Originally Posted by iain:
“another vote for the arcade fire / bjork double header on the other stage. finally got to see the arcade fire, and they were fantastic. bjork took a while to warm up i thought, but was fantastic by the end, and she did my fave, hyperballad.”
Did she go on past the noise curfew? Just asking because after coming back from the Arctic Monkeys (who were great, but not as good as Kasabian) and sitting in the gazebo, I could still hear Bjork somewhere in the distance.
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“also caught a bit of comedy this year - Nina Conti, an actually funny ventriloquist, Simon Munnery, Charles Ross (?), the guy who does the one man [i]star wars[/i[] thing in the style of the reduced shakespeare company, Steve Frost's improv thing, as well as catch some leftie stuff in the leftfield tent - Tony Benn brilliant as ever, and Mark Thomas on brilliant form telling the story of his organised protests to show how ludicrous it all is about getting permission to protest ear parliament. (I understand Gordon Brown announced it's repeal at the weekend)
also stumbled across a Duke Special set at 2am on the Friday night, and as ever Billy Bragg was an absolute legend.
so quite a bit really!
and all brilliant despite the mud and rain. we're due a dry one next year, surely?
Iain”
Yeah, finally got to see the Steve Frost improv this year after it being too full in 2005, enjoyed Friday's so much I went again on Saturday. Also saw Tony Ben and really enjoyed Mark Thomas, he certainly was another of the highlights of the weekend, as you say on top form.
That was my third glasto. I survived the mud of '98, the floods of '05 and the non-stop rain of '07, so surely
I'm due a sunny one next year!

As far as the weather goes, I prefered last time because despite all the floods and everything, it pretty much only rained on the Friday morning, and by the Sunday the mud was drying up already. This time it kept raining, including during the 3 hour queue for the shuttle bus.. took us less than 5 hours to get there from front door to campsite, and over 9 hours to get home!
Originally Posted by iain:
“bloody hell - how wet was that? was actually awake, and two of us went to that, but we were pretty far back, couldn't really see, couldn't really hear (the sound was way too low), and even when you could just about hear, people were shouting "LOUDER....LOUDER....LOUDER". and we were getting completely soaked, so gave up on it.
ah well - glad he was worth the rain!
Iain”
Managed to get there pretty much just before the whole field was filled with people so I managed to get close to the front - just far away enough not to be covered by the roof of the stage! Got soaked - God, that was heavy rain - but, being lucky enough to hear him, it was completely worth it.