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What we’ve been talking about There’s nothing quite like an outdoor music festival (unless you’re an indoors sort of dude), with all that trudging around fields, trying to find something to eat while running manically between stages and tents before realising you’ve headed off in entirely the wrong direction. They feel as though they’ve been around forever, and while not many people you know will be able to say they were at that Glastonbury with all the mud and acid, we wondered what some people chose as their best and worst memories from being at a summer music festival . . .
Taking my son to Electric Fields last year. It was his first festival and he was completely
starstruck when Noel Gallagher came on; he also now wants to go to festivals all the time
Neneh Cherry doing ‘Buffalo Stance’ in a small tent at Field Day
in 2014
Green Velvet doing ‘Flash’ live to an almost empty Slam Tent at T in the Park before he
got really famous. Never had as much room to jump around like a lunatic to that song ever
again
At Burning Man in 1999 with friends who, knowing
me to be a music snob, rather apologetically
took me to see a techno version of Jesus Christ
Superstar, called DJ Christ Superstar. Performed into a 20mph sandstorm on a cold desert night, it was one of the most heroic
things I’ve ever seen, and I came away with a new respect not just for the show, but for Jesus Christ
Superstar itself
Everything about the ritual of
spending a long weekend in Balado at the start of July for T In the Park was magical. It was grizzly, dirty and aggressive, but it was also life-
affirming and the first time I felt pure joy and freedom as a teenager
Last year’s TRNSMT was my first-ever
experience of a British music
festival, and so I was rather
unprepared for the amount of beer / piss being thrown about (in Canada we like to drink
our beers) but was determined to be brave for the Arctic
Monkeys
BEST
Young Fathers at Benicàssim in 2016:
who knew pre-
drinking in a Spanish car park would have
so many lasting memories!
The Beastie Boys at T In the Park 1998, who I could just make out the strains of through the window of my parents’ house (they lived in Kinross at the time) as I practically
hallucinated with crazily high temperature, too ill to move. The
biggest gig let-down of my life, by far
Waking up to someone’s bowel movement on the
side of my tent at T in the Park . . . never camped
again after that!!
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WORST
Being propelled about
20 feet forwards against my will due to an over-excitable
Pogues fan at the Reading Festival
Pete Doherty struggling to strum a chord on his guitar during a 30-minute solo set
Some scary men sieg heiling at a Frank Black
gig in a T in the Park tent,
somewhat missing the point of both the festival
and the estimable Mr
Black
Primal Scream at Wickerman when the guy in front of me lit a flare and I spent the majority of the set choking
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