Please don't let me hit the ground! So, the sun came out and the flowing torrents of mud turned to gloop and we all had a jolly good time. All-in-all it was a rather excellent few days of bonding over music and mud with the fellow campers Richard; Dom and friends; Priya and Elaine; and I can't forget Paul and chums either :) I'm still buzzing from the Glastonbury feeling :D

To summarise the, here are some choice quotes overheard from others:

on Keane's performance: "Aren't they just playing one long track with slight breathers?"
a happy camper on a group singalong of Meatloaf: "Shut the fuck up you Meatloaf-loving cunts!"
a Killer's fan (wearing a pink cashmere cardigan- goes so well with the mud, dahling): "What do I do if they start moshing or something?"
the dwarf-looking (think LOTR here) MC man from the John Peel tent on picnic chairs in music tents "C'mon guys, get them outside. This ain't Proms in the Park, this is Glastonbury. A festival."
a drug-overloaded Welsh girl on Important Matters of Life: "How much do you think I weigh? No, really? And my age? I've lost my tent. And my boyfriend. Look at my tan!"
on reaching the end of the festival: (me) "I tried to think of taking down the tent as a reference to a post-coital fag, but failed." (Richard) "Well, you could always burn down the tent. That'd speed up leaving somewhat."

Now for the music commentary:

The Go! Team - friggin' amazing! so much energy I almost spontaneously combusted. So did the fat guy in front of me, or at least he had a coronary. Go check them out now...
Bright Eyes - He was drunk as a skunk. Or on lots of something anyway, and I doubt Bob Geldof would be happy with his comments about Live8!
The Killers - did they play live? or was it an album playback? And the fans... jeeeze... Though Brandon is gorgeously hot in real life, so I let them off their lack of live skills.
Rufus Wainwright - High as a kite! And liked semi-nakedness too... but he still has an excrutiatingly nasal voice.
New Order - So good to see them live at last! Although they could have left out the songs off the new album (Ana Matronic *so* can't sing). It had me prancing along afterwards through the mud singing Temptation to myself.
Oh! And Naked Ruby - I cabn't really think what to say. The sheer impact of their performance was stunning, for many reasons. Try and make something of them.
And all the other bands I saw were great too... wish I had had time to see more! Particularly the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, kicking myself not seeing them.

The food? I actually ate really healthily this time, particularly the couscous and tofu thing (get me, all hippy! - I jest) I had up the the Greenfields bit while meandering with the lovely Paul.

What about the mud? Well, it wasn't that bad, as I took wellies, and wasn't in the field that ended up being five-foot underwater. Sloshing around in knee-deep effluent was slightly unpleasant, however. The lightning and sheer volume of rain that fell was rather spectacular, was a shame I didn't take any photos of it, but hell was I gonna leave the tent to do that!

Substance abuse? Er, I'm sure Richard could tell all about that one... never buy melting hash truffles from women wielding tupperware boxes. On a legal front, the Otter Bitter was rather tasty.

A footnote to Wessex Trains: Jesus Christ almighty! Could you run a worse service? Stuck on a train stopped by cows on the line for well over an hour! While the conductor ordered his breakfast at the next station...

Anyway that's enough waffle, if I think of anything noteworthy, I'm sure I'll post again. Bring on 2007 :D

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