A few off the top of my head...
That hour or so before the Stones came on in 2013, right down the front in the pit Absolutley electric atmosphere. And then the Stones smashed it.
Coldplay covering Viola Beach in their 2016 set. Tears streaming.
Seventeen Going Under in 2022 as the sun was going down on an incredible first day of music back after 3 years
Loads of incredible memories but I remember late one morning seeing Billy Bragg do a few songs in a tent in green futures. Think it was2019. He introduced another young singer then sat on the ground behind the tent. I summoned up some courage and just said to him I was a Fan, expecting just a wave but He told me and Mrs c to sit down and we had a great chat for around 20 mins about getting old, the festival and a lot of politics.
I said my thanks, and so there was three oldies sitting on the grass and just about able to summon the strength to stand up, bones creaking馃槉馃槈
Too many to mention, but I remembering struggling through the mud and rain of the first few days of 2011 on crutches and then this sense of contentment on the Saturday night when the sun had come out and the ground had firmed up, watching Coldplay with my kids. It had been a sh*t year overall up til then, and getting onsite and set up damn near killed us but that moment, stood on a hill with thousands of strangers and the 2 people I love most in the world, the sun setting in that glorious way that the sky saves up for us to enjoy a few nights of the year.
Coldplay have saved my ass at Glastonbury a few times now, in 2000 we got set upon and one friend badly f**ked up by a bunch of miscreants on the Saturday night, which saw us leaving early Sunday as said friend was the designated driver. I persuaded them to stay at least until I could catch Coldplay that afternoon and after the previous night's violence it was nice to at least leave on a high note, with a few drinks and smokes in the sun enjoyed before 7 of us and kit tried to squeeze into the back of a fiesta van for the sweaty and uncomfortable journey home.
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