of love'
0:14:18 > 0:14:23to see me and stop me and talk to me and can I have your photograph.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Lovely, excellent.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Lovely!
0:14:27 > 0:14:30'People seem to like to be able to sort of'
0:14:30 > 0:14:32attach it to a person, don't they?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Who's actually doing all this?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37One for the girls.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Oh, my God! Yeah!
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I can't say I don't like it because I do like it.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45'It's something I'm really proud of.'
0:14:45 > 0:14:47But it is a bit overpowering though.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- Michael, thanks for the festival. - Thank you very much.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56I've likened it to a Tudor monarchy.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00He has a Star Chamber of main men under him.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05The power just went down, but always the ultimate power was with the king,
0:15:05 > 0:15:06King Michael.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09It's an extremely authoritarian regime,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12really, and becoming more so all the time,
0:15:12 > 0:15:16as we, you know, secede to more and more as they call it,
0:15:16 > 0:15:21health and safety, but let's call it insurance industry motivated regulation.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31TANNOY: 'Welcome to Shangri-La.'
0:15:33 > 0:15:35'Have you heard this?
0:15:35 > 0:15:39INDISTINCT TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT
0:15:40 > 0:15:44'..They will reduce the risk of contamination.'
0:15:44 > 0:15:49Shangri-La is this idea of a valley in the mountains.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52It's this hidden paradise on Earth that somehow
0:15:52 > 0:15:55has survived for centuries.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10People are wandering from the fields
0:16:10 > 0:16:13to these strange environments that they've found.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17You don't know what's round the next corner.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06TANNOY: 'Come with us to the new world.'
0:17:08 > 0:17:13They're expressing the fear of the society we're living in and how it's going to go.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15How we can be if we don't sort it out.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17People's fears built large.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Visions of the future.
0:17:33 > 0:17:38The people who joined communes in the '60s and early '70s
0:17:38 > 0:17:42could not afford to buy the place in the country and went travelling,
0:17:42 > 0:17:47became the travellers, they were the same people, the same section of society.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50When Punk broke in the late 1970s,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53you got this sort of almost rejection of the hippy dream
0:17:53 > 0:17:56and this sort of hard anger against what was happening.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59The cuts that were coming in at that time.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01A very urban phenomenon.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03# I'm on the road again... #
0:18:03 > 0:18:07Out of that, you get this harder culture.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09# ..My special friend
0:18:11 > 0:18:13# You know the first time I travelled
0:18:13 > 0:18:16# Out in the rain and snow
0:18:16 > 0:18:18# In the rain and snow... #
0:18:18 > 0:18:22A lot of the punks were shifting out into the last bits of the convoy.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24It was the late '70s and the early '80s.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26And that's where everyone was going.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Chaos anarchy was moving into the convoy and the travelling community.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34And that was where the two elements met.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37The sort of combination of punk and hippy.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39The so-called Peace Convoy,
0:18:39 > 0:18:43which becomes this sort of almost travelling village,
0:18:43 > 0:18:45which everybody is worried about descending on them.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49We came here the year that Margaret Thatcher smashed the Peace Convoy.
0:18:49 > 0:18:521985.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55LOUDHAILER: 'You have no escape.'
0:18:55 > 0:18:58There was nowhere to go, so we decided to come here.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01From that day on, Stonehenge didn't exist any more
0:19:01 > 0:19:04as a travellers' event.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07So it was agreed that they would come in at 2am
0:19:07 > 0:19:10up the A37, a huge convoy.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13200 vehicles turned up.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17I gave them a space and we gave them food and stuff and blankets.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21There was a kind of refugee status for those people, really.
0:19:23 > 0:19:29We arrived in this big old skull bus, a broken bus we made into a giant skull with a ribcage.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30ROARS
0:19:38 > 0:19:42They made it into something that expressed the traveller thing,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45the freedom, anarchy, the wish to be free.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02These people are incredibly creative and that very much comes from
0:20:02 > 0:20:05the DIY culture. You know, you live on the road,
0:20:05 > 0:20:09you meet other people and you learned really hardcore skills.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11- It's amazing.- Yeah.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13What's the origin of the face?
0:20:13 > 0:20:17- Easter Island, innit?- Easter Island? - Yeah.- All right!
0:20:17 > 0:20:20They make the most amazing things with a welding rod
0:20:20 > 0:20:21and gas burners.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26They did moving vehicles too on site. They did it really graphic.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28But they're metalheads, really.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32There used to be these amazing kind of metal-bashing jams on cars
0:20:32 > 0:20:36and they used to build dinosaurs out of tractors
0:20:36 > 0:20:39and Carhenge and things like that.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I saw that Stonehenge out of cars you built.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43It changed my life.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47There was quite a scary atmosphere in places,
0:20:47 > 0:20:49which was a lot of fun.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52It was quite dark and a real wildness.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55This area definitely still has that.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00I think it's because a lot of the people who were there in those days are still here doing this.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11You can see this sort of communes movement starting to come out
0:21:11 > 0:21:17at the end of the war, with a real thread of peace activism built into it,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20which runs into the very early CND.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22And the Aldermaston March itself.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25And you've also got that link to music.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28You've got this whole jazz culture in the beginning,
0:21:28 > 0:21:31which then turns into a sort of radical folk music.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34# Men and women, stand together
0:21:34 > 0:21:40# Do not heed the men of war... #
0:21:40 > 0:21:46You could see those very early Aldermaston Marches as sort of festivals on the move.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48They were parties.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Everyone likes a party.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54No matter where you are, just go and have a party with people
0:21:54 > 0:21:57and everyone understands it.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59It's our greatest export, really.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03# Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
0:22:03 > 0:22:07# None but ourselves can free our minds... #
0:22:07 > 0:22:11I'm a free spirit, built to do what I want to do with my life,
0:22:11 > 0:22:16and nobody's going to tell me, "You can't do that because we don't like it."
0:22:16 > 0:22:20One of my ancestors was sent to Australia, a Tolpuddle Martyr.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24He was fighting for agricultural wages for farm workers.
0:22:24 > 0:22:29He was campaigning and burning things. He was a trouble-maker, yeah.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33- He'd be proud of me, wouldn't he? - I think he would.- I hope so.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34I think so.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37# So won't you help to sing
0:22:39 > 0:22:41# These songs of freedom
0:22:42 > 0:22:45# Cos all I ever had
0:22:47 > 0:22:50# Redemption songs. #
0:22:50 > 0:22:53I just want to talk about the criminal justice set-up.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57In a way, they did us the biggest favour cos they tried to repress us.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59But it drove the underground together.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02The bikers, the anarchists, the travellers, the techno tribes,
0:23:02 > 0:23:06the computer kids, the old school, the hard school,
0:23:06 > 0:23:08driving it together.
0:23:08 > 0:23:13You get key crossover people in sort of utopian thought.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15People who take the ideas from one generation to another.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Clearly, Joe Strummer was one of those. I mean,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21he's got a little bit of Glastonbury all to himself now.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25First show of the night here is Strummerville.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Can you give a big, warm welcome
0:23:28 > 0:23:31to Nara Sirato.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33CHEERING
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Are you ready?
0:23:43 > 0:23:47He linked the whole hippy ideology,
0:23:47 > 0:23:49that whole sort of ethos
0:23:49 > 0:23:52of sitting round campfires, talking through your ideas,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54thinking through the future,
0:23:54 > 0:23:59looking forward and building on all those different cultural reference points.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03UPBEAT PIPE MUSIC
0:24:03 > 0:24:05INDISTINCT LYRICS
0:24:17 > 0:24:20So we have a bonfire here all through the night,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- and I'll be here at about three in the morning.- See you there.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34BUGLE BLARES
0:24:42 > 0:24:47You know, certain years, people took the fence down and people drove in up there.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51They created this whole post the railway line, late night thing.
0:24:51 > 0:24:57The typical reality of licensing didn't quite exist,
0:24:57 > 0:24:59so people could do what they naturally are meant to do,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02which is party all night in the middle of a field around midsummer.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Christ, we used to call everyone who went to Glastonbury, you know...
0:25:06 > 0:25:08"Christ, these mud larks."
0:25:08 > 0:25:12All you'd see was pictures of people covered in mud.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14I think really it was Roy who really pushed this idea
0:25:14 > 0:25:17that actually we're all going to wear suits.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- Roy, you made it in the end!- How are you?- You look very, very smart.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25A typical traveller, it's like he's been dressed up posh like this.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26LAUGHTER
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Roy, would you show us what's in there?
0:25:28 > 0:25:32LIVELY BIG BAND MUSIC
0:25:32 > 0:25:34I remember Roy from the old days.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36You still go, "You run the best bar." He had a little bar,
0:25:36 > 0:25:39and then suddenly he had this huge thing called Lost Vegas.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Lost Vegas was a bit of a joke, really.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45We just came up with an idea for a James Bond movie in the casino.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48People would dress up in ball gowns. You could kind of hire costumes
0:25:48 > 0:25:52and go in and go into a casino, and you had to be smart.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01A few people put on something pretty fantastic.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05You've built something, and then it exploded, and every creative person that was involved with that
0:26:05 > 0:26:09ended up getting their own little bit of this land.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10All of those then grew.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14So like then Arcadia has now got its own vast area.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Block 9, which has got its own vast area,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20which is the New York Down Low. So it's like Siege, really.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Each one goes off and develops in its own way.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25In the old days of Glastonbury,
0:26:25 > 0:26:28one did not need to get all these crazy bands.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32- You just jump over the fence. - MAN LAUGHS
0:26:32 > 0:26:34- This is true, no?- It's very true. - Now it's not possible.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38It's difficult, it's very difficult. Unless you have a grappling hook.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Yeah. Tengo grappling hook.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- Yeah, you've got one?! - In my rucksack.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46It started off essentially as a free festival.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48We have something very special here.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51We're going to protect ourselves, which is sort of double-edged.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55I think Thomas More would recognise this place no problem.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59It's not just the medieval mud and the sort of medieval carnival,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02but I think he would recognise the walled city.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06People streaming in through gates being checked by guards.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10That is the double edge of Utopia, Dystopia.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15Glastonbury is a little walled city inside England,
0:27:15 > 0:27:17and this is a little walled city inside Glastonbury.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20It's like Berlin within the Berlin Wall.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23It's like a little pocket of freedom.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25CHATTERING
0:27:32 > 0:27:34I've always based myself over this sign.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40There's still the sense that some of the people here are in the same pair of underpants they arrived in.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45The rest of it has a very polished and washed feel to it.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48I walked the entire length of the site last night,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51as I came in, and you get a very different feel
0:27:51 > 0:27:54for the first sort of two thirds of the site.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58Almost feeling that people are going to try and stop me and sell things.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00You pay to get in and you must have a wristband
0:28:00 > 0:28:02to go to that bar or hear that sound system,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05and everything's got corporate sponsorship all over it, plastered.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08This isn't like that. It is up there,
0:28:08 > 0:28:09if you want to go up to Babylon.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I have friends in various different areas, all over the site.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16But mainly we've all graduated up to the Green Fields,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18because it's just getting worse and worse down there.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20SHE LAUGHS
0:28:20 > 0:28:23Shangri-La, Arcadia, The Common.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25You don't see any corporate sponsorship.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31I could go to Babylon every day of my life, you know what I mean?
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Money and crowds, I don't want that.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37You know, I want to be down here.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41The Babylon! Basically it's a lot of consumerism, I'm not into that.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44But the main stage is an incredible experience when you go down there.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47I think that's really important.
0:28:47 > 0:28:51I don't go over there, unless it's fucking Stevie Wonder or Prince.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54- Hey! - CHEERING
0:28:55 > 0:28:59- Hey! - CHEERING
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Who wants to play with me?
0:29:01 > 0:29:02CHEERING
0:29:03 > 0:29:06I'm Stevie!
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Celebration!
0:29:10 > 0:29:13- CHEERING - Come on now, get up and think.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23CHEERING
0:29:37 > 0:29:40# We got department stores and toilet paper
0:29:40 > 0:29:44# Got Styrofoam garbage for the ozone layer
0:29:44 > 0:29:48# Got a man of the people says, "Yes we can!"
0:29:48 > 0:29:53# Yes we can, yeah, yes, we can
0:29:53 > 0:29:56# Keep on rockin' in the free world
0:30:00 > 0:30:04# Keep on rockin' in the free world
0:30:08 > 0:30:11# Keep on rockin' in a free world
0:30:14 > 0:30:19# Keep on rockin' in a free world... #
0:30:23 > 0:30:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:30:46 > 0:30:49CHEERING AND WHISTLING
0:30:55 > 0:30:58The spider's coming now. It's coming now.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01The fire rising out of the ground
0:31:01 > 0:31:05to come out and take over the people.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08POUNDING DANCE MUSIC
0:31:08 > 0:31:10It's going to burn them out.
0:31:16 > 0:31:20You walk along the train track, then there's this big flaming spider
0:31:20 > 0:31:21or pyramid thing at the end.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25Looks like something out of, you know, the second Mad Max movie.
0:31:25 > 0:31:30HYPNOTIC DANCE MUSIC
0:31:32 > 0:31:35The stage is an artwork in itself to look at.
0:31:35 > 0:31:37But then you've got all the performance art as well,
0:31:37 > 0:31:41and then you've got bands and DJs playing the whole thing.
0:31:41 > 0:31:45It's a wonderful combination of all the things that have kind of built up
0:31:45 > 0:31:48over the 20 years of the whole kind of rave and dance music movement.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52# It's a competition when he hit the rhythmous vowel
0:31:52 > 0:31:56# It's ridiculous, my lyrics are wow Oh, oh, wow, wow, wow... #
0:32:03 > 0:32:06# Wow, wow, wow I'm all goin' psycho now, now, now
0:32:06 > 0:32:10# I'm goin' up and it's goin' down, down, down. #
0:32:10 > 0:32:15Fire is the birth of human civilisation.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17This is when it all started to happen,
0:32:17 > 0:32:21then we became a bit different than the animals.
0:32:21 > 0:32:27Hiya. This is something what gives me energy. I feel happiness,
0:32:27 > 0:32:30I feel there is an energy for the life.
0:32:32 > 0:32:37When I have not much energy, I go in the freeze.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41I think all people have fire in their life.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44# See that fire... #
0:32:44 > 0:32:49Fire is the starting point, and it also will be the ending point.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53# ..Keep burning... #
0:32:53 > 0:32:57The city is fire, all the engines are fire.
0:32:57 > 0:33:02The bombs are fire, the war. All is burning.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09This is true of our civilisation from the beginning to the end.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11We are living the fire life.
0:33:11 > 0:33:15POUNDING PARTY MUSIC
0:33:25 > 0:33:28All right, gorgeous, here we are at the Down Low.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33This is where the real people hang out.
0:33:33 > 0:33:37POUNDING DISCO MUSIC
0:33:37 > 0:33:40Hookers, lookers, trannies and fuckers. Come on down.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46We're all part of, like, the trannie freak community.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50We're all free expressionists. There's no rules to speak of at all.
0:33:51 > 0:33:56This is our paradise, this is our secret saviour.
0:33:59 > 0:34:04I'm now outside the disco, because I'm passionate about arse action.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07I think there's a regiment. I'm on a mission.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Hold the line! No more!
0:34:15 > 0:34:18Make noise if you think I look amazing in the net curtain.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20CHEERING
0:34:20 > 0:34:26Fabulous, isn't it? Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for Ingenue St John!
0:34:26 > 0:34:29CHEERING
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Bonjour!
0:34:35 > 0:34:38Are you ready, NYC Down Low?
0:34:38 > 0:34:43If you want to raise your right hand in the air...
0:34:43 > 0:34:47# Can I tell you a story, sausage boy?
0:34:47 > 0:34:51# Sausage boy lost his toast
0:34:51 > 0:34:57# Let's try it with different bread
0:34:57 > 0:35:00# Different sauce Different dip... #
0:35:15 > 0:35:18SHOUTS BOOM FROM TENT
0:35:20 > 0:35:22CHEERING
0:35:22 > 0:35:26UPBEAT INSTRUMENTATION
0:37:05 > 0:37:08I'm pushing my luck all the time. You know, with my neighbours and the village.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11I'm still taking calls about noise in the night.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13A lady phoned me and said, "The noise is terrible."
0:37:13 > 0:37:15What time is it?
0:37:18 > 0:37:20I said, "Well, the limits are agreed with the council."
0:37:20 > 0:37:22"That's all very well, but my children can't sleep."
0:37:22 > 0:37:24I said, "How old are your children?"
0:37:24 > 0:37:28- It's half past three.- "Eight, ten."
0:37:28 > 0:37:31I said, "Well, in five years' time, your children will be here,
0:37:31 > 0:37:34"so think about that." She put the phone down!
0:37:36 > 0:37:41What I'd like to do is build this wonderful soundproof booth,
0:37:41 > 0:37:50a total silent booth, amongst all the cacophony of sounds that the festival is.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52Imagine walking into this world
0:37:52 > 0:37:57of utter silence... You look through this window
0:37:57 > 0:38:03at this pool, these waterfalls, and these beautiful mermaids,
0:38:03 > 0:38:07just sat around on rocks in this magical little place.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11With mermen as well, just floating in and out.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15People looking down in this utterly silent world.
0:38:18 > 0:38:19TANNOY BEEPS
0:38:19 > 0:38:24'If you have been contaminated,
0:38:24 > 0:38:26'you may experience the following symptoms.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29'Perverted habits of thought.
0:38:29 > 0:38:33'Excessive, pathologic or uncontrollable sexual desire,
0:38:33 > 0:38:39'eccentricity of character, singular and absurd habit.'
0:38:45 > 0:38:49This is the last vestige of the human race. I love it.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51I'm infected, we all are. What are we going to do?
0:38:56 > 0:38:59'The centre of contamination is suspected.'
0:38:59 > 0:39:04That's the Snake Pit, the big glowing green one over there,
0:39:04 > 0:39:06the source of contamination.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09It's been condemned and shut down, but they've ripped open the doors
0:39:09 > 0:39:10and they're still raving.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13They really love the Virus, because it gives them,
0:39:13 > 0:39:15like, loose morals and nymphomania and stuff.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17They're like, "Bring on the Virus."
0:39:17 > 0:39:23'Act now and report immediately to your nearest Shangri-La doctor.'
0:39:28 > 0:39:33We had to change it into a dystopia because it's just more fun!
0:39:45 > 0:39:48# Baby blue
0:39:52 > 0:39:55# Yeah, yeah... #
0:39:56 > 0:39:59I think you're going to meet a tall, dark, handsome stranger,
0:39:59 > 0:40:01clean-shaven, freshly waxed.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03If you haven't already, come through here
0:40:03 > 0:40:05and continue your spiritual journey.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14# ..Oh, yeah... #
0:40:14 > 0:40:15I'm so sorry!
0:40:15 > 0:40:16# ..Ooh, ooh... #
0:40:21 > 0:40:23BOTH: Ta-da!
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Let's show you the rest of the house.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01I think those incredible conversations that happen
0:41:01 > 0:41:05all over Glastonbury, around campfires, where people feel really relaxed and open
0:41:05 > 0:41:07and they feel quite united with everyone around them.
0:41:07 > 0:41:11The only way you really understand what's going on in your generation
0:41:11 > 0:41:14at that time is to talk to people around you.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19It's very sort of primeval.
0:41:19 > 0:41:20tapping into that sort of...
0:41:20 > 0:41:23I think deep psyche about storytelling.
0:41:23 > 0:41:26After all, that's what ideas about Utopia are -
0:41:26 > 0:41:28they come from stories,
0:41:28 > 0:41:33people imagining the future, imagining a better place.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40ETHNIC MUSIC
0:42:02 > 0:42:04TANNOY: Good morning, campers.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07This is an important public information announcement.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09If you are the kind who self-medicates,
0:42:09 > 0:42:11then you may be contaminated.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29Although it was a great show and there was lots of good music
0:42:29 > 0:42:32and stuff like that, there is also a sort of message there.
0:42:32 > 0:42:36Perhaps, we can change things for the better.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42You know, you see things in these areas that you just would
0:42:42 > 0:42:43never see anywhere else.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47It is a kind of Utopia, I suppose.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49It is stretching the boundaries of the imagination
0:42:49 > 0:42:50and it is fantastical.
0:42:56 > 0:43:01We are living other people's Utopias. It is just that we don't not know it.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04This is just because our Utopia is in the future.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07I talk to people about the welfare state being a Utopian experiment
0:43:07 > 0:43:08and they go, "What?"
0:43:08 > 0:43:12And I go, "Yes. You bring somebody from 100 years in the past
0:43:12 > 0:43:15"and walk them through a hospital today, they would think this is Utopia."
0:43:17 > 0:43:19Utopi-what?
0:43:19 > 0:43:23Never heard of it. Where is that, somewhere in Luton?
0:43:23 > 0:43:24BELL RINGS
0:43:26 > 0:43:28Recycle by dying.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31The less of us, the more for us.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35Make space for your fellow citizens.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03# You can make the mountains ring
0:44:03 > 0:44:08# Or make angels cry-y-y
0:44:11 > 0:44:15# Though the bird is on the wing
0:44:15 > 0:44:20# And you may not know why
0:44:21 > 0:44:24# Come on, people, now
0:44:24 > 0:44:27# Smile on your brother
0:44:27 > 0:44:28# Everybody get together
0:44:28 > 0:44:32# Try to love one another right now. #
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Shangri-La, Arcadia, Un-fairground...
0:44:45 > 0:44:50I can appreciate what they are doing, it is just not right next to where we are.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52They are the sort of stunt
0:44:52 > 0:44:56that ought to be out in the middle of the desert, not at Glastonbury Festival.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00We preserve our grass up here.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02Look, we have green, green grass to sit on.
0:45:02 > 0:45:06A sea of brown mud down there, isn't it?
0:45:06 > 0:45:09I got annoyed with them and they got louder, at half-four in the morning.
0:45:09 > 0:45:11I was not entirely sure why that was necessary.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13I just cannot take the noise.
0:45:13 > 0:45:16It does something to me, that terrible, terrible noise.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19Doof, doof, doof! Three days of that and I actually just want to kill somebody.
0:45:19 > 0:45:23If something was to happen in there now on somebody screamed, we wouldn't hear it.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26If somebody slips or somebody is annoying somebody else.
0:45:28 > 0:45:35We would love to feel that we'll be in tune with the rhythms of the planet, the movement of the seasons,
0:45:35 > 0:45:39and work with it rather than expending huge amounts of money
0:45:39 > 0:45:43into some mega-spectacular.
0:45:43 > 0:45:49I think that audience are youngsters who really just want to get out of it
0:45:49 > 0:45:54on a very temporarily level, whereas we're more into it as a future lifestyle.
0:45:54 > 0:45:57The green feathers have inspired us.
0:45:57 > 0:46:01I think we are as inspired by them as they seem to be quite positive about us.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04We haven't quite got there but without definitely getting into the idea,
0:46:04 > 0:46:08if we could make this thing run-off bio-gas, for one.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Two, if we could make it run off bio-gas
0:46:10 > 0:46:15- from last year's people's shit at the festival, or Michael's cows. - Yes, definitely.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21I rate festivals on whether I would like to live in them.
0:46:21 > 0:46:23The green fields here...
0:46:23 > 0:46:28I could quite happily live with most of these people all year round, but the neighbours are...
0:46:28 > 0:46:31I would change to a more desirable area, I think.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46# Wake up in the morning with a head like, "What you done?"
0:46:46 > 0:46:51# This used to be the life I don't need another one
0:46:51 > 0:46:53# Good luck cutting nothin'... #
0:46:53 > 0:46:58We're not trying to like push anything down anybody's throat.
0:46:58 > 0:46:59Well, not till later in the evening.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07It's more of just desensitising people and having them feel comfortable
0:47:07 > 0:47:11in a setting that has really unconventional activities.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15# I don't feel like dancing when the old Joanna plays
0:47:15 > 0:47:20# My heart could take a chance but my two feet can't find the way... #
0:47:20 > 0:47:23The key, I think, with what we're trying to accomplish here
0:47:23 > 0:47:29with Block 9 and Shangri-La is just having people have that out-of-body experience.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33I can see that the looks and emotions and expressions
0:47:33 > 0:47:36on their faces are just like, "I didn't know this about myself."
0:47:36 > 0:47:40# Don't feel like dancing, dancing... #
0:47:44 > 0:47:46Whoever you are, whatever you do,
0:47:46 > 0:47:49it is a moment to just get dressed up.
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Live life as though you are free.
0:47:51 > 0:47:52One moment, please.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54I'm sorry for the breakaway,
0:47:54 > 0:47:58but I have just seen some ladies here, semi-naked.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01- Hola.- Hola!
0:48:01 > 0:48:04And why for you, you come to Glastonbury? What's...?
0:48:04 > 0:48:05Why are we here?
0:48:05 > 0:48:08We work for Fairy Love, which is a stall
0:48:08 > 0:48:12selling kind of...lots of crazy dress-ups, and we grant wishes.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14Is like a hippie?
0:48:14 > 0:48:16Kind of, but we're all about kind of self-expression
0:48:16 > 0:48:17and, you know, people having fun.
0:48:17 > 0:48:21Making you feel good about yourself and spreading lots of love.
0:48:21 > 0:48:25- And so I can come to your store and buy some clothes.- Definitely.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27Yeah, and we'll dress you up. It'll feel amazing.
0:48:27 > 0:48:32- And then I look like a true hippie. - You can be anything you want to be.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35- Anything.- You girls are fantastic. - Aww, thank you!- And Glastonbury
0:48:35 > 0:48:40- is what you are about.- It is. - I can't look any more.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Please. Please.
0:48:42 > 0:48:43Have a good time!
0:48:48 > 0:48:51'I have to justify in my head that it's right,
0:48:51 > 0:48:54'because I couldn't do it if I thought it was wrong.'
0:48:54 > 0:48:56Oh, my God!
0:48:56 > 0:48:59- Oh, I'm torn.- You're torn?
0:48:59 > 0:49:01I have been torn!
0:49:01 > 0:49:03THEY LAUGH
0:49:04 > 0:49:08'Sometimes I get frightened. It's four in the morning, I wake up'
0:49:08 > 0:49:11and I get moral dilemmas about where I am
0:49:11 > 0:49:14and why I'm doing it and what I'm doing.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17I wake up and I think,
0:49:17 > 0:49:24"No, I'm OK, because we built 150 water wells in Gambia last year."
0:49:24 > 0:49:28And things we're doing in Kenya, we're giving all this money
0:49:28 > 0:49:33to charity to help people less fortunate in the world.
0:49:33 > 0:49:35So by 4.30, I'm all right again, I think, "Oh, well,
0:49:35 > 0:49:38"I'm doing all these things, it can't all be bad", you know?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43We have to give away £2 million a year,
0:49:43 > 0:49:45I reckon, to make it worthwhile.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53Michael Eavis and the Methodism is interesting,
0:49:53 > 0:49:55because you've got that with the diggers as well.
0:49:55 > 0:49:59I mean, they are driven by their sort of...Christian belief,
0:49:59 > 0:50:00which is not church-bound.
0:50:00 > 0:50:05Often it's inspired people to set up their own little enclaves where
0:50:05 > 0:50:09they can live out what THEY think the Christian way of life should be.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13As a Methodist, it's the ultimate non-conformism.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17We go against the trends of the establishment.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20We've always been kicking against the traces, you know what I mean?
0:50:20 > 0:50:24- Yeah, yeah, yeah.- But perhaps this is the ultimate non-conformist show.
0:50:25 > 0:50:29I was a bit unruly in my chapel, but Elvis would have appreciated
0:50:29 > 0:50:32my attempt to convert those fucking hippies stoned out their minds
0:50:32 > 0:50:37on them mind-altering new drugs like DMT, ketamine and M-D-Momma-A.
0:50:37 > 0:50:42There is a major crisis in the orthodox religions of this planet.
0:50:42 > 0:50:45Whatever kind of deity they believe in or they don't believe in,
0:50:45 > 0:50:49I'm here to tell you mothers it's Elvis the Divine
0:50:49 > 0:50:52is the one true deity, just going to come from this angle
0:50:52 > 0:50:54- and sort us all out.- Hallelujah!
0:50:57 > 0:51:01PIANO MUSIC
0:51:06 > 0:51:09THEY SING
0:51:57 > 0:52:01# Ooh, the storm is threatening
0:52:01 > 0:52:06# My very life today
0:52:06 > 0:52:10# If I don't get me no shelter
0:52:10 > 0:52:14# I think I'm going to fade away... #
0:52:14 > 0:52:17Years ago, the hippies were saying, everything that's going on now,
0:52:17 > 0:52:19they were trying to tell people about.
0:52:19 > 0:52:21Global warming, they were trying to tell people.
0:52:21 > 0:52:23And no-one listened because they were, like...
0:52:23 > 0:52:26You know, they looked like beards with all their food in it
0:52:26 > 0:52:30and, you know, peep-toed sandals and no-one wanted to listen to them.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32But they were right. Later on, everyone's realised
0:52:32 > 0:52:34that they were actually talking the truth.
0:52:34 > 0:52:39# ..See the fire sweeping
0:52:39 > 0:52:42# My very street today... #
0:52:42 > 0:52:45Are we going to survive? Is this the future?
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Are we going to manage to survive?
0:52:47 > 0:52:50The potential climate crisis,
0:52:50 > 0:52:52the potential energy crisis,
0:52:52 > 0:52:55the financial crash that is still going on.
0:52:55 > 0:52:59We were supposed to have got through it. It's still here, as we party.
0:52:59 > 0:53:03Are we partying at the end of the world, or is this a new future?
0:53:03 > 0:53:07# ..It's a shot away It's just a shot away... #
0:53:26 > 0:53:28- This is total carnage.- This is about
0:53:28 > 0:53:31how do you survive in the fringes of society,
0:53:31 > 0:53:34when the sort of mainstream idea of Utopia,
0:53:34 > 0:53:38the consumerist Utopia, is either not within your reach
0:53:38 > 0:53:41or that you have actually rejected it, you've dropped out?
0:53:42 > 0:53:46We come to exterminate the consuming forces of this planet.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48The greed.
0:53:50 > 0:53:54I do everything creative out of recycled materials, found objects.
0:53:54 > 0:53:59You can do everything with everything that's thrown away.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02It definitely is our world.
0:54:03 > 0:54:07I work with this and this is the very place to get inspiration...
0:54:10 > 0:54:12..if you want to unite the world.
0:54:14 > 0:54:18Put your hand in here. Fantastic. Are you enjoying Glastonbury?
0:54:18 > 0:54:20- Yeah, it's amazing. - Where are you staying?
0:54:20 > 0:54:23In a tent, on the floor, up a tree?
0:54:23 > 0:54:25- In a bush.- In a bush?
0:54:25 > 0:54:29- Yeah, in a bush.- You're staying in a bush.- Yeah. Nowhere to sleep.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32Oh, my goodness. Who with - your mother, your father?
0:54:32 > 0:54:36- My mother, just over there.- You let this poor man stay in a bush?- Yeah.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38Like a monkey!
0:54:38 > 0:54:41- OK, Glastonbury for you is fantastic, no?- Amazing.
0:54:41 > 0:54:45- The music and for to dance. - Yeah. I'd recommend it.
0:54:45 > 0:54:49# It's good to be wise when you're young
0:54:50 > 0:54:56# Cos you can only be young but the once... #
0:54:57 > 0:55:02I was taken out of school at ten, on an educational trip,
0:55:02 > 0:55:06and brought to Glastonbury and given a tenner and an army sleeping bag,
0:55:06 > 0:55:08on sort of Thursday,
0:55:08 > 0:55:13and told "Come back here if you want us, but go and explore."
0:55:13 > 0:55:15It was just phenomenal.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20Completely blew my mind in so many different ways.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23My horizons just wrapped all the way round as far as I could see.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26I saw it as almost like an alternative society.
0:55:26 > 0:55:31# ..So glad and live life longer than you've ever done
0:55:33 > 0:55:39# Enjoy yourself It's later than you think
0:55:39 > 0:55:44# Enjoy yourself While you're still in the pink... #
0:55:44 > 0:55:49For young people, it actually teaches them
0:55:49 > 0:55:53how to live without all the paraphernalia
0:55:53 > 0:55:56that surrounds you in the modern world.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59You can't get through on the telephone,
0:55:59 > 0:56:01so they've got to learn to do life
0:56:01 > 0:56:03without a mobile phone connection again.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07You know, there's not easy access to the internet either.
0:56:07 > 0:56:10They connect with people more.
0:56:10 > 0:56:14They learn that it's OK to talk to strangers.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17Strangers can actually be really fun to talk to!
0:56:18 > 0:56:20# ..Enjoy yourself... #
0:56:20 > 0:56:24It's a kind of raw form of education because they're teaching themselves.
0:56:24 > 0:56:29# ..Enjoy yourself While you're still in the pink
0:56:29 > 0:56:36# The years go by As quickly as you wink
0:56:36 > 0:56:38# Enjoy yourself... #
0:56:38 > 0:56:40- Ah, senor!- Hello.
0:56:40 > 0:56:42Il Harley Davidson.
0:56:42 > 0:56:46- Hank.- Hank.- Nice to meet you.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49HE SPEAKS HIS LANGUAGE
0:56:55 > 0:56:58See these? I paint these.
0:56:58 > 0:57:02This man is so fantastic artist,
0:57:02 > 0:57:06he has time to paint Glastonbury bins.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08With my crew.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11Cos all these project Glastonbury could not help...
0:57:11 > 0:57:14- Could not happen without a lot of people, no?- That's right.
0:57:14 > 0:57:19- A lot of...- A lot of work. - A lot of work.- And a lot of love.- Si.
0:57:19 > 0:57:22Amor tambien. And amor is not always money.
0:57:22 > 0:57:25- No.- No.- It's not money.
0:57:25 > 0:57:26It's true.
0:57:26 > 0:57:29So many people, this man included, Hank,
0:57:29 > 0:57:34has been painting the bins to make them look beautiful for the festival.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41There is an army of people on site.
0:57:41 > 0:57:42There is an army of crew,
0:57:42 > 0:57:44from the people that paint the bins to the people
0:57:44 > 0:57:48that clean out the toilets, the people that build our venues,
0:57:48 > 0:57:51the people that come in and cook our crew food -
0:57:51 > 0:57:53there's an absolute army of people.
0:57:53 > 0:57:55I think everybody's into it for the right reasons.
0:57:55 > 0:57:58Nobody's doing it for the money, particularly,
0:57:58 > 0:58:00nobody wants to be famous or anything like that.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02Everybody wants to make something really good.
0:58:06 > 0:58:08I'm just here cos I've always loved it.
0:58:08 > 0:58:11I love the metal, I love the chaos of it, the art, the partying,
0:58:11 > 0:58:16the entertainment, all just here - the free spirit of it all, you know?
0:58:16 > 0:58:18Don't want to pay the bills,
0:58:18 > 0:58:21but this is a complete labour of love, absolutely.
0:58:22 > 0:58:24We needed our spirit.
0:58:24 > 0:58:29We're artists, so I suppose that's the way of our life.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31Keep doing things more wild
0:58:31 > 0:58:34and keep working hard with ourselves.
0:58:34 > 0:58:36I have to go and keep going!
0:58:38 > 0:58:42'It's about people wanting to excel, you know, and do something unusual'
0:58:42 > 0:58:45and something different, and something bold, imaginative.
0:58:45 > 0:58:48It's not really about money, it's about passion.
0:58:48 > 0:58:51Michael Eavis is prepared to stick his neck on the line
0:58:51 > 0:58:53and let people do creative things.
0:58:53 > 0:58:57He really wants us to just push the boat as far out as we possibly can.
0:58:57 > 0:58:59He encourages us to do it.
0:58:59 > 0:59:03He wants it to be as out-there as it can possibly be.
0:59:03 > 0:59:06You've got the structure there, it came from the cranes, the docks.
0:59:06 > 0:59:09They came round to me and said, "Can we get a load of old cranes?
0:59:09 > 0:59:11"Can you give us 20 grand?"
0:59:11 > 0:59:14I give them 20 grand, they go and buy the stuff,
0:59:14 > 0:59:16and they come back and build it.
0:59:17 > 0:59:21And they turn it into that, you see? And we're on the same page.
0:59:42 > 0:59:46I've been six months doing this.
0:59:46 > 0:59:49It didn't happen in the last five minutes.
0:59:49 > 0:59:53I got a call, you know, from Caen Hill Locks,
0:59:53 > 0:59:55offering me all these lock gates,
0:59:55 > 0:59:5912x12, all covered in barnacles.
1:00:01 > 1:00:06From the lock gate idea, Steve Barney's got a bullring idea,
1:00:06 > 1:00:10I kind of took it over from him a little bit.
1:00:10 > 1:00:11Steamrollered us, that's what you did.
1:00:11 > 1:00:15I've done something different to what they had in mind.
1:00:15 > 1:00:17But all together, it works. All together, it's worked.
1:00:17 > 1:00:19- And it's a big team. - It's a big team effort.
1:00:19 > 1:00:22All together, it does work, yeah.
1:00:22 > 1:00:26But I've got all these faxes and emails and things saying,
1:00:26 > 1:00:28"Oh, we don't like this, we don't like that."
1:00:28 > 1:00:31But in the end...do you know what?
1:00:31 > 1:00:33- I didn't read one of them. - LAUGHTER
1:00:56 > 1:00:59So unique, so crazy.
1:00:59 > 1:01:02All these places, not...just a dance stage.
1:01:02 > 1:01:03Yes, they are wild.
1:01:06 > 1:01:08Let's go!
1:01:15 > 1:01:17Ooh!
1:01:17 > 1:01:19Come on!
1:01:19 > 1:01:20That's how we do it.
1:01:28 > 1:01:30- # I see a clinic full of cynics - Ah!
1:01:30 > 1:01:34- # Who want to twist the peoples' wrist- Ah!
1:01:34 > 1:01:37- # They're watching every move we make- Ah!
1:01:37 > 1:01:40# We're all included on the list
1:01:40 > 1:01:47- # The lunatics have taken over the asylum- Yeah!
1:01:47 > 1:01:51# The lunatics have taken over the asylum... #
1:01:51 > 1:01:54The four nights that people are here are really interesting.
1:01:54 > 1:02:00I think the Thursday and Friday, you can tell people are not that used to living with each other
1:02:00 > 1:02:04and there's a bit more attitude and a bit more boisterous behaviour
1:02:04 > 1:02:08and then as the weekend kind of progresses, people gel together
1:02:08 > 1:02:11as a kind of mass and by Sunday, you've got some incredible energy.
1:02:11 > 1:02:14It's very hard to tell the difference between people.
1:02:14 > 1:02:18Your clothes are covered in mud so you can't tell how people are dressed,
1:02:18 > 1:02:22but all those preconceptions of who you are and where you fit in,
1:02:22 > 1:02:25all that sort of thing, are pretty much all levelled out.
1:02:25 > 1:02:28# Ah!
1:02:29 > 1:02:31TRUMPET SOLO PLAYS
1:02:34 > 1:02:37# Oh...! #
1:02:37 > 1:02:39Come on, people.
1:02:44 > 1:02:51# ..I've seen the faces of starvation but I cannot see the point... #
1:02:51 > 1:02:55There's something appealing about coming somewhere for a few days and losing yourself within it
1:02:55 > 1:02:59and losing yourself with other people that you didn't know before
1:02:59 > 1:03:03and making new relationships and having new experiences together
1:03:03 > 1:03:05and then taking that back out into the world
1:03:05 > 1:03:08and hopefully some positivity coming as a result of it.
1:03:08 > 1:03:14# The lunatics have taken over the asylum... #
1:03:14 > 1:03:17We're all on the same side here, we're all on the same level.
1:03:17 > 1:03:21- Would you feel that?- Oh, very much. That's what's important for people.
1:03:21 > 1:03:23I say, we've got posh tents up there.
1:03:23 > 1:03:28- See those posh tents?- Yeah. - They've got Rollers and Daimlers and all that up there.
1:03:28 > 1:03:31They pay my neighbour to be looked after in real style -
1:03:31 > 1:03:35your Rolling Stones people, you know what I mean?
1:03:35 > 1:03:39They're all up there on top of the hill. When they come down here, we're all the same basically.
1:03:39 > 1:03:42It's a great leveller, isn't it?
1:03:42 > 1:03:45They're all enjoying the same thing.
1:03:45 > 1:03:49I think it's a marvellous example of social cohesion.
1:03:49 > 1:03:53We're in the rain, we're in the mud, we're queuing up for things,
1:03:53 > 1:03:56but those things happen in normal life, don't they?
1:03:56 > 1:03:58People don't get angry here.
1:03:58 > 1:04:02You don't see a single fight, do you?
1:04:02 > 1:04:07There's no aggravation, there's no greed, there's no anger, there's no jealousy.
1:04:07 > 1:04:11I mean, maybe they fall out with girls and find pretty girls or something.
1:04:11 > 1:04:15That's nothing to do with me cos there are a lot of pretty girls around.
1:04:21 > 1:04:24People come and they get a thrill, a shock, and they see something different, know what I mean?
1:04:24 > 1:04:29They don't know what it is. I was so inspired, you know what I mean?
1:04:29 > 1:04:34I changed my life. I saw ideas of doing things I never would have thought I could do.
1:04:34 > 1:04:37I saw that ordinary people like me could do amazing stuff,
1:04:37 > 1:04:42wasn't about TV and having millions of pounds, just about having an imagination and an energy.
1:04:42 > 1:04:43Do you know what I'm saying?
1:04:43 > 1:04:45I saw that. That totally changed my life.
1:04:45 > 1:04:51It's saying something about people able to be free
1:04:51 > 1:04:57and not have to be trapped into work they don't want to do, money problems they don't want to have.
1:04:57 > 1:05:01They don't have to just be consumers, just watching telly and going to work.
1:05:01 > 1:05:08They could create something of that scale. That's what it is to me - inspiration and hope.
1:05:08 > 1:05:09CHEERING
1:05:11 > 1:05:12MUSIC STARTS
1:05:15 > 1:05:16This is called
1:05:16 > 1:05:18Where Has The Money Gone?
1:05:18 > 1:05:19CHEERING
1:05:21 > 1:05:23# Where has the money gone?
1:05:23 > 1:05:26# Where did it go?
1:05:26 > 1:05:27# Where has the money gone?
1:05:27 > 1:05:29# Where did the money go
1:05:29 > 1:05:30# Where has the money gone?
1:05:30 > 1:05:31# Where did it go?
1:05:31 > 1:05:34# Where has the money gone?
1:05:34 > 1:05:36# Where did the money go?
1:05:36 > 1:05:38# Where has the money gone?
1:05:38 > 1:05:39# Where did it go? #
1:05:40 > 1:05:44I think what's happening outside at the moment is you've got a group
1:05:44 > 1:05:46of very, very greedy people, an elite group,
1:05:46 > 1:05:49that don't care about the common person.
1:05:50 > 1:05:57I think our government is completely screwing our own country
1:05:57 > 1:06:01by screwing both our elderly generations and our young generations.
1:06:01 > 1:06:04You know, I do a lot of work with youths
1:06:04 > 1:06:08and their opportunities are just falling by the wayside by the day.
1:06:08 > 1:06:12It's terrifying. I think they're absolutely insane.
1:06:12 > 1:06:15I have no idea what they're envisioning for our future.
1:06:19 > 1:06:23There's so many smokescreens and distractions that stop the everyday person
1:06:23 > 1:06:28from actually seeing it for what it is, that we're being controlled buy people that just want power.
1:06:28 > 1:06:33We're being ruled by greed and that's a very sad and dangerous thing that's happening.
1:06:33 > 1:06:37# You don't have to wait to see me cry I'm always seen
1:06:37 > 1:06:42# I haven't got a cobblers for this catastrophe
1:06:42 > 1:06:45# It sends shivers into my blood
1:06:45 > 1:06:47# Just want to ask a question
1:06:47 > 1:06:50# Where has the money gone... #
1:06:50 > 1:06:52We came out of the Thatcher years
1:06:52 > 1:06:55and you were either for the system or you were against the system.
1:06:56 > 1:06:59# ..Where did the money go? #
1:07:03 > 1:07:08I think, personally, a bit of recession, a bit of poverty might make people more awake,
1:07:08 > 1:07:10cos I think people have been asleep for the last 20 years.
1:07:10 > 1:07:14They've been living these virtual dreams and spending virtual money
1:07:14 > 1:07:19and expect everything to be done for them - I think they'll get a better quality of life
1:07:19 > 1:07:22out of a bit of poverty and having to look after each other, you know.
1:07:28 > 1:07:31There's definitely a lot of hedonism involved,
1:07:31 > 1:07:34but I think a lot of people probably do come here and go,
1:07:34 > 1:07:37"God, there's a slightly different way of behaving and living,"
1:07:37 > 1:07:39and makes people think outside the box a bit.
1:07:39 > 1:07:41If you think outside the box in one way
1:07:41 > 1:07:44that can start to be applied to other areas of your life.
1:07:48 > 1:07:51It's a necessity in our culture to create.
1:07:51 > 1:07:56We need this kind of expression to let all of that oppression rip free and come alive -
1:07:56 > 1:08:01we're going to make our own mad world whatever you try and impinge on us.
1:08:08 > 1:08:10There's that moment when you get back to London
1:08:10 > 1:08:13and you look around and nothing makes any sense,
1:08:13 > 1:08:18and I'm sure that's probably what this feels like to a lot of people.
1:08:18 > 1:08:20But when you've been here for a few days,
1:08:20 > 1:08:22you get this sort of tweaked perspective
1:08:22 > 1:08:25and it's really hard to re-enter the world
1:08:25 > 1:08:28cos you're like, "What? Really? This? Is that enough?"
1:08:28 > 1:08:31APPLAUSE
1:08:31 > 1:08:36This is a song that is very much associated with Glastonbury for us,
1:08:36 > 1:08:38which is called Common People.
1:08:38 > 1:08:39CHEERING
1:08:41 > 1:08:43When we played it in 1995,
1:08:43 > 1:08:44I kind of made a speech
1:08:44 > 1:08:49and it went something along the lines of, "If you want something to happen enough,
1:08:49 > 1:08:53- "then it actually will happen." - CHEERING
1:08:53 > 1:08:57Although that sounds like a really corny kind of thing,
1:08:57 > 1:09:01I think it's still true, that's the whole point of it, that anybody can do it,
1:09:01 > 1:09:04not everybody will do it, but everybody's got it in them.
1:09:04 > 1:09:06You've got it in you. ..You've got it in you.
1:09:06 > 1:09:08You've got it in you.
1:09:08 > 1:09:09It's in all of us
1:09:09 > 1:09:13and that's what this place is about, what this festival is about.
1:09:13 > 1:09:17This festival is bigger than us and bigger than you - it's a feeling.
1:09:17 > 1:09:21It's not about me, it's not about you, it's about us.
1:09:21 > 1:09:22CHEERING
1:09:24 > 1:09:25This is called Common People.
1:09:25 > 1:09:26MUSIC STARTS
1:09:28 > 1:09:34All the way through, there are those fixed things that are common to all those people -
1:09:34 > 1:09:36it's the looking at the stars in wonder,
1:09:36 > 1:09:41it's the staring at the fire that somehow connects you with those generations in the past.
1:09:41 > 1:09:46There will always have been a fiddler, after the story there will always have been a song.
1:09:46 > 1:09:50# I wanna live with common people like you
1:09:50 > 1:09:53# I wanna live with common people like you
1:09:53 > 1:09:56# I wanna live with common people like you
1:09:56 > 1:09:59# I wanna live with common people like you
1:09:59 > 1:10:02# I wanna live with common people like you
1:10:02 > 1:10:05# I wanna live with common people like you
1:10:05 > 1:10:08# I wanna live with common people like you
1:10:08 > 1:10:11# I wanna live with common people like you
1:10:11 > 1:10:14# I wanna live with common people like you
1:10:14 > 1:10:16# I wanna live
1:10:16 > 1:10:19# I wanna live with
1:10:19 > 1:10:20# I wanna live with
1:10:23 > 1:10:25# I wanna live with
1:10:30 > 1:10:32# Common people like you
1:10:32 > 1:10:33# La-la-la-la
1:10:33 > 1:10:35# You
1:10:35 > 1:10:37# La-la-la-la
1:10:37 > 1:10:38# You
1:10:38 > 1:10:39# La-la-la-la
1:10:39 > 1:10:40# You
1:10:40 > 1:10:42# La-la-la-la... # Oh, yeah!
1:10:42 > 1:10:44CHEERING
1:10:50 > 1:10:52Louder!
1:10:52 > 1:10:57When you come to Glastonbury Festival, you get a slice of life of how it could be,
1:10:57 > 1:11:02with all the sound people running things and organising things
1:11:02 > 1:11:07and giving all the good stuff to people, rather than all of the bullshit.
1:11:09 > 1:11:13Whoever's in power, whatever's going on, whenever you come here,
1:11:13 > 1:11:17you can always tap into that old-school culture, that old-school vibe
1:11:17 > 1:11:20that has been in this country, I think, forever, since the beginning of time.
1:11:20 > 1:11:27The free people, the free-thinking, free-minded people are all about giving to each other - love.
1:11:39 > 1:11:43There's always someone trying to put it down, so you can't say it's utopian,
1:11:43 > 1:11:48but you can say that we've created our liberty is sacrosanct,
1:11:48 > 1:11:51and there ain't nothing that will change that.
1:11:53 > 1:11:55# So fly me to the moon
1:11:55 > 1:11:59# And let me play among the stars
1:11:59 > 1:12:02# Let me see what spring is like
1:12:02 > 1:12:05# On Jupiter or Mars
1:12:05 > 1:12:07# In other words
1:12:07 > 1:12:09# Oh, be true
1:12:09 > 1:12:11# In other words
1:12:11 > 1:12:13# Michael Eavis and Glastonbury
1:12:13 > 1:12:14# We love you. #
1:12:14 > 1:12:16Mwah.
1:12:16 > 1:12:19I do get incredibly high. When I see things working,
1:12:19 > 1:12:22like they did on Saturday and Sunday night this year...
1:12:24 > 1:12:27..I mean, that was unbelievable. I mean, you can't buy that, can you?
1:12:27 > 1:12:32And you can't buy it off the shelf, you can't go to The Bahamas,
1:12:32 > 1:12:37and get that sort of pleasure - that's a very high level of satisfaction.
1:12:39 > 1:12:44When you come into this place, you come into a different society -
1:12:44 > 1:12:48a society that represents total freedom.
1:12:48 > 1:12:51It's much better than the outside world.
1:12:51 > 1:12:52This is proper living.
1:12:52 > 1:12:56When we go back out through the gates, we're only existing.
1:12:56 > 1:12:58Michael Eavis!
1:12:58 > 1:12:59CHEERING
1:13:09 > 1:13:14'The people that come here, they go away with a different concept of social wellbeing -
1:13:14 > 1:13:19'an integration. It is thoroughly obvious to all of them
1:13:19 > 1:13:23'that the social experience here does actually work.'
1:13:23 > 1:13:28# And now the end is near
1:13:28 > 1:13:34# And so I face the final curtain... #
1:13:34 > 1:13:38When they walk out of here, they're all smiling.
1:13:38 > 1:13:43People enjoy being together and living together and having fun together
1:13:43 > 1:13:48and so it's a marvellous example of how the rest of the world could get on so much better
1:13:48 > 1:13:50by what we do here.
1:13:51 > 1:13:54It's just getting better and better and better.
1:13:54 > 1:13:58As long as I'm fit and well and able, as long as I can enjoy it like I do now,
1:13:58 > 1:14:00there's no stopping me, really.
1:14:01 > 1:14:08# ..And more, much more than this
1:14:08 > 1:14:14# I did it my way. #
1:14:14 > 1:14:16See you later.
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