My Glastonbury, By Fergus Shanahan
SAYS Fergus Shanahan in the Sun:
At Glastonbury 135,000 fans drank a Pacific ocean of booze and exchanged not a cross word with each other…. it proves again that in the debate over drink and yobbery, it is the person and not the potion that the problem”
Peace. Love. Drugs. Crime:
Crime at the Glastonbury Festival was up on last year, according to Avon and Somerset police.
There were 489 reported incidents, including drugs offences, compared to 263 in 2007…Police urged fans not to drink too much alcohol on Sunday night, so they would be fit to drive home on Monday
Glasto peace and love:
In 1989, Suzanne Vega - fresh from hits like Luka and Marlene On The Wall - and her bass player received death threats from a woman the singer said had become infatuated with the bassist.
Police were worried there might have been a sniper in the crowd, but the show went on, with Vega wearing a bulletproof vest, spotters on the mixing desk and a police escort out of the festival…
One of the low points came in 1990 during violence and confrontations between groups of travellers and festival security at the end of the festival.
The dispute over access to the site, drug dealing and looting resulted in travellers surrounding the farmhouse, riot police being called, 235 arrests being made and £50,000 of damage…
Drink. Or drugs.
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July 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I think that says more about the Mail than anything, don’t you…?
July 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
sorry Anna, hadn’t seen your post. I agree, I think the poor woman is anally retentive! Yet the Mail keep using her…….
July 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
well said Mic!
July 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Just read the Liz Jones diatribe. No wonder she felt and looked so awful the whole time - i would too, had i not bothered to move from my square of ground in front of the pyramid stage! How very perochial. A word of advice, Liz: you have to walk a bit at Glastonbury, or you become rooted - not just physically, but mentally judging by your small minded attitude. I doubt anything short of a year’s supply of Prada handbags would have shifted her preconceptions.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
What a pointless article.
The ‘Mail’ one that is…not your post C&C.
I’ve left a comment on it on the Mail’s site:-
“Liz Jones? Never heard of her before, and wish I hadn’t this time.
If this attempt at journalism was intended to be a comedy piece, then it works beautifully; but otherwise…oh dear…
I haven’t a clue what a ‘fashionista’ is, or is intended to be, but if I were you Liz, I’d stick to that, and give up trying to be a comedienne.”
July 1st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Anorak…. did you read in the Mail about that crazy woman Liz Jones foray to Glastnbury? So funny, though its not meant to be.
She really should be taken out and put of her misery that is all-encompassing!
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