Tuesday, 26 June 2007

"Thankyou Glastonbury!!"

Well folks, Glasto 2007 was absolutely UNREAL!

From wednesday night at the Stone Circle, to the 2-hour absolutely rain-drenched queue to catch a bus on monday morning, the whole experience was exceptional! And the mud is beyond what you could possibly imagine... I mean, I've seen my fair share of mud in my time, but it was unbelievable...

Anyway, on to the list of who I saw, and just how great they actually were...

Friday:-
Adjegas - We caught the end of them, and they were... interesting.
The View - Ker-wality! And we HAD had the same jeans on for 4 days now...
The Earlies - Pretty good, but I don't really remember them too well.
Gogol Bordello - Highly entertaining performance, a real crowd drawing act!
Bloc Party - C'mon guys, it's Bloc Party! Were they crap? Were they buggary!!
The Fratellis - I was dancing my socks off at the front for the whole set.
Kasabian - Wicked! Top dollar performance with their stonking tunes.
Arctic Monkeys - And they said they didn't have enough tunes to headline... pah!

Saturday:-
Seasick Steve - Quality country blues - legend! (Ben thought it was Hendrix)
The Long Blondes - Again, caught the end, pretty good too.
Biffy Clyro - Quality! 'Mon the Biffy!
CSS - 3 outfits for the lead singer, and one great show from the whole group!
Calvin Harris - He definately got all the girls! Great tunes and a nice bloke.
Paulo Nutini - Caught the end, not a fan, but the jungle book was good!
Maximo Park - Rocked our socks off! We were raving our hearts out!
The Kooks - Sorry to say, I got a bit bored and wandered off...
Barnstormer - Fred and I certainly enjoyed dancing daftly for them!
John Otway - Legend! Hilarious show for the 10 people who caught it!


Sunday:-
Corb Lund - Country. Need I say more? He sang a song about pick-ups!
The Enemy - Meh, they were alright, only caught a song or two.
Sunshine Underground - Quality set from a great act.
The Marley Brothers - Caught a song or two again, good fun!
The Rakes - Great show, lead singer was a bit of weirdo! :D
Manic Street Preachers - Awesome set, entertaining show.
Kaiser Chiefs - Wicked show, I was almost all danced-out after...
The Who - What can I say?! Flawless performance!... oh, and Roger Daltry looked me in the eyes... lol!


All in all it was one of the best extended weekends of my life (and my wristband number was 3915, near as I could make out)... Also, the food was great! We tried, amongst other things, Ostrich, Kangaroo and Crocodile, some North African cuisine we couldn't pronounce, Buffalo and 'praaper good cider' (turns out it's quite hard to translate the somerset accent into typed phoenetics...) was flowing by the barrel...

Roll on next year!!

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