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Two months of rain in two hours left festival fans facing another extremely muddy weekend. Luckily, the sun came out on the Sunday and 153,000 people basked in the warmth. Tickets sold out in 3 hours as the festival hosted The White Stripes, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs and Babyshambles. The Dance Tent was replaced with the Dance Village, consisting of eight different venues, all playing a different type of music, while The New Bands Tent was relaunched as the John Peel Stage in honour of the late, great supporter of upcoming new music. Michael Eavis made an extremely rare appearance on the Pyramid Stage with Sir Bob Geldof in support of the Make Poverty History campaign.
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My first Glastonbury & we arrived early on Friday morning; because of the Thunder & rain we waited in the car until it cleared a little.
After 2 hours my girlfriend at the time wanted to go home. We stayed in the end & i had one of the best weekends of my life. Everyone just helped each other & there such a bond between people
Coldplay on the Saturday night were just amazing, along with Kaiser Chiefs & Keane.
Been every year since & wish I gone years before.
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Enough with the mud & rain stories - PLEASE!
There is SO much more to glorious Glastonbury, yet you persist in giving the weather prominent billling every ******* year!!
Seriously!
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This was just totally inappropriate reporting and typical of the scare techniques used by the BBC to report everything, "stay in, tune in, zone out", if the reporter was ankle deep in water then he must have looked for it and then stood in it. This reporting caused a huge amount of fear nationwide for people with family, children, friends and loved-ones on site. The official website, produced from the dance area, had a surge of views to about 2.5 million unique visitors in that hour, and stayed up and reporting the whole time. And what did it report? It showed an updated pictures of people in the welly queues with big smiles in the sunshine. Yes there was a weather event, but it affected a large minority rather than everyone. This I hope assured 2.5 million unique users that armegeddon was not actually in process. Grow up BBC you are not actually a tabloid newspaper, but I believe you are supposed to be nation talking unto nation? I hope this years coverage will cover the event as most people engage with it and not the sensationalist hyped nobodies of the main stage. And if you do cover something away from the main stage try and portray it to an adult audience not like a feature through the round window on playschool. Cheers :D
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Agree the BBC reported the floods in certain parts of the site as if it was all like that and for most people it was dry, mostly sunny and a good year
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I remember that the day before the deluge was stinkingly hot - so hot I abandoned my plan to go up the Tor and just went and wandered around the abbey grounds. That night I listened to the weather forcast and heard that light rain was due with perhaps the chance of a small thunderstorm. At 4AM I was woken by one of the loudest claps of thunder I'd ever heard, followed by the sound of a vertical sea falling. The storm lasted until about 9:30AM and despite camping in Wicket(one of the higher points on the site) the tent just in front of me was flooded out and the water came to within 3 inches of the front of mine. Despite that the weekend was a great success, even if it took three times longer to get anywhere and I'm pretty sure that the Caberet tent has never seen such big crowds. I even managed to get a touch of sunburn on the Sunday afternoon watching Brian Wilson! Overall a great weekend.
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