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The three-day-long Glastonbury Festival begins at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK. Acts appearing on the first day include Bush, Dandy Warhols, The Doves, Idlewild, Lost Prophets, Thea Gilmore and Hawksley Workman And The Wolves, Nelly Furtado, Ash, Faithless, Coldplay, Queens Of The Stone Age, Garbage, Spiritualized, The Waterboys, Joe Brown and Dot Allison.Full article:
Joe Brown : It’s funny, that Glastonbury thing, that I was talked into doing, I mean, I don’t often do that sort of thing because, usually, a lot of our acoustic instruments, the fiddle, the guitar and the mandolin, they all go through the PA. We don’t put them through amps. At a festival, though, you’ve got no control over the PA, it’s someone else working it, unfamiliar speakers, different levels and it’s a bloody nightmare.
Glasto worked in the end but right up to the last minute we were still trying to get the monitors to work. But those kind of festivals are a pain as far as that goes, so I’d always fought shy of them. I said to John Taylor, my manager, that I didn’t want to do them.
I did Glastonbury because of one thing – Rolf Harris. They kept on to me about doing it and I kept saying no – maybe I just didn’t want to get rejected for the stuff I was doing – until somebody pointed out that Rolf Harris, who is a mate of mine, had done it. So I phoned him up and he said, “Yeah, you should do it, it’s great!” So I said, “Well, I’m thinking about it, but I don’t know what kind of stuff to do. What did you do?” And he said, “I just did my stuff.”
So I said, “You mean you went out with that false leg and did Jake The Peg?” And he said, “Yeah” So I said, “And you did that silly bleedin’ wobble board thing?” And he said, “Oh, yeah, and they loved it.”
So I got on to John and said, “Book it. If Rolf can do it, I’ll have a go.”
I’ve done more festivals in the last couple of years than ever before.
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Glasto worked in the end but right up to the last minute we were still trying to get the monitors to work. But those kind of festivals are a pain as far as that goes, so I’d always fought shy of them. I said to John Taylor, my manager, that I didn’t want to do them.
I did Glastonbury because of one thing – Rolf Harris. They kept on to me about doing it and I kept saying no – maybe I just didn’t want to get rejected for the stuff I was doing – until somebody pointed out that Rolf Harris, who is a mate of mine, had done it. So I phoned him up and he said, “Yeah, you should do it, it’s great!” So I said, “Well, I’m thinking about it, but I don’t know what kind of stuff to do. What did you do?” And he said, “I just did my stuff.”
So I said, “You mean you went out with that false leg and did Jake The Peg?” And he said, “Yeah” So I said, “And you did that silly bleedin’ wobble board thing?” And he said, “Oh, yeah, and they loved it.”
So I got on to John and said, “Book it. If Rolf can do it, I’ll have a go.”
I’ve done more festivals in the last couple of years than ever before.