Article by Paco Pérez Bryan 
Peace, love and mud
About 170,000 people go crazy in the mud of the biggest pop festival and wild
UK PACO PEREZ BRYAN. WORLD Special
GLASTONBURY (England, 2007) .- As the world turns, is a microcosm static Glastonbury in southwest England. Since 1970, when it reaches the summer solstice, life for three days and thousands of people this year, 175,000-meet to escape the everyday.
Eavis family's houses, the owner of this farm of 900 acres (approximately 365 hectares) since the nineteenth century and the inventor of the whole thing when Michael Eavis in 1970, decided he wanted to toggle Agriculture with music and hired T. Rex to give a concert.
Marc Bolan is said that when his convoy came in purple, Eavis wanted to welcome and met with a withering phrase, "Hands off my car." From then until now, has gone through this place the greatest in the history of contemporary music. In Peter Gabriel Coldplay, Oasis Johnny Cash or, as this year, Rufus Wainwright to The Who.
The weekend has been distributed to 600 performers and 80 scenes surrounded by parking for 30,000 cars and a solar village for 70,000 tents, cafes, ATMs, first aid kits (1,200 incidents until yesterday) and all kinds of local foods. And the emphasis comes to mind. Police, new this year, has a special jackets with built-in camera to detect "evil."
As usual, on Friday, first day of the festival, a huge water sucks the valley turned into a huge mud mousse. Whoever does not carry the wetsuit in the bag is lost. Or maybe the same: Glastonbury everyone wants to be happy and there is no obstacle to prevent it.
The bigger picture is shaped like a pyramid. This year, unveils a revolutionary new sound system that is capable of reaching the last audience and do not bother leaving the grounds to the suffering neighbors. Why had not invented before?
The pileup allowed 80,000 people to enjoy the afternoon concert of Amy Winehouse, a bright and attractive woman who navigates the worlds of soul, reggae and ska. Memorable their versions of Monkey Man by Toots & The Maytals and the Little Rich Girl Specials. Dressed in green and with eyes painted as Maria Callas, gave a review of their two albums so far: Frank (2003) and Back to Black (2007).
On the Other Stage, as it is called the second biggest stage in capacity, the afternoon went to Super Furry Animals with psychedelic rock and electronic experiments. Act row, The Coral, more of the same, the defendant recipe: folk, country, rock and more psychedelic seventies.
are 20.00, four hours ago has stopped raining and Glastonbury does not walk, slip. If you have no boots wellignton (the English rain boots), you are a puddle. That may be fine. Here, the audience does not just come to enjoy the show, but it comes to making a spectacle. Among the girls who are dressed in white tutus as if they interpret Giselle (a trend this year), stands Stella McCartney, who wears her own creations and a T-shirt designed exclusively for Oxfam which sells for 30 pounds (45 euros). Of course the brown clay is the dominant color. And free. Just then appears
Rufus Wainwright and makes everyone look back at the stage. From minute one, anyone realizes that there is a star and pop a handful of summer festival. Newcomer
Madrid, Wainwright Glastonbury gave an example of how there are still people in the world who are making music as the air we breathe. His seven-piece band is impeccable. They play and sing with admirable versatility and AUPAN Rufus, leader of a style that mixes pop with cabaret and pen with rock & roll, along with Antony & the Johnsons. There were times
of delirium when Rufus sang with his sister a piano version of Leonard Cohen Alelujah. Then he got high heels, earrings, lipstick on her lips and closed her concert with a dance performed with his musicians of the classic Get Happy. And so happy! Among the public was a English flag with a bull (and not too muddy) that it encourages shouting of "Long live the mother who bore you."
But the flag that prevailed in Glastonbury was to Canada, because then came Arcade Fire (as Rufus, coming from Montreal). And that was the madness ... Arcade Fire has been put into the heart of half the world with two albums (Funeral, 2004, and Neon bible, 2007), the other half will drop when you know your passionate live performances with over 10 musicians playing unusual instruments in the world of pop: violins, violas, cellos, pianos, mandolins, ukuleles, accordions, xylophones and even medieval relics as hurdy-gurdy.
Thom Yorke of Radiohead, among the public, could not believe what I saw: the band that more or less, will mark the path of pop for years to come.
Meanwhile, in other scenarios succeeded Artic Monkeys, Kasabian, The Waterboys, Fatboy Slim and other remnants of British Archaeology. In the mud of Glastonbury is no room for them all and many more.
music, peace and mud.
too sophisticated, too cold
may be a Despiporre Glastonbury, but that does not mean anything English strain in the mud. That was what counted for Bjork, which closed Friday night memorable arrival is not known whether the cold Iceland, Tibet or Pernambuco.
Flags with birds, frogs, fish, salamanders and other unidentifiable symbols tucked a horn section consisting of 10 girls Icelandic. A musician who seemed a priest played a kind of harpsichord and heavy of electronic noises to set the scene ended. To make matters worse, a guest came the great Toumani Diabaté. All very elegant but more appropriate for a theater that to keep the fire of Arcade.
then, thousands of lights illuminating the city will disappear today. For many here are living the best time of year, every year.
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