Monday, June 18, 2007

Weather forecast spells doom for Glastonbury

Good old UK - put on a festival and you're guaranteed a forecast of rain, rain, couple of thunderstorms and more rain. The famous Glastonbury festival is this weekend and according to BBC weather, it's not looking good. Due to my hatred of all things camping, I won't be attending this year, but Shell and Ray are heading off complete with new tent, gumboots, copious amounts of alcohol and a set of Travel Johns (I won't even go into what Travel Johns are - I'll let you do your own research. Lets just say Shell is also looking forward to the ShePee tent!) The line-up looks good (The Killers, The Who, Arctic Monkets, Kaiser Chiefs) and I'm sure it's going to be a fab weekend - if a muddy one.

The O2 Wireless Festival was this last weekend (and escaped the rain) - apparently it was another great fest. Upcoming is Hyde Park Calling, Reading Festival, Fruitstock (the Innocent Village Fete), Get Loaded in the Park etc etc etc... the UK is the place to be if you love to get amongst thousands of other dirty revellers! For some reason, I'm not attending a single one. Yes, a little bit dull I know - I've been trying to save money and just haven't got around to getting tickets to anything (and getting tickets to events like Glastonbury requires the same amount of effort as taking over a small country). If only I wasn't so lazy...

3 comments:

ERIN JOHNSON said...

Hey Prue,
How do you find out about all these going ons? Is there a good website or something you can recommend?
Cheers :)
Erin

Pru said...

Hi Erin,
I know about all these goings-on just because I live here! Some good websites to find out about events etc are
Time Out - http://www.timeout.com/london/
London Town - http://www.londontown.com/
BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/entertainment/events_index.shtml
UK Student Life - http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Life/Entertainment/London.htm

Unknown said...

Can I just say the travel johns were possibly the best thing I packed - apart from the four litres of wine and litre of vodka - in my Glastonbury backpack! Don't judge until you've had to use the long drop loos at Glastonbury at 2am... no amount of showering can ever cleanse me of what I witnessed.