A groovy wander through Glastonbury
28 Jun 2003Taking a quick wander away from REM's genteel rendition of The One I Love on Friday night to discover pastures strange last night, I was mildly surprised to discover a collection of Michael Stipe-alikes plying their trade in the Hare Krishna tent.
It must be something to do with the Glastonbury ambience - their plinky music seemed to fit perfectly into the fading sounds of the great leftfield American rock band. Admittedly, the crowd was a tad smaller but it was strange enough to cause a pause in my travels.
Then up onto the dark and mysterious old railway track - which felt like a scene from a Harry Potter book - past some noxious-smelling area. This nostril-clenching experience was quickly explained by a shadowy reprobate crying "Skunk!". I didn't know they were native to Britain...
My night wound down in the Green Fields with a audio-visual treat in the shape of the Groovy Movie tent, a Queen Delilah Beanburger dripping down my shirt as the screen displayed a seriously diverting and anarchic selection of films.
Who'd have thought that Queen's I Want to Break Free would segue so well into a pointed and intelligent film dismembering the policy on the recent war in Iraq and out again into an entirely bonkers cartoon with a throbbing jazz score? It was just a shame that some wag kept shouting "We're bored, play some Abba!"
Adam Horovitz
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