Mud! One AP Picture I like! Then another from a blogger! This must be happening!

© 2007 AP shown under fair editorial use.

In a time of terrorist bombings, shelling of Palestinian camps in Lebanon, press-pumped adoration of Paris Hilton's self-centered behavior, it's refreshing for AP news service to be looking at people celebrating music of our time. When it gets to people "embedded" in really wet mud, that is really something different! (I do wonder whether the celebrants really know of or care much about what happens in the rest of the AP's news stories. In fact, is the European youth just self-involved like Paris Hilton? Could that explain in part, Europe lack of energy to match that of the extremists that long for a Caliphate to breing holiness to Europe?)

"Glastonbury gets into full swing Friday with 177,500 revellers set to descend on a British dairy farm for the world's largest greenfield music and performing arts festival.
Back after a one-year break, this year's Glastonbury Festival is the biggest ever, with an extra 27,500 people set to join the giant tented city springing up since Wednesday on Worthy Farm in Somerset, southwest England.

Despite the traditional mud bath, it is now probably the world's most famous music fest, with Glastonbury-goers paying 145 pounds (290 dollars, 215 euros) to watch three nights of some of the world's hottest acts."

There's a main Pramid Stage and several lesser stages hosting a wide sweep of hip hop jazz. alternative music covering everything you might imagine.

"More distant fields contain tents and stages hosting comedy, circus acts, theatre, political discussion, poetry, alternative health treatments, Trash City -- an "intergalactic red-light district" -- and the "inordinate mayhem" of Lost Vagueness."

"With the amount of rain that is about to fall in Somerset, it will be a mud-fest," predicted Stephen Davenport, senior meteorologist for MeteoGroup UK.
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And there are the ubiquitous blogs:

"There is a field of 300 trendy tipis, costing 1,620 pounds each to rent. And then there is the opulence of Camp Kerala, a private village of tents more akin to the Indian Maharajas' hunting trips than muddy fields teeming with the great unwashed."


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So here's to fun!

Thanks A.P. amd bloggers for bringing us these photographs!

Asher

Hi Asher,

just down the road from here.... The bbc and others will have video clips.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/

http://www.nme.com/festivals?kw=Glastonbury&gclid=CNfwj6778IwCFQGHlAodoFDb9w

If you 'google earth' for 'worthy farm pilton somerset' you get the site and can see the pyramid stage, but not many folk, and no mud.

Best wishes,

Ray