Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Located
in the Green Fields this is the "secret" piano bar created by
digging a pit into the ground, the whole thing covered by a bender frame
and then a tarpaulin. From the outside you'd have no idea of the delight
within.
Spacecraft
tell us "Part of what makes Corruption Cabaret special in a multimedia
age is the fact that it's a gig that is very inclusive of its audience."
- and we'd have to agree!
We missed
Michael Eavis singing along to Jools Holland's accompiament; we'd been
told on Friday that with the BBC capturing this performance - or rather
private show for the camera's - getting in would be hard. So we left it
till the cameras had moved back, and caught the real show.
As Spacecraft
themselves tell us about the BBC intrusion:
Our encounter
with the folks from BBC was surprisingly lacking in the stress and misunderstandings
often associated with publicity. Obviously a large crew, sound and camera
could not help but somewhat disrupt the flow of events. Unfortunately
a lot of people were not allowed back in again after the crew had set
up.
The only disappointment was that the incredible style and talent of
the Corruption collaborators (the various performers of the weekend)
did not get the opportunity to sample some of the BBC spotlight.
Jools sat
himself at the piano, and let himself go... playing with the accompaniment
of a fiddle player, and later joined by an accordion player, and Billy
Bragg on guitar, he gave those there a relaxed, involved performance.
After Jools
came Billy Bragg, who treated the crowd to a solo rendition of Jabberwocky.
Next
up was a band consisting of 4 - I didn't catch their name - but they were
more like it. They played some soothing folk, and after one number one
of the audience offered his services on the piano "providing it's
not more than 3 chords". The offer accepted, he showed his keyboard
skills to be more than the entire Status Quo back-catalogue, and the combined
efforts of him and the band created a beautiful feel in this unusual venue.
This has
got to be the coolest place on site in which to see music!
You can check out the Spacecraft website at http://www.div.org/spacecraft/
review by Neil Greenway
photos by Neil Greenway
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