Watching bits & bobs of Glasto over the weekend I just kept thinking how lucky I was not to be there to be subjected to this dreary parade of increasingly tedious geriatric old farts going through the motions in some sick perversion of the 60's myth. Neil Young?? As I keep saying to my wife (born 1974 and an ardent Neil Young fan) I was born in 1961 - I'm too young for Neil Young! Coming of musical age circa 74-77 precluded any appreciation of such sixties throw-backs; too much else to get excited about, but always with reverence to my true cultural heritage!

Anyway - back in 1984, if they'd televised Glasto back then, we would have been treated to the full-on majesty that was Fela Kuti and Egypt 80:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AA6EuZe-k

I saw Fairport at Glasto in 1984 too, quite the saddest pastiche of music I've ever witnessed, especially with Swarb chastising the audience for not dancing like they did fifteen years earlier! At least I think it was Swarb; he was in my dream the other night and was something like 15 foot high.