Here I am at my desk in Dublin only a few hundred miles from Glastonbury. The weather outside is wet and quite cool. The forecast is for more rain, but is that some sunlight I can see on the horizon? Here’s hoping! (Although the weather here in Dublin is no guarantee of what it’s like in Glastonbury, of course). I’ve just checked Google Maps, and according to that it would take about nine hours for me to drive to Glastonbury if I left now – which I have no intention of doing! (I don’t even drive.)
Neil Young! No way! That was just Neil Young on my MP3 player there. Followed by The Strokes and Elvis Costello and the original line-up of the Attractions. This really is an all star line-up! (I have no idea who’s playing Glastonbury though… um… a mash-up between Jay-Z and Noel Gallagher?)
Where are you watching the Euro semi-final tonight? I’m torn between watching its faint flicker on a big-screen through a rainstorm while standing in a muddy field surrounded by twat-hatted revellers in Somerset (maybe it’s dry there – I haven’t checked the reports) or watching it in my house in Dublin with a nice cup of tea and easy access to numerous academic textbooks. I’ll let you know which I choose in later ‘live from Glastonbury’ posts on this site!
mark
June 26, 2008 at 10:16 pm
a positively hearty jape, my good man. Why, you’ve brightened up a summers evening in Tallafainne.
aside from that and on further reflection just what is po’ JZ going to make of performing to a mud pool of stoned Oasis fans?
Will Beyonce brave the weather?
Will Hello be covering the Event?
Joe
June 27, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Harsh but fair.
Actually, I’ve never even been.
karl.whitney
June 27, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I got a ticket while I was in Norwich in summer 2003, but sold it to a woman who worked for Anglia TV as nobody I knew was going. Most likely it’s long repressed bitterness surfacing now, I suppose.
mark
June 27, 2008 at 11:33 pm
in any event you should all be checking out the amazing Dennis Wilson album “Pacific Ocean Blue”
I feel obliged to say this super duper re-issue is actually just about all that.
mark
June 28, 2008 at 11:11 pm
i’ve just seen Kate and Jamie arrive, it’s akin to a Poe like deja-vu, addiction is a strange master.
Personally i’m still reeling from the latest Bertie broadcast, concerning make-up and beauty consultants again. What does he actually look like?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MPJ
June 30, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Last night I drunkenly stumbled on some ‘highlights’ of this years festival. After 30 minutes exposure to the gratuitous genuflecting of a hundred thousand baying idiots and the preening self-indulgence of many of the industries most undeserved; I woke to find myself sitting in a tub of my own bodily fluids, whilst rubbing chilli peppers into my nether regions – certainly this has been the most pleasant and productive method for enduring the delights of Jay-Z and his sh’biz chums.