Monday June 25 2007
The Guardian Unlimited Music team is home or on its way home. For a round-up of the weekend, visit our Glastonbury special report. For all the reviews from this weekend - the Who and the Kaiser Chiefs have been added, with more to come - click here. And for all the music blog posts - new ones by Jack Penate and the Rakes have been added - visit the music blog.
Oh, and here's editor Alan Rusbridger's Flickr set of the National Youth Orchestra. Everyone pitches in during Glastonbury here.
Sunday June 24 2007
So saith Betty Clarke in her review.
Dame Shirley shows the Arctic Monkeys how it's done. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty
Alex Needham gives Shirley Bassey - and her full orchestra - nine out of 10.
Meanwhile, on the music blog, Hard-Fi tells us why they're playing Glastonbury even though they're not getting paid, and Alice Fisher gives her latest fashion dispatch.
But wait, there's more: Have you seen the Go! Team's photo gallery?
Two-fifths of Leeds' biggest pop-rockers plan to trump the Killers' pyrotechnics display with a little help from the Red Arrows. Continue reading...
The 'she pee' female urinals at Glastonbury festival. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
This curious Glastonbury 2007 shot's been kicking around the photo system for a couple of days, so we thought it was about time we show it to everyone. This is a female urinal. It is called the "she pee". It was erected by charity WaterAid to raise awareness about their mission "to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education".
But how does it work? Click below to read the instructions. Continue reading...
Betty Clarke really hated the pseudo-goth Horrors.
But Paul MacInnes has fonder words for the Cold War Kids.
The baile funksters and former New Band of the Day learn the power of the wellie.
Us: What are your Glastonbury fashion tips? BdR: Wellie boots, shorts and a jacket and jumper - basic festival wear. When I'm in the middle of the mud I don't want to be too into fashion.
Us: What luxury item have you brought? BdR: Luxury items? Like make-up? I dunno, nothing really special.
Us: What have you learnt about yourselves at Glasto? BdR: I've learnt that I can't spend six hours without peeing. I tried but I can't. I can't hold my pee for ages.
Us: What time did you start drinking today? BdR: Around two we think.
Us: What's Glastonbury in a sound? BdR: A sound? All the people in the mud reminded me of the Smashing Pumpkins video Bullet with Butterfly wings. So that would be my Glastonbury soundtrack.
A reveller revels at Glastonbury 2007. Photograph: Rosie Greenway/Getty
Back at warm, dry (ha, ha!) and music-less (boo-hoo!) Guardian HQ, we've been getting email, mostly from folks following the festival from home on TV and this very website. I guess there isn't WiFi on Worthy Farm. Or the people there are busy doing something else. Like what? What could be more important than sending your stories and pix to glastonbury@guardian.co.uk?
Anyway, reader Sam Cuthbert demands an explanation:
"I feel it's imperative of the Guardian team at Glastonbury to find out what all those different coloured wristbands mean. Whilst sitting at home on the sofa enjoying the coverage by the dear old BBC, everyone seems to have a different colour or range of colours attached to their arm. What exactly do they all mean? What colours do the intrepid team have on? And what colour does that nice Eavis fellow wear?
"I'd be much obliged if the Guardian blog team could seek out some answers.
"Keep up the great work."
All right, folks in the field, we want some answers. More reader response below the fold. Continue reading...
Us:What time did you start drinking today?
Dev (ex Test Icicle, second from right): 9 o'clock this morning.
Unnamed man (third from left with monkish fringe): At 1 o'clock this morning.
Unnamed man (second from left and thought to be ex Test Icicle): I find that question insulting.
Faris Rotter: Why are you asking this?
Us: No reason...
Feeling nostalgic already? Then allow photographer Martin Godwin to take you on a dreamy tour of the past few days and nights in this audio slideshow.
It's damn cool, though we say it ourselves.
The Horrors play a secret gig in the Q Tent near the Other stage yesterday. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. Because in the leafy extremities of Glastonbury, big names are doing unannounced shows on tiny stages. Last night it was the turn of Dirty Pretty Things, who, a few hours after their slot on the Pyramid stage, appeared on the Joe Strummer stage in Lost Vagueness. But is it good for Glastonbury? Continue reading...
Over on the music blog, Editors give us their fantasy Glastonbury setlist, Mika writes about the five tribes of the festival, Patrick Wolf defends wearing strange outfits and Carl Barat waxes poetic about the muddy Arcadia of Albion.
Whew! As if that weren't enough to send you over to the music blog, there's also an interview with Tony Benn and a confession from Alexis Petridis. (He missed his daughter's first steps because he was watching Babyshambles.)
"If Friday was the day of the beard, Saturday's themes on TV seem to be the ridiculous costume and the Glastonbury stoop." Dave Simpson blogs from the safety of his sofa.
