Glastonbury 2010: Paul Morley goes to the festival for the first time. What will he make of it?

Paul Morley has been writing about music for three decades, but he has always avoided Glastonbury. Now the festival sceptic meets the reality…B y the time I got to Glastonbury, before 10 on Friday morning, it was over 100,000 strong. A temporary town, a surreal city, an abstract English settlement had shimmered into existence, a highly decorative network stretching across miles of serene, gently rolling Somerset country. A single, continuous, organic structure spread out across the landscape, ...

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