Medieval Babes – Glastonbury Festival, 28th June 1998

Our final day of music of 1998's mudfest started off with medieval songs, sang in a variety of languages inlcuding Latin, Gaelic and Middle English, from all girl group Medieval Babes. I'd been a fan of them for a while, as well as some of their side-projects/splinter groups such as Miranda Sex Garden, and having … Continue reading GIG 373: Glastonbury ’98 Day 3: Pulp / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Bentley Rhythym Ace / Bob Dylan / Tony Bennett / Space / Dust Junkys / Steve Earle / Medieval Babes – Glastonbury Festival, 28th June 1998

GIG 372: Glastonbury ’98 Day 2: Underworld / Tricky / Robbie Williams / Mansun / Stereophonics / Tori Amos / Hothouse Flowers / Catherine Wheel / Sharon Shannon – Glastonbury Festival, 27th June 1998

Saturday morning dawned on a very, very damp and muddy Glastonbury. Spirits were a lot higher - largely down to England's win against Colombia the previous evening - but I was also a lot more relaxed as I'd been stressing about the weather and Delphine not enjoying her first festival. She'd laid my concerns to … Continue reading GIG 372: Glastonbury ’98 Day 2: Underworld / Tricky / Robbie Williams / Mansun / Stereophonics / Tori Amos / Hothouse Flowers / Catherine Wheel / Sharon Shannon – Glastonbury Festival, 27th June 1998

Ah, Glastonbury. Have I ever been to a sunny and dry Glastonbury? I don't think I have. The 1997 event was a mudbath - but 1998 wanted to double down and become even more of a swamp. One of our group, Craig, and his girlfriend vanished between Friday morning and Saturday morning - and we … Continue reading GIG 371: Glastonbury ’98 Day 1: The Jesus & Mary Chain / The Lightning Seeds / Fluke / Rialto / Laika / The Young Offenders / My Life Story / Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Glastonbury Festival, 26th June 1998

The sun rose over Day 3 of the 1997 Glastonbury Festival. We'd managed to survive all the rain and mud of the last few days to make it to Sunday. We'd had a great time, and were lookin forward to the last day of music, but we had decided that we'd pack the tent up … Continue reading GIG 339: Glastonbury ’97 Day 3: The Bootleg Beatles / Ani DiFranco / Live / Pavement / Super Furry Animals / Sheryl Crow / Billy Bragg / The Blue Nile / Travis / Stereophonics / Perfume – Glastonbury Festival, 29th June 1997

Waking up to Day 2 of a very muddy Glastonbury '97. Pulling on those mud caked boots, and heading out in search of breakfast... from one of the myriad of food stands available across the festival site. Thankfully we'd pitched the tent part way up a hill so weren't in the worst of the mud, … Continue reading GIG 338: Glastonbury ’97 Day 2: Radiohead / Ocean Colour Scene / Neneh Cherry / Dubstar / Stereolab / G-Love & Special Sauce / Geneva / 60ft Dolls / Dub War / Silver Sun / Republica / The Wannadies – Glastonbury Festival, 28th June 1997

My first Glastonbury Festival. Only cost £75 back in 1997, a far cry from the £355 that the 2024 festival is costing. Mind you there were also only 90,000 tickets back in 1997 whilst next year sees 210,000 people - so it's grown a fair bit in the last 25+ years since I first went. … Continue reading GIG 337: Glastonbury ’97 Day 1: The Prodigy / Smashing Pumpkins / Placebo / The Divine Comedy / Beck / The Levellers / Terrorvision – Glastonbury Festival, 27th June 1997