U2's the Edge joins us as guest blogger as we head to Glastonbury festival for four days of mud, mud and more mud. Oh, and probably some bands and stuff too ...
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We do have other photographers here, you know, ones that don't also spend their hours playing on U2 records. Here's a lovely Guardian gallery of the best pictures from today.
It seems like the Edge is actually trying to put us out of a job with his dedicated stream of updates. Seriously, I might give him a quick lesson in how to use R2 Web Tools and head off to the Green Fields for the night while he sits here grappling with SEO dilemmas. Anyway, here's the U2 chopper which, I'm assuming, will be transporting the band from Cardiff to Worthy Farm. He's titled this picture "All change".
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Now we're back in business here's a picture ... of the Edge! He's made good on his promise to email over photos and tales of the build up to U2's headline slot tomorrow night. Says the Edge:
"Touch down in the UK from Baltimore! I slept the whole way. Flight time was 6 hours and 52 minutes. But they had Barrys tea ? it's the small things that count. My head feels like a boiled onion."
That wasn't his first correspondence with us, either. Previously U2's guitar hero had emailed to say:
"It's 4am at Baltimore Washington International. The plane is loaded. So are the band. We overnight it to Cardiff. This is mental."
And before that too:
"In Baltimore about to go on. I Just met Florence for the first time. She's amazing. I saw her from side of stage last year at Glasto. One of the two highlights. The other being Broken Bells. Here we go- here we go- here we go!"
Expect more Edgy updates as the band build up to Friday night.
Apologies for the lack of service ? for the first, but probably not for the last, time this weekend our internet decided to go on strike.
"Stop going on about the mud, it's boring!" says reader ShermanMLight. Ok, ok, point taken, it's only the weather and all that. But before we shut up, let this lovely muddy video be the final grizzly word on the subject (for now at least) ...
We're expecting a bit more political ruff'n'tumble here this year compared to previous festivals. Which, considering the most political thing to happen at Glastonbury during my lifetime was a successful campaign to Bring Back Wispa chocolate bars, can only be a good thing. Michael Eavis seems relaxed about the festival becoming a sounding board for discontent although that may change if the UK Uncut lot get their way and successfully draw attention to the tax arrangements of headliners U2. Anyway, to kick things off, here's Jude Abbott of Chumbawumba who sent in a picture of herself modelling her new Bono-bashing t-shirt.
Don't tell me the excitement hasn't kicked off ? we've just had an email in saying that O2 predict Glastonbury goers will use approximately 1,088 GB of data on their phones this weekend. And if that isn't the least interesting fact you'll hear all weekend, I don't know what is.
In far more thrilling news, the above clip is me outside the Guardian hut explaining what we'll be up to at this year's festival. We'll have a team of hotshot music reporters out in the fields all weekend, of course, but we want you to join in too. There's simply too much festival for us to handle alone. You can tweet us at @guardianmusic and, if you're down on the site, please tweet reviews for us using the hashtag #gmreview. You can also send your best Glastonbury pictures to our Glastonbury 2011 Flickr group.
Hello and welcome to the 2011 Somerset Mud Sliding Championships, live from Worthy Farm in Pilton. I'll be your host for the next few hours, during which you can expect to see competitors gearing up for a gruelling endurance test ... oh, wait ... I've got my brief wrong? So this is actually Glastonbury festival? Bloody hell. It's going to be another one of those years, isn't it?
Or maybe not. The sun is shining and while nobody expects the mud sloshing around the site to clear up exactly, we may not be in for a total washout. The forecast ? Friday night notwithstanding ? looks pretty decent. Not that it makes a jot of difference to our dedicated team of livebloggers who will be sheltering backstage frantically updating you on the latest news, gossip, reviews, video interviews, podcasts, tweets and pictures of muddy folk.
We want you to join in too (more on which later). Especially if your mission is to be "that guy" on the news, sliding headfirst down Pennard Hill with a jester's hat on. You bloody fool.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/23/glastonbury-2011-live-thursday
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