Galbraith flexes Green credentials in Big board move.

Former Live Nation managing director Stuart Galbraith has joined the board of the Big Green Gathering, Europe's biggest environmentally- themed music festival.

The move is the latest attempt by Galbraith to expand the activities of his festival and concert promoting operation Kilimanjaro, the 50/50 joint venture he founded in January with O2 arena owner AEG.

A five-day event currently located in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, the Big Green Gathering was established in 1994, having evolved from the Green Fields events held throughout the Eighties at the Glastonbury Festival and now regularly attracting between 15,000 and 20,000 attendees. The event mixes music and theatre with green-orientated lifestyle activities within areas such as the Healing Fields and a Green Enterprise showcase market.

While Galbraith has no plans to bring in higher-profile acts to the festival, he believes his experience will help it become more financially viable. Following a troubled event in 2007 which saw security costs spiral, the festival is not due to take place again until 2009.

"I have spent a long time looking at the Big Green Gathering over the past six months and had very long and detailed meetings with both the directors and shareholders and I think fundamentally it is a festival that has had a couple of hiccups, but it is a ...