Glastonbury 1998

Friday June 28th - Saturday June 29th - Sunday June 30th

We should be ok, surly the weather couldn't be worse than last year? Was I wrong or what. Here is a criminally short review.

Highlight: Finding out that Gorkys were playing.

Low light: Missing Sonic Youth and Spiritualized

Friday

Carrie - Not bad, the singer has a real stage presence. They played all the singles apart from The Birds (one of my faves).

Ultrasound - Only heard 3 songs as I wanted to watch all of DOTR set. What I heard was brilliant, Tiny is so cool!

Dawn Of The Replicants - Why they haven't had the success they deserve I don't know. The singer looked the worst for wear but it was a great set.

The Unbelievable Truth - Unbelievably Dull more like, (dam I'm beginning to sound like the guest reviewer on Planet Sound on C4 text!) I had to endure these as I didn't fancy watching England in the rain and wanted to watch JAMC afterwards.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - I was really impressed with them. I didn't know much about them before but on the strength of this I will be seeking out their material.

Saturday

A- Pogo action city, I got completely muddied out to their set and enjoyed every minute.

Kenickie - I was impressed by the new stuff, they didn't play much old stuff which was a shame. Can't wait for the new album.

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Fantastic, Brilliant, Superb and other words I can't think of. I know I'm a big fan and so a little biased but they were the best band I saw all weekend. I have never known an hour go by so quickly.
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Blur - Hmmmmm, very disappointing they just didn't seem to click. The choice of songs for the encore were very strange and Song2 didn't hit the button at all. Best moment was Popscene.

Sunday

Grrrr, wanted to see Earl Brutus and of course Spiritualized but we had to go early.

Black 'n White Photos by Matt Smith, Colour ones by Matt Pimm

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