Mud bath? What mud bath?
by Simon Handby in At home on 30.06.08
I’ve recently come to suspect that the country’s weather forecasters are a pessimistic bunch. The weather this year hasn’t been fantastic, but I’ve still managed to get sunburned on three separate occasions when we were forecast rain and ended up with almost faultless sun.
Three weekends of better than expected weather hardly constitutes ‘don’t worry; there’s no hurricane coming‘ inaccuracy, I’ll grant, but I was beginning to wonder if something was up. Until, that is, this weekend and the Glastonbury Festival. I wasn’t there myself, but by all accounts there was torrential rain at Pilton on Thursday night, followed by three dry and increasingly sunny days.
No apocalyptic flooding. No on-stage electrocutions. No mud bath. I’m lead to the inescapable conclusion that the weather forecasters are fine, but that the weather itself is broken.
Anyway, thanks to the internet, it’s easier than ever for the people who went to catch the bands they missed, and for everyone else to see the best of the festival’s music from the comfort of their computer. The BBC ’s Glastonbury 2008 homepage has links to footage of the big acts, and some of the low-key madness that goes on in the background, too.
If you’ve got the Beeb’s iPlayer you can download its Glastonbury broadcasts, but if shaky, camera-phone footage of distant performers is more your thing, there’s some beginning to appear on YouTube. There are photos turning up on Flickr, too.
Most Glastonbury-goers are going to be getting home today, so expect more pics and footage to be turning up after they’re out of the bath some time tomorrow. We’re also expecting to have an update from Tamsin, our roving reporter, whose weekend didn’t quite turn out as she hoped.
IMAGE by Flickr user russelljsmith
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