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Wet(ish)

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Posted 24 Jun 2011 — by admin
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I was up at 4.30 this morning. Once again I feel cheated out of the 15 minutes sleep I should have had before the alarm went off. There are karma points to be had though, because the alarm didn’t go off and I didn’t wake the whole snappy household. That would have made me one popular Daddy!

The karma bank must have paid out though. The train that I got from Paddington was meant to stop and Westbury where we should have changed on to another train to Castle Cary. Joy of joys, it went straight through, no change, no wait and an early arrival at Castle Cary where the fleet of downtrodden coaches awaited to whisk me off to Worthy Farm.

You may not believe this but as I arrived at Glastonbury the sun was shining and the mud was bearable. My boots were christened in mud almost immeadiately after alighting the bus. Now it’s coulded over somewhat and a free orange poncho from Orange, no less, is order of the day.

I met up with a friend who is hobbling around on an achey leg. I’m acting as the Lou to her Andy (although I’m sure she’s not faking it!).I get to wear a pass that says ‘Personal Assistant’ and have got access to some pretty nifty shortcuts and some backstage areas. We still haven’t figured out how best to take advantage of this but I’m sure we’ll figure it out in time!!

After a traditional site walkabout I headed back to the Pyramid Stage to watch Two Door Cinema Club who did not disappoint and am now typing furiously in the Orange Chill and Charge West. The ruour is that Radiohead are the surprise act in The Park at 8.00 so I might have to ditch Morrissey in their favour. The rest of the weekends entertainment is as yet undecided.

We’re getting yelled at to move on now. Apparently I’ hogging the PC (yuk).

It should be a long night.

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If only someone would pay me…

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Posted 26 Jun 2010 — by admin
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I’m back at the Orange Chill ‘n Charge tent but this time I’ve taken up the kind offer of @conorfromorange who invited Glastonbury bloggers to the backstage area behind the Chill ‘n Charge tent, and I can  tell you I’m glad I did!.

For the uninitiated, the Chill ‘n Charge tent is a bipartisan charging facility for the power hungry music fans at Glastonbury. Everyone is invited to wait their turn to juice up their phone and watch some music on their mini Pyramid Stage and partake in a little surfing of the old internet too (cos we can’t go without it, not for a whole weekend!).

A few weeks ago Conor tweeted that any bloggers going to Glasto should msg him and let him know, cos he was opening up the backstage area to them as well. Usually this space is reserved for newspaper hacks to write up their gossip and news and send it back to base, but this year Conor and Orange wanted to be nice to bloggers and that they are.

I was welcomed in and shown around and offered a towel. This is my 3rd Glastonbury and each one brings a new experience. This year’s experience is the shower. It might sound like a small thing but a shower after 2 days in the dustbowl that is Worthy Farm is a welcome relief! I might add that I’m not complaining that it’s a dust bowl because the sun and definitely better than the usual swamp that greets visitors to the festival. With temperatures peaking at 30 degrees a nice hot shower and a clean toilet (sorry, too much information) is like staying in a 5 star hotel. To top this generosity I’ve also been given a few free drinks (JD and Coke!) and access to a reasonable internet connection and a lap top.

Backstage here is truly lush and I might even come back later for a proper chill but at the moment I’m just coming down from the buzz that was 20,000 people pack into the Avalon Field to see The Wurzels! I’m missing The Dead Weather to write this little blog entry but hope to catch the end of their set before chipping off to The Park for tonights surprise guest, Biffy Clyro! Last night we were thrilled by Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood before seeing a sadly mediocre set by Gorillaz, but hey, it was a last minute thing and seeing Lou Reed, Shaun Ryder and Mark E Smith on the same bill was pretty good all the same.

So I wrote a little thing for the Wired Geek Dad blog about Orange’s phone charging wellies and I’ve updated you all, now I’d just like someone to pay me to do this. Now that would be cool!!

Maybe they’ll let me in again for more free drinks and internet access tomorrow night but until then I’ve got 64% battery on my phone to last me until then!

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