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Glastonbury 2004 |
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24.11.05 (206 review reads) |
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Advantages: Dirty muddy chemically enhanced rollercoaster ride!!!!!!!!!!
Disadvantages: Dirty muddy chemically enhanced rollercoaster ride!!!!!!!!!!!
Glastonbury festival is a very personal and special experience, its 3 - 7 days of bohemian heaven, its like alice falling through the rabit hole, but its up to you how deep you go.
Unlike other festivals you simply cannot fit everything in, there really is somthing for everyone and two peoples accounts of the same festival may sound to a glastonbury virgin like wierd and wonderful celebrations from different star systems!!
I never in a million years could have guessed what would have happened to me at glastonbury 04. it was my first glasto and considering how difficult it is to get tickets now maybe my last. On the thursday, the day before the music started England were playing in the semi final of the euro football championship and they decided to air it live on a massive screen at glastonbury for 60,000 festival goers, to be honest being a bird I really couldnt have given a toss about the footy but 60,000 optomistic fans energy really made it an amazing atmosphere, and it was during that match that I met my boyfreind that im still with to this day and it really was what people call a glastonbury magic moment!!
Anyway england lost (suprise, suprise!!) and I spent the rest of the day doing everything possible to cheer up my new special freind, well everything thats possible in a cheap 2 man tent when your both around 6 foot!!!!!
All this fun and the festival hadnt really even started yet, half the people dont arrive till the friday even though technically you can camp up from tuesday onwards. Myself and 4 mates decided to go in a campervan, which if youve got the means i would highly recommend. This years glastonbury is still the one fresh in peoples minds with memories of music stages floating away and people having to dive into 4 feet of brown water to retrieve what possesions hadnt been swept away!! I dont want people to be put off, glasto is what you make of it, if it rains dont sulk, dig down and find that defiant english spirit our grandparents always told us about!!!
The glastonbury I decided to experience was the music side of it, if you are into your bands everyone you can think of plays glastonbury and it is a brilliant place to check out new talent, Here is a list of some of the acts i saw:
Supergrass, James Brown, Paul Mcartney, Oasis, The Zutons, Franz ferdinand, Starsailor, Zero 7, Orbitol, Kings Of Leon, Elbow, PJ Harvey, Goldfrapp and The Chemical Brothers are the ones my frazled brain can remeber.
I was a tad aprehensive about seeing old Macca, sorry, Sir Macca as i was woried he would play all his shody Wings material, but he really played to the crowed with old beatles favourites: 'Elenor rigby', 'Let It Be', 'Here Comes The Sun' and 'Tax Man' all getting a much appreciated airing.
James brown wowed and amazed, getting all the indie kids funked right up even though it was pouring with rain and most of the crowed had resorted to using big black bin-liners as rain coates!! Supergrass followed as did my absolute favourite glastonbury momment when Just as thay started playing 'Alright' the rain suddenly stopped, the heavens parted and the suns rays shot accross the stage and audience in what appeared to be an act of god!!! And to top it all off a double rainbow appeared above the stage at the same time, i was honestly crying with happiness!!!! im getting excited just writing this at my desk at work!!
Anyway back to formalities, tickets in 2004 were £125 plus booking fee (about £5) but the price goes up about £10 everyyear so as its not on next year (2006) in 2007 you can expect it to be around the £145 mark. most other festivals are about the same price maybe a little cheaper but i would say this is the best value for money, one reason being the festival is open 24 hours whereas nearly all other festivals shut at 12pm and you have to ammuse yourselves in the campsite after that. At glastonbury you can spend the early hours up at the stone circle sitting round campfires getting high and chatting to amazing aging hippies or in some blissed out markee that serves brandy coffee, listening to strange poetry while elfin children run about, wild and carefree.
See, glastonbury will smash every expectation youve got and most people say its the best week of their lives!!!
Summary: If you can get a ticket youll have the time of your life!!!
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