Festival review by : Iain Ferguson

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

Well, i have to admit the festivals changed over the years and it seems to be getting better.

I'm 34 and have been to all the festivals since 1981 bar last years (due to lack of funds, and please note, I didn't jump the fences, never have and never will, i watched it on the BOX), perhaps some of you could do with helping the festival by doing that.

This year my wife and I had a day ticket for Sunday and what a great time was had.

The toilets were fine, more open pits please Michael, I hate the Chemical bogs. The food was terrific, the weather was tremendous. But what really has made a difference over the past 5 or 6 festivals is that people were chilled out.

No pushing, no aggro, smilling happy people. no dark undercurrent a true possitive spirituality across the site. It seems as though the hard edge E culture weren't around (hooray). The atmosphere only arrived with the E culture (you know it's true).

The line up on the Avalon stage was terrific, Sundays was out of this world.. The Jazzworld was as cool as ever And a nice new Pyramid.

The buses actually being allowed onto the site to drop the punters off was a stroke of genius, we'll go by bus next year (i hated the long walk down to the site from the old bus stop off point).

One question I have for the festival owners. why dont you hold 2 festivals, one for the e-heads and pryamid stage. and one later in the summer for the green fields, jazz , accoustic and Avalon stages, I know its impossible but wouldn't that be cool.

I was great to go back to the festival and yes it was much better than the past 5 i've been to , even though Hawkwind and the Cure weren't there.

kangaroo Moon Rule !!

Love & Peace

review submitted by
Iain Ferguson