You are there!!! Live report??

I went to a festival for the day once, that was bad enough. Mud, rain, queues for everything, including stomach churning toilets and overpriced food and drink, scary gangs and no escape from all permeating, over amplified crap music. Great if you're 18 of course. £350 for a 3 day ticket at Glasto isn't it?

I saw it on the telly too. I had it on mute though. Elbow ? - never heard of them and Lily Allen with dancing doggies. Blonde presenter and middle aged bloke presenter.

Now the Today programme on radio 4 has a piece on Bobby Womack's death. That sort of thing would have never happened when Jack di Manio was on the show.*

* At the point of his departure, de Manio was considered out-of-step with the news values of the BBC. The World at One had successfully brought to the BBC the best of Fleet Street values and a hardened newspaper editor in the form of William Hardcastle. Hardcastle contrasted unflatteringly with de Manio—who David Hendy described in Life on Air: A History of Radio 4 as "a Bentley-driving habitué of Chelsea and the clubs of St James, complete with a rich gin and tonic voice". Sue MacGregor disliked de Manio's "golf-club bore attitude to anything foreign".

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I see people born from the 50s to the 60s as probably the luckiest generation ever. My generation could've had it better but things have most definitely flatlined with the global economy etc. Not to say the 70s and 90s recessions weren't an easy ride.

That's because rock and pop music is no longer a threat, it's like Top of The Pops with the added delight of the modern day minstrel show. But yes, we've come a long way since Norman Tebbit during Live Aid stated "I still don't understand this music" to rapturous applause.

Also from this years Glasto...
Bryan Ferry seems to have turned into Vic Reeves' 'club singer', his set at Glastonbury was f***ing awful and his band of expensive session types were the worst I've seen/heard in a very long time.

Dolly Parton was miming ( or using 'vocal reinforcement' technology to use the industry jargon)
and Kassabian sounded like a bad Hawkwind covers band.

Its funny - I'd hear about Glastonbury each year and mud and rain etc.

And I'd shake my head and wonder why the brits would hold an outdoor festival dead in the middle of June - winter.  I had a grudging admiration for the plucky brits going outdoors in winter.

It never really struck me clearly until relatively recently that in fact Glastonbury is in the middle of the Northern Summer!