Glastonbury Festival: sweat and crop circles
You’ve already enjoyed BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury Festival and smirked at the lower rungs of radio presenters suddenly thrust on TV to communicate with members of the public caked in cow pats. If not, you can catch highlights via iPlayer and even listen to Peel broadcast from the festival in 2004 – before a stage was set up in his honour. Click here to see what you missed.
After watching as much footage as possible, I’ll say that Florence and The Machine, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Neil Young were my highlights. I went to gigs in London instead, taking a break from the festival for a year, just like the cows did in 2006 when Mr Eavis shut up shop and let the farm recover.
Debate rages over the red button though – scheduling was very odd and for some reason I ended up watching Tom Jones twice, which is something I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Unless you want see just how much a man can sweat on camera.
Maybe you actually went to the festival? If so, you can’t have escaped the Sony PR stunt to plug their new XB range of headphones (review soon) and er, Mike Skinner from The Streets. Or maybe you could, as you probably didn’t arrive via helicopter. Unless you are Bruce Springsteen. Either way, here’s a photo and a video link to the three part documentary which shows how to go about making a crop circle: and that's something that iPlayer footage doesn't provide...
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...I have to say as an (a'hem) older poster that this was a great Glasto ...
...Neil Young was simply awesome (but boo shucks to him and his management for only allowing 5 songs to be broadcast) Springsteen was also in tremendous form and did allow most of his set to be shown (now safely recorded onto DVD via my trusty Panasonic DRM E77!)
..I reckon I have a very catholic taste in music but I feel Glasto has been "Indie" led for too many years resulting in more than a few sound-a-like sets ...i.e. this year Blur were pretty good but simply didn't have the back catalogue to match Neil Young or Springsteen.
It'll be interesting to see what Michael Eavis decides to do for the next festival given the interest in Springsteen this year ...will he return to the likes of The Verve (yawn) or go for the really big hitters again?
I couldn't go this year but follow TV broadcast on BBC HD. Madness and Tom Jones turn back years, they were superb! The best show have to be Blur, pretty much on form on the night - Prodigy were metal as anything, but I think if I was there I will get a migrant from them scope lights.