To combat noise curfew restrictions, this year’s Glastonbury will include a Silent Disco where partygoers will have a right old rave up in silence wearing specially provided headphones.
This year’s Glastonbury Festival will be adhering to ever more strict noise pollution rules designed to avoid disturbing villagers living near to the Pilton Farm site in Sommerset (UK).
However, sympathetic to party goers wanting to reach for the lasers all night, event organisers have unveiled plans for a "Silent Disco" where festival-goers will be given special headsets to hear the DJ play as loud as they wish while the speakers are turned off.
According to an interview, festival organiser Michael Eavis' daughter and co-orgniser Emily came up with the idea.
"By using headphones the music in the venue can go on well into the night,” Michael explained to the BBC, "We have been toying with this idea for years, trying to think of ways to combat the noise limits.
"Now Emily has finally got something together so the party can go on later into the evening without infringing the noise curfew. It's a first for us, and I will be interested to see how it works."
People will be handed a free set of headphones when they enter the tent, complete with bass, volume and treble controls, meaning they can have the music just as they like it.
The system was invented by Dutch company 433fm.com who used it to stage undetectable illegal parties in the Netherlands in the early ‘90s. Aphex Twin also used the system at his show at the Barbican in London in 2001.
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