Amanda and I just got back from Glastonbury 2007 where I installed Greenpeace’s solar electric panels, as I did back in 2005. This year their PV array was a bit smaller and easer to access so I had time install about 8 square meters of Viessman flat plate water heating panels and 30 Viessman evacuated tubes for Greenpeace’s solar/wood powered showers.
Amanda painted a fantastic mural about wood fuels being “96% carbon neutral”, and CAT were there too with their Carbon Calculator.
Despite the rain, the site stayed nice and dry; that is until the punters arrived.
We started with Gogol Bodelo on Friday, saw a hundred other bands including Madness and Fatboy Slim in the Lost Vagueness Ballroom and I finished up with Krafty Kuts while Amanda went all the way to the John Peel Tent to see The Gossip on Sunday evening.
I loved the ferris wheel, bumping into Michael Eavis, chatting to Pete Doherty in LV (because I had no idea who he was), hot spiced cider, watching Lilly Allen (because I expected to hate her), not washing for a week and dressing up in that blue and silver jacket……..
……..this is why I became self employed, but ten days on site was more than enough, we got a tow off site on Monday after lunch - which cost us our last two beers. Next weekend, Workhouse Festival and then Plastonbury.
A few links:
- Google Earth to here: 51° 9′17″N 2°35′5″W
(roughly) - Panoramic view of Glastonbury 2005 from the LOVE sign
(quite a big file) - Big map of the festival site
(another big file) - Aerial view of Glastonbury 2005
(I’m looking for a 2007 one, there was one published in the NME)
