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FRIDAY 24TH JUNE THERES NEVER ENOUGH TO GO ROUND

Thursday WAS the new Friday

By RUBY TUESDAY FROM KEI$HA and Ms Dynamite in Dance, Sensi & Kush in the Markets, to the Baggy Mondays at the Stonebridge Bar, Thursday night was MASSIVE. Braving squashy walkways, with undaunted Glastonbury spirit, festivalgoers ramped up the energy for the start of this, now ofcially, FOUR-DAY festival! The Firelighter reports scenes of high energy revelry hitting the site earlier than ever before: I saw ve people freaking out to drum and bass in a miniscule venue near Meeting Point, reported Lesley from Taunton, People are already dancing their wellies off! Pace yourselves guys, were in it for the long haul here! According to Michael Eavis, to do the festival properly you have to trek at least 10 miles a day. Great for your abs and abs (we read it in the Sun, so it must be true). Tonight, theres Bono, Mumford, The Coral and Chase & Status to choose from, as well as Cee Lo, Katy B, Annie Mac, plus Crystal Castles for the night birds. And so, the Firelighter Collective commands: No early burnouts please!

NEWS
FROM THE

OUTSIDE

WORLD

Solar Impulse EUROPE The mission for global circumnavigation by solar-powered plane is on! Last week the Solar Impulse landed in Le Bourget, Paris after a 16 hour journey from Brussels. The crew are currently waiting for some sunshine to recharge their batteries. 543 Days The two French journalists Ghesquire and Taponier plus three guides are still being held hostage. On their 543rd day as captives, The Firelighter joins Reporters without Borders in demanding their immediate release. Wombledon Defending champion Serena Williams came back from losing her opening set yesterday to avoid a second round loss against teenager Simona Halep. The American, recovering from illness and injury, went on to win 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. Free Beer (almost) Cans of beer were selling at 17p at a major supermarket yesterday due to a pricing blunder. Instead of advertising 4 off 12 cans, the sign read a total of 4! Word spread fast; a lucky break for those on their way to site. Gonna be a good Glastonbury, posted Andrew enroute.

Welcome to Naughty Corner

By MS WHIPLASH THE EXCITEMENT was tangible last night as the notorious Naughty Corner (Block 9, The Common, Shangri-La) lled up with vile miscreants marvelling at post-apocalyptic creations until the small hours. Book your slot for decontamination before escaping to a brave new world via the Skywalk, your eyrie above the squalid, pox-ridden unfortunates below.

THURSDAY JUNE 22ND, 2011, 4.35pm: SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FIGHT WITH MUSIC. This mural, by Park artist Lynden Mallinson, was designed for Pyramid performers to contemplate as they wait to go on stage. Social cohesion is something weve been working towards since the 1980s, said Michael Eavis, as he strolled through the festival yesterday. This is socialism with a small s; politics with a small p. We walk the walk, rather than just talk the talk; everyone here knows what were about, thats why theyre not chucking beer bottles around. Photo: David Mirzoeff

Worthy farm walks no 401 gastronomic glastonbury

A leg and belly stretch from the Pyramid to the heart of the Markets with glimpses of the magical and mind-bending in Kidzeld, Avalon, Theatre and Circus and West Holts. Time: allow 2.5 hours / View rating: Refreshment rating: 1 After a quick half from the Cider Bus in the Village Green and a toe-tap at the Bandstand, in the lane opposite, set off East along the Markets alley towards Meeting Point, which was commissioned by Michael and built in Appledore Dockyard in the nineties. The opulent ower arrangements are by Bob St Barb, creator of the Festival Ofce window boxes. 2 Through the trees glimpse red-roofed Goose Hall the festival canteen serving 15,000 meals to hungry litter-pickers, loo-cleaners, site crew and green police. No mean feat. The Do funny (Michaels Mums name for the outdoor dining room) is built from old parts of the Pyramid stage. 3 Take a right at the cross-roads and take a moment for a beer and quick mid-morning boogie at the Meeting Point Bar. 4 Before you get sucked into the Markets, head Northwards into the colourful world of the Kidzeld, where you might catch a glimpse of Rastamouse or the Gruffalo. Make a clockwise circuit of Kidzeld, enjoying the shows, arts, crafts, face paints, games, rides and a climb up the magic castle at the Northern end of the eld. 5 If you can drag yourself away, leave the Kidzeld by the Eastern exit and wander into the Acoustic eld or Normans Close, named after the elds former owner. The glorious blue Kyam tent with big scoops is the Acoustic Stage, formerly host to rock legends Ray Davis, Marianne Faithful and this year to Suzanne Vega. 6 Spend a moment in the ickering gloom of the Pilton Palais Cinema Tent to sample their eclectic line-up before a quick half and a packet of crisps at The Cockmill Bar next door, (or Common Ground caf for something more sober) before exiting by the Southwest corner 7 Head South through Glebeland, passing the Blazing Saddles stage on your left, taking in some high-energy theatrical acrobatics at the Astrolabe. Take the right exit and pause in the Hurly Burly Caf for tea and cake. If darkness has already fallen, watch out for distortions of time and space by Dream Engine. 8 Turn right into the Circus Field, keeping an eye out for zip-wire act Pirates of the Carabina, or astounding aerial show Insect Circus. Spend a moment marvelling at this spectacular world.

I Heard it at the WI
By MRS MARGERY JAM IF YOU WANT hot showbiz gossip, forget the News of the World and turn to the Somerset dailies. Michael Eavis revealed this years Pyramid headliners at a Womens Institute meeting last November, as minuted and diligently published by the Local Papers who were delighted when they got the scoop the nationals wait for year round: We always publish the WI minutes, explained a local editor, we often receive feedback from the women of Somerset, but I didnt realise these reports would go viral, as they say. Michael Eavis acknowledged the impact the locals have played: Through the years the local paper has upped the ante and inadvertently helped my cause! But its not all out there in the meeja; Michaelss still got a few surprises up his sleeve. WATCH THIS SPACE.

Clean and Green

A MESSAGE TO all you Green Travellers: the solar showers and compost toilets are in the cyclist camping eld. Come and pedal your own smoothie and debate environmental issues! And dont miss Happy Hour in the Greenpeace showers from 4-5pm daily. Maps by Hannah Bailey

You shop, You drop,

WE MOP

9 Take a left and head to the West Holts stage for one of the undoubtedly amazing afternoon acts, and refresh yourself at Brothers or West Holts bar. The food in this eld is amazing shishas and the best mint tea on site at Moorish; French sausages and red wine at Le Grand Boeuf - and guess what at the Goan Seafood Curry Shop. 10 Turn back North up the main Market drag, if you can still move, and buy yourself the custom-made guitar and driftwood key ring you never knew you needed. Try to ignore the temptations of the Strumpets with Crumpets or equally seductive Tapas Patatas, on your way so youve still got space for a nal snack at the Filipino kitchen... yum. NB. There are green loos opposite Meeting Point, if you need them.

Did You Know?

Glastonbury recycles 50% of all waste on site, nearly double the national average, and is aiming for 55% this year...

Clearing up your mess for 40 years

LOST AND FOUND

BADGE OF BELONGING
How long do you wear your wristband?
By AMABEL CROWE WHY DO some people wear their wristband for months, even years? Perhaps its a natural human instinct the need to belong. Keeping them on is like being part of the massive festival-going community all year round. Festivals are amazing at shaking off social conventions suddenly it is OK to talk to strangers, to have a pint for breakfast or to wear a tutu everywhere. Whether worker or punter you are part of something at a festival. Although your old festival wristband is not a license to be drunk at 11am and wear a tutu to work, it is a way of breaching the real-world/ festival-world divide. Where are all the festival people in real life?! Sometimes it seems that the amazing, wondrously friendly, happy people at festivals simply do not exist outside the gates. Just as festivals break down social conventions, the stress of twenty-rst century life outside soon erodes the peace and love lifestyle. Those old wristbands are verication that we are the same people, both sides of the fence

Head to your nearest Oxfam shop to revitalise your festival wordrobe. Everything from outrageous headwear to ballgowns!

A marvelous beast hidden somewhere on site, created by artist Ray Brooks. Where is it? Find the answer in Tomorrows Firelighter. Yesterdays answer: Surrounded by owers and reunited people, the sculpture is at the top of the Lefteld Tower at Meeting Point, close to the Information Tent.

Just Do*nate* It

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OPINIONS

FROM OPINIONATED
PEOPLE

Political Yoga
THE STONE CIRCLE

OCALLAGHAN...

FRIDAY 24TH JUNE, 2011

The Scrut Run How Funny is That?

By BRIGID McCONVILLE, DIRECTOR OF THE WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE MOST OF YOU wouldnt dream of making a racist joke, and youd feel uncomfortable around people who do. Same goes for aggression against gay people. Its just wrong, right? So why is it still okay to make remarks about girls and women? We hear them all the time, and frequently from the same young men who pride themselves on not being racist or homophobic. When someone misses the ball: dont be such a girl. When you question it: But its a fact women cant play football!. Women arent funny. (Youd never generalize like that about a black person). No but black people have got Chris Rock! (Yes, but women have got Tina Fey, Miranda Hart, Shazia Mirza) Theyre not funny. MILF. Hey older women, you should be so lucky! (FILF is kind of different, isnt it?) The Scrut Run. Thats when older boys drive by the school to take a look at the young girls who theyd L to F. Does all this matter? Zoom out to a global view. In modern conict, its more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier: 70% of those killed in wars these days are women or children. Girls in some African countries are more likely to die in childbirth than to go to school. Of the 188 elected leaders in the world, 16 are women. Young women are six times more likely to have HIV and AIDs than young men. Women do two thirds of the worlds work, earn 10% of the worlds income and own one per cent of the property. Thats bad, but thats not England Ok, lets talk about England. Here women dont get the same pay as men (in the City they get a third less for the same work). Every year, 30,000 women a year lose their jobs because they are pregnant and three million women in the UK experience rape or domestic violence. Anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm and depression are endemic among girls. Nearly half of young people know girls who have been pressurized or forced into sex; nearly half know girls who have been hit by their boyfriends. In this country there are more MPs called Dave than there are women in Parliament. 96% of company bosses are men. In many countries, women arent even allowed to own land. It happens in the UK too; farmers still pass the land on to their sons. And what about the music business? Leading US journalists Kristoff and Wudunn argue in their book Half the Sky that the liberation of women is the great political struggle of the coming century just as the abolition of slavery was to the past. Theyre not joking.

By ANGELICA CLYTSOME IT IS NO accident that the Old English word Orgasm begins with the letter O. O is for Omega, the be all and end all. O is for the human facial expression of ecstasy. O is for Om Shanti, the peace that passes all understanding! The great philosopher Wilhelm Reich argued powerfully that orgasm could save the world. I agree! Likewise, the esteemed auteur, Woody Allen, updated this thinking for a new generation with the invention of the Orgasmatron in his marvellous epic Sleeper. Well, we are all sleepers through life until fully awakened to the full force of Chi, through the transformational power of orgasm! O is also for the Stone Circle, symbolic of all that we hold dear in youth culture today. As I have written in my book, it was my second husband Ravi who introduced me to the joys of Tantra. Ravi was able to maintain an erection for hours, and I would sit astride his powerful thighs staring into his eyes Dear Ravi, he taught me so much, and although he looked rather frog like with his large belly and bulging eyes he had a natural afnity for gold which he attracted rapidly in his travel agency business, but that is another story. Festival goers, I urge you on this mid summers eve to express your deepest self. Gather at the Stone Circle, now is the moment for sacred Congress! And as the great Paul Simon sings, if you cant be with the one you love, love the one youre with! angelclyt.wordpress.com @angelclyt

Nothing New Under the Sun

SUNDAY 24TH JUNE 1990

Did You Know?

Awopbopaloobop

By CASPAR LLEWELLYN SMITH

CATACLYSMS AND crises are rocking economies and the environment, and anyone whose growing up has involved the idea that pop and the state-of-the nation are linked reecting and in turn informing upon each other might like to ask: whats the meaning of music now? Some will argue that weve reached a kind of cultural plateau, a state of homogeneity distinguished chiey from other eras by its reliance upon the steady exhumation of the past. Everything is available, from any era, from anywhere, and every opinion is given equal billing; and in this whitecollar age of over-abundance, little is afforded much value. The capacity for music to challenge current orthodoxies feels increasingly circumscribed, and the creative destruction voiced by a Little Richard is now something prized by the neo-cons and the neo-liberals. It is in this context that those acts who understand that its their duty to grapple with such questions at least deserve attention. Of those playing the festival this year, controversy has surrounded U2 in particular, because of their tax arrangements, but also because of what some see as their bombast their naked desire to mean something as pop culture warps and the world turns. But even someone whod baulk at describing themselves as a fan can see this: rather a band with an appreciation of the tightrope they walk, a band with an ethical framework for their actions, than one whose rhetoric will only ever ring empty.

the Master Musicians of Joujouka will be opening the Pyramid to the sound of Moroccan Su trance before three days and nights of music in the Tipi Zone. They were declared by Timothy Leary to be a 4000 year old RocknRoll band...

FOOD
for a fiver !
CATCH & GRILL
Near The Bread and Roses, 215, Festival Avenue, Glastonshire

The Firelighter scouts out NOSH FOR UNDER 5

THE BEST FISH THIS SIDE OF THE TORRIDGE

NOT SO SUSHI
THE FIRELIGHTER RECOMMENDS (So quite Sushi after made from Handcrafted, Succulent andall) PYRAMID SQUARE premium beef CUBOID CIRCLE Near to Meeting Point NIPPON KOKU

Delicious parcels of Japanese food Perfect Burger

Jhal Muri Indian Snacks Its authentic! But its pounds not rupees STEWED AND BAKED Next to Bourbon Street Bar

O wad some Powr the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us
ROBERT BURNS
The Glastonbury Firelighter, continuing to challenge and provoke even though reason is dead, history is over, the self is fractured and knowledge is hopelessly enmeshed in oppressive relations of power.

FILLING SOUPS AND STEWS FOR UNDER A FIVER

NEAR LEFT FIELD, RIGHT OF CENTRE, Jamon Jamon WORTHY FARM

SERVICES GUIDE
The Treehouse Caf
THE BAND STAND
The market - Worthy Farm - Pilton

Oversized paella pans and helpings to match Opposite Bourbon Street Spuds and spices Jacket potatoes with an exotic twist TOASTIES ON Bus Opposite the Cider THE MOVE

Did You Know?

Glastonbury donates 2 million to charities and local causes every year. Our Big Three WaterAid, Oxfam and Greenpeace spend it on water access projects, ghting for the rights of the poor and saving the planet. Closer to home, the moneys constructed a local skate park, refurbished the Pilton Working Mens Club (for women too) and built affordable housing, amongst many other initiatives...

Shangri La Skywalk
A prime vantage point for the newly purified to survey the filthy Shangri-La dwellers below

QUICK AND YUMMY IF YOURE IN A HURRY

A beautifully-crafted stage with some surprising gigs and walkabout acts in the heart of the markets!

Chilhood dreams of the ultimate treehouse with the added bonus of tea and cake Surrounded by centenarian trees!

Find us in

e Park!

Opposite Kidzeld Fire in the Hole Not as spicy asAvalon Alley it sounds Honest to goodness pizza oven On route from Pyramid Stage to The Bread and Roses

Catch & Grill Local Italian, Opposite The best sh this side of the Torridge

Pilton PASTA

Kidzfield, Tagliat Alley, SomerseT

IN MEMORY OF JOE STRUMMER The Unfair Ground

Biggest Campre of the festival and site of impromptu acoustic sessions until dawn.

Strummerville

Enter!

Croissant neuf
The loudest solar powered stage in the world

Campo Pequeno
Avant-garde adventurous theatre cum circus in an ampitheatre built from reclaimed lock gate!

Green Fields

Visit WaterAid at our stand by the Pyramid stage www.wateraid.org

Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland)
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