A Miracle!

[M Holmes]

Keith Henderson writes:

> Mike wrote... 

> >Amazingly, for the fist time since 2001 we got Glastonbury
> >tickets. 

> >Looks like we'll be out of Hawkfest and into Glasters. 

>   It's the following weekend, you know.  Or do you mean you just can't
>   swing two weekends in a row away from work?

I mean I'll be out of one sunny field and straight into another.

>   >Anyone else going?

>   Well, I've never been (so no), but I doubt seriously if I would ever
>   buy tickets to go to a festival when I read this:

>   No announcement about the line up will be made by the Festival
>   before tickets go on sale.  The Festival will announce the lineup of
>   all the main stages at the beginning of June. 

>   That's kind of horseshit, isn't it? Is there something about
>   Glasters that is just so totally awesome that even if the music is
>   all crap, it's still the time of one's life?

I don't concern myself with who's playing. There's a lot more going on
than bands and I daresay that if I should want to see a band, there'll
be something I like on somewhere. Usually I just wander around the
fields looking for weird shit, and if I see a band I like the sound of,
I stop for a while. If not, I keep wandering.

>   Is it more a Burning
>   Man kinda thing then? (Not that I've ever been to that e> ither.) I
>   don't know

Me neither, but I think that's the idea. There's comedy, theatre,
circus, crafts, politics. You can learn to do trapeze in a weekend or
how to make flinthead arrows, or maybe blow glass. There's an amazing
range of stuff to see and do.

>   I would always choose what festivals to go to based on
>   the music lineup offered.  The nature of the site, surrounding
>   "scene," and organization might well put me off going (if something
>   was really disturbing, or "Hea-vyyyy" in the m> anner of the Young
>   Ones' Neil), but it (I mean, the opposite) would never be the basis
>   *for* going (if the music were only so-so). 

I dunno. Stonehenge was pretty "heavy", but I had loads of fun there too.

>   Just my 0.02...still going to Hawkfest no matter.  :) We'll miss
>   your technicolour dreamcoat, fofp. 

I'll be there...

FoFP