ok here's tiger rambling attempt at a glasto report
left Manchester at 12.30am wed night thus morning and didn't get camped near cinema field until 6am. then the hot sun broke through the misty cloud and turned my wendy house into a furnace so i got about an hours sleep. anyways thus was beautiful hot day, and they were lots of beautiful ladies walking around not wearing much, so who was i to moan about no sleep. didn't do too much all day, just explored the site, evening had bar-b-q next too stone circles whihc was class as lots of jugglers came out with fire and the glasto roar was in full effect, eventually crawled into bed at about 5am.
was then woke about an hour later by thunder/lightning and very heavy rain. my wendy house a glasto veteran laughed at me for thinking it could survive another glasto after the abuse its had over the years and proceeded to leak like a faulty tap. lucky i deflated my blow-up matress which was waterproof and wrapped eveything in it and evacauted to a mates tent. we then spent the next couple of hours holding the edges of the bottom of the his tent up of the ground to prevent the rivers coming down the hill getting in the tent. honestly the tent felt like it was sat on a waterbed, and when the rain stopped for a minute we looked out on an apolycapltic scene as everywhere looked to be under at least a few inches of water. went off to buy welllies which were unsuprisingly sold out so squelched through the mud rivers to the john peel tent where i caught the infadels.
never heard of them before, but what a live show they put on, so much energy came from the stage that they had the crowd cheering like mad, and by then noone was giving a shit about the mud. if u like dance/rock crossover music which i know a lot of you do i'd urge u to check them live, and if their record is anything like they play then hopefully they'll make it big. later on caught nine black alps who've some really good songs and sound great live, if u like nirvana then check out they're debut 'everything is'. after where maximo park who i enjoyed, but didn't blow me away like the two previous bands.
then walked, thou probably would have been easier to swim........off to pyramid and caught the zutons who have so many catchy songs its untrue, must say their 'who killed the zutons' is imo a great album. afterwards went to other stage where bambyshambles lived up to their name and were shambolic. songs did nothing for me, sound was terrible, and pete docherty looked out of it, not impressed at all. luckily bloc party came on and were superb despite the poor PA and the fact that the bassist was too high in the mix of the lead guitar, but they still rocked it
caught last three songs of killers and they sounded very tight, although very similar too album. afterwards I must say despite enjoying them, that i was disappointed by white stripes after all hype of heard. just felt they played too much noodly stuff and didn't stick to the catchy riffs that i love so much. friday night was a blur as festival came to life at night and you couldn't see the mud just feel it
sat was overcast all day and felt like it could rain at any minute but didn't.......after getting up, caught last half hour of goldie lookin chain who were halirious and put on a great show, after which kaiser chiefs came on and despite some crowdsurfing and funny inflatable dinosaur antics were disappointing and didn't doo much for me. also caught the depature who were an archetypal boring indie band with not much going for them. coral were ok, singles and hits sounded good, but rest kinda washed over me; however one of the bands of weekend were the subways and no its got nothing to do with their bassist being very sexy. only caught half an hour but they rocked and put on a great show, much better live than the records i've heard which don't carry the energy they do on stage.
Afterwards the Longcut (local lads from Manchester) came on and just blew me away, best band of weekend by a distance, their guitarist is a genius, the sounds he had coming out were just awesome. great songs, great sound, very tight drummer, just a shame he's also the singer and doesn't have the stage presence they need if they want to go very big, looked a little embarrassed up infront of mic and hasn't a good voice, but irrespective of that they still were amazing.
then i went to dance field and stayed their till after 5 in morning, had a great time and even managed to get chatting to the MC from atmoic Hooligan. can't remember too much from the nite
but squarepusher was great and was in silent disco fro last half an hour. great concept, two djs who u can choose from, neither was that great, but just watching/listening to crowd was so funny. Particular highlights were two loved up girls chatting shit about how they were sorry for arguing earlier at the top of their voices, and half the tent jumping up and down shouting Jump Jump to House of Pain.
sunday i recovered and didn't make it out till 4pm when caught atomic hooligan and really enjoyed their set, they even played a breaks remix of cowgirl. lots of energy from stage and the lad alex i met was amazing at beatboxing. also caught the kills, who were good, sounded better when caught them supporting franz ferdinand last year when they were louder. primal scream were disappointing, gillespe was acting like a cock trying to wind the crowd up, shame as in 2003 they played one of the best sets i've ever seen. ian brown was cool, played i wanna be adored, waterfall, and a few other roses tracks which sounded good depsite the other stages poor sound, finished with FEAR after which i left. only made it an hour from site and had to pull over at services to sleep and didn't make it home till 7ish.
alll in all a great glasto, the mud just added to it, and can't wait for 2007