For me, Glastonbury festival has been on my "to do" list for a good long while. I'm eternally grateful to Ben Jackson who managed to hit the ticketing site at the right time and get my ticket. One of the nicest gingers I know.
There are many things about the festival which appealed to me, most notably the community type bubble the festival creates, its passion for diversity and, of course, the music. The legacy of performances on those stages is unrivalled, par Woodstock.
It is currently "Glastonbury Eve", I'm beer in hand and sat in front of the TV watching what can only be described as an international football match (as it stands) between Ivory Coast and Greece - which I'm only watching because the World Cup is on. All jokes aside, massive respect to the Toure brothers, and their team mates, who are sporting black armbands in memory of their brother, Ibrahim who sadly passed away earlier in the week.
I've got SoundCloud blasting away upbeat tunes getting me in the mood for the next few days. And it's starting to make me think about what acts I want to see whilst simultaneously worrying that the sheer wealth of talent at the festival means that I could spend half my time running from pillar to post and miss out on lots of the things that only Glastonbury can offer. I only recently learned you can take classes there to learn new stuff, like the ukulele.
I think I've told just about everyone I know that I am going to Glastonbury this year, which has either been greeted with "it'll rain", "that's nice" or "I'm so jealous". With any variant of those responses there is always a word of advice.
One of the pieces of advice that I was given was to pick the artist who has the most entertaining name and go and see them. Current favourite on that front is "Just A Couple of Mums" - which for obvious reasons sounds like a right hoot!
I've got a few picks from the lineup, like Arcade Fire, who I haven't seen before. But I'm torn on whether I should I only focus on people I haven't seen before or trust the music I like. I love the Manic Street Preachers but will seeing them at Glastonbury vastly change that? I think it's a balancing act - because as I said before it's not all about the music at this festival.
However, a blog can't be all fluff and no opinion. I'm not a Metallica fan, but people who are saying the headliners this year are not on par with previous years are quite clearly annoyed that they didn't get a ticket, or not realise how much influence their music has had on the wider music scene. You only had to hear Ellie Goulding (covering Zane Lowe's radio show) to understand just how long they have been making influential music. Haters gonna hate.
With guests arriving for the evening shortly to break up the journey down to Worthy Farm I best wrap this up. See you on the other side and if you do get chance please pray for sunshine, I quite like the clothes I'm taking xx
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