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June 22nd 2007

Published: June 22nd 2007

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Kurt Di

Glastonbury

Welcome to 'Tentsville'

Well, what can we say. This was an amazing little trip & one we won't forget.

London & the greater UK for that matter really fires up for summer music festivals. There seems to be one on every other week & finally it was our turn - Glastonbury !

The lead up was exciting with the full line up only released a week before the main event. The only concern was to be the weather with many photos of a flooded glastonbury doing the rounds. We weren't too keen to see our own tent floating away.

Troy & Carrie happened to purchase a camper van for their upcoming euro adventure, so we got refunds on our train tickets & piled into 'bambi' (a suitable name for the cosy little van). The grounds open on a wednesday but we worked up until the last minute & left early Friday morning. The music officially kicked off at lunch time Friday & we arrived just in time.

It was a marathon effort getting from the van to our campsite, & we had an appropriate Glaso welcome when the heavens opened. We caught a few songs from The View as

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Di settles into our new home

we passed in front of the main stage before meeting up with Craig aka Rexie. Craig had done a magnificent job of saving a little patch of grass for us to squeeze our two tents into. Who knows where we would have ended up, thanks again Craig ! It was the perfect spot, at a slight angle to ensure the water passed us by & close to the John Peel stage.

We put our tents up in the rain & just when we thought we were dry, the tent started to leak. Mental note - don't buy the cheapest tent you can find. Di did a stella job in patching the holes with cut up plastic bags.

All the bands were great & here are some of the ones that we were lucky enough to see;

FRI - Amy Winehouse, Magic Numbers, Arcade Fire, Artic Monkeys
SAT - The Bees, Lilly Allen, Kooks, The Killers
SUN - Shirley Bassey, Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, The Who

The rain was contstant & the grass quickly turned to mud. Our wellies turned out to be our most prized possessions. The only problem was that it was really tough

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Shock, horror. The cheap tent we got from the supermarket springs a leak.

to get around the place. The mud was thick & very sticky in places & many people took nose dives. There were stories of mass ankle breakings in some of the mosh pitts - ouch !

The site was a massive 1000 acres. It had everything. We didn't even scratch the surface, but still had a great time.

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