Block9 at Glastonbury Ftival marked s tenth anniversary at the Somerset shdig last weekend, which ran om 21st to 25th June on Worthy Farm Pilton. First lnched as part of the now funct Glastonbury late-night field Trash Cy, as the ftival’s first gay venue opened on a budget of jt £2,000, rapidly tablished self as the beatg heart of Glastonbury’s famo ‘nghty rner’.
Contents:
- BLOCK 9 RELEAS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GLASTONBURY’S FIRST GAY NIGHTCLUB, NYC DOWNLOW
- 24-HOUR GAY CLUBBG ON OFFER AT GLASTONBURY’S BLOCK9 AREA
BLOCK 9 RELEAS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GLASTONBURY’S FIRST GAY NIGHTCLUB, NYC DOWNLOW
Only three years before da Cunha’s first vis, Gion Berger and his creative partner Stephen Gallagher, otherwise known as set signers Block9, were given £2, 000 by the team behd now funct Glastonbury late-night field Trash Cy to build the ftival’s first gay venue.
It was there that Berger would tell Joe Rh, founr of the Mutoid Waste Co, about homo-centric soundsystems om San Fran, New York and Los Angel like Jiffy Lube, Comfort & Joy, Green Gorilla Lounge and The Deep End that he’d seen at Burng Man. “The fn of gay pri to me is stickg up a soundsystem that’s r than anybody else’s, and they were buildg some pretty imprsive sh whilst dog .
24-HOUR GAY CLUBBG ON OFFER AT GLASTONBURY’S BLOCK9 AREA
“Gay history has been erased om regular history books, ” Berger explas.