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About Me

The Left Field is here to reaffirm the spirit of political debate among festival goers, promoting the value of trade union membership and collective campaigning. Music can make a difference!

You can find us right opposite the meeting point. You can't miss us! The huge Left Field tower built for us by apprentices from the Appledore shipyard sits at the entrance to the Left Field.

The Left Field is run by Battersea & Wandsworth Trade Unions Council and a bunch of campaigners, volunteers and music nuts from South London and beyond.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Everybody's welcome at the Left Field. Our doors are open to you, whoever you are and whatever motivates you. We stand for freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom from any form of repression. If you beat the scrum for Glasto tickets come in and join us for a Che Guevara cocktail during happy hour and soak up a bit of politics.

Music:

A few of our favorite things: The Clash, Babyshambles, Neck, The Lovegods, Hugh Cornwell, British Sea Power, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Carbon/Silicon, Sonic Audio, The Filaments, Mike Peters, Candido Sabre, The Beat, Neville Staples, The Others, Lady Sovereign, Alison Moorer, Daniel Orlick, Glen Matlock, Simon Friend, Dan Donnelly... too many others to list

Movies:

Films from the Left Field and some of our friends: Left Field The Movie Part 1 , Left Field The movie Part 2 , Columbia - Trade Unions In The Firing Line , The left Field Tower part 1 , The Left Field Tower Part 2 , Neck - Everyone's Welcome To The Hooley , Teasing LuLu - Infactuation

Heroes:

Billy Bragg, Joe Strummer, Pete Doherty, Mick Jones, Tony Benn! Tony Benn! Tony Benn!

My Blog

Spanish Civil War Veteran at Glastonbury

On Saturday Love Music Hate Racism Night in the Left Field will be opened by a 100-year-old veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Howard Andrews, known as Andy, joined the International Brigade in 1936, ...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:09:00 PST

Hard-Fi confirmed for Saturday night at Glastonbury

Hard Fi have will play their on UK festival gig in the Left Field this comming Saturday, headlining Love Music Hate Racism Night.The band told the Love the Love Music Hate Racism website "The BNP try ...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:29:00 PST

Left Field Tower gets frikin laser beams!

The Left Field Tower has a bit of a refit yesterday, in anticipation of the festival. It's now even bigger and will shine lasers across the valley. Photos here....
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:45:00 PST

Indy-throwback-tastic Left Field Warm-up Gig!

It's going to be a fantastic pre-Glasto party this coming Tuesday 12th June at Carling Islington Academy, as CUD, Jim Bob (half of the newly reformed Carter USM) and Polish pop-punkesters The Poise Ri...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:00:00 PST

Joss Stone confirmed for Shelter day

We are thrilled to announce the first of our 2 special guests for this year's festival. Joss Stone will be supporting Shelter's campaign for affordable housing by headlining Friday in the Left Field. ...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:47:00 PST

Glastonbury Left Field Lineup 2007

Today's the day we get to announce the full lineup for the Left Field! We've extended to 2 stages for this year and will be serving out non-stop live music, films, cocktails and debates 'till 3:00 eac...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:27:00 PST

Glasto-goers to create sea of bricks for Shelter

Shelter is calling on Glastonbury festival goers to create a sea of red brick cards in protest at the fact that 1 in 7 children in Britain - 1.6 million overall - are now growing up homeless or badly ...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Sun, 13 May 2007 11:01:00 PST

Joing us for thursday at Glastonbury?

Looks like we're set to be the only stage on site with a decent of stuff happening on the Thursday night. Anyone fancy popping by for a cocktail or 2?
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:22:00 PST

Tony Benn back at Glastonbury for 2007

Full details of our 2007 lineup are due over the next couple of weeks but we couldn't resist marking the end of Life on Mars with our own retro 70's experience that will bring together former Bay City...
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:15:00 PST

Left Field pics on Flickr

We've been uploading photos of previous Left Field's to our Flickr AccountIf anyone has piccies from previous festivals mail us and we'll add them on....
Posted by Glastonbury Left Field on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:43:00 PST