Bloodhound Gang - submitted by : Hannah Flynn

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

Bloodhound Gang
Other Stage
17:10 Friday 23rd June 2000

Having been made very wet and cold on the first day of my first Glastonbury ever (blub) I was well up for some cheering up, which surprisingly came in the form of the Bloodhound Gang. I wandered over to check them out and ended up in the very front of the mosh pit... the atmosphere there was enough to make the gig outstanding.

These men are crazy. Peurile, yes, but also - dare I say it - very good looking, despite being walking rock cliches. Macho posturing with guitar aflame, anyone? The songs passed in a blur, but highlights would have to be Mope and The Bad Touch, and rhyming vagina with 'Calvin-Klein-Kinda' and 'North Carolina' in front of an audience of 12 year old girls who quite simply lapped it up without following a word.

They certainly know how to entertain, which did overshadow the songs somewhat - but when the entertainment is giant Pacman carrying a bong, betting a hapless soa star into drinking 20 cans of 'piss-warm' Dr Pepper and an altogether startling appearance from Tommy Lee of Methods of Madness entirely naked... who cares? Camcorders, polaroids, throwing guitars into the mosh, getting the audience up onto the stage and daring them to get naked... blimey.

Topped off with a hilarious and scarily well co-ordinated N*Sync mickey-take to the finishing strains of The Bad Touch, the Bloodhound Gang had their fans - and people who wandered along by mistake, like me - whipped up into a proverbial frenzy. I went off afterwards to buy a t-shirt, only to find that the only ones were big and baggy. What kind of hooray for boobies is that? Take note lads, make em tight...

review sent in by
Hannah Flynn