Glastonbury

I'm writing about Glastonbury. Not the festival, but the town. Glastonbury is known as the Vale of Avalon. It used to be an Island town many years ago, with the surrounding land flooded. It wasn't until many ditches and rivers were dug did the land become farmable. I grew up in Glastonbury so I know it pretty well. I've seen the place change over the past 15 years, some for better, some for worse. If you are of a spiritual nature, then Glastonbury is a mecca in the UK because of the laylines that cross there. Hippy's, witches and druids have been coming to Glastonbury for years and years, and whilst it was pilgramage for most, over the years many ...  Read the complete review

Glastonbury bores me, as simple as. Only Phil Jupitus in his silly hats on the TV coverage annoys me more about the three day event. It's supposed to be a festival where young people mingle from all social classes, yet it's the exact opposite, the proles in one muddy field and middle England in the other 30,000 tents, or at least it was when I went in the nineties. If your tent hadn't been cleaned out by that particular corner you were lucky and if the rain didn't wash you out the constant noise would. I went expecting this utopia but what I got was Middle England being pretending to be working class for the weekend. It's the only place in the world you can be concussed ...  Read the complete review

This years 2008 Glastonbury festival looks set to the biggest yet. More people look set to apply for tickets with England failing to qualify for the euros and the ever-growing live music scene. Tens of thousands of people will descend upon the small Somerset village to the epic pagan punk funk celebration. Expect mud, sweat and tears, as well as an interesting; although not spectacular, set of headlining acts. The 3 acts announced so far are: * The Verve. Reforming only last year for a few dates after almost 10 years apart, Richard Ashcroft and the co look set to headline Sunday Night on the Pyramid Stage. A new album should also be released this year, the ...  Read the complete review

Well - another Glastonbury festival has come & gone! For all us lucky people who managed to stay up all night and get a ticket - and what a great one it was! ...here is my story of the festival ! We arrived on Wednesday evening sporting wellies and already there were loads &l oads of people there. (probably becasue there was such a fiasco to get a ticket & everyone wanted to make sure that they got their moneys worth!). The best & safest place to camp is definately up in the Penard fields - just adjacent to the stone circle so we headed up there. The field was already pretty full and there was the usual 'gardens' set out with packing tape...(this, by the ...  Read the complete review

Not one tent! many tents, a camping extravigansa. 150,000 people turn up and soon fill the green fields with a sea of tents. The air is heavy with a mist from the thousands of campfires burning. The music is the main attraction with many big names and new ones, which you will recognise in a few months time and think oh my we watched them at glastonbury. and yes you will be saying OH my god alot. Your senses will be overcome with the light, the people, the acts, the music and mauch crazyiness. The music never stops! especially at the glade. The site is massive and is very tireing to walk round. And however much you walk you will always find a new corner or field which ...  Read the complete review