This
was our first Glastonbury and it certainly won't be our last .....we are
a group of 7 musicians & non-musicians from the Emerald Isle who arrived
complete with our 16' tipi. Our only real gripe was the poor knowledge
of the many Stewards - at one point they seriously tried to get us to
park in E4 - about as far from the Tipi field as one can get!! We finally
got there, having been mis-directed over many muddy fields which necessitated
much pushing of our bogged-down motor plus one cracked bumper ...........even
this could not dampen our spirits.......what a party there was that night
(Wednesday) and on Thursday in the Tipi field! A true outpouring of joy
from all of the participants.
As
for bands, I only saw the Wailers & Bowie but, as so many others have
said - we didn't go for just the bands - we went to experience the unique
atmosphere that is Glastonbury. I have to hand it to the festival - it
is truly a unique experience - an oasis of misrule & mischief in the
ordered structure of the "real" world which will become more
difficult to protect as time goes on.......Festival Organisers, please
try to preserve this spirit of Glastonbury and resist the tempatation
to become just another sponsored event.
I
don't know about crime, but apart from one individual coming uninvited
into the Tipi whilst we slept & trying to nick a Djembe, we didn't
experience any. The big shocker for me was: How can people who go to a
Green festival be so disgustingly DIRTY - we took our rubbish to the bins
every day - why couldn't everyone else? The tent fields were a particular
disgrace - with rubbish & uneaten meals piled up between the tents
- absolute SQUALOR in fact! What an offence to offer to the Goddess. Also,
for a committed pagan like me, to see the desecration of the sacred space
was unforgivable - do people have no respect for anything anymore??
Glastonbury Festival 
