Whether you go full-on feral at Glastonbury or chomp on churros at a one-day dad-fest, there’s a festival for you
When 26 to 30 June
Where Worthy Farm, Pilton
Who Stormzy, the Killers, the Cure, Janelle Monáe, Janet Jackson, Lizzo. But everybody knows Glastonbury isn’t about the music. It’s about trying to find the naked sauna field and/or huffing laughing gas with a bloke you’re convinced is Banksy at 3am in the stone circle.
What A mud-baked Mecca and church of the sesh, Glastonbury is God. It will probably ruin every other festival for you because none of them will ever quite match the scale, quality and freeform escapism of Worthy Farm. The first time I went, I only found the Pyramid Stage on the Sunday and when I got there I had to watch Cypress Hill. Even so, it was still the greatest weekend of my life, proof of its mighty, transcendental power.
Does it pass the festival Bechdel test? Accessed via a secret door disguised as a nail salon, the Sisterhood stage is a gloriously fun safe space for anyone who identifies as a woman to go and dance like Kate Bush and do DIY power tool workshops away from the fellas. So it passes 100%.
The song to listen to Lizzo – Juice. And the soft sobbing of everyone who didn’t manage to get a ticket.
See also Nothing Compares 2U, Glastonbury. But maybe Boomtown at a push.
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VDxCZu
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