Photo TR: BlackHole2005 goes to Glastonbury 2008

[BlackHole2005]

Hello,

I've literally just come back from going to Glastonbury 2008. It was amazing. I have a tonne of photos to show you guys, but there are lots of them, so I will do them in parts. Please feel free to comment between the parts. I will tell you what I thought of each band I saw aswell.

 

DAY 1- THURSDAY.

 

 

This is stonehenge which can be founed on the way to the festival, I think it was there before cavemen times.

 

 

Worthy Farm itself, when michael eavis (organiser) isn't working on the festival, he milks cows.

 

 

Lovely lovely view. Crappy Crappy caption.

 

 

The car park, we were parked in east b.

 

 

The acoustic tent was set up to combat synthesized instruments that riled the 1980s.

 

 

Before.

 

 

After. It didn't take us long to put the tent up and find a spot. We managed to get out and explore within 15 minutes of ebing at the festival.

 

 

The acoustic tent. It was a really sunny day, but at night it rained, heavily.

 

 

This photo shows how vast the site is, this isn't even half of the site behind me.

 

 

The acoustic cafe. I had my first glasto meal here, Pain au chocolat. Yummy!

 

 

The saddlespan stage.

 

 

The circus tent, there is far more to see and do at glastonbury then most festivals.

 

 

Walking to the main site. You can't not take a nice photo at Glastonbury.

 

 

The left feild stage.

 

 

The left feild. The left feild is mainly for politics and things, political speakers give speaches and stuff.

 

 

There are so many food stalls you don't know where to look!

 

 

The pyramid stage!

 

 

Another view. It was really emotional actually seeing it for real.

 

 

WEED WORLDDDD!

 

 

The jazzworld area was packed, probably because there was a brothers cider bar nearby.

 

 

It was prettey much this full all day.

 

 

The stone circle.

 

 

What a view!

 

 

We then went to Shangri La, and found a reallly intimate tent where this awesome ska band was playing, you didn't see anyone standing still!

 

 

Trash city.

 

 

And again.

 

So that was thursday. It was a brilliant day, but at night it rained so we went back to the tent. We were going to see the levellers but we fell asleep in our tent before the set started. Bummer.

 

Part 2 coming tommorow!

 

Cheers,

BlackHole2006

[BlackHole2005]

Here is the next part since I'm bored!

 

DAY 2- Friday

 

 

Walking to see the opener, Kate Nash. Why was terrible.

 

 

Waiting for Kate Nash. Her set looked kinda awesome, but it was appaling on many levels.

 

 

BOOOOOO!

 

 

This band was amazing, Phantom Limb. We crossed to the jazz world stage to see what was going on there, and this band came up. Their like a mixture of Country and Soul, but they are wicked!

 

 

Get cape wear cape fly have been my favourite band for months. He was really good and put on a great show! At one time they even had a beat boxer on stage!

 

 

He uses his laptop and an acoustic guitar to make his songs. I reccomend his first album highly.

 

 

Get Cape himself.

 

 

Vampire Weekend on the other stage. They were amazing! We had to leave shortly though to see Alabama 3 at the jazzwold stage who were immense!

 

 

A brilliant view of the other stage!

 

 

Yup. Alabama 3 were AWESOME.

 

 

Unfortunately we had to leave early to go and see The Feeling. I'm glad we did.

 

 

They were brilliant. If they wern't doing their hits they were doing covers that you could sing along to.

 

 

The lead singer has great stage presence.

 

 

More of the awesome feeling.

 

 

The john peel stage. We were gonna see the ting tings but the tent was literally too crammed and everyone was forced to watch outside and the sound was rubbish outside.

 

 

See what I mean!

 

 

What a croud.

 

 

The cinema feild. We went there after Kings of leon to see transformers, it was a well good film.

 

 

The gossip, We only saw the last two songs because we were there to see the editors who played a blinding set.

 

 

Croud.

 

 

They were definately my favourite band at glastonbury.

 

 

Kings of leon. To be honest they were really dissapointing. booo.

 

Tommorow I will post parts 3 and 4 up! Thank you for reading and please comment!

 

Cheers,

BlackHole2006

[cosmic hearse]

Nice! Where you able to catch The Verve, Spiritualized or Massive Attack? Who was the ska band you saw?

[ChrisCrowder]

Wow that looked like you had fun

 

I wish I could have gone to Glasto, I would have liked to see KoL and Massive Attack. KoL looked really good on the TV, but I know that's totally different to being there live. Do you know if Massive Attacks set was only 35mins? If so I would have thought that it was longer. Looking forward to the other updates!

[socalMAN123]

This looks like an equivalent to Coachella. Which automatically makes this awesome. It sounds really cool and the bands that you've seen so far have been pretty good.

---Brent

[Swimace]

Wow, what a solid lineup of bands! When you said Phantom Limb I immediately thought of The Shins and my heart skipped a beat, only to realize you were talking about an entirely different band. I really like Vampire Weekend though, they're so dorky and cool at the same time.

 

This thing looks awesome, I'm pretty jealous!

 

 

p.s. Kate Nash is all kinds of amazing.

I saw her in Atlanta and was REALLY close

[ChrisCrowder]

I forgot to add before, that I saw Kate Nash at 3volution festival in Newcastle, towards the end of May, and she was terrible then. I'm not a fan of her music, but I agree that her songs are good, and she is good on recordings, but she sounded washed out and tired live, and it wasn't just the acoustics. Everybody I spoke to, including friends who are big fans of her agreed that she wasn't as good as she could have been live.

 

I also saw Does it offend you, yeah?, Crystal Castles and CSS who were all AMAZING that day, so it wasn't just a crap festival

[Chrissie]

The Feeling were the support act for Bon Jovi a few weeks back but I thought they were awful. I was really dissapointed.

 

Wish I could have done Glasto this year! Fingers crossed for next year!!

[andyuk200523]

You didn't happen to catch "The Duke Spirit" at all did you (I think they were in the John Peel Tent....I was at School with the drummer, love 'em, they have already been on Letterman in America, so are making a good solid name for themselves and are getting quite a following!

 

 

Andrew "Can't wait for V-Festival" Shakespeare