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Glastonbury Festival 2000 reviews

By Dik Naef | Published: Thu 17th Aug 2000

Glastonbury Festival 2000

Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th June 2000
Worthy Farm, Pilton, nr Glastonbury, Somerset, England
£89 including booking fee and postage

Daily capacity: 80,000

Right then, if this is what the future of Camera Shops is I'm off to Dixons next Saturday night.

Alledgedly the music was non-stop for 180 hours (7.5 days) which if true is fairly impressive, but must have really pissed off the neighbours. The music poilicy seemed Strictly Four to the Floor, or "Bouncy Techno Old Skool Nu Beats" as I believe the young people call it nowadays and was relentness.

Me and Skye ended up there every night for a few hours of bopping and while its not the sort of music that I'd want to listen to all day, the up for it crowd, DJ's, staff.MC's etc gave it a magnetism that dragged us back time after time. The few DJ names I caught were DJ Lomas from Swansea, DJ Oberon and Chrispee, but the others were just as good.

The occurance of authorised all day/night events in the market areas is increasing and although during the day there was a small amount of advertising, it wasn't obtrusive and was absent most of the time.

And as for the faces on the sides of the stage, I'll have 2 of whatever they had please!

review by: Dik Naef

photos by: Neil Greenway