Saturday 26 June 2010

News update.

The lead singer of the band on at the Other Stage at the moment looks about twelve. Wonder if his mum knows he's here.

News update:

277 total reported crimes, down 13 on 290 last year at same time, including 156 thefts, 96 drugs, 6 assaults (none very serious), 8 thefts from person (pickpocketing - down from 17 at this time last year).

93 total arrests, including 77 drugs, 5 thefts, 3 assaults.

Other, non-crime items:

Best t-shirt: bearded man in a purple skirt and a t shirt reading "Hi Dad, I'm Gaelic".

No shows: Mos Def (death in family), Green MP Caroline Lucas, Banksy.

Sign at Tesco Shepton Mallet: "Due to being an open food environment, we request that tops and shoes be worn at all times."

Contradiction of the festival: Promoting from the main stage the Stop Hinkley campaign against the nuclear power station, while the pylons crossing the festival site carry nuclear-generated electricity from the Hinkley power station.

Billy Bragg's verdict on the new government: "The trouble with David Cameron and George Osbourne is they haven't been to Glastonbury."

Spotted: BBC's Andrew Marr backstage wearing the festival's required trilby hat nodding enthusiastically to a Billy Bragg song about third world debt.

1 comments:

Tom Stephenson said...

Andrew Marr was probably employed to vigorously nod so that the wind generated by his ears kept Billy Bragg cool.