The LANDY MAN Glasto

You join the Merchant Navy at just 15 years of age, and then lose your dad at 19, so you return from the seas to take over the family farm. Are you happy with how things turned out? Well, yes, I am. While now it might look as if I didn’t put a foot wrong, that is not the case! It has not been easy, there have certainly been lots of ups and downs, but in the long term, everything has turned out okay.

You lose money when hosting the first (1970 and 1971) music events on the farm. Then in 1979 you decide to give it a proper go. Peter Gabriel and most of Genesis are set to play. You need cash and take out a £15k loan and give the title deeds of the farm to Yes, I think that it was the craziest thing I ever done in my life, actually. I could have lost everything but I wanted to give it a proper go, because I knew we had something that was going to work.