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Cover story: Summer Festivals ; 103 VISUAL ART What’s come over us all? Spring comes round and we hover feverishly r ~ - - by our computers, waiting to splash out big money on tickets for OVerCrOWded festivals before we have any idea of their line-ups, ;- Regardless of the crush and the long queues for the toilet, we just can’t “1 EAT THERE “"5
. . . . FORTNIGHT re5ist these iamborees in the sunshine (or mud). OK, our love of the "3 PLAY summer festival isn’t new: audiences have been every bit as enthusiatic T , i about wigging out in a field, as the Woodstock revellers were in 1969. t "5 TRAVEL ‘ But demand — and the number of festivals — is going through the roof. "7 SHOP Read our guide to the best of this year’s fests, starting on page 18. 118 HEALTH & ADVICE ; ‘ . - . i _. _ . , _ 119 CLASSIFIED O O I L—u____—_m~_“ Hu_ ‘5 - w Also In this issue i ‘ ‘I I ' 14 Sons and Daughters Angular guitar crossed with rockabilly il—‘"" —' ‘—" "' ’ ‘ ‘ has turned these kids into the hottest thing on the block. We go ‘28 ANSWER MACHINE: gigging with the children of the Glasgow music revolution. ; BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ; 16 Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith The sixth and final film in AND F'NALLY ° ' ' ’ George Lucas' brilliant epic is upon us, and rumour has it that it is a puinshed by The List Ltd good one. So how come everyone’s not celebrating? i HEAD Omeg;
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