GLASTONBURY 2010

So heres a story for you.....

a few weeks ago i was told that the tent we were playing in at Glastonbury had pulled out of the festival, which meant we had no means of playing at the festival...bummer when you have been booked for months already. However to make it even worse we had a gig in a place called the "rabbit hole" in the festival.... which is a funky psychedelic tent run by some forward thinking music and festival lovers.... unfortunately this tent only books bands who are already at the festival and does not give wristband allocations....

Basically WATP were fucked...

A day before the festival... sat there feeling sorry for ourselves... me and some very cool people (KEO, Rallentando and Westy) decided we were not going to take no for an answer and the biggest and best festival in the world needed our presence... or more-so we needed it's presence... so we got in the car on tuesday and decided to go and break in...

everybody advised us against it...

so we obviously went....

with just a jacket each (please be sunny please be sunny)

no tents (please don't rain please don't rain)

and our guitars.

Upon arrival a lovely fellow heard us jamming outside the superfence (not climbable) and asked if we had tickets... we said no... he walked us in... easy peasy lemon squeasy...

WE WERE IN!!!!

The weather was hot... and we had a gig booked tomorrow (upon turning up at the rabbit hole they let us in and stored our instruments, and gave us a lovely cold beer, thats more like it)

24 hours to our gig.... only one thing to do really... get quite drunk! i think i got too drunk... because at about 6am on friday morning i was stumbling around alone and asked to show my wristband (which i didn't have)... i tried running but was rugby tackled by a big polish man to the floor and thrown outside the gates.... my world had turned upside down very quickly...

i realised my phone had ran out of battery and this was going to be difficult!!! The beers had gone to my head and i fell asleep in a random field on my face...

Bad idea

i woke up 5 hours later with a very red back (should have kept my shirt on) and most importantly... on the wrong side of the fence....

I met a load of interesting characters in the barrow-lands... all trying to devise clever plans of how to get to the promised land where the grass was undoubtedly greener!! Talk of hooks and ropes to climb the fence and bolt in.. we spoke of hiding in suitcases (someone did that and got in).. we spoke of jet packs... the list goes on... but it was VERY hot and i was burning and in need of water and a cuddle. My luck was running out..

then my leg started vibrating and i realised i had Kate's phone in my pocket.. and someone was calling me!!! amazing!!! I picked up... and.... yes.... it ran out of battery!!

The first thing i did was walk and walk to see if i could find a charger....

The funny part of this all is i met people working as stewards and security who knew my band and couldn't believe i had been kicked out... it was rather ironic that i was sat signing autographs and taking pictures with people who had seen us last year... but couldn't get in for love nor money.... anyway in the end i found a charger and managed to arrange a little plan... someone very kind came out and got me in... the feeling was second to none.. literally like arriving in heaven after a long intense questioning at the big golden gates with the man with a white beard.... beautiful...

the gig happened and was cracking.. so many of the hi visibility jackets i had spoken to on the outside and said "6pm at the rabbit hole.. be there or be square!!" were actually there and it was a proper moment... the band was shambolic (in fact 2 new members were just people who i knew in the festival... half my band were not there... but it rocked) we had some fans there, we sold some CDs.. we spent the money on silly things like massive hats and weaved jackets and corn on the cob... it was a massive success..

So i guess i feel now like we achieved something... we said no to not having tickets and just WENT.... if someone says no and you want something badly.. just go and get it!! This year at Glastonbury was piping hot and literally how i dreamed it to be when i first imagined the biggest festival in the world with all of the best music from around the globe... It was my heaven and i think it is the best thing mankind has ever come up with...

Man that is the 60's... it really is.... who was at glastonbury this year??? you will know what i mean.... comment on this if you were and tell me your experience was shared with mine!!???

I am going every year... because id be a fool to miss out... I hadn't ever been to a festival until last year.... and i caught up 20 years in 4 days this year.. my legs are jelly and my face is brown... i am ready to take on the world!!

GO TO GLASTONBURY EVERYBODY!!!!!

Oh and Stevie Wonder was MAGICALLY romantic...

I love you

Will