Innovative idea for Glastonbury Festival -> "Silent Disco"

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain's Glastonbury music festival will feature a "silent disco" this year in an effort to sidestep a noise curfew, festival organizer Michael Eavis said on Tuesday.

Instead of DJs blasting their sounds through speakers, thousands of revelers partying past midnight at the open-air music event will be given wire-free headphones with volume controls that directly tune in to a stereo system.

"It's a unique way for people to party without offending those who want to sleep or disturbing the villagers nearby, who have complained about the noise," said Eavis, who founded the festival in 1970 on his farm in western England.

"We've been looking at a solution like this for ages ... The system was developed by a Dutch firm and successfully used at parties in the Netherlands and we hope it works here too," he told Reuters.

The idea is one of several introduced in recent years to improve relations with local villagers. A giant "super-fence" was erected around the site in 2002 to cut down on crime and foil gatecrashers.

Glastonbury, an annual three-day festival famous for its mud and mayhem, has attracted some of the biggest names in music over the years, including REM, Radiohead and James Brown.

But Eavis wouldn't spill the beans on who would headline this year's event, scheduled for June 24-26.

"I can't say who's going top the bill this year, but the act is as big and will be as good as Paul McCartney was last year," he said.

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ummm.......wtf