Fri 25th June @ 2pm – ish

The reason for the “ish” in the title and a bit of an explanation for the detail (so far) in these ramblings. The “ish” is fairly straight forward. I haven’t worn a watch for years and rely on my phone for the time. The battery on my phone is not so good, so a lot of the time I left it switched off. Besides, Glastonbury isn’t really a place for timings.
And the detail? Well, I went with the best intentions of keeping a really good record of what I did, the sights, the sounds, the smells etc. With notebook in hand, I meticulously made notes..... for a while. This didn’t last though, so the details may become more vague from now on.

The Stranglers set was pretty good actually. Everyone seemed to be enjoying it, and they played some good crowd-pleasers. That done, Jo said she needed some cash, so a quick glance at a map and we bimbled off to find some ATMs.
Where next? We decided to stick together for a while, but no bands that we were especially bothered about seeing, so it’s off for some of the other performances – to the circus tent!
Have a few pics to be going on with...





A nice slow walk and we arrived. Probably due to the beating sun, the tent was full up – imagine a full size circus tent, with a small stage and the rest of the area taken up with the crowd sat on the floor, all watching.
We sneaked through one of the side entrances. Not a lot cooler inside. The choice was beating down sun, but some air movement versus shade, but still, humid air. Still, no real complaints.
We hung around inside for a few minutes and watched a couple of girls squeezing themselves into a tiny perspex box.

We had a bit more of a meander around in the general area, taking in all the great sights. We wandered past the Outside Circus Stage. This was quite a small arena. A small stage at the front with maybe 5-6 tiered benches around the outside with some seating on the floor towards the front...




The next hour or so turned out to be great, great fun.
The guy on stage was called Bill Ferguson. He had a brilliant interaction with the audience and was really funny. The basics of his act was to ask for items from the audience – anything. He would then attempt to juggle them. However, much piss-taking took place and banter with the crowd, mostly the kids. Some real belly-laugh moments.
In between acts was a compere – again very amusing. Rapier wit and general humiliation of anyone who dared to walk past rather than come in and sit down.