Like nothing seen before from a charity at a UK festival
Rising from the epicentre of the Haiti earthquake, MSF Live is a groundbreaking charity venue in this year's most talked about field at Glastonbury Festival – The Common.
With a spectacular frontage co-designed by Missmanage (Trash City), the venue will tell the story of MSF’s frontline work through groundbreaking installations, including:
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An emergency operating theatre converted from a shipping container
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An interactive cholera treatment centre
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Haitian graffiti
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Photo exhibitions
Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival, taking a tour of the MSF Live container hospital.
Visit MSF's emergency response in Haiti... at Glastonbury
Innovative, inspiring and educational, the venue’s unique live exhibition comes to life on ‘The Trail’ – inviting festival-goers to explore the story of MSF’s frontline work in Haiti through cutting-edge installations.
The Trail’s focal point is the cholera treatment centre; imported from Paris to Glastonbury, as used in Haiti.
People can sanitise their feet, seek respite on treatment beds and interact with iPads screening MSF videos and chat to MSF staff, many of whom have worked in Haiti.
Also on The Trail, a dimly lit freight container hospital will immerse audiences in the pioneering ways MSF build temporary health structures in emergency situations like the Haiti earthquake.
Graffiti
The backdrop to this intimate acoustic venue is influenced by famous pieces from renowned Haitian graffiti artist, Jerry Moise Rosembert.
Painted by top London graffiti artists 284 Crew (London West Bank), the unique urban art canvas will tell a story of Haiti’s turbulent history.
Music from Lyrix Organix
MSF Live’s venue will explode into colour with music workshops, MSF talks and an eye-watering line-up of secret gigs from UK's finest acoustic artists – courtesy of pioneering live music afficianados Lyrix Organix.
The real achievement of this ambitious project – from performers to set-design – is that the vision is being realised at minimal or no cost to MSF.
MSF Live stage front takes shape as the festival draws near.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PROGRAMME
Médecins Sans Frontières @Zona Bassline, Friday 24th June
A thousand people... 10 huge performances...one night.
MSF and Lyrix Organix are joining forces to raise the big top roof off Zona Bassline on Friday night for an epic, unforgettable event like no other!
Taking over one of The Common’s major late-night venues, Zona Bassline, we are hosting a one-off special featuring many of the UK’s finest performers, plus circus performers, video walls and favela stages! Highlights include:
- Ed Sheeran: set for superstar status, this groundbreaking acoustic artist (Atlantic) recently sold out his UK tour (including Shepherds Bush Empire) in under two hours – before even releasing his first single!
- Shlomo’s Glasto Circus: Glastonbury favourite, beatbox supremo and World Loopstation champion, unveils a special one hour live collaboration alongside some very special surprise guests.
- Example: chart-topping rapper regularly sells out arenas nationwide, with his party-starting blend of Hip Hop, Electro and Dubstep.
- Toddla T: bass-shaking, speaker-rattling king of the dancehall will certainly tear the big-top roof off Zona Bassline.
- True Tiger: Dubstep producer/DJ crew on the cusp of huge things and Zane Lowe favourite, with recent bangers featuring the likes of Professor Green, Maverick Sabre and P Money.
- Gentleman’s Dub Club & P Money: UK’s most exciting MC combines with UK’s most exciting live act for a one-off special combining horn-laden Reggae/Dub with Grime/Dubstep – as seen in their astonishing 1Xtra Maida Vale session.
- Also featuring: The Boxettes, Engine-Earz Experiment, Abandoman, Latin Dub Soundsystem surprise guests.
Timings
10.00pm KAYA
10.30pm DJ (Cal Jader)
11.00pm LATIN DUB SOUNDSYSTEM
11.30pm DJ (Cal Jader)
11.45pm THE BOXETTES
12.15pm Special Guest
12.30pm ED SHEERAN
01.00am DJ
01.15am SHLOMO'S GLASTO CIRCUS surprise guests
02.20am EXAMPLE
03.00am TODDLA T MC SEROCEE
03.45am GENTLEMANS DUB CLUB P MONEY
04.15am Special guest DJ
04.45am ENGINE-EARZ EXPERIMENT
05.15am TRUE TIGER
06.00am close
MSF Live acoustic venue
All shows are secret gigs, keep track of Twitter (MSF_Live & LyrixOrganix) for updates!
- Ghostpoet (01:00am Sunday): Since his huge hit ‘Cash & Carry Me Home’, this wordsmith has become one of the most talked about urban artists the UK has seen in years. He will be playing a rare exclusive acoustic set at MSF Live.
- Raghu Dixit (00:00 midnight, Saturday): Indian contemporary folk artist who recently featured on Jools Holland, blending folk music with tablas, sitars and mesmerising vocals.
- Benjamin Francis Leftwich (18:30 Saturday): Championed by the likes of Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens, this folk star is set for big things in 2011
- Also featuring: Ed Sheeran, Joe Driscoll, Abandoman, Liam Bailey, Treetop Flyers, Smoke Feathers and many more TBA!
MSF artists and crew
This hugely ambitious project has been made possible through the generosity of an incredible team of specialists (at minimal or no cost to the charity); including MSF logisticians, live music programmers, festival production teams, workshop leaders, set-designers and film-makers.
Many high-profile musicians, bands and DJ’s have also come together to show their support for MSF with the aim of reaching new, younger demographics who may be unaware of MSF’s amazing work.