Bogs for the girls

[j4]

This year there will be special loos just for the laydeez at Glastonbury. (Thanks to sion_a for spotting this one.)

How daft, though. I don't want toilets which aren't used by men -- they're all individual cubicles anyway! -- I want toilets that aren't used by morons. I certainly don't think men have a monopoly on being filthy and inconsiderate.

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh, I could talk about the music at quite unbelievably boring length if you wanted. People/bands I saw last year included:

Richard Thompson
Radiohead
REM
Waterboys
Suede
Beth Orton
Inspiral Carpets
John Otway
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Attila the Stockbroker
Leningrad Cowboys

As well as lots of other bands who I was interested to listen to at the time, listened to a bit of, but who obviously weren't memorable enough for me to remember them. Oh, we listened to a bit of Yes, but they were crap. One of the good things about the music is that you can wander in and out of gigs, so there's much more chance to hear new music without having to pay for it before you know if you like it. People I'd like to catch a couple of minutes of this year, just to see if they're worth following up:

Groove Armada
Nelly Furtado
Franz Ferdinand
Goldfrapp
Von Bondies
Raveonettes

All bands I've heard other people mention but I wouldn't pay a tenner (the likely price of a cheap gig round here) to go and see them when I might want to walk out after the first five minutes.
There's already so much I want to see this year, just glancing down the listings, that if I saw them all individually I'd pay the Glasto ticket price several times over.

Then there's all the circus stuff... we stumbled into an utterly amazing circus/drama show -- fireworks, trapeze, stilts, semi-naked people with wings in cages, existential and authorial angst, that sort of thing -- quite by accident while walking back from somewhere else and were absolutely spellbound by it until it finished. This year I'm going to make more of an attempt to find out what's going on in the circus fields.

Then there's all the other stuff. Just... stuff. People, and things, and happenings, and just the glorious colourful tapestry of experience, the wonder of it all.

I only brought up the subject of the bogs because I saw that article and thought it was a bit of a daft idea.

[nja.livejournal.com]

I'm just a miserable old bugger. Last gig I went to was Spiritualized (on the Pure Phase tour), mainly to hear Seefeel who didn't turn up, and that would have been almost ten years ago. I did go to Womad in the mid-eighties, mainly because it was held a mile from my parents' house so I could sleep in a proper bed.