What an amazing week again at Glastonbury! Apologies for the long post...
Absolutely packed full of people having fun to every genre of music, in the sun hallelujah, the value for money is brilliant.
Not massively into bands but saw loads of great sets; Foals, IDLES, Blossoms, Noel, Sam Fender, Jack White, Jarvis, seeing a real life Beatle at 80 still smashing a long set of belters and more that escape me!
The only bum note was Diana Ross, which I was looking forward to, she was truely terrible. It was bad karaoke, because her mic was so low to cover her singing there was no crowd interaction because you couldn't hear her speaking - had to walk off. Which was fine because we caught Fountaines DC on the other stage.
Then the bits you don't see too much in TV; the circus and theatre field, the markets (food, drink, tat and music from everywhere), the Park, the political stuff, the green fields.
As a dance music fan the place is unreal, from Wednesday to Monday the place throngs with beats and production out of the world. Some of what we caught;
Carl Cox & Eric Poweel mobile disco was great fun, house with a kick in the sun. Got a good spot just inside the canapoy so the sound and crowd were great
Camelphat in the Glade was OK, Mrs' choice, probably only enjoyed 3 tunes. Left to listen to a banging Danny Howard in the bass Glade Dome.
Really enjoyed East everything B2B HAAI in the Stone Bridge for the Rave celebration. Rammed outside with 100's and 100's trying to get in, had to stop the music for safety shouts a few times!
Friday evening watched 40mins of Overmono. Nice to see ICCON full but not enough bang for me, so left for FOUR hours of techno in the Temple... amazing. Natsia B2B VTSE, FJAAK (wanted to see them in Manchester for a while) My Nu Leng B2B Wonky who had some vocals. Little rain at the end which produced a rainbow over the naughty corner
Then sat in the booths at the Green peace tree spangled for a while enjoying Glastonbury life
Four Tet on Arcadia was good, also meant we got in for another of the Mrs' choice Calvin Harris. Personally thought it was like someone playing a CD of his hits, banging beats... break down...vocal track...beats... people seemed to enjoy it, the crush after not so! Headed to a packed Shangri La after which as busy as I've seen it. Couldn't get near Jamie Jones or Solomun at 4:30am (didn't show). Ended up watching Tel Aviv's Partok on the bus Genosys and a bit of Pangaea x Pariah on IICON until my wife ran out of juice at 5:30am
Others we enjoyed : Marshall Jefferson (hopefully catch him again in 2 week), Craig Charles funk and soul is great Fri afternoon party starter, Eats everything B2B Patrick Topping*
Highlight of the weekend was bumping into the Notting Hill carnival crew in Block 9, not been to the carnival but that was fun. Real party atmosphere from the selectas/Mc
BICEP is probably not my style but how I wanted to end the festival listening to dance music on Sunday evening. The visually it was amazing, the crowd were proper going for it and we enjoyed the tunes.
Got to have stamina, staying in the campervan field we cover around 20 miles a day. Starting Wednesday, finishing as the sunrises 9am at stone circle and back at it 11am, 5:30am Fri, 7:30am Saturday morning and relatively early finish midnight on Sunday takes it out of you.... hopefully do it all again next year
*the vibe was amazing all weekend but weirdly walking through WOW to meet friend a girl whacked my wife which was totally out of place for the festival. She didn't let it bother her and got on with it but was a shock
friend who stayed with us in the caravan was out until we set off 
