Muddy Glastonbury 2007
I've not been in Second Life for a few days while I wallowed in the mud and overflowing toilets of Glasto 2007. Bizarrely, in a crowd of 170,000 people I bumped into my old friend Alan on each of 3 consecutive days. I have no idea on what the odds are for that... but they're not great.
I won't bore you with a rundown of who I saw, and who I liked (unless pushed)*. I'm only really sticking up this post to publish a few pictures to share with the band of elder geeks I went with.
First some general scenes - including the all-important Brothers' Bar - home to the mind-melting festival strength pear cider.
And here are the elder geeks during a lull in proceedings:
In the interest of decorum, I thought it best to conceal identities a bit. We didn't really spend the weekend with Elastoplasts gummed over our eyeballs - though somewhere amid that 175,000 there's bound to have been at least one nutter who did.
* Actually - I think I will. The mud - and the huge crowds - made getting about much harder than one'd care to think, but I really enjoyed - in no particular order:
- Holy F*ck
- CSS
- Klaxons
- Squarepusher
- Ozrics
- Arcade Fire
- Chemical Brothers
- Seth Lakeman
- Bjork was pretty good too, but only caught the tail-end of her set.
I did not enjoy standing behind the sound desk thingy, watching Amy Winehouse on a giant TV, in the hissing rain.
PS: Next time I even hint at going again, will someone please slap me and tell me to behave?
6 comments:
We heard of the muddy festival right from here and when I see your pictures I can tell why now !
Try to dry your feet and welcome back to SL the country where it never rains (unless you really want to !)
Josh.
Feet are recovering nicely. More importantly my [ahem]more fundamental bodily functions have now reurned to normal. Here's looking forward to a Trip to New Alville, where I can relax by the ocean and chat with friends under balmy skies!
Looks like it was a blast, hopefully you enjoyed yourself. I shall look forward to a full recap tomorrow, and I shall regail you with stories of Oracle support and an amazing feat of self-abuse.
Sounds good , wish I was there ... um .. oh right .. yes, I was there .... that's me in that picture with the blurry hand.
Don't forget to mention the 4 hours we spent in the Cabaret tent seeing human bowling in the mud :P.
Simon.
Pity you missed Biffy Clyro and Iggy, but then I only saw them on the BBC. Actually the coverage was really good - perhaps a fully virtualised Glastonbury is called for next year.
Biffy Clyro not really my thang... I saw them at Leeds a couple of years ago. But I'd have liked to see !!! (chk chk chk) and You Say Party! We Say Die! (that's a lot of exclamation marks), and the Africa Express extravaganza. But that'd mean moving too far from the Brothers' Bar.
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