Glastonbury's Pyramid and Other stage Production & Area manager resigns

Glastonbury Festival 2015

Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2015
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
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Daily capacity: 198,000

After 18 years at the helm of Glastonbury Festival production, Dick Tee, the managing director of EnTEEtainment Ltd, has tendered his resignation as Pyramid and Other stage Production & Area manager.

The veteran production manager has cited "irreconcilable issues" and has announced that he and his staff will cease their association with the festival with immediate effect.

In 2013 Tee was put at Glastonbury’s technical helm as Head of Production. Originally intending to be a farmer, Tee only got involved in the live event industry in order to save up for his own farm. Festival organiser Michael Eavis contacted him in 1996 to get involved in the Classical Extravaganza at Glastonbury Abbey.

The Festival ended their decade-long association with Melvin Benn from Festival Republic two years ago and announced the 2013 management system which included the Operations Director Paul Ludford, Robert Richards as Commercial Director, Tim Roberts maintaining Safety and Medical Welfare and the site’s Silver Controllers, Security Director Adrian Coombs, Phil Miller, Infrastructure Manager (for permanent structures) and Water Provisions (the festival used four million litres less water than in 2011). Jackie Slade as Site Manager, Steve Russell-Yarde as the Offsite Manager, and Teresa England who looks after Licensing.

Since the departure of Festival Republic there have been a series of management restructures and operational changes at Glastonbury, which Dick feels leave his team unable to fulfil their role professionally.

In the role of Head of Production, he was responsible for the whole festival, although the festival has many different areas. The stages are autonomous units in their own rights and the people working them relied on Tee in a supporting role if they have a problem.

Dick states, "I am extremely sad and disappointed that my concerns regarding the way certain elements of the festival are now being structured and managed are not being adequately considered and dealt with, and as such I have found myself in an untenable position regarding my continuing role.”

Dick has worked a full time professional in the live events industry for over 30 years and took over the production management of the two main stages in 1997. His role expand beyond the Pyramid and Other stages, with him assisting the area organisers at West Holts and John Peel Stages with developing their operations before joining the senior management team at the Festival in 2013.

Dick, who has played a pivotal role in the development of Glastonbury Festival, continues, "Whilst I will obviously miss my involvement with Glastonbury Festival which has been a major part of my life for nearly two decades, I am looking forward to focusing on new projects and challenges.As specialists in site and production management, one thing is for certain – we are far from ‘hanging up our wellies’ more a case of looking forward to ‘moving onto pastures new…."

This year EnTEEtainment have handled production on the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Glasgow, Rochester Castle Concerts, Reading Festival, BBC Proms in the Park and Jeff Lynne's ELO Concert as part of the Radio 2 Live Festival in Hyde Park - to mention but a few.

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