GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 1998 & 2004
Really nothing to do with VWs at all!
On 121105 I found these (mostly not very good at all), photographs taken in 1998 at my first ever Glastonbury Festival (the one everyone tells you is your best, and it very probably is - certainly it was the muddiest there'd been for a very long time). Equally certainly I was buzzin' me tits off the whole time (entirely without chemicals), and when I got home felt as if I'd had a three week holiday, unconcerned about things which would normally have worried me and that the real world was rubbish, or that Glasto was the real world.
With the photographs was an article I wrote which was published in (the long gone), Muso magazine. It's reproduced here.
Over that weekend it was my then wife's birthday, but she didn't want to come to the festival so I went with my excellent, just slightly crazy and vastly entertaining friend, Matt Betts (he of the 1996 Lands End to John o'Groats tandem trip. [While looking for something to cheer him up after some gloom on the work front he persuaded me to do the trip again, "Ten Years After"!! (If the band had been called Ten Years Afterwards, d'you think they'd have been so successful?)].
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Before the rain........, but look at it hanging there. |
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| Sum Doood walks on clay. | ||
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| Some mountaineer walks on water. | ||
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Oddly it was only on the day before Jo found these images that I'd found myself remembering the guy on the right. I remembered him because, although he was in a family group and a bit drunk, and loud, he looked so straight but he had his left nipple pierced. That's it. I often find that I remember stuff I've no need to remember at all. I certainly can't remember who the band was. If you can, then contact me, please. And the same applies to the band's below: |
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| 1. No idea who this was either. Contact me? | ||
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| 2. Tony Bennet! | ||
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| 3. Steve Earle. | ||
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| 4. Perhaps The Dust Junkys. Contact me if you know. | ||
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| 5. Jools Holland. | ||
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| 6. No idea who this was either. Contact me? | ||
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| 7. Blur! | ||
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| Taj Mahal. | ||
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| On the Jazz Stage, the great Herbi(vorous) Hancock and his bassist who's head steamed. | ||
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| I don't know what all the fuss was about really. | ||
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Did you miss The Adventures of Swiggy Flowerdust and the Ciders from Jars?
GLASTONBURY 2004
Caption competition?
The house that's straw-built.