Besides, it's a schoolboy error to judge Glastonbury purely on the lineup. That's completely missing the point of so much more that it has to offer. It isn't and never has been a music festival (it's a festival of arts). One year I spent most time in the comedy tent. Was still a great festival.
all festivals and glastonbury too is for my like shop with new music. I interested in new bands - new energy and feeling. So I want to be mostly in Park and J.P. stage. And I want to see Pixies again. New album is very good - better than I expect. Yes I will go to see Arcade Fire, Horrors, White Lies but young men (or girls) with energy and 3 basic acords is better for me. And just one question - who will be as surprise? What About Bowie? - I wish it. Forest
Can't believe there's stuff going up on DIME already! I'm sitting here watching Interpol and someone's already uploaded it. And Elbow too and no doubt several others.
I can't believe they're all filling my bus!! Knew telling them the 376 bus was the cheapest and quickest way to Glastonbury was a mistake, I mean the punters, not the bands.
A few years ago, my mate wanted to bring his Mrs to Glasto, but he misunderstood her when she said she didn't like camping. He took it literally so decided to hire a camper van for the 4 of us. We agreed a rough budget and agreed it needed to be somewhere near London to make it easier to pick up. Anyway, after weeks of being cagey and other BS, my mate finally admitted he'd messed up and the camper van was in Wales and we had to drive to Bristol on the way to Glasto to pick it up. Anyway, we got to Bristol services and no sign of the van. After a few calls, it turned out the owners had got lost because they'd never been out of Wales! When they did turn up, the piece of crap had no wing mirrors and was covered in Mayonnaise! We then had to listen to the story of how their neighbours hated them and had sabotaged the van with Mayo that morning. Eventually we got to Glasto (it was the year there was a local car tyre fire so local roads were closed) opened a beer and relaxed. Only to find the shower trickled about 2 drops per hour, removing one of the luxuries we'd hoped for mates Mrs. To cut a long story short, the whole experience was a farce. It was only after the festival that mates Mrs heard about why we booked the van instead of camping and said "oh no. I was joking. I would have camped"! I still get shivers every time I see the same type of camper van :-(
Nothing to do with god and buses but thought I'd share the story while I'm watching the joys of 2014's festival