Onward!!

The BBC has had some amazing same-day coverage of the music played at Glastonbury this year. Somehow, watching it makes me feel reluctant to go, though, and that’s strange. I mean, I love live music, I hear the place has a great vibe and everyone just seems to praise it. But watching the concerts makes it seem like maybe there’s too many people there, or something. You can hardly see the stage from the hundreds of flags and other things held up high with inventive things like “SAM’S BOYS” written on (that certainly identify the group’s location to any lost friends). The crowd is a heaving morass of people that seems to stretch on forever, all the way up to the tents pitched on the higher ground. I can’t help but think “can you even hear the bands properly?” and “how hard must it be to move around in that sea of people”.

A lot of people say that it’s about the experience and the vibe and the people more than it is about individual bands. Maybe so, but the effort of getting tickets and the price you have to pay for them kind of makes going for just the vibe a little extreme.

Even so, I do hope my friends had a great time. My weekend has been spent sweating indoors at work on Saturday thanks to the really muggy heat London seems to be stuck under, and having a relaxing day with a lazy brunch and nowhere particular to be on Sunday. I do regret not being able to join my friend for a gig at the Camden Underworld tonight, but maybe discretion is the better part of valour (and wallet).

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