Back On The Chain Gang

Absolutely fucked! think my body is telling me that I am not in my twenties anymore and that 5 days of very little sleep along with copious amounts of oral intake of various things is not recommended for a 50 year old. For the next few days I will be posting music of some of the acts that I saw at Glastonbury.
On the Friday I was dragged along to see The Rakes first by a mate who was interested in them, absolute shite! we lasted about 3 numbers before escaping to see James Hunter. Caught a band on the way in the Radio 1 unsigned band tent. Wish I could remember there name as they were excellent James Hunter dished out a set of superb 50's style r&b, sadly played to only a smattering of people. Fuck me shit like The Rakes was packed whilst quality like this was overlooked. Then a long trudge to see Fleet Foxes. They sounded pleasant enough but did not blow me away, actually I was so fucked I lay in the mud to rest my weary body and fell asleep during their set. They whinged and whined though as they seemed to feel they were not getting the response they expected from the audience. Success so quickly gone to their heads and thinking they are something they aren't ? By the time I woke up the field was packed with what appeared to be just female embryos. Every young girl at the festival seemed to have congregated for Lily Allen. Had to fight my way through the crowd to get to see Steel Pulse. Unfortunately this took quite a few numbers of her set, awful music from an awful woman. Steel Pulse delivered a cracking set and got the whole field up on their feet. Did not see the whole set though as wandered back to the Pyramid Stage for The Specials and then Neil Young. The Specials were competent enough, Terry Hall looked as miserable as he always does. I was well off my head by this stage so got into it as though I was a 20 year old again. Neil Young just tore the place apart, a blistering set of rock and self indulgent guitar playing.

To be continued...