{"id":753821,"date":"2026-08-29T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753821\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:58:21","slug":"how-massive-attacks-legacy-is-changing-major-uk-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753821\/","title":{"rendered":"How Massive Attack&#8217;s legacy is changing major UK festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forward Festival, which will see the likes of Lorde, Little Simz, Tems &amp; Goldie perform, is using pioneering green hydrogen technology (GeoPura) and a fleet of scalable battery to power the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes have been made possible with funding from a Clean Power Pilot led by the West of England Combined Authority (Weca), running this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen Godwin, Weca mayor, said: &#8220;After another exceptionally hot and dry summer, everyone can see how our climate is changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Here in the West of England, we&#8217;ve brought together our brilliant creative industries and clean energy sectors to try to help tackle the climate crisis and clean up our air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve always been a region that cares about our environment, cares about clean energy, about clean air. But we also love to have a good time,&#8221; said Godwin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that producing dirty air affects people&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to think of innovative clean ways that we can do that better,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weca&#8217;s ambition is to expand the model in 2027, extending it to multiple sectors and paving the way for adoption elsewhere in the UK and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Festival, which will see the likes of Lorde, Little Simz, Tems &amp; Goldie perform, is using pioneering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}