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Glastonbury festival deploy Reichian weapon
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Glastonbury wheels out its cloudbuster
Patrick Barkham
Wednesday June 23, 2004
The Guardian
A cloudbusting gun could be the secret weapon in the fight to stop Glastonbury festival becoming a mudbath this year.
With sunshine and showers forecast, the festival's organiser, Michael Eavis, was inspired to act by Sir Paul McCartney's hi-tech attempts to keep fans dry during a concert in Russia. McCartney, who is headlining on Saturday, sprayed dry ice into rainclouds.
Mr Eavis has dug out his homemade cloudbuster, designed by the Austrian psychologist and 60s cult figure Wilhelm Reich, whose invention was last deployed at the festival in 1971. Reich's contraption is said to work by extracting "deadly orgone radiation" from the atmosphere, turning clouds into rain.
Mr Eavis hopes a neighbour will agree to have the cloudbuster set up several miles from Worthy Farm, so rainclouds can be "broken up" before they reach the festival.
"I had a phone call from Sir Paul's people saying 'what are you doing to prevent rain?'" Mr Eavis said. "This looks like an anti-aircraft gun and you point it at the clouds. It's all done through the orgone energy thing Reich believed in."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1245020,00.html
Cloudbusting Could Keep Glasto Dry
Following the example led by McCartney, who recently sprayed dry ice into clouds before a gig in Russia to prevent rain recently, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis is using a cloudbusting gun to keep his festival dry.
McCartney recently played his 3000th concert in St Petersburg earlier this week and according to reports sprayed the sky with dry ice in an attempt to keep his 60,000 strong audience dry.
The process (which reported cost the organizers ,000) is claimed to hold the water in the clouds and prevent rain. The technique was adopted by Russian president Vladimir Putin earlier, to ensure that rain did not play havoc with the city's 300th anniversary celebrations.
Now inspired by McCartney, Eavis has revelled he has his very own homemade cloudbuster, which he intends to use to prevent this year’s Glastonbury being a wash out. The homemade contraption was designed by Austrian psychologist
and 'physician-scientist' Wilhelm Reich and was last used at the festival back in 1971.
Reich’s “investigation of energy functions in human emotions” led to his discovery of what he claimed was “an unknown energy which exists in all living matter and in the cosmos”. He called this energy orgone. Eavis’s cloudbuster is supposed to extract "deadly orgone radiation" from the atmosphere, turning clouds into rain.
The plan is to set the devise up a few miles from the festival so that rain clouds can be 'broken up' before they reach the site.
"I had a phone call from Sir Paul's people saying: "What are you doing to prevent rain?" explained Eavis, "This looks like an anti-aircraft gun and you point it at the clouds. It's all done through the orgone energy thing Reich believed in."
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The latest weather forecast for Glastonbury festuival for today (Wednesday 22) is:
Thursday June 24:
Sunny. High 17°C Low 7°C. Good visibility.
Friday June 25:
Sunny. High 20°C Low 12°C.Moderate visibility.
Saturday June 26:
Heavy Rain. High 16°C Low 15°C. Moderate visibility.
Sunday June 27:
Sunny. High 21°C Low 11°C. Bad visibility
Glastonbury will take place from Friday June 25 till 27 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet in Somerset.
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