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It’s a Week Since Glastonbury. Britain’s Hangover is Almost Better

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

What’s a thirty-five-year-old countercultural love-fest doing ruling the pop cultural roost seven years into the twenty-first century? How did a crowd of feckless hippies wind up practically owning the British media for a week every Summer (rain or shine)? These and other ques ... Continue reading »

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  • FYI, You can download the critically acclaimed concert film Glastonbury in it’s entirety for free(!!!) at http://glastonbury.movielink.com/.

    There’s also a performance by The White Stripes at Glastonbury on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tWF_6RK3xI.

    And uncut clips of The White Stripes, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, and others, performing at Glastonbury are also available at http://glastonbury.movielink.com/.

    Cheers,

    Neal
  • Loved this post, Steve. I think it was highly appropriate to cover the fest on the telly - and perfect in advance of the big save the world perform-a-thon (I forget its name) that Al Gore and Bono organized. Oh, and thanks for the clear channel background - who knew? I thought it was those hated hippies again...you know, the ones Dick Cheney is STILL fighting after 40 years...
  • Annoyingly, Neal, the Glastonbury film you link to is available only to Americans! Damn and blast...
  • r.e.glastonbury
    so why is jay z headlining glastonbury...because he is the most requested artist on clear channel radio
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