The plan is set, we leave at Wendsday morning: two cars, three people in each and if things go smoothly we will be at the Glastonbury festival by midday, and what a festival it's set to be, tickests literraly sold out Friday afternoon...the day the festival begun!! Organisers where worried the whole year that they would struggle to break even. Many blamed the decision to have Jay Z as a headline act...in the words of Noel Gallacher: "Jay Z at Glastonbury, F**k OFF!" Others blamed the wether of the last few years where the festival literraly flooded out....
So, I wake my way over to my mates only to find out that the car me him and our other friend where going down in had hit a speed bump and had a hole in the bottom... our other three friends where able to leave without us and the festival I've been waiting for for months seemed to be slipping away! Instead of fixing the car we literraly welded the thing together... we then drove it 5 and a half hours down to the festival to meet our friends who had arrived early that day... Luckily they had got us a pretty sweet camping spot right inbetween all the stages. That night we went for an explore... so much stuff to do at Glastonbury... we saw a place for a freak show, trash city - a city made out of recycled rubbish and everything like that, at this point it was getting pretty late, we had a BBQ and then went over to the cinema tent where Kill Bill was playing. Everyone was like "WHOOOOO YEEEAHHH UMA!!" whenever she killed was pretty funny.
After some rain during the night we woke up thursday for some more exploring, the festival didn't actually start til friday... at this point I was pretty waste so the days kinda blurred.... so I will go straight onto Friday where the festival really begun to kick off.
Kate Nash opened the festival on the Pyramid Stage - she drew a huge crowd and put on a fairly good show, she twirled in her dress and eveveryone had the first sing along of the festival to "Foundations." Next on was the Subways who still had a big crowd but no one really knew them... at one point he said sing it during there anthem "Oh Yeah" and the crowd was near enough silent, he then got covered in smoke from a smoke machine and we couldn't see him and he couldn't see us.... what they lacked in hits the lead singer made up for in stage presence.... he literrally jumped off 12 ft high speakers and bombed his way from the stage down to the audience..the energy was ellectric. We stayed at the Pyramid Stage for Get cape, Wear cape, Fly.... underrated as fuck, got a terrible review but where awesome... the lead singer Sam Duckworth did get abit self righteous with his preaching but it was all for good causes and the end of the set was pretty ace as everyone joined in the chorus or Chronicles of a bohemian teenager "bah, bah bah, bah bahhhhhhhhh..."
We then moved up to the top of the hill and sat around some peoples fire to watch KT Tunstall and the Feeling who covered A-Has take on me and "video killed the radio star". The lady took a liking to me and bought me some ciders from the cider bus... she was about 40 though so stayed well away...we then moved on to see candi statton of "young hearts...run freee..." fame and "you've got the love"... she played over on the Jazz World...that's where we met Ned from Neighbours. Following her on the Jazz World was Lupe Fiasco who had a few hits and was a nice change....we then went over to the park stage after some food in the hope of seeing dizzee rascal followd by Pete Doherty....
When we got to the Park Stage who should turn up but Franz Ferdinand to play a secret show! Pretty good but started off rumours that Pete Doherty had no showed which was gutting for me as I am a huge Libs fan and was looking forward to seeing him all day... after Franz Ferdinand; Dizzee Rascal came out and worked the crowd really well, he brung out Calvin Harris and they played there new song together...this finished at 12... Doherty was supposed to start at 10 50.... just as the fans where giving up hope out came the icon that is pete doherty, the man the papers can not stop talking about... "Im sorry about being so late, I thought I was on Tommorow-" true Doherty style! He played all the hits and was my personal best.. someone launched a pint at him which he downed and he brang out babyshambles to play the last song... really short but really good set.
I was buzzing the next day... I spent some time shopping and soaking up the rest of the festival now it was all open, Glastonbury really does have stuff you wouldn't expect everywhere you turn. A man jugling ping pong balls in his mouth etc...a huge skate board ramp and free hula hooping lessons where the order of the day. We went over to the hare krishna tent where they hand out free vegetarian food, we joined in there parade which was pretty amazing and a real culture experiance... We also went over to the Jewish Tent for some free vodka and helped them with this hand patch quilt thing they where maiking as a prtoest against darfur and the genocide.
The Music that day was Manu Chau who where really pumped and after just having had some weed where abit too much... we worked our way to just behing the second security barrier to watch Amy winehouse who started really well and really quite witty but then disintergrated abit and came out to the fans and eventually I think got dragged away, still a really big spectacle though... Jay Z headlining was one of the best gigs you could been to, its been talked about over in England all summer and he really snuffed out all the doubters...the crows ADORED him! The opening pot shot at Oasis and in particular Noel Gallacher was hillarious and the sing along to Wonderwall was classic.
The next day we where pretty drained...we had been to the slumberave and stuff during the night...we head over to the Other Stage and watched Black House (I believe) followed by Newton Faulkner who covered Teardrop by massive attack, "you spin me right round" (like a record) and Bohemian Rhapsody. We then saw Jack Penate. Then headed over to the Pyramid stage to see the one all our mums thought we should see Neil Diamond.... his closing song "Sweet Caroline" was awesome and was one of the biggest sing alongs of the festival... we then caught Mark Ronson who was absoloutly brilliant. He had alot of help, most notably Lilly Allen who was really worth watching. Her nan had passed away the night before so she dedicated the songs to her. We then saw Pidgeon Detectives but where soo drained...we all headed back to the tent had some more weed and chilled over in the hare krishna tent. We then made our way over to see the Verve who closed the festival last night.... Truly astounding... particular highlights where "Love if you Want it- Dont sound like a sonnet," "lucky man" "Drugs dont work" and the classic "Bittersweet Sympthany."
Really great festival..
9.5 stars out of 10
So, I wake my way over to my mates only to find out that the car me him and our other friend where going down in had hit a speed bump and had a hole in the bottom... our other three friends where able to leave without us and the festival I've been waiting for for months seemed to be slipping away! Instead of fixing the car we literraly welded the thing together... we then drove it 5 and a half hours down to the festival to meet our friends who had arrived early that day... Luckily they had got us a pretty sweet camping spot right inbetween all the stages. That night we went for an explore... so much stuff to do at Glastonbury... we saw a place for a freak show, trash city - a city made out of recycled rubbish and everything like that, at this point it was getting pretty late, we had a BBQ and then went over to the cinema tent where Kill Bill was playing. Everyone was like "WHOOOOO YEEEAHHH UMA!!" whenever she killed was pretty funny.
After some rain during the night we woke up thursday for some more exploring, the festival didn't actually start til friday... at this point I was pretty waste so the days kinda blurred.... so I will go straight onto Friday where the festival really begun to kick off.
Kate Nash opened the festival on the Pyramid Stage - she drew a huge crowd and put on a fairly good show, she twirled in her dress and eveveryone had the first sing along of the festival to "Foundations." Next on was the Subways who still had a big crowd but no one really knew them... at one point he said sing it during there anthem "Oh Yeah" and the crowd was near enough silent, he then got covered in smoke from a smoke machine and we couldn't see him and he couldn't see us.... what they lacked in hits the lead singer made up for in stage presence.... he literrally jumped off 12 ft high speakers and bombed his way from the stage down to the audience..the energy was ellectric. We stayed at the Pyramid Stage for Get cape, Wear cape, Fly.... underrated as fuck, got a terrible review but where awesome... the lead singer Sam Duckworth did get abit self righteous with his preaching but it was all for good causes and the end of the set was pretty ace as everyone joined in the chorus or Chronicles of a bohemian teenager "bah, bah bah, bah bahhhhhhhhh..."
We then moved up to the top of the hill and sat around some peoples fire to watch KT Tunstall and the Feeling who covered A-Has take on me and "video killed the radio star". The lady took a liking to me and bought me some ciders from the cider bus... she was about 40 though so stayed well away...we then moved on to see candi statton of "young hearts...run freee..." fame and "you've got the love"... she played over on the Jazz World...that's where we met Ned from Neighbours. Following her on the Jazz World was Lupe Fiasco who had a few hits and was a nice change....we then went over to the park stage after some food in the hope of seeing dizzee rascal followd by Pete Doherty....
When we got to the Park Stage who should turn up but Franz Ferdinand to play a secret show! Pretty good but started off rumours that Pete Doherty had no showed which was gutting for me as I am a huge Libs fan and was looking forward to seeing him all day... after Franz Ferdinand; Dizzee Rascal came out and worked the crowd really well, he brung out Calvin Harris and they played there new song together...this finished at 12... Doherty was supposed to start at 10 50.... just as the fans where giving up hope out came the icon that is pete doherty, the man the papers can not stop talking about... "Im sorry about being so late, I thought I was on Tommorow-" true Doherty style! He played all the hits and was my personal best.. someone launched a pint at him which he downed and he brang out babyshambles to play the last song... really short but really good set.
I was buzzing the next day... I spent some time shopping and soaking up the rest of the festival now it was all open, Glastonbury really does have stuff you wouldn't expect everywhere you turn. A man jugling ping pong balls in his mouth etc...a huge skate board ramp and free hula hooping lessons where the order of the day. We went over to the hare krishna tent where they hand out free vegetarian food, we joined in there parade which was pretty amazing and a real culture experiance... We also went over to the Jewish Tent for some free vodka and helped them with this hand patch quilt thing they where maiking as a prtoest against darfur and the genocide.
The Music that day was Manu Chau who where really pumped and after just having had some weed where abit too much... we worked our way to just behing the second security barrier to watch Amy winehouse who started really well and really quite witty but then disintergrated abit and came out to the fans and eventually I think got dragged away, still a really big spectacle though... Jay Z headlining was one of the best gigs you could been to, its been talked about over in England all summer and he really snuffed out all the doubters...the crows ADORED him! The opening pot shot at Oasis and in particular Noel Gallacher was hillarious and the sing along to Wonderwall was classic.
The next day we where pretty drained...we had been to the slumberave and stuff during the night...we head over to the Other Stage and watched Black House (I believe) followed by Newton Faulkner who covered Teardrop by massive attack, "you spin me right round" (like a record) and Bohemian Rhapsody. We then saw Jack Penate. Then headed over to the Pyramid stage to see the one all our mums thought we should see Neil Diamond.... his closing song "Sweet Caroline" was awesome and was one of the biggest sing alongs of the festival... we then caught Mark Ronson who was absoloutly brilliant. He had alot of help, most notably Lilly Allen who was really worth watching. Her nan had passed away the night before so she dedicated the songs to her. We then saw Pidgeon Detectives but where soo drained...we all headed back to the tent had some more weed and chilled over in the hare krishna tent. We then made our way over to see the Verve who closed the festival last night.... Truly astounding... particular highlights where "Love if you Want it- Dont sound like a sonnet," "lucky man" "Drugs dont work" and the classic "Bittersweet Sympthany."
Really great festival..
9.5 stars out of 10