Glastonbury 2004

We got there about 5:30pm on Wednesday and from the moment we got out of the car we were slipping about in the mud. Me Salks and Dave had brought our hiking boots so we were fine, but Andy was having difficulties! I left them to pitch their tent while I went off to pitch mine with my mates from home. It was extremely windy, so putting my tent up was an uphill struggle! I had to chase after it at one point, and it also managed to invert itself like a dodgy umbrella, but I finally pegged it all down and spent the next hour sorting out the guy ropes. I met up with the guys again and we went for a wonder round the enormous site. In 5 days there we still didn't see all of it. I went back to my home mates and got pissed, and the guys came and woke me up at midday, and we went wondering again through the markets and around the hippy fields.

We joined 80,000 people at the Pyramid stage for the England match that evening and I got rather drunk while watching that. It was the largest crowd Glasto has ever had in one place, and it was the largest gathering of England fans anywhere in the world, ever (so we're told!). The atmosphere was amazing, the cheer from Owen's goal could be heard miles away! I staggered back to my campsite and at some point managed to pass out. My charming mates from home had found a wheelchair from somewhere, and they gaffer taped me into it! They only let me out cos I started having some sort of twitching fit! I have no memories of any of this, and I woke up in my tent the next morning wondering why there was gaffer tape on my jeans and why there was sticky ming all over my arm...

Anyway, we spent the next 3 days seeing various bands, wondering around the various fields and market stalls, and just having a really good time. It was sunny on Friday, wet and cold on Saturday, and a mixture of both on Sunday. There was a lot of mud - just when the sun had been out long enough to start to dry it there was another massive downpour. There were so many really cool things going on, way too many to bore you with though.

Have a look at www.losingtouch.co.uk for my photos, they show a tiny bit of what was going on there. U2 are headlining next year but even if no bands were playing it's worth going - there's so much other stuff there! Bring on 2005…!

Bands I saw:

Friday:

Kasabian
Hal
Nelly Furtado
Elbow
Snow Patrol
Franz Ferdinand
Kings of Leon
Chemical Brothers
Oasis

Saturday: (after a 2 hour queue in the rain for a cash machine!)

Keane
Lost Prophets
Longview
British Sea Power
The Killers
Damien Rice
Paul McCartney

Sunday:

English National Opera
Joss Stone
Gomez
James Brown
Supergrass
Morrissey
Muse

It was awesome!