The Gorge - Glastonbury Festival 2005

Glastonbury Festival 2005 - Saturday

Saturday was largely dry, but still very muddy underfoot. There were bales of straw spread over the worst affected areas, and I rang my dad (who travelled in from home every day) to get him to bring in wellies for my friend! We also saw a truck scooping water and dumping it into a trailer, to be towed away by a tractor.

View fullsize Andrew's wheelchair (Andrew being a tent neighbour who worked for Scope). The mud was so bad he was tent-ridden most of the weekend.	View fullsize Ali (in tent) and Beth chilling at our campsite. It was lovely to have room to move in disabled camping - hopefully it helped Ali's back too.
View fullsize The seats near the Cider Bus.	View fullsize A great Iraqi band at Jazzworld, Ilfam Al Madfai.
View fullsize My boots, resting on the viewing platform. Just a little bit of mud then!	View fullsize The Levellers, performance of the weekend for me!
View fullsize Levellers in all their glory.
View fullsize The digger, scooping water into a trailer, watched by "mounted" police.	View fullsize Ali's grapes got dropped. The mud made a pretty pattern through the bag.
View fullsize Make Poverty History - hands in the air for Sir Bob.	View fullsize Ali's boots. They were abandoned after my dad showed up with the wellies!
View fullsize New Order. For some reason my camera wouldn't focus on them very well.	View fullsize Bob's flag, seen in the crowd at New Order.
View fullsize Mike, clowning around at me from the side of the viewing platform.	View fullsize My crutches at night - a job lot of lightsticks from eBay made me visible!
View fullsize New Order again. Great set, but awful photos!	View fullsize The portacabin toilets backstage at Pyramid - no running water but a flush loo!
View fullsize The stage during Coldplay.	View fullsize Coldplay (playing with exposure on my camera).
View fullsize Coldplay (seen on the screens).	View fullsize The bank, near the farm. No queues! So next time, go during the Saturday headliner!
View fullsize A private party in the Diesel Rooms at Windinglake Farm, near the site. I won tickets, but I felt tired and sore and went back before the live music.	View fullsize Sign seen on the way back into the Festival.

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