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Glastonbury!
Posted on Tuesday the 24th of June, 2008 at 10:18pm
Well, after some meetings in Birmingham that I found pretty fractious and trying, I was totally psyched to land in Glastonbury for the Solstice weekend with my friend Lokabandhu... And, man, what a trip!
Met assorted witches, druids, pagans, hippies and general goddess-loving folks – all delightful and hospitable to this weary pilgrim... Found the graves of Christ and Mary Magdalene AND King Arthur and Guinevere in the abbey (!)... Talked spaceships, Celtic Orthodox Christianity and the debatable pleasures of urine drinking with strangers... Sipped from the Chalice Well, the Red and White springs sprung from cruets brought by Joseph of Arimathea containing the blood and sweat of the dying Jesus... Worked a shift in the Pilgrimage Centre... Ate fresh honey from a hive after a 'Shamanic' journey that involved entering the hive mind and getting covered in pollen and meeting the Good Honey Mother... Danced in torrential rain to live genuine, 100% New Age music... And, of course, climbed the wondrous and windy Tor... All in the beautiful Somerset countryside – no one does summer quite like England, it has to be said – lushly, ludicrously verdant and overwhelming with wild flowers. A real restorative for the heart.
(Cover of my latest album: 'Shadowmancer')
ps. In honour of the forthcoming, famously crusty Festival at Glastonbury, here are two wee pics I took on the streets: a heartbreakingly lovely Paddington Bear shaming us on the recent violence against immigrants to these shores – and a dubiously attributed 'Banksy' on the controversy around Jay-Z's headline spot at the usually rather 'white' festival.
