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<center><h3> | <center><h3> The day the music fried </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Andrew Collins </center> | <center> Andrew Collins </center> | ||
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On the Saturday I was awoken by booming dub reggae from some early morning sound system — and 16 hours later, Elvis Costello sang me to sleep. The next morning I was snatched from my damp and fidgety slumber by some unidentified anarcho-protest-duo — ''"Revolution / Rev-oooh-looo-<wbr>shunnn!"'' — from whence, who knows? | |||
There was always one piece of sensory stimulus to mould and shape my day. Buffeted like a silver ball in one huge cultural pinball machine, I flitted, unavoidably, between standout Pop Music and standup comedy, hiking from field to field in search of the ultimate bill. | |||
In the Theatre Field (a very devoted sort of field, as ill-supplied by drink and nosh as it deliberately was — grape juice and Clusters were all you could suck on — and that was unofficial) the very living, breathing breadth of the place was illustrated to me. A weird performing artist dressed as a fly (complete with metal sieves for eyes) began a wiggly dance behind two cardboard halves of an imaginary eggshell, on an impromptu sort of stage, and all for the benefit of three people. | |||
Meanwhile, fireside fave Attilla The Stockbroker drew in a massive crowd from far and wide to witness a lunchtime session of his anti-establishment skiffle poetry in the main marquee. Over the hedge, trapeze artists were doing their ... | |||
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<br><small>Photo by [[Tim Paton]].</small> | <br><small>Photo by [[Tim Paton]].</small> | ||
[[image:1989-07-01 New Musical Express | <small>Page scans.</small><br> | ||
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<br><small>Scans thanks to [http://archivedmusicpress.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/andrew-collins-reviews-glastonbury-for-the-nme-1st-july-1989/ Archived Music Press].</small> | |||
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