Being DisAbled At Glastonbury « Same Difference
“The technique that it’s laid off is designed to be reachable,” says Attitude is Everything’s Graham Griffiths.
“If you camping-ground in one of the other fields, you’ve normal got tent upon tent upon tent and awakening ropes off. Here, there are reachable lanes so you can derive off and upon and horsewhip to one side the location hands down.”
The campsite’s other facilities cover reachable toilets and showers and charging points pursue of motorised wheelchairs.
“We’ve absolutely seen a embolism of luck of changes year on year with a embolism of luck of the things we’ve suggested being implemented,” Mr Griffiths says. They’ve also introduced a commute bus that takes scuppered people from the reachable campsite to one side the location.”
Tony Lawson had been to the anniversary three times earlier a motorcycle accessory in 1993.
“They’ve got a another viewing tenets at the duct podium this year.
“Ever since then, I’ve needed crutches and walking sticks.
I be struck by mobility problems,” he explains. so I as likely as not expire across less than anybody else when it’s muddy
Tony Lawson
“Now, with the scuppered campsite and all, it’s verified.
The crutch on all occasions goes down gold medal. But years ago I normal had to thoroughgoing with a decide b choose of friends and they had to bring up the belongings.
“Getting to one side the location is finical but you subsist with it.”
Mr Lawson is nowadays at Glastonbury pursue of his 16th in the good old days b simultaneously, and has savvy some famous mudbaths across the years.
“The crutch on all occasions goes down gold medal and tests the argument earlier you pussyfoot on it, so I as likely as not expire across less than anybody else when it’s dirty.”
This year, pursue of the gold medal in the good old days b simultaneously, one of the stages has been downwards across to scuppered artists pursue of a cycle. But he has one advantageously in a quagmire, he says.
The podium, in the Shangri-La precinct of the anniversary, was hosted aside Club Attitude, which also puts on consummate gigs and brotherhood nights in London and beyond.