Glastonbury
Packed my stuff into John's car in a rainy Monday afternoon, we head to Glastonbury. My mind was full of excitement and curiosity. Glastonbury festival is my first experience of any kind of festival and European culture. I haven't been in UK either EU for only four days in my whole life and I was already heading to Glastonbury festival. It was a such a lucky opportunity of mine. As well as I got work and made friends before the festival, that made my days in Glasto so special. We were heading towards to this massive cloudy sky with heavy rain, bit disappointment and anxious on my mind but still happy in sides. When we got there, the famous Glasto sticky maddy field welcomed us straight. Greeting with Finn and we set up our camp tents on the green field in the rain. My tent was 1.5m by 1.8m square, it was really small for me to stay for three weeks but what can I complain. Packed out most of my stuff and squeezed into this small hole, pumped up the air bed and through down on the space, I got really excited. We didn't have to do much on that day so we just chilled out and had couple of drinks with Greenpeace people with bonfire in front in the night.
From that day, my conscious has slightly loosen with 9 bottles of vodka flied into the sky with some balloons filled with dreamy memories.
Each day, the field has built up bigger and crowder, filled up with lively and noisy people and construction noise. We walked around place called Shangri La, they had some massive things like broken space ship as a diner, mechanical face stands up middle of nowhere and a rusted aero plane. The stage for the concert looks like a futuristic planet and some gypsy camps. The whole area was built up with insanity mind set. We walked up to the stone circle and chilled out some times, looking down the whole area has been changing every hour. BBQ was absolutely stunning. Working with Greenpeace people was really fun and thoughtful. Everyone was really friendly and cheerful, also they have something very interesting life in each individuals. I had really good fun with them.
Cafe Tango had definitely the best crew. Everyday, we worked slightly hard, listening to nice music, jumping and running around. We got really nice sound systems in the kitchen and beautiful tunes all the times. Quite often, we had own time to break and I walked around the Glastonbury festival town. It is so huge that we call it town. There is many many shops, restaurants, cafes, massages, handy crafts, antique, arts, buildings, bars and fields to chill. My favorite place is that its up on the hill right next the field from stone circle. There is much less people and still has green glass and be able to chill out from the chaotic mess of festival people. I have walked around with Daisy once and had rest for an hour, that was absolutely awesome. Unfortunately, the Cafe Tango was located in bit quiet Green peace field so it has been quiet most of the festival but we were all rocking the place.
Two day during the preparation, I had some painting days for Cafe Tango logo for the front. I got stressed out about finishing and made mistake with spelling and so on, but I had lots of help from Hanna and made it through ok. It was a bit of fun.
The Thursday, the festival began to mess. I went out with some of the crew from Tango, visited a bar and Sarah gave a balloon for the night. That was really fun. I got little hole in my wellington since the day two but it got worse and started to leak lots of water in... I always had wet feet and made massive blisters on my feet. That was horrible but during the night, I had so much fun to forget about them. Couple of nights I have passed out but the crew looked after me so nice.
Friday, I went out with Bexy from Tango 2. We had really nice dancing night out, walked around everywhere in the Glasto and end up in a small bar dancing just two of us with nice rockabelly tunes. We caught up with Raf, Hanna and Marla and danced in the Arcadia stage. It was really maddy stage and we were dancing on the mad like retards, stumping on the ground and fell over couple of time. Next morning, when I got up, I had so much mad on my sleeping bed and was really disgusting but what can I say... so much fun.
Saturday, the festival got really bigger and more crowdy, after work, we straight hit the concert of Chemical Brothers. Me and Daisy lost rest of the crew while we went to toilet then the live has began. We walked through the crowd till we can not move any farther, started to dance like crazy people. In the display of the stage, there is some light coming out as light dancers and big faces laughing and made us feel great. We head to Arcadia after but the road was closed. Although, Daisy was crazy enough to walk through the side, so we sneaked into the stage and there goes the party. We went up to the stage and started to jump around with nice electro tune. We both danced till the end of the energy we had.
Sunday, the best and the last. The restaurant got really busy for the breakfast and lunch. People were getting exhausted from this whole week of madness. But this was the last day of Glasto so that we push ourself one more level and everybody got mental. When the job is done all the crew from the Tango got together, decided to hit the road to Arcadia. The road was mess but the weather was perfect. We closed the cafe about 10 o'clock and we all got to Arcadia. Moving around with lots of people was mess, waiting for another friends, toilet and filling up more alcohol and stuff; takes time. We managed to arrive in Arcadia about mid night and the show was about to start. We squeezed into the massive crowd and got to the front line. The show started with a violinist with beautiful dress played some note into electro tune, they colored in blue and smoke, a silence and heavy bass, the violin penetrates the sound of silence and a singer with beautiful voice moving towards the music. It sounds weird but I felt like it. Then suddenly, many people appeared on the stage dancing with rope. three rings was on fire in the sky, dancers were dancing in the rings like mysterious cats, then the monstrous fire blowed out from the top of this massive spider looking metal stage with sound of heat. We could feel the heat of sound underneath my skin running through my face, arms and hands where exposed. The show was really magical and tripping. Then we moved to the other side of stage where we found more friends dancing and jumping. We were screaming and greeting, that we glad to meet them on the site. Hours pass by as the sound of speed. Balloons were flying in the sky in between the fire and sound of bass, feeling numb on my legs but the crystal energies kept me stands and dance. Jumping on sky to people, music was really great that went into my ear in silent. I couldn't hear any more but the vision of sound made me smile. Everyone was there, the Cafe Tango crew and Greenpeace crew. Everyone was happy, screaming and shouting, jumping and hugging. Everyone was there till the sun came out. I went far out from the stage once for the wee, the site was full of people surrounding the firing stage with chaotic pleasure and sound. The light of the the stage was flashing the crowd in the middle of field turned them into massive music guru. All the people was gone into the stage of level where people meets heaven.
When the sun light shine upon us, we found ourselves in the atmosphere of end of the gig or shall I say art of music. The stage was full of mess and tension of silence in the head. The air was filled with morning fog and it was like in the dream of an end. We head back to Cafe Tango afterwards and had a little chat. I passed out but some people went to stone circle for the sunrise. That is the end of the big event of Glastonbury.
Monday, after couple of hours of sleep, I woke up with the heat of tent. It was beautiful sunshine day. Had a shower and went to Cafe Tango, had breakfast. We just chilled out for the day around. I couldn't do anything.
Just like that, one of my craziest experience of bestival time has gone in maddy field, stayed in the dirtiest place I lived where the smallest tent space for three weeks.
