Glastonbury 2013: pulled from Worthing screen

News from the Evening Argus:

Worthing's answer to Glastonbury...

Hang about, what now? Worthing has an answer to Glastonbury?

It turns out that this 'answer' consists of showing bits of Glastonbury on a big screen, which isn't so much an answer as a capitulation. But they were going to charge - yes, to watch television on a beach - so they had learned something from Cashtonbury.

Now, though, it's not going to happen:

Worthing's answer to Glastonbury has been cancelled at the 11th hour due to safety fears.

Attempts to find a solution - cutting the number of marks from 500 to 350, trying to persuade the council to let them create an extra exit by taking down a fence panel - have foundered.

The good news, though, is that people from Worthing can still watch Glastonbury on televisions all over the place this weekend. Just not out of doors.

Venuewatch: Worthing Half-Brick

The Half-Brick in Worthing has closed suddenly after the landlord Bob Brookes grew tired of "rising rent and beer prices". In the short term, most of the ticketed music events are being relocated to the Empress Suite in the Conaught Lesiure Centre, but the longer term future for live music in Worthing, shorn of one of its more enthusiastic venues, looks a little bleaker.