Radio Avalon
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Radio Avalon is the official radio station for the Glastonbury Festival. Its broadcasts are an entertaining and informative accompaniment to the main Festival action, adding a new layer of enjoyment to what's happening on the live stages. It broadcasts using a Restricted Service Licence from studios at the Glastonbury Festival for 7 days, starting three days before the official start of the Festival and ending one day afterwards. This gives the roadies, techies and other Festival crew something of their own to listen to as they work to set everything up and also provides an essential traffic information service to the thousands of Festivalgoers on the roads before and after the Festival itself. It also streams its broadcasts over the internet via the Festival's official website.
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[edit] Radio Avalon over time
[edit] 2007
Watch this space as the Festival returns!
[edit] 2006
The Festival took one of its occasional years off so there was no Radio Avalon broadcast for 2006.
[edit] 2005
Broadcasting from two studios, one at the Greenfields area and the other at the top of the hill near the main farmhouse, Radio Avalon was the centre of everyone's attention as torrential rains and flash floods made its broadcasts a vital part of the official Festival information network. Thousands of festivalgoers tuned in for updates on weather conditions, traffic redirection, changes to performance times (as stages dried out) and to learn which campsites were less muddy than others. Once the sun came back out, the Radio Avalon Wireless Stage was a great success, broadcasting live acoustic sets performed by the finalists of the Festival's Best Unsigned Bands competition from small stages set up alongside the broadcast studios.
- Joanne Schofield – Licencee
[edit] 2004
Radio Avalon celebrated 21 years of broadcasting to the Glastonbury Festival in 2004.
The Festival station brings accurate and useful Festival information throughout the day as well as talking to performers and workers alike, profiling every aspect of the Festival. They play the best music from every area and host exclusive live performances by some of the biggest artists on-site, from "The Wireless Stage".
As car drivers near the site they can tune their radio to 87.7 FM, and receive all the Festival information they would want (including essential details for drivers on the state of the roads, gates, car parks, camping fields and where to pitch their tent).
In 2004 Radio Avalon hosted a regular hour long show every day showcasing some of the entrants of the Festival's unsigned bands competition. At lunchtimes they delved deep into the archives to celebrate 21 years of festival broadcasting, bringing all the best bits from shows such as "The Pilton Breakfast Show", including a tribute to Station Manager Fred Williams who died in April 2004. There was also regular news and travel updates keeping listeners informed, including regular welfare announcements and Festival advice.
The stations regular shows included :
- Greenfields Breakfast (8am – 10am)
- Teacha's Reggie Show (10pm – Midnight)
- Overnights produced by Glastonbury FM (Midnight - 8am)
Station Managed by David Benton and Mez Tonkin
[edit] 2003
The station built on previous successful years and made the most of a dry festival. Artists that visited the station including Glenn Tilbrook, The Levellers (band) and Mark Chadwick, among others.
The stations regular shows includes :
- Greenfields Breakfast (8am – 10am)
- The Pilton Breakfast Show (12-2pm)
- Teacha's Reggie Show (10pm – Midnight)
Station Managed by Fred Williams
