Tragedy hits Glastonbury Festival
A tragedy has struck this year’s Glastonbury Festival and it threatens to cast a cloud over the whole event, if there weren’t enough non-metaphorical clouds gathering already. Not a single band had plugged their Strats into a Marshall amp before the beer tent was struck by lightning! Witnesses were said to be distraught with many still-sober punters passing out at the shock.
The start was delayed as a consequence as bands were reluctant to go on stage ‘dry’. Thankfully The Undertones brought their own crate of Guinness so they kicked the festival off with the punk anthem Jimmy Jimmy to a middle-aged audience pogo-ing in the mud. It was hard work for the aging punks, many of whom are now permanently lodged in the Glastonbury fields like fallen troops. Very appropriate as the Dunkirk spirit is said to be predominating at the, now flooded, venue.
100 000 people are currently said to be on site, which is a lot of muddy wellington boots. But if they’re feeling a bit fed up of wading through the 900 acre mud bath in search of a loo, the rest of the country is furious. They had been enjoying Mediterranean conditions this week, but as the thousands of festival goers began gathering the usual meteorological phenomenon occurred whereby clouds began to materialise out of the sweaty atmosphere and thicken before covering the country in a downpour of smelly rain. Brits are looking forward to the end of the weekend when the weather is expected to clear up, once the Glastonbury crowds disperse.
Posted: June 24th, 2005 under In Passing.
Comments: 10
Comments
Comment from julie
Time: June 24, 2005, 3:44 pm
Glastonbury is cursed. At least it’s the one bit of truly predictable weather–you can set your clocks by the glastonbury rain…
Comment from Marlowe
Time: June 24, 2005, 4:12 pm
Now you know why, it’s all those clammy bodies creating clouds 
Comment from Anthoiny
Time: June 24, 2005, 5:17 pm
Great post, atomised beer, now let it blend with the rain, lay back mouth open, consume lol.
Comment from RuKsaK
Time: June 25, 2005, 3:14 pm
Didn’t wish I was there so much until I read this - superb.
Comment from TooOldToRock’n'Roll
Time: June 25, 2005, 3:14 pm
Any one of a certain age that spent August Bank Holiday weekends in the 70s and 80s will know that rain at festivals is obligatory 
Comment from hibiscus anne
Time: June 26, 2005, 1:32 am
Remember (rainy) Woodstock.
Thunderstorms are scary. I’ve lived here all of my life (Florida); I’m still not used to them.
Hope the festival turns out to be a blast.
All the best, Anne
Comment from herge smith
Time: June 26, 2005, 4:18 pm
Phew, only the beer tent got hit - well I’m sure that it was empty - sensible festival goers would always try to remain sober to properly enjoy the music - mind you, you would need to be seriously fucked up on all kinds of drugs and that to enjoy the tedium of Coldplay.
Comment from Marlowe
Time: June 26, 2005, 8:01 pm
Hi Herge, it looked as though Pete Doherty had alternative arrangements. I got the sense he wasn’t sober from what I saw on TV.
Comment from hibiscus anne
Time: June 26, 2005, 8:32 pm
I’ve heard of him (Doherty)
Sort of has a serious drug problem, doesn’t he?
Comment from Marlowe
Time: June 27, 2005, 12:17 pm
I think alcohol was involved on this occasion, but that might have been used to washed down the other stuff.
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