Elephant Fayre
elephant fayre held stately home port eliot st german fayre every sense word featured host different type performance medium experimental theatre rock punk folk reggae music first fayre tiny attracting attendance increased year organiser booked better known act siouxsie banshee cure fall organiser decided close festival hard drug use vandalism small festival outgrown site polgooth midcornwall approached port eliot estate asked could held idyllic ground estate office agreed price began elephant fayre one eclectic festival named elephant eliot family crest prime attraction event giant wooden elephant could mounted via internal ladder festival ran beginning visitor four day featured mix music theatre visual art year festival grew attracting crowd band cure fall siouxsie banshee festival like many time become victim success tolerance free festival culture new age traveller became focus disorder across country despite tolerance lord eliot fellow festival benefactor michael eavis glastonbury known affectionately festival crew parlance good lord worthy farmer traveller put paid said elephant fayre seriously compromised glastonbury whilst festival port eliot built reputation one best country extraordinary act liberal attitude organiser alleged traveller taken advantage destroyed festival burning oldest tree park looting village surgery robbing stallholders prompted lord eliot fellow organiser make festival last elephant fayre reinvented port eliot festival describes brain literary festival soul music festival held mid summer list historic rock festival new age traveller history elephant fayre