Glastonbury Festival

I attend the Glastonbury Festival yearly. The Glastonbury Festival is an Performing arts festival located on an overwhelming 1,100 acre peice of land called Worthy Farm in pilton, Somerset. This year I saw U2 do their legendary headline slot, Coldplay play an amazing performance and on Sunday night (Seeing as I'm not really that much of a fan of Beyonce instead I saw Kool and The Gang who played to me one of the higlights of my Glastonbury. At the start of the show they played Get down on it then they went straight into a cover of a Michael Jackson song, after this they then played Fresh and after that they broke into a plethora of funk and jazz jams which lasted up to 10 minutes mostly. In these Jams they would alternate between trumpet, saxophone and guitar solo's and the showmenship was incredible. Right at the end of the gig, they just played hit after hit after hit. The year before that I watched Stevie Wonder play an absolutely incredible set closing the pyramid stage, As well as this I watched the best live gig I have ever seen, The Flaming Lips, who played the other stage on the Friday night, here is a youtube clip of The Flaming Lips closing their set with the song "Do You Realise?":

 

As you can see from the clip above, they played an absolutely fantastic and life affirming set which I amoungst many other enjoyed. Another thing I like doing at Glastonbury is exploring Shangri La. Shangri La is an other worldly, weird, post apocalyptic rave in a feild with many different venues and places to go. It is very hard to discribe the weirdness that goes on in Shangri La, so here is a Youtube clip of someone who went there early (it does get very busy after the headline set finishes) and explored it: 

                                      
Also to explore at Glastonbury during the day is the Green Fields, which still tries to keep the ever dying hippy culture alive. Another thing that goes on at Glastonbury is the many circus fields. Which is like a lighter version of Shangri-La in the day time. Shangri-La, as you can imagine, has quite an anarchic vibe to it, but The Circus Fields have a much more peacefull vibe and you can see alot of amazing performance art there, including street performers and there are many different circus tents you can go inside and take a look at the many interesting acts that perform, here is a funny act that I just stumbled across this year, Bruce Airhead:

                                                                
As you can see, there is a load of good stuff that happens beyond the main stages at Glastobury,  and it is more then the BBC make it out to be. I highly reccomend that you go there and experience it for yourself.