Interview with Byron Vincent.

I caught up with Byron at Glastonbury Festival 2009, just before he rushed off for a gig at the Rabbit Hole, and we sat down for a quick chat.

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Trying to find anywhere at a festival to record in peace and quiet is hard, the BBC seem to rope off a whole area and ship in trucks that are packed with insulation – the only insulation we had was the beer and the hammocks outside of the Poetry and Words tent!

I’ve been trying to chase Byron down for an interview for a while – turns out I had the wrong contact details for him, so when I saw him come into the tent I thought I’d take my chances and get my recorder out – I suppose this is my way of apologising for the poor sound quality of the piece.

Just one more thought – place as a transient thing – Glastonbury is a small town of 120,000 people, that springs up once a year, and lasts for a week. One interesting fact about the festival and the farm I learned this year, the farm employs about twenty people to keep it running over the year, the Festival team, who are also on site for the whole year, number about one hundred. Just the thought that such as small seed of people can grow ten thousand fold and produce a transient home for people for a week.

More interviews with the other poets appearing on this site can be found in my previous posts, or by going through http://www.ukpoetrypodcast.com