Hair today etc. etc.

Getting rid of Zoe's extensions was, we estimate, a 15 hour joint operation, in which numerous DVDs were watched...

Last shot of the extensions, 14:32 29/06/04...
18:19, well underway, still amused...	23:02, 8 1/2 hours in, a bit tired...
02:11, well in to the job, fucking knackered with a big bag of fake hair...	04:25, hysterical grin from fatigue. we give up for the night...
12:28 the next day, finally finished...	after some time spent in the shower, the princess emerges...

Glastonbury 2004

Wednesday

The drive down; we run out of diesel on the motorway and call the AA. We arrive and pitch tents after midnight...

Thursday

Wandering around...

Friday

Fire twirling, a bit of Hal, Wilco, Nelly Furtado, The Magic Band, Snow Patrol, PJ Harvey, Goldfrapp, Kosheen, Chemical Brothers...

Saturday

Mud monstering, Scissor Sisters, Ben Harper (rubbish, not pictured), Starsailor, Joss Stone (stop wiggling your arse and giggling girl), Black Eyed Peas (bit of, not pictured), The Rutles, Basement Jaxx...

Sunday

Green Field Entertainments, mud monsters, Gomez (not pictured), Belle and Sebastian, Orbital's last gig, more fire twirling, sunrise on Monday...

Glastonbury here we come

Happy Solstice Day

Glasto toilets

Female fans get festival toilets

They're pink.

Battle of the Beanfield

“What we - the ITN camera crew and myself as a reporter - have seen in the last 30 minutes here in this field has been some of the most brutal police treatment of people that I’ve witnessed in my entire career as a journalist. The number of people who have been hit by policemen, who have been clubbed whilst holding babies in their arms in coaches around this field, is yet to be counted...”

Where? Stonehenge 19 years ago. As friends make their way down there this week it's worth reading up on the 'Battle of the Beanfield'

the slightly less than triumphant return of the w33kly b3ta cull

amusing places close to you

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Stockport Express - News

Tower block arson final straw for residents : "The fire started at 11.45pm on Monday when arsonists set ablaze a settee, which had been dumped in the lobby of the council-owned Pendlebury Towers, on Lancashire Hill. Thick, black smoke was soon billowing up the lift shaft, where ventilation pipes had been plugged with insect repellent sheets. Within minutes, residents on the top floors were opening their doors to smoke."

Actually, I wasn't. I was with Zoe downstairs trying to get in. With one lift destroyed, one being commandeered by the firefighters, and the stairs billowing with smoke this proved difficult however. I stayed at Zoe's in the end.
Thus far our experience of anti-social youths has been several terrifying encounters in the lift for Zoe. On one occasion she was put through the horrendous ordeal of being asked about her hair extensions by an 11 year old. On another she was ambushed by seven year olds who, with no thought for her safety, told her she was sexy. But the final straw came yesterday when a couple of 16 year olds ruthlessly answered Zoe's queries about the fire in an unpityingly helpful way. The bastards.

Sick Animal by Paul Loudon

Went to the Salford Uni Degree Show at the Bridgewater to see a tiny bit more of Sara La Brow's excellent colour abstracts, and saw graphic designs for a range of "Sick Animal" merchandising by Paul Loudon which we found very, very funny. Congratulations card showing an animal giving the thumbs up from the end of a noose particularly amusing. I can't show you any of it so you'll have to take my word for it. Just wanted to get the words Paul Loudon and Sick Animal on Google really...

It's a Knockout Album Two

now with added ac tion shots! ooh, soapy...

BGWS It's a Knockout

Johnnie Johnson Housing do It's a Knockout in aid of Boys and Girls Welfare Society. An extremely fun, extremely soapy, extremely wet time was had by all, and lots of moolah raised for charity no doubt...

...ticketholders are required to have their NI number tatood to their wrist and to wear a yellow Star of David...

Glastonbury Festival ID Check Info

Terra Grass Armchair

I'd need to get a garden, but I still want a Terra Grass Armchair...

"assemble the sturdy cardboard frame into its chair-like shape, fill the structure with soil and plant the grass seeds. Water regularly and before long you'll have your very own organic chair."

fucked up. we like fucked up.

Fleep, the tale of a man trapped in a phone box surround by cement with amnesia...

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Tontie

Recommended by Barry in an email yesterday: Tontie (bashy bashy), from the makers of that insidious Grow game sent everyone potty...

A long way to go yet.

Star Wars IV meets ascii. Well, at least half of it anyway.

Pointless Personality Test Returns...

Rum and Monkey: Compatibility Test: "I'm an irredeemably eejitous, liberal, disgustingly generous, relatively well adjusted human being!
See how compatible you are with me!

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and using fingers to type with

New Scientist: Microsoft gains double-clicking patent, that being 'short, long or double clicks to launch different applications on "limited resource computing devices"'...

guinness and fighting

footy footy footy footy footy footy footy footy will mean nothing if you haven't seen badger badger badger... but then who hasn't seen it yet?

Sir Paul reveals Beatles drug use

The day after I discover I'm seeing The Rutles, one of the best jokes in the All You Need is Cash documentary is ruined by one of The Beatles revealing it's true. Yes, Paul McCartney used tea: "Sir Paul also revealed that he and fellow Beatle John Lennon had dabbled with another addictive substance during their schooldays - tea. 'We'd stuff some Twining Tea in a pipe, smoke that and write songs.'"

Eurocultured tilllate

Me and Kate were snapped by TillLate at the Eurocultered festival in Wakefield Street on Sunday whilst Zoe was indisposed...

:: t h e FREESTYLERS - RAW AS F**K

t h e FREESTYLERS return after too f**cking long away. Will Raw as F**k live up to the brilliance of Pressure Point or We Rock Hard? I ain't telling you, saw buy the album on June 28th and find out (DJ set on the Friday at Glasto apparently).

Bubble Bees

Bubble Bees. Awww!

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May 31st

Glasto lineup

Glastonbury Festival -Line Up, and points I want to scream about...

• The Rutles are on the acoustic stageon the Saturday. a bona fide Bonzo Dog on a stage in front of me. woohoo!
• Kosheen are on the dance tent on Friday, so the missus will be happy
• Friday at Avalon will feature Levellers Acoustic
• Captain beefheart's original Magic Band appear on the Jazz Stage on the Friday
• The "New Band" tent features up and coming youngsters Tim Booth, Zero 7 and Spiritualised...
• Orbital's last gig will be the last act of the last day on the Other Stage. Would have preferred dance tent, that could have got messy.

People I would defo like to see (though Friday looks a little difficult)...

Friday
Chemical Brothers (other)
Levellers Acoustic (avalon)
Kosheen Live Goldfrapp (other)
Groove Armada (pyramid)
Franz Ferdinand (other)
The Magic Band (jazz)
Snow Patrol (other)
Jet (other)
Wilco (pyramid)

Saturday
Basement Jaxx (other)
The Rutles (acoustic)
Damien Rice (other)
Von Bondies (other)
Zero 7 (new)
Tim Booth (new)

Sunday
Orbital (other)
Belle And Sebastien (other)
Gomez (other)