The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166340   Message #3998680
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
01-Jul-19 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: Glastonbury
Subject: RE: Glastonbury
I'll quote myself from a week and a half old thread...

"Around 1976 or 77 our band of mates took a drive to Glasto
and found a free festival in a field with a band set up on a flat bed lorry..
There wasn't much of an audience.
But there were a few nudey hippy girls walking freely about.
Including two 16 year olds who were our college friends and backing singers...

We were told that was Glastonbury Festival...

The next and only other time I went was I think 1982,
when it had become a colossal sprawling alternative tented city...
More a part of the upper classes organised summer season events calendar
than a free spontaneous hippy happening...
"


We'll catch up on a few of the glasto music downloads on BBC catchup
until the July Sumo Wrestling tournament starts next week
on NHK WORLD-JAPAN News channel and app...

..a half hour edited highlights show once a night for 15 days...
with a couple of early morning live shows chucked in as a free bonus...

We started watching it for a laugh and are now hooked..
An intensely exciting sport steeped in traditional Japanese culture...

Trouble is the mrs still loves boring middle class tennis...