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Friday, after the mud had subsided (visit Hell and High Water for more about THAT) we venture out into the unknown, at times wading through knee-high water/mud to get to the music.

• Ilham al Madfai - Iraqi singer with unsettling stare and fantastic traditional songs.


• DJ Friction - Teaches us that it is possible for Drum and Bass to be boring shite


• DJ Zinc - Teaches us that Drum and Bass is actually bloody fantastic


• London Elektricity - Good to start with, but every song has the same drum beat, the famous Jungle drummer is stuck in the groove.


• Nine Black Alps - Crap, boring, old hat.


• Battlefield Band - Good old Scottish Folk music


• Terry Reid - Was almost in Led Zeppelin, great charismatic rock and roll performer ending his set with a rabble rousing rendition of Waterloo Sunset. Croud reluctant to let him leave.


• Eliza Carthy - Good new English folk music, amazing stuff I'm almost in tears at times.

Saturday

• KT Tunstall - First song good, second song okay, rest of set mediochre to bad. Very attractive though.


• Terry Reid - Inbetween sets, Terry plays some good ol' blues on the acoustic guitar.


• Emiliana Torrini - Beautiful Icelandic / Italian little-girl songs and humour.


• Baaba Mal - Surprise guest and what an amazing voice from Senegal


• Headland - look dodgy, start dodgy, not too bad wrong-disco-punk from some young folks


• (Kaiser Chiefs - in passing, the pain is unbearable)


• Taj Mahal Trio - great blues music, real crowd pleaser.

Sunday

• Whalebone Polly - Lovely, lovely girls sing beautiful harmonies to the early lunchtime crowd


• The Dresden Dolls - Black sabbath cover performed on piano and drums need I say more?


• (Van Morrison - in passing, sounded fairly dull, but I am a safe distance away)


• Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain - hilarious. Jazz versions of Heathcliffe, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Miss Dynamitee and more.


• London Gospel Community Choir - Rousing


• Eddie Reader - more excellent, moving folky music from an amazing singer


• Tori Amos - Wow. I mean, wow. This is brilliant!




• Other Stuff


• Mutoid Waste Company Unnatural History Museum - giant sculptures of
  animals and people made out of bits of machines


• Bright FX - sexy girls twirling fire and rope with big fireworks


• Zoid Productions - The naked dancing girls return! But this time the have their own dressing room. All the boys are disappointed.


• BlackSkyWhite - Weird, weird dance from some crazy Russians. Very scarey and quite brilliant.



• Avoiding drowning - brilliant.

So there you have it. I have to go round with a camera, but generally, this was one of the best Glastonbury's I've been to yet!