'This valley belongs to God!' The Somerset locals who nearly shut down Glastonbury Festival
Anne Goode (l) leads an 'anti-Glastonbury' service in 1997 Credit: Karen Davies Twenty-nine years ago, two Bristol-based documentary makers were casting around for their next project. Steve Poole and Bernard Hall had heard whispers about tension between residents in the small Somerset village of Pilton and Michael Eavis, the local farmer who ran the freewheeling Glastonbury Festival on fields adjoining the village. They decided to gently investigate. The duo started regularly driving down to Pilton, 25 miles away, where they’d chat to locals in The Crown pub and visit Eavis at his home on ...
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