- published: 07 Apr 2012
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The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.
The festival organiser Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970. Fourteen people, including John Hoare, invested everything they had to build the stage.
The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field. After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.
I asked her if she went off to work in a thirties ball gown
Why I should sit here and write lyrics around
And she said, smiling, what to write was easy
Write a song about mud, music and me
Well Ocusdubuko were rockin' it late last night
Flamenko, hip hop rhythm, making us all feel like
The sun beaming down on the back of my neck
But today's just been poorin' wet
But the people here have lost the city from them now
Walkin' past eachother in the rain, smiling, I say wow
Is it one night in this field and we're washed from all the rushing
We're all country folk now
Laughing and singing and hugging
Write me a song about mud, music and me
Write me a song about this Glastonbury
Write me a song about mud, music and me
Write me a song about this Glastonbury
Yo, then I got to wonder wether
Lye by a pond singing kiss her
Life brings many blessings when you least expected
It cuts your strings and you're free for that time to be
Kiss her and let her kiss me
Goin' back to her van and I wanna do rudeys
She's a lady so I just kiss on her boobies
Love, I've seen nudeys, kay, you just sued me
Score this own goal in my like Wayne Rooney
Write me a song about mud, music and me
Write me a song about this Glastonbury
Write me a song about mud, music and me
Write me a song about this Glastonbury
Everyone is, everyone is, everyone is