Tony Benn and Bay City Roller for Glasto
For the traditional Left Field Sunday session
13 April 2007
Benn's Sunday sessions have become a popualar fixture in recent years at the festival, which returns to Worthy Farm,
Pilton, on June 22-24 this year.
Eric Faulkner comes from a solid trade union background
and his dad was a shop steward for the GMB union. He will be playing songs from the trade union movement
with a few Rollers numbers thrown in before Benn takes to the stage for his traditional sunday session in front of a packed
house of 5000 at the Left Field.
The Left Field stage is promoted by the Battersea and Wandsworth TUC who
own the Workers Beer Company. It has grown from a beer tent to the biggest covered stage on the Glastonbury
site with a capacity of 5000. The promoters are promising a stunning international line up this year is support of the global
fight for economic and social justice.
Geoff Martin, Left Field's Director, said: "Eric
Faulkner is a top bloke and dead proud of his union roots and he was blown away when we suggested he open for Tony Benn at
Glastonbury.
It's been suggested that there's a touch of Life on Mars about this connection - Eric
was a teenage star in the 70's when Tony Benn was a Labour Minister.
One thing's for sure - they'll
have a packed house at this years Glastonbury under the banner "Another World is Possible".
Tickets for Glastonbury are currently sold out, but a limited number of returned tickets will go back on-sale on Sunday April 22. These tickets will only be sold through the telephone ticket sales line - 0870 165 2007 - (International Sales +44 115 993 4183).
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