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Worthy Farm’s neighbouring Cockmill Farm Land was purchased by Michael Eavis, thus enlarging the site by a further 100 acres, allowing space for the 40,000 Festival-goers. Bands playing included Echo and the Bunnymen, The Boomtown Rats, Joe Cocker and Michael Eavis’ five year old daughter, Emily, who played violin on the Main Stage (followed by five encores). Tickets were £16 and £100,000 was raised for the ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ and other local charities.
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I went through two pairs of espadrils this weekend, Echo playing Paint it Black surrounded by thunder and lightning, the stalls were on the slippery hill. Met Boyd Craig!
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Mud.Didn't stop raining for 3 days.Remember Boomtown Rats going down well,Joe Cocker sipping on a can of fizz,sure Van Morrison was there that year but i must of fallen asleep he was so dull.
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Ian Dury & the Blockheads on the Friday night with the light and the lasers, fantastic! Does anybody remember The Flying Patrol Group in the acoustic tent?
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remember this year very well, Ian Dury went off stage as mud was being thrown, then did come back on 30 mins later, i took some good photos of Paul Weller back stage, and the beautiful D C Lee mmmmm
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remember spider from the pogues getting hit in the face with mud.spent a lot of the time sheltering in various marquees and the reggae tent eating veggie burgers!
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Walked all the way across Somerset for three days in the sun, then ten minuites into The Modern Lovers on Friday night - those first ominous rain drops...Comedy tent for relief from mud, Third World, Christy Moore. Hitched back to York in one day. Oh to be young again...
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Thursday night - Pyramid Stage
Roger Chapman - best band of the weekend - I thank you
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I remember the mud! Some kids had dug a hole and I fell in up to my waist! Some great music esp Third World, although really liked the smaller venues around the site.
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People talk about '97 and '98 but this was the mud year to end them all with no drainage whatsoever and torrential downpours nearly all weekend. The only way to relieve the feeling that you had gone back in time to the worst days of the Great War (thankfully without the bullets) was to drink gallons of hot mulled cider.
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This was the last Glastonbury festival that I went to, and I worked the car park on the Friday night, saving the 26 quid, not 16 as someone said.
Also I am certain there was no Van Morrison nor Madness on the bill, and also that I walked away from the Boomtown Rats after 2 numbers, 'cos they were so poor. The only reggae band I recall playing the main stage is 'Third World'.
James only played a very small stage, as did Jonathan Richman, they could not be called headliners by any stretch.
The Bunnymen & Pogues & Green on Red were excellent, Style Council fitted in better than might be expected in the conditions. Billy Bragg played on the big stage, hardly unusual but no-one seems to have mentioned him. Also, King of big hit 'Love & Pride' went down pretty well.
Not sure if many stayed up to see Joe Cocker, I saw him looking v. glum in the back of a minibus trying to get to the stage as everyone was streaming away - it wasn't trendy to have the old odd ball in those days (see Macca, Tom Jones, etc)
Enough for now
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This was my first festival and at the tender age of 16 really opened my eyes to what was then an 'alternative' way of life. Stayed in the green field complete with communal showers and jacuzzi powered by what looked like a steam engine. The one band that i have lasting memories of was Dr and the Medics it was raining cats and dogs and i was possibly only one of about a dozen watching stood in a foot of sludge....it was mad and they were completely off their faces...v bizarre. Agree with the comment about the boomtown rats...they were awful.
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