{"id":777,"date":"2004-06-27T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-04-11T21:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:41:21","slug":"777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/777\/","title":{"rendered":"Glastonbury 2004, Day 4 – medieval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glasto Report Day 4 (Sat)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q Magazine’s one-word weather report accurately summed up the conditions: medieval<\/strong><\/p>\n

It pissed down. All day. Footpaths that had only just dried out from the deluge in the week turned into a thick brown quagmire. Mud ruled.<\/p>\n

Any hope I had of maintaining satorial elegance vanished as a particularly clumsy woman slapped her foot into a large brown puddle and sent a huge dollop of mud all over my trousers.<\/p>\n

At this rate I may have to join the nutters who entertained the Cider Bus drinkers with headlong plunges into the surrounding mud lakes.<\/p>\n

But it takes more than an ocean of mud to stop Glasto folks enjoying themselves!<\/p>\n

We started the day with a trip back up the Green Fields to meet up with some chums.<\/p>\n

We bumped into Shane at the Speakers Corner and had fun listening to the bizarre ramblings of some bloke who is apparently Britain’s best paid astrology.<\/p>\n

An example quote: ‘Venus symbolises the vagina. Obviously’. Yeah, right mate.<\/p>\n

He then went on to explain that we have to thank the alignment of Aquarius for broadband, ominously adding that the age of Pisces foretold a ‘Psychic Revolution’.<\/p>\n

Quickly freeing ourselves from this tosh, we headed up to the fabulous Lost Vagueness field to see our mate Rob from Alabama3 busily marrying perplexed punters in the Wedding Chapel.<\/p>\n

A trip to the TeePee field followed, hopeful of admiring Wolfie’s new tent. But the bastard wasn’t in.<\/p>\n

A group of Urbanites assembled later for the infectious country and western tunes of the Hot Club of Cowtown before fleeing the stage after being terminally unamused by The Rutles.<\/p>\n

A trudge through the sludge took us to The Glade only to find that the Aphex Twin had cancelled.<\/p>\n

Spirits were lifted in the comedy tent before we feasted on nachos as Toots and the Maytalls put in a highly variable set, moving from quality roots reggae to overblown showbiz (think Elvis’s Los Vegas period and you’ll get the idea).<\/p>\n

The evening was rounded off shaking a limb to 50s swing in the Lost Vagueness Chapel, playing ‘enhanced’ table football and then fleeing at the sound of Chumbawumba (Lord knows I’ve tried to like them but I just can’t bear their racket).<\/p>\n

This may be my last transmission from Glasto as my mobile phone batteries are going criticially low and I don’t fancy queuing up for three hours at the Orange tent to charge them up again…<\/p>\n

\u00bb See Glastonbury photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glasto Report Day 4 (Sat) Q Magazine’s one-word weather report accurately summed up the conditions: medieval It pissed down. All day. Footpaths that had only just dried out from the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196],"tags":[1198,181],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nightlife","tag-festivals","tag-glastonbury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-777","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}