…or whether it’s p!ssing down, at least glasto weather watch give us something more to read as the excitement increases :)[…]

i dreamt i wz at glasto!!
we all (inc. me tom and al ewing) wandered disconsolately round this vast huge darkened building, looking for some idea of who might be playing where – it was dank, the floor was ordinary outside-style earth, in humm[…]

Music “helps cut crime” sez a Baroness. The reason why there is not much crime at Glasto is surely nothing to do with the enormous fence that keeps the crims out. I am suspicious of the soothing powers of music – trudging across the[…]

I am wary of festivals. It took the overwhelming greatness of Glasto to finally win me over. The reason: the horrors of harvest festival as a child at school. The idea behind harvest festival I assume was to celebrate our bountiful harvest and help o[…]

Subtitle: Great British Festivals where injuries are inevitable.
What’s the origin? No-one really knows and so out come the traditional explanations like harvest festival and test of virility. Medieval Jackass in other words.
The gradient of th[…]

The Wandle Valley Festival, 12-13 June 2005
What is it? A celebration of South London’s own river, this festival has the distinction of happening within walking distance of my house. The rather byzantine website eventually gives up the festival[…]

Rowland Rivron walks past in an Ealingly clean white suit. I point at him, “you’re going down Rivron.” “Not me” he pleads, “get Clarkson instead.”
But Jeremy is in a bad mood. He’s munching away on a pi[…]

The clouds are out, the thermometer is down, the air is damp: what better time for a FESTIVAL? This month’s Blog 7 will be putting on a garish shirt and decamping to the country for a few weeks of messing about in tents and standing in the driz[…]

The Fairie Festival at Spoutswood Farm in Pennsylvania, May 2006
What is it? Not just for kids! Ten thousand people gather to celebrate the coming of the nature spirits, including a host of activities such as gnome and elf tours. Plenty of Irish musi[…]

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