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Michael Eavis

lines on the record: 61
first: 2008-11-30
most recent: 2008-11-30
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I go for the Elvis one, actually, because I probably need a little bit of that religious stuff, because I'd be a bit concerned about being stranded on the island, you think? So it might need a bit of spiritual backup. So get that from Elvis Presley.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they're going to take a mouth over. I'm going to learn to play the mouth organ. I love it when Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, and even Chris Martin actually, when they do the mouth organ, is very effective.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lotate Peter Ackroyd's book about Blake. I would have been interested in Blake. He's about three hundred years ahead of his time really in the shape of freedom of the individual and liberty and justice. He is such a genius sort of slightly crazy.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it was Wednesday, so we had two days to go. He said, What you want me there for Friday? And I said, Yeah, I know it's incredible chic, but as she Emily dialed out the number and I've got you on the phone she's got neck enough or anything. Yes, you'll go far. And so you said I'll be there. So we had him for an hour and a half, said Brilliant.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At yet the small village thing. And so I was really stuck and Emily was in the kitchen and she said, well, why didn't we find Chris Martin? I said, no, you can't do that. I can't do that. She dialed up the number and handed me the telephone and said, There's Chris's on the phone. I'm really sorry about this, Chris, but we're actually stuck for a band on Friday for the Pilton thing for the fundraising villages”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cowplay have probably performed for us for about five times, one time in particular when we were stuck for a performance for the Bilton Party.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She comes every year, actually. We take her down a wheelchair and she answer wheeler on to the stage and she'd love Paul McCartney, and Johnny Cash, this year she came and seeing the diamond. So she chooses the one act that she wants to come and see. and then we make it happen, you know, get it up on Fort Lift trucks and all sorts to get her up there.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think she didn't really approve, obviously, in the difficult days of the eighties because it was a bit untidy. It was a bit answered rough and ready and the whole hippie convoy thing was not very attractive. But now twenty years later it's all wonderful now, isn't it? The family in particular are very proud of it now.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is actually we get probably one every two weeks So I've got a field for the trees now where we've got the ashes and Joe Stramratch I've got a stone for Joey's work because that was one of his last wishes as well and Joe's to come every year although he didn't come as a clash when I wanted them to come originally but Joe at the end of his life used to come every year and used to get involved with the festival quite a lot so I got a memorial stone for him that his wife wanted me to put in the field there as well.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was a midwife and she midwife for about 27 years, so she's a very lovely, warm lady. I wouldn't say that she's a festival person, not really no, but she does look after the welfare. But welfare centered next door to the farmhouse, where we look after people that are unhappy or unsettled or whatever for whatever reason, so that she does a lot of work there now, actually.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why she's the daughter of Jean, and she does a lot of the choosing the music now, so that she said, well, look, why did we go for Jay Z? He's actually huge in America, and he's got more number once than Elvis Presley in America. And it did work, actually, with all the newspapers saying, yeah, was it going to work? Was it right for Glass and Bay? We shouldn't have had oasis and all that kind of thing. At the end of the day, it was a huge success.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Command an audience of 50,000. The last outdoor concert they did is probably 100,000 people. So we had 500 people in Pilton listening to them and they didn't really know what was going on, but they were so good. God, it was such an incredible magical moment that was. But they never played the year after because they split up. I hope they will one day, though. I'm still hopeful that they will do that gig and they will do a reunion at the farm.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A series actually paid at the Pilton Party, which is a fundraising thing for the village. A bit like the village's fate, really so the stone roses said that they'd come and play if they could headline the year after, you see. I didn't really believe that they were going to come, but every single one of them turned up. It was absolutely unbelievable. There were only 500 people listening to this.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a two minute silence actually across the whole site. I could not believe that that whole site all of those people would have stayed still and silent for two minutes, would you? Nobody mucked around or anything so much respect for Jane.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She died in' ninety nine, but funny enough there were times when she would have willingly would have given it up, really. She would have been only too happy to have backed away from it. So year two thousand we'd agreed that we were going to retire then. Unfortunately, Tina remade it to that date so that she having died. I was more determined to carry on because I didn't have a girlfriend or anything. And I got loads of children, loads of grandchildren, because all the kids were very keen on it. So it was like my new lady friend in a way, the festival.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of that takes the charm, I suppose. No, it doesn't take charm out Not at all now, and certainly makes it safer, doesn't it? And you have to say it is a lot less dangerous than it was in the eighties. Are you talking about twenty thousand people so compared to one hundred eighty thousand people now”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A real Smith Eleanor Morrissey tran as well, and when they started playing everyone started running down across the farm towards the pyramid stage in the oar climbed up on it because Morris beckoning people to come up, you see. But there are no fences in those days, there were no barriers around the stage, you know, so it was very hippie and very free and easy going, and there were hundreds of people up on the stage, and so they had to stop playing until you played before forty-five minutes was a real shame.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the Smiths came and played nineteen eighty four it was, wasn't it? Then I went up to Bristol to see them actually my son, Patrick, who was at his GP at Bath, and he's got a proper job. As Patrick, who said to me ought to go and listen to the Smiths, so I shut up to Bristol University, went into their social hall thing. It wasn't a very big event, because they went very big then, and so I listened to them, and I was completely knocked over by the Smiths live, and so I went round the mouth and said you want to play at the festival next year. So they said we'd love to. We'd been having hippie stuff up to then, and suddenly the Smiths, you know, very cool and very fashionable, and it just changed the whole event so much that suddenly became a big superpower festival then.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While they're all on board now, because everybody earns some money from like a bit of seven farms I have to rent. So I've got a thousand acres that we use, so if the local economy gets over a hundred million a year, which is a lot of money. So it's a huge economic input. So there's no discussion about not allowing the festival license anymore.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I said I'd love to see him. So I pot ran off the show and he was so emotional about it he loved it so much. He was so good, actually. I think it was actually weeping with joy.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not very often I don't really feel dreadfully at home, but Paul McCartney, when he played, he did ask for the pot rain to say hello after the show.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As he nodded Kennedy wanted an air conditioning unit to put his little dog in because it was too hot. How about that? That's pretty good.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so the contrast is quite nice because you can relax so that I can coat much easier than having the whole thing rock and roll and all stress, you know, 20 million pound budgets and things.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It actually works so well together, the contrast actually, because you can relax with the farm and the cattle, you know, and the heifers and all that kind of thing. So it is a kind of relaxation about that. Can you see that?”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bob Dylan, and I threw it all away. Always been a Bob Dylan fan right from the beginning and this is a lovely track of his I don't think you can get one better than that.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When it was, it didn't make any money, but it was a lovely, it was hot sunshine, it was beautiful actually, so that as you laid the seeds for nineteen eighty one ready to succeed, I think.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, she thought it was crazy. She thought I was crazy at that point. I mean, she didn't think it was the sound idea at all.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we'd already started with Arabella Churchill was a major player in the festival, I have to say. But Arabella came to me and said, you know what, going to council, the festival, Micah, because we might run out of money. And so I said, you can't counsel it now because you've got Peter Gabriel playing, and loads of top artists that were lined up for it, you know. You can't do that. You cannot counsel it now. So she's well worth fifteen thousand down. So I went to the bank manager and said I needed fifteen thousand to see this thing through, you see. So he phoned the head office and they cleared it on the strength to the deeds of the farm.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Outside the milking parlour, and this huge clay pipe came in and came into the parlour with an incredible bass sound to it.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“was a huge clay pipe, you know, sewer pipe, which about eight feet long, and it had a speaker sort of strapped on to the end of it. Coming into the partner from the outside.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's I'd gone a bit dotty, I think, and I think she did, actually. So I got on the phone the next morning I couldn't wait when I finished milking to get on the phone in the Colston Hall at Bristol. And so how can I get the king?”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“General actually went to the Bath Blues Festival and fell in love with the whole idea, get rid of a festival I just could not believe that that could happen, you know, it just went three miles away from the farm. There was no fence, there were no gates, nothing, no people taking money or anything. And the moody booze were playing millions and millions of people there and they're all lying about in the sun, but they look absolutely fantastic, I thought. So I fell in love with the whole concept straight away, and I said to Jean, I can't wait to get on the phone tomorrow to do my own show.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now the fourth track is the grateful dead, the kind of hippie band extraordinaire really. And we used to go off to London to see the grateful dead and go to those all-night councillors where they played for about 16 hours or something as a non-stop. It was great. I mean, they're so good.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As you saw in a fish and chip shop at Gloucester very funnily enough, and we got together and fell for each other, then we went for it then. We got sort of stuck into the whole thing of the farm and everything.”
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“To the extent of the marriage I think in effect is a marriage most definitely did yeah No I don't get depressed no I never get depressed”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I was working so hard in all the hours of the day and night and doing all myself, and really it wasn't conducive to a good marriage, really, so that I was obsessed with succeeding in the farm really.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think she wanted me to do it. I mean, she sent me to see the bank manager, so it was her idea that I should go and confront these reality of the problem, really. And the bank manager did in a way, you know, are you up to this job, you know, because you probably haven't been away for a few years, I've seen another side of life. Did I really want to knuckle down and sort of get stuck in at the deep end?”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably because I'd always been there, and my great-grandfather came and moved in eighteen sixty four, so he'd been there a long, long time. I didn't want to walk away from it just like that.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was nineteen, actually, I was only nineteen. So I had to get in at the deep end and I had to go and see the bank and talk about loans and overdrafts and things because obviously father wasn't that well off, but the farm was worth about probably 12,000 quid or something. So the temptation would have been to have sold a farm, wouldn't it? But I was quite keen not to do that, though, and”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably not because, I mean, we're quite light with the method of things a bit light. We're all full of the creation and the creator and all that kind of thing when it comes down to God it gets the bits of I'm a little bit tricky, doesn't it? We're not quite sure what God is, you know, but we just enjoy singing about praise and stuff. But when it gets down to specific stuff, it gets a bit complicated, doesn't it?”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was a preacher himself, yes. I think he enjoyed the social thing of it, actually, and he had a good laugh and he enjoyed himself, but when it came down to die with a minister he said no thank you.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was with him when he died actually at the side of the bed drove her mother when he died and I thought I ought to get the methods ministered to come and see him as he was dying, you know. He said, No, thanks, son, he said, no thanks. So you don't want that. Because he had been”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“how great they are with the most amazing gospel song and I was going to the Welsh mountains I was having a meeting with some of my wonderful green ladies actually run the greenfields at Glastonbury and I put that on the car player fantastic in driving through Welsh mountains it's very powerful”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was a major part of my life actually because it was so mind-boggling to go straight into that situation. I mean from a rather sheltered home life in the Welsh Eater school suddenly fishing van brothels in Mombasa looking for crew. He's quite short, really, wasn't it?”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you saw you were about six of them. And I mean, they were all looking a bit shabby and untidy and quite unhealthy as well, I can tell you, and probably drunk as well. So I took them on with me and I took them back and they had to get the other six who were actually in jail. So I needed the bail money to get the other six out of the jail as well.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You said avoiding you realise and so he gave me the bail money to get them out of jail five or something. So I went up on my own you're looking down through the streets of Mombasa looking for a brothel I might never have seen or heard of Brotha before the little girl twelve or fourteen or something came and flashed her dress up at me and said would I lie with her? And I said not right now thank you very much and he was very kind of you and all that but no not now thank you And so then she actually dragged me in to a brothel funnily enough so that she took my hand and she pulled me with it and so I was into the brothel where the seamen were.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I went to see, we relieved him on Basso, you see, and the chief officer came around and said, Eva said, we haven't got half our crew. We've got 12 people missing. And he said, go and find them. I said, but where will they be, sir? And he said, they'll be in the brothels or jails, of course.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was very keen to sort of get out into the wood and sort of see something else of my life really. The second time So my father actually cries one the first time is when his horse died. and Hoscott John and his really upset when he died, and I saw him crying to himself about that, and the second time it was when it went into the house or when he was there milking, but I had my uniform on, I looked very nice and pretty and tidy and small and everything. And so walked down and set Joe dad him off now, you know. He broke down and cried then he didn't really want me to go I'm not sure I thought it was quite an achievement for me to get interesting and to get all this smart uniform and all that kind of thing and I felt I was really raring to go for something really different you see.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I wasn't. I was quite nervous. Really, I was out of my depth of the housemaster after a couple of years, housemaster came when I was about eleven, I think. He wanted me to be head boy at the junior school. and ask him what he expected me to do, you see, and he said, well, just make sure that people behave properly.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By different sorts. I think my mother was quite determined that we were going to have what she called a good education, I think. So they sent both of us to Peter and herself. We went there together, I was about nine and Peter was probably eight.”
2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source