Glastonbury Festival 4G network by EE set to be most powerful…
Glastonbury Festival 2016 is set to be the most connected green-field music festival in the world.

With a predicted 135,000 people on site throughout the five days of this year’s festival, they are expected to use an astounding 15 terabytes of data. The use of such an enormous amount of data is equivalent to downloading Adele’s single ‘Hello’ three million times, streaming artist performances of BBC iPlayer continually for six years, and uploading 63 million selfies.

In an effort to meet the…

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Glastonbury Festival to move to Longleat in 2019 – Michael Eavis…
IT’S OFFICIAL – Glastonbury Festival is in talks with Longleat with a view to moving the event to the grounds of the Wiltshire stately home in 2019.
UPDATE, FRIDAY: Longleat confirms talks with Glastonbury Festival about moving event
After
months of speculation during which neither the festival bosses nor Longleat were willing to confirm the news, the founder Michael Eavis has today given an interview to ITV West Country in which he said talks were ongoing.

He hinted at difficulties…

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Glastonbury Festival by numbers
1 ticket: Following the ticket resales on April 14 and 17, tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2016 have now completely sold out.5 days of festival fun. The festival runs from June 22 – 267 headline acts have pulled out in the history of the festival: The Kinks (1970), Red Hot Chili Peppers (1993), The Stone Roses (1995), Stevie Winwood (1997), Kylie Minogue (2005), U2 (2010) and Foo Fighters (2015)8.5 the distance in miles around the edge of the site. The site has grown in size to 900 acres,…

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Author: Wells Journal
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Glastonbury Festival in the 1970s – Where it all began
It was decade of pet rocks, mood rings, lava lamps, with glam rock and disco battling it out for chart supremacy.

The first festival was held on September 19 and 20, 1970 and was inspired by a blues festival at the Bath and west Showground near Shepton Mallet.

Around 1,500 people turned up with Marc Bolan and Tyrannosaurus Rex stepping in to play for The Kinks – who didn’t show up.

The festival was back in ’71, renamed the Glastonbury Fair and moved to coincide with the Summer…

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Author: Wells Journal
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