Glastonburycherrygobyebye.

Well, Glastonbury was simply brilliant. Here is a flavour of my Glastonbury:

Thursday -
Arrive, walk a mile or so dragging my body weight (probably more) in stuff. Set up camp explore the site, rain, heavy rain, hard rain, mud, thick mud, Roisin Murphy. Highlight of the set was her doing 'Suspicious Minds'. The Levellers.

Friday -
Showers (as in rain, not as in washing) thick, thick mud. Alabama 3 Open their set with "Have you given your infants acid? If you haven't given your infants acid yet, now is the time to do it. Acid never hurt no infant, no harm, no way". Candi Staton- highlight 'You Got the Love'. Lupe Fiasco, Fun Lovin' Criminals, then get over to the John Peel stage for Reverend and the Makers. Followed this with a bit of mooching around and catching some of Kings of Leon at the pyramid.

Saturday -
Sunshine with patchy cloud, ground drying out, making the transition from wellies to flip flops about 2ish. Even getting some shirt-off action a bit later. Martha Wainwright, Seasick Steve and Crowded House at the pyramid - quite honestly a privalidge to be there, sheer joy. Bumming about for a bit, catching a couple of smaller acts and DJs. Los Camposinos, Human Vocal Orchestra, Last of the Shadow Puppets and the wonderfully, camply and playfully spiritual MGMT. Off to the other stage for (instead of Jay-Z) Massive Attack. Aside from several musical highlights was Grant Marshall getting involved in the discussion about Jay-Z headlining saying "There's all this nonsense around about hip-hop not fitting with the tradition of the festival, if you want tradition you might aswell go back to fu+£ing church. If you ask me, tradition with this place is hanging out with strangers, getting your head fu+£ing Banjaxxed!" 'Banjaxxed' a word not used often enough i don't think.

Sunday -
Dry and hot, continuing with the flip flop theme. Pack up and drag everything (minus some food and beer) back to the car. Spend some time at the other stage, regrettably starting with an almost embarrassing Newton Faulkner. Fortunately Scouting for Girls were suprisingly good and pick the whole thing up. Then the mighty Mark Ronson (though he should have been billed as 'Mark Ronson and friends'). More mooching, then to the pyramid for Leonard Cohen. He was, as is to be expected, awesome. The highlight of the whole festival: the moments during which the sun disappears over the horizon he does (and in fact so do the whole of the enormous crowd) 'Hallelujah'. Tears. - love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken 'hallelujah' - Finally The Verve to tie things off. They were brilliant too and obviously their highlight was 'bitter sweet symphony'. Then to the tent to pack up the last bit of stuff and off to the car to sit stationary in traffic for two hours and not make it back to my folks place until 5am!