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	BBC - Somerset - Michael Eavis talks...
		Festival Organiser Michael Eavis takes great pride in the knowledge the event has been able to help people in so many diverse ways.
		Mr Eavis said: "I would have to say that this is one of the things I have done in my life that I am most proud of.
		Mr Eavis is hoping the village will be able to secure another grant to get the work underway.
	www.bbc.co.uk /somerset/glastonbury2003/04/tithe_barn.shtml (492 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| The Observer profile: Michael Eavis
		The other is Michael Eavis: rock impresario, presiding genius, hero to teenagers, political crusader and Blairite, scourge of certain neighbours, an apparent bundle of contradictions, right down to the pate and Abraham Lincoln beard.
		Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis was born in 1935 and educated at the Wells Cathedral School, but left at 15 to join the Union Castle Shipping Line as a trainee midshipman, spending four years plying the routes between Britain, Kenya and South Africa.
		Eavis, who got stomach cancer in 1994 and insisted the show go on during his recovery, still lives frugally and is content to drive a yellow Mini and Land Rover.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1509863,00.html (1805 words)

	Pilton
		Michael Eavis neither encouraged nor discouraged the pilgrims.
		When Eavis and others decided to have another Glastonbury Fayre in 1979, it was no longer a matter of putting up the fences, digging a few latrines and hiring the bands.
		Eavis had to put up the deeds to his farm to get a loan to cover all the expenses, even though there was no longer any intention to benefit Eavis.
	www.strum.co.uk /twilight/pilton.htm (566 words)

	BBC - Somerset - Michael Eavis
		Michael Eavis is organiser and founder of one of Europe's largest music festivals.
		Michael Eavis has said his motives were simple: "I liked pop music and people so it seemed like a good idea to put the two together.
		Michael Eavis from Somerset joined finalists from Bristol, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire to battle for the title of Local Hero for the West of England.
	www.bbc.co.uk /somerset/closer_to_you/2004/01/local_hero/michael_eavis.shtml (927 words)

	Wateraid - Text Only Version
		Michael Eavis is standing in shorts, a T-shirt and shades under a large tree in a remote village in Northern Ghana.
		Michael Eavis, although fanatically into the musical side of the festival, sees the charitable output of the festival as fundamental to it's identity.
		The people in the villages Michael was visiting had to deal with these issues every day of their lives.
	www.wateraid.org.uk /other/TextOnly?ContentID=370&FontSize=9 (1020 words)

	Glastonbury festival -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Organiser (additional info and facts about Michael Eavis) Michael Eavis claims he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air (additional info and facts about Led Zeppelin) Led Zeppelin concert at the nearby Bath and West showground.
		Some sources now report that Michael's daughter Emily Eavis is taking a more proactive role in organising the festival, with Michael increasingly taking a back seat.
		After the 2004 festival, Eavis commented that 2006 would be a year off - in keeping with the previous history of taking one "fallow year" in every five to give the villagers and surrounding areas a rest from the yearly disruption.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gl/glastonbury_festival.htm (934 words)

	Welcome to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts- 2006 Fallow Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It has been part of Michael’s practice to regularly have a fallow year, to allow the land time to recover and the cows to have more time grazing outside during the summer.
		It is a regenerative exercise not only for Michael, but also for the hundreds of people who make Glastonbury what it is. It comes back with a bounce and with new energy and enthusiasm.
		Michael says he is amazed at the amount of pure water being pumped up under pressure from the deep drilled artesian well.
	admin.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk /news/index.asp?id=161 (351 words)

	Glastonbury Festival : Official Website
		Mr Eavis and the Festival Organisers are not surprised at the decision to prosecute and accept that if the merits of the PEL system are not to be undermined there must be prosecutions in the case of significant breaches.
		Mr Eavis also commented that he felt the decision to prosecute was effectively made at the meeting in October where the report was presented.
		A decision as to whether Michael Eavis holds the event in 2001 is still awaited.
	archive.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk /2001/prosecution.html (838 words)

	Welcome to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts- Michael Eavis Talks Mud- Coldplay and 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When quizzed on his personal highlight, Eavis plumped for Coldplay and 'Fix You' which was the last number of the night (for all those who entered the website's competition!).
		Michael Eavis was pleased with new attractions such as the Ghost Train and the Sculpture Park, but perhaps the biggest new feature - and clearly a success story - was the Dance Village, a five tent throng of electronica in all its glory, which replaced the "too big" Dance Tent.
		Despite this being a record breaking year, there will be no Glastonbury 2006 and Eavis reiterated the need for the rejuvenation of the fields, the farm and himself.
	www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk /news/index.asp?id=355 (429 words)

	GlastoBlog
		Michael Eavis strides over to greet me, beaming in the sunshine, shakes my hand warmly and asks me inside for a cup of tea.
		Michael is first and foremost a farmer, but he's also a member of a community.
		Michael has spent a lot of time in Africa and is aware of the many problems there.
	weblog.greenpeace.org /glastoblog/archives/2005/06/getting_the_far.html (1461 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Poetry in Translation: "The founder of festival Michael Eavis Glastonbury declared that with the BBC that the case lasts far one year at 2006.
		Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis has told the BBC that the event will take a year off in 2006.
		Mr Eavis made his announcement as local councillors approved plans to stage the event at his farm near Pilton, Somerset, this June.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=10336168&postID=111611440551131529 (254 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Michael Eavis may run Glastonbury, the biggest rock festival in the world, but at heart he remains a farmer.
		Mr Eavis, who still runs a working farm on the site, is as excited now as he was 35 years ago when he lost his shirt with Marc Bolan at the top of his first bill.
		But, for Mr Eavis, the music takes second place to the £600,000 rebuilding of the barn by the master carpenter Peter McCurdy, who renovated Shakespeare's Globe theatre.
	telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/23/nglast23.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/23/ixnewstop.html (454 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1999 \| 06/99 \| Glastonbury 1999 \| The early years
		September 1970, and Michael Eavis is busy building toilets for his first festival when the BBC's local news programme Points West caught up with him.
		The mixed feelings are shared by Michael Eavis - who is "very glad to go back to the cows".
		Michael Eavis talks of his hopes for the 1970 festival
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/06/99/glastonbury_1999/375605.stm (465 words)

	Environmental Issues \| GM Food \| Nuclear Power \| GREENPEACE UK
		For almost thirty years Michael Eavis, farmer and founder, has succeeded in turning Worthy Farm into the biggest and brightest festival of contemporary arts in Europe, possibly the world.
		Michael Eavis felt that with the ending of the Cold War, people's concerns had shifted towards the environment.
		Greenpeace benefits directly from Michael's generosity and we are invited onto the site to greet our existing supporters and to make new friends.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /contentlookup.cfm?ucidparam=20010620114025&CFID=603621&CFTOKEN=91567495 (235 words)

	HTV West: Glastonbury Uncovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eavis finds himself having to share the festival top-dog spot with Melvin Benn, boss of Mean Fiddler, a London-based music venue and events business.
		Securing a deal with Eavis means Melvin Benn and his team take on the job of festival operations, crowd control – and doing their best to discourage the Glastonbury gate-crashers.
		Even while Eavis relaxes on the putting green on the sea-front at Weston-super-Mare, he can't escape the constant interruption of mobile phone calls – urgent questions from the festival team in Somerset and London – as they prepare for Europe's biggest popular music festival.
	www.htvwest.co.uk /glastonbury (556 words)

	Glastonbury Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippy ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.
		The festival is organised by local farmer and site owner Michael Eavis, who has hosted the event since its inception.
		In the following years donations were made to a number of organisations, and since the end of the Cold War the main beneficiaries have been Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WaterAid who all contribute towards the festival by providing features and volunteers who work at the festival in exchange for free entrance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glastonbury_Festival (2638 words)

	History of Glastonbury
		Eavis was inspired by the Bath Blues Festival in nearby Shepton Mallet, after he crawled through a hedge to watch it, and set about running his first festival, then known as the Pilton Festival, on the 19th and 20th of September in 1970.
		Situated in the Vale of Avalon close to Glastonbury Abbey, Michael Eavis' farm just happened to be situated in a location seen as having great power.
		It didn't do well financially, however it gave the festival impetus, and after a year's break, Michael Eavis started the first truly major festival in 1981, this time to raise money for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
	www.myvillage.com /pages/bars&music-historyofglastonbury.htm (565 words)

	Pilton 2
		In 1981, Michael Eavis approached Mid-Somerset CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) with a plan to run a new festival - with CND as the beneficiary.
		In the event, this building (80 ft square and 50 ft high) was a bit too tall to evade planning regulations, so building regulations had to be obeyed rigorously, and a trail of forms, inspections and certificates would have to be followed.
		Luckily, by now, Michael Eavis had become quite adept at managing local council bureaucracy, and the pyramid stage/cowshed was finished and cleared for use in good time.
	www.strum.co.uk /twilight/pilton2.htm (370 words)

	Radiohead (Excerpts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Michael Eavis is a legend in the history of music festivals.
		Eavis, instead of pulling the plug, enlisted Marc Bolan and T. Rex to take their place.
		Mainstream acts like The Spice Girls, Michael Jackson, or The Backstreet Boys are shunned, while envelope-pushing artists such as Sonic Youth, the Velvet Underground, and Blur are invited to headline.
	www.ecwpress.com /books/radioheadx.htm (1316 words)

	Encyclopedia: Michael Eavis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Michael Eavis (born October 17, 1935) is a British dairy farmer most famous as the founder of the Glastonbury Festival.
		October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar.
		Michael Eavis at Glastonbury 2005 at the charity launch
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Eavis (449 words)

tags --> University of Bath - Public Relations - Internal news</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> There can be no easy explanation why <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> added the Glastonbury Music Festival to his life as a dairy <a href="/topics/Farmer" title="Farmer" class=fl>farmer</a> in Somerset, but it is clear that he has made a remarkable contribution to global popular culture as a result. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Although <b>Michael</b> now has a team of devoted organisers around him, including his daughter <a href="/topics/Emily-Eavis" title="Emily Eavis" class=fl>Emily</a>, there is little doubt among them that his strength and resilience has literally kept the show alive. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> These problems are recounted because they reveal not only the tenacity and spirit of <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> to pursue a valued dream for youth, but also an application of consummate skills of negotiation and diplomacy to these values.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bath.ac.uk /internal/news/hon04-eavis</font> (781 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>News: Council to prosecute Glastonbury promoter >> liveDaily</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> LONDON--Glastonbury Festival promoter <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> is facing prosecution for allegedly permitting double the maximum amount of attendees into this year's event, which was held from June 23-25. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Mendip District Council decided that <b>Eavis</b> had breached his license after it was reported earlier this year that up to 200,000 people were in attendance at the festival although Glastonbury's license only allowed 100,000 people on the site. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Eavis</b> has clamed that the excess number of attendees was due to people without tickets climbing over perimeter fences and onto the grounds.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.livedaily.com /news/1998.html</font> (575 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>NME.COM - News - GLASTONBURY BOSS HITS BACK AT THE DARKNESS</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> says he wants to sit down with Justin Hawkins to get an apology... </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> GLASTONBURY boss <b>MICHAEL</b> <b>EAVIS</b> has hit back at The Darkness' frontman JUSTIN HAWKINS, telling NME.COM he wants an apology and to meet the band "face to face" to talk through their gripes with him. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Eavis</b> said that he wants to speak to the band, to set the record straight.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.nme.com /news/108008.htm</font> (427 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/glastonbury2003/story/0,12902,975009,00.html">Guardian Unlimited | Arts special reports | Double act</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Michael</b> plonks himself on the red-and-white striped sofa chair and starts talking about how the seven other kids (three from Jean's first marriage, three from his, and <a href="/topics/Emily-Eavis" title="Emily Eavis" class=fl>Emily's</a> brother) had left home when <a href="/topics/Emily-Eavis" title="Emily Eavis" class=fl>Emily</a> was growing up, and how he and Jean indulged their last baby, the youngest by 14 years. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Michael</b> admits that it was mainly her idea to get Robbie Williams to play Glastonbury just after he'd left Take That. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Glastonbury is all about <b>Michael</b> and Jean, and their love, and it wouldn't be the same.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.guardian.co.uk /arts/glastonbury2003/story/0,12902,975009,00.html</font> (1249 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>New Page 1</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It looks a lot like the Chin Curtain, as sported by <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> [below] BUT IT The Lincoln is a funny shape and it is a funny shape from every angle. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Once, <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> was asked why he had the "beard and no moustache". </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> tells many truths, some say he tells over a hundred truths a day.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.geocities.com /kfasyr/Beards.htm</font> (976 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://zoostation.poplemon.com/index.php?topic=12048.0">POP LEMON.COM-The ZooStation</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> has labelled U2 "blighters" and revealed it's unlikely they'll ever play the Glastonbury Festival. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Eavis</b> apparently claimed Bono and co, who were on a world tour at the time of this year's Glastonbury, "really mucked me about", as he sought to finalise the bill, reports Playlouder. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Eavis</b> also revealed that in the days before the ring of steel that now circles the Somerset site, he used to let people into the festival for free, rather than see them locked out.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>zoostation.poplemon.com /index.php?topic=12048.0</font> (244 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/3023678.stm">BBC NEWS | In Depth | Newsmakers | Michael Eavis: Godfather of Glastonbury</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The organiser of this weekend's Glastonbury festival is a 67-year-old Methodist dairy <a href="/topics/Farmer" title="Farmer" class=fl>farmer</a> with a penchant for Radiohead and the chutzpah to turn down Sir Paul McCartney. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <a href="/topics/Farmer" title="Farmer" class=fl>Farmer</a> <b>Eavis</b> is resolutely a local man. Born in <a href="/topics/1935" title="1935" class=fl>1935</a>, he was educated at the Cathedral School in nearby <a href="/topics/Wells" title="Wells" class=fl>Wells</a> and then a merchant naval college. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b> says his motives were simple: "I liked pop music and people so it seemed like a good idea to put the two together.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/3023678.stm</font> (804 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Swizzle-Stick</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Glastonbury 2002 was a make or break year for <b>Michael</b> <b>Eavis</b>, the festival's organiser. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> After an estimated 100,000 people jumped the fence in 2000 (resulting in an attendance of over 200,000) <b>Eavis</b> brought in the Mean Fiddler organisation to handle the security aspects of the weekend, to ensure such a breach would not happen again. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As <a href="/topics/Wells" title="Wells" class=fl>well</a> as the security improvement, a 'safer' line up was announced, demonstrating <b>Eavis</b>' concern that there would be no crowd tragedies as seen in Danish festival Roskilde in the late 1990s.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.swizzle-stick.com /bin/review.php?id=R0000382</font> (887 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.time.com/time/europe/summerculture/html/gbirl/rock.html">TIMEeurope.com | Summer of Culture 2002</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> If anything, though, the changes made for 2002 suggest that the <b>Eavis</b> family is set on preserving Glastonbury and all the qualities — the mood, the music, the unparalleled bonding experience of getting grungy with tens of thousands of others — that distinguish it from other festivals. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Eavis</b> says simply: "We needed a new operational manager." In exchange for a cut of the profits, Mean Fiddler will oversee security and operations. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Eavis</b> says he doesn't mind having the jet set swooping in to join the party.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.time.com /time/europe/summerculture/html/gbirl/rock.html</font> (913 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br> <p style="margin-left:30px;font-size:13px;"><b>Try your search on: <a href="http://www.qwika.com/find/Michael Eavis">Qwika</a> (all wikis)</b></p> <form action=http://www.factbites.com/search.php><table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td background="/images/f1.gif"><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0 background="/images/b.gif"><tr><td><img src="/images/f2.gif" width=38 height=37 alt=" "/></td><td><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td><a href="/"><img src="/images/f3.gif" width=95 height=37 alt="Factbites" border=0 /></a><img src="/images/b.gif" width=15 height=1 alt=" "/></td><td valign=bottom><input type=text size=30 name=kp><img src="/images/b.gif" width=2 height=1 alt=" " /><input type=submit value=" Find » " class=b2></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><span class=f> <a href="http://www.factbites.com/about_us.php">About us</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/why_use_us.php">Why use us?</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/reviews.php">Reviews</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/press.php">Press</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/contact_us.php">Contact us</a> <br />Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with <a href=http://www.factbites.com/terms_and_conditions.php>terms</a>.</span></td></tr></table><img src="/images/b.gif" width=450 height=1 alt=" " /></td></tr></table></form> </body></html>