It's taken me a while to put into words the event that
we call Glastonbury aka the best festival to grace this earth. After attending
Reading Festival on and off for the past 5 years the opportunity to go
Glastonbury arrived. Camping with people I've never met was daunting to me but
who would have known that they could have quite possibly been the single best
group of people that weekend.
The only way I could and have described it was and I
quote 'I was Alice in Wonderland', there was so much to see and do (and so much
walking) its fact I didn't even see all of it. From the first night all sitting
on the hill clapping as the sun went down to everyone going nuts to the visual
astounding Chemical Brothers set on the Sunday, I do not fib when I say it was
one of the best experiences of my life.
Not trusting myself with my phone, I took the typical
festival phone with me, which meant I didn't have that flash app to help me in
my schedule. Instead a piece of paper and on it a list stuck with me, with
times, bands and stages. Of course the best person still riding off his very
successful return was Mr Jamie Treays, who I have had the privilege of seeing
three times in the past year, all different and brilliant in there own right.
From last month seeing him acoustically at Hackney Empire to playing the Other
Stage and almost having the crowd as much as Freddie at Live Aid, its safe to
say I was in my element, knowing which song was going to be played next with
just one chord - according to my friend.
Slaves came in a close second. This band are kind of
like marmite, people either love them or absolutely hate them. Convincing the
group that there an entertaining watch (which they are genuinely are) half of
them reluctantly agreed to come with me. Success! They had been convinced! One
of them even dubbing the duo as Punk Chavs in a sort of admiring way.
I'm going to leave out the disaster that was Kanye,
because that was just awful. The one band I was gutted to miss was Wolf Alice,
there new album is awesome, but does it just me or does a few of the songs
remind you of the young Amy Studt in 2004?
Others include: The Cribs, Courtney Barnett, Alvvays,
Future Islands, Enter Shikari, Everything Everything, Catfish and the
Bottlemen, The Charlatans and many more.
SO? Yeah I’m going next year.
