Says a statement from EnTEEtainment: "In the past two years since Festival Republic ended its involvement with the festival 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."
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."
Having taken over the production management of the two main stages in 1997, Dick's role and influence continued to expand beyond the Pyramid and Other stages. He directly assisted the area organisers at West Holts and John Peel Stages with developing their operations and in 2013 he joined the senior management team at the Festival with the title 'Head of Production'.
Dick 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'."
As a company EnTEEtainment has an impressive portfolio of events and clients which this year alone has already seen them handle 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.
(Jim Evans)
