Dear Wireless,

You're child's play compared Glastonbury, which is obvious but when it's taken into account that you're also getting major names, you could at least make the rest of the festival interesting.
Also, please sort out the filth.
All the best, Ruth.

For all the criticisms I could talk about, I don't think I'll be returning anyway, so here are some photographs I took. Enjoy my disgusting feet.

These were some kind of luxury toilets/bathrooms, £3 to use a 'nicer' toilet, £3 to have your hair done and £5 to do both. Seems pretty pointless as you're only there for a day, and your hair can't be that bad, made me kind of annoyed, why did they have this and no awesome stalls?

Don't think that this quite demonstrates the extent of the dirt, but this was before I attempted to wash them.

She's amazing, I've got nothing else to say about her. Some of the papers talking about last nights performance have really annoyed me, I think it's quite amazing how they can completely change the context of things she says. Most of what she says seems to be a schtick, and it's obvious, and funny, that's what I think anyway.

'Empire State of Mind' was Jay Z's best song, the set on stage for it was amazing.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I've only just realised that 'O2 Wireless' is now 'Barclaycard Wireless', doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but the fact that the VIP area was sponsored by Vodafone now makes a helluva lot more sense.

Today is the first day I've woken up feeling fully rested, I guess the disappointment from Wireless really exhausted me. It's also the first day out of about 5 where I haven't felt rushed off my feet. It's alright, I still have enough to do.

Glasto.

Here is my compulsory Glastonbury photograph set, as I've mentioned, it was amazing, I've already registered for next year's festival. I'd like to think some of these photos are better than the ones NME put on their website, which I felt were only about 20% good. I wish there were more professional photographs showing the actual scale of it, but now it's over and once it's over it's over. Even if I hadn't enjoyed Glastonbury as much as I have, I would have still come away feeling as fit as I currently do, it's really helping with this whole 'no time' thing. I have the most fantastic tan lines fyi,right down to where my flip flops are.

This is the crowd watching the football on the Wednesday, it's got quite a big reaction, the noise they made was amazing, even if England can't play football very well.

I found this carpet in The Deco pub in Southsea, it is also here, it is similar or the same to the carpet we had in 7 Sandringham. I love it.

This is Mumford & Sons, I wish I got a better photo of them, but I didn't. I really enjoyed them though. :)

Shangri-La during the day

I don't even like Muse, but they were pretty epic.

I wish this wasn't so long, because I really want it for my desktop background.

© Ruth Johnston 2010. except the ones I'm in.

Hiya.

I'm back from Glastonbury after an hour and a half trek back to the car, a two hour drive to a service station, a 2 hour stay at a Harvester and another hour of driving, although I did get back at about half 10.
Here is something I'm looking to see at The Creator's Project in a couple of weeks - as I catch up with the real world.

I think I actually loved Glastonbury, despite the never ending dust - which I think is still in my system now - and the toilets that were piled high, if you get what I mean. I'll give you some photos tomorrow. I'd recommend it to anyone, it's something entirely different, if anything it's more like a theme park than a festival, it's big enough, but maybe a bit more expensive.
My musical highlights were Mumford & Sons (because they seemed genuinely touched) and Stevie Wonder (because he was plain amazing!), but I really didn't see anything I didn't enjoy.

Tent experimentation.

I guess I promised something, even if I forgot to show the scale of the tent when we did get it up.
Gawsh, this is going to much more labour-intensive than I thought, I am paying the price for wishing for luxury camping, I may actually have to help put up the tent...
It will be so comfy once it's up though, and I may even cry with happiness.

Although we did manage to get it away, the bag is straining, I'm hoping it doesnt burst all over the field and into some mud.

These things I must do.

There are only 6 days to go until Glastonbury now and I am looking forward to it very much, perhaps less so the long drive there and back, but I'm looking forward to it a lot more than I thought I would be by this stage. I'm pretty pleased that at this point the MetOffice has forecast clear warm weather but I'm not getting my hopes up because it's still pretty early, I know it will probably be muddy anyway so the weather doesn't really change too much, but I do hope for no rain anyway.

I'm pretty pleased with what I've managed to accomplish in the last few days of being home and the work for Village Voice has really boosted my confidence, I think I will keep looking in the meantime as well though. Moon rose a point that were I asked to work over the course of Malden Fortnight for another company, I may be unable to due to the commitment, however, most events for Malden Fortnight take place over the weekend so I don't think it should be too much of an issue.

Things I Need to Do;
Pack for Glastonbury; properly.
Have practice run with the tent; will post results.
Update website; it's looking tired and there's a lot that needs adding to it.
Update CV.
More job hunting/ chasing up.

Here are some illustration that provided me with some amusement yesterday evening, Marc Johns, he has a similar style to David Shrigley, very funny.

© Marc Johns via Recovering Lazyholic