SEEING The Flaming Lips and even Michael Eavis singing with the Avalonian Choir.

It was all in a day’s work for former Bridgewater High pupil Elle Kalavsky who worked in a team of acoustic engineers at Glastonbury for the second year running.

The 20-year-old was invited back to help control The Park stage after impressing Aria Acoustics, the sound monitoring company at the festival last year.

Elle, who moved to Warrington when she was seven, said: “I can’t really imagine going to a festival and not working at it now.

"It was quite difficult because the hours were so long. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday we work from whenever the stages open to whenever the music finishes. So on my stage it was 10.30am until 12.30am.

“There’s so many different people that you meet as each band normally has their own sound engineer.

“It’s like a breath of fresh air because every couple of hours you’re working with someone new. The variety of bands on The Park stage is really something. I do love that stage.

“I’d not listened to them before but The Flaming Lips put on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

“And last year I saw one of my favourite bands, Daughter. I wasn’t expecting to see them and I ran into them backstage. I went to get a cup of coffee and they were all just there.

“I had a bit of panic moment but after a while it feels natural. You get on with it.”

Elle, who grew up in Longbarn and then Sandymoor, also experienced one of the special moments at Glastonbury when festival founder Michael Eavis joined the Avalonian Choir for a pro-feminist event organised by the White Ribbon Alliance.

She added: “They did a bit of a march with all the banners while also singing. It was really interesting to experience that and Michael Eavis actually sang a song with them which was cool.”

Elle, who is studying the audio acoustics course at Salford University and works at the campus’s acoustic testing labs, became interested in the crossover between physics and music when she was at high school.

She said: “I was really into physics and maths and then at Priestley College I started to organise music events

“I organised the stage line-up for the big top tent in Bank Park for Warrington Music Festival in 2014 and I did some events for the Parr Hall as part of a Warrington Youth Service project called Futureproof Promotions.

“I wanted to go to university but I wanted to find a mix between physics and music and that’s when I found acoustics. I’m not a very good musician but I’m very interested in how sound works and how things work in general.”