Glastonbury is all about the Pac-Man poncho this year

glastonbury_ponchoSo, you lucky people, well, those of you who aren’t working until Monday and are getting ready for Glastonbury and the weekend’s musical, chemical and pastoral events.

As an old-timer of the Stonehenge festival before the Battle of the Beanfield and Plod’s destruction of family homes, Glastonbury sounds a bit like gastro-pub to me, with a similarly bland diet.

However, if you are off to the festival, make sure you wear one of these Pac-Man ponchos… you’ll be the talk of pillock, er sorry, I mean Pilton.

Bono-bashing is for losers, but he’s still a twat

Watching Glastonbury at the weekend was a Twitter-hater’s paradise. Lie back, pull the tab on a can, eat crap food, fart, pull another tab, tweet, fart, tweet and then the main course… U2.

Now, I like U2 and there are some great songs (most of which are on Achtung Baby) and I regret not seeing them when they supported Stiff Little Fingers at the Rainbow, but they really think they’re a little bit deus ex machina. Continue reading

Bono-bashing is for losers, but he's still a twat

Watching Glastonbury at the weekend was a Twitter-hater’s paradise. Lie back, pull the tab on a can, eat crap food, fart, pull another tab, tweet, fart, tweet and then the main course… U2.

Now, I like U2 and there are some great songs (most of which are on Achtung Baby) and I regret not seeing them when they supported Stiff Little Fingers at the Rainbow, but they really think they’re a little bit deus ex machina. Continue reading