‘I couldn’t pay Marc Bolan’: Michael Eavis on Glasto’s history
Speaking at IFF, the Glastonbury Festival founder reflected on the first Glasto, the arrival of the Stonehenge crowd, the Benn era – and the year he thought he'd go bust
Feature By | 28 September 2017
Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis spoke on the history and ethos behind the event, his charity work, increasing capacity and the backlash to booking Jay-Z in an entertaining, anecdote-packed keynote interview at the International Festival Forum (IFF) this morning.
Interviewed by CAA agent Emma Banks, Eavis – who wore his trademark shorts and sandals and spent the entire hour on his feet – recounted Glastonbury’s remarkable story, starting at the very beginning. As a young man, he said, “I went to sea to see the world. Unfortunately, my father died when I was 19, so I had to come back and manage the farm.”
After an epiphany at 1970’s Bath Festival – “I fell in love,” he explained. “They had Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, all these west…
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