Looking Into The Other Stage
It rained right through the night pretty badly, so when I woke up there was a mouse sized swimming pool waiting for me outside my tent. Not only that but I already missed my first band, Bjorn Again! (Ok joking a little but it still woulda been good craic to see them!).
We made our way to the Pyramid Stage to see Regina Spektor start off the day. Aww she was so so good. She kept saying how much she has wanted to play glastonbury for years and and she would continually say thank-you to the crowd. It was also a pretty good setlist with old favourites as well as a few off the new album. Blue Lips was definitely my favourite.
Regina Spektor
Next on the Pyramid Stage were special guests N.E.R.D. so we decided to wait for them. Whilst we were waiting though there was some guy from lisburn who was completely passed out in the muck on the ground, so naturally Lucy was offered a permanent black pen so she could leave her mark:
Lucy's Property!
N.E.R.D. came on about 30mins late, telling the crowd that they had been told they had to shorten their set but they were gonna have none of it. We left after the first couple of songs which were actually really good, but the three of us were pretty sunburnt and didnt have any cream on. Laura would then go on to tell me later on that glastonbury officials turned the tv screens off on them because they wouldnt stop, then their mics, and finally started playing other music over the system whilst Pharrell kept mouthing to the crowd, them screaming back in rebellion. Dont fuck with the Eavis!
Pharrell From N.E.R.D.
We made our way round to the other stage (my favourite stage) so that chris and lucy could see Friendly Fires. I dont particularly like them but they both said they would come to see Metric on Saturday so it was a very happy sacrifice to make. We actually made it in time for most of White Lies and they were fucking amazing!
White Lies
Ive listen to their album alot but it never really did much for me, although Death is definitely one of my favourite songs of last year. I rushed to the guy beside me to ask if they already played it, and thankfully he said no. Aww hearing it was one of my glastonbury moments for sure. They also ended their set with a cover of Bruce Springsteens Dancing In The Dark which was soo good. It sounded suprisingly different!
Between White Lies and Friendly Fires, the three of us were dancing like crazy at the other stage:
Even If Were Just Dancing In The Dark
Friendly Fires were good, but im just not sure they are my cuppa tea. The man can dance (in fact hes very like Paul Smith from Maximo Park) and the saxaphone was pretty sweet. Just realised that I ended up saying sweet quite a lot!
I said my goodbyes as I was making my way to see Jack Penate at the John Peel stage (I think I would of killed myself before seeing lady gaga!). I was sitting down when all of a sudden this guy walks past wearing absolutely nothing but a clear poncho! Twas so so funny. Then about a third of the way through Jack I got a text from Laura to say that she had lost mum and had been by herself for 5 hours, so I was like “get down to John Peel!”. Thankfully she found me and arrived just in time for her two favourite penate songs (joke! She thinks he repeats himself loads so it was funny when he was singing “Todays Tonight, Tonights Today, Todays Tonight” lol!)
We had plenty of time until Bloc Party so we walked about around the Pyramid Stage area where the somerset cider bus is:
Somerset Cider Bus
They do the most amazing hot cider ever. I swear, it was fucking christmas in a cup. Although all their other cider tasted like someone pissed in it. We also got to watch two neil young songs which was pretty good. There was a real ambient atmosphere; everyone seemed really chilled and relaxed. Thats the good thing about festivals; when your making your way between stages your always hearing other bands playing.
We got to the other stage for the Ting Tings finale of “Thats Not My Name” and got talking to this lovely family who had been coming for twelve years and they were on their way to take their 9 year old daughter to the dance fields! Legendary. Laura stayed for a bit of Bloc Party but then thought she should go meet mum so she left after the first couple of songs. Bloc Party just blew me away! Aww man I still get goosebumps thinking about it. They rocked the shit outta the other stage. They opened with One Month Off which I thought was a bit weird but it works as a great opener! I thought it mighta been a bit lonely being by myself but I ended up singing the night away with some randomers and getting a couple of beers down me. It was the joint first best gig of the weekend for me. Another glastonbury moment was also hearing them play signs and properly listening to the lyrics for the first time “At your funeral I was so upset…I see signs now all the time, but your not dead your sleeping…” I started to get goosebumps. What a personal song and the death obviously really affected him. Pretty touching moment.
Bloc Party
I got back to the tents and everyone was back from Neil Young (the general consensus was that he was amazing!). Also Dan arrived! We all decided to go to shangri la [aka Shangri bloody la la] and trash city which was unbelievable. In fact its so hard to describe but basically it is the strangest most amazing place ive ever been:
Shangri Bloody La La or Trash City (Not Sure Which :S)
Made it back to the tent where I finished off the night with a double cheeseburger and a cheesy chip. Get In!
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