Lunedì 6 Lug 2009, 13:24

well well well, thought I would write down what I can remember from Britain's biggest music festival that is glastonbury.

I've only ever been to T in the Park twice and Hydro Connect so really unsure of what to expect. Firstly I was pretty much devastated at the 14 hour bus journey…from MANCHESTER!!! Some woman said that Michael Eavis told folk that they usually only expect 20,000 people on the Wednesday camping and this year saw over 90,000!!! So really I shouldn't moan because it could have been worse. Although I have to say, it was my 1st experience at putting up a tent in the dark…it was not fun.
Glastonbury itself was an experience that I feel pretty honoured to have achieved in my life. Really my experience of main stream festivals is of T in the Park, which really has turned into some money making scheme rather than doing it for the love of music (I and my friends feel anyway). Whereas glastonbury, despite how large it is, still seems to have that magic in the air as you are surrounded by (mostly) true music fans.
What I also loved about it was the diversity in the crowd. If you looked around there was young, old (some really quite old!), students, families, hippies and of course the doses of strange people…but somehow that just adds to its mystery.
I think after the fiasco last year of Jay-Z -gate, they really had to make it up to their fans, and that they did. I really don't know where else I would get to see golden oldies like Rolf Harris, Tom Jones and Bruce Springsteen mixed with newer classics like Kasabian Friendly Fires, White Lies, the Maccabees & Jack Penate all in the one weekend!!!
Really I am just playing for time and trying not to shout (well write in capital letters) and rave about the greatness of Blur. Blur are a band for me that are right up there and to make this easy…I absolutely adore them. Really I cannot describe the atmosphere of the crowd during songs like Park Life, Song 2 and Tender (which was beyond incredible live) but by the time they ended on The Universal I was unashamedly standing arms held aloft and bawling like a little girl.
As you can tell by my page, I go to a lot of gigs and have had the opportunity to see most of my favourite bands live - mostly more than once - so to be given this chance to get the butterflies before, during and after again was a little overwhelming and was just made a million times better by the fantastic crowd reaction.

Definitely a highlight of my musical life :)

as for me?
I'm getting ready to pack my bags again and set off for the probably not so sunny lands of T in the Park in a few days. Not sure how I will feel about it now I've experienced Glastonbury but I am fairly sure all will be forgotten by the sunday night seeing the run of Elbow-Snow Patrol-Blur.
Bring it (and probably more tears) on.