Blog ≫ 2005 ≫ Glastonbury Festival hit by rain

"A few unlucky ones just arriving at the site this morning - some unprepared for the rain in flip-flops and shorts - faced the prospect of pitching their tents in the storm"... now what sort of fool would do that? I must put those old pictures online!

BBC Radio 1's live coverage was abandoned, the weather cut the power to the Pyramid Stage (what about that big old turbine they had?), and lightning burnt a hole in a beer tent.

Here's how the Radio Times 1 are representing the festival, then a still slightly cheery image from The Times 2, and finally a stinker from Reuters 3:

radiotimes.com/html/2005/06/24/homepage/highlight.jpg 4images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,208888,00.jpg 5today.reuters.co.uk/genImage.aspx?uri=2005-06-24T095445Z_01_HO339132_RTRUKOP_2_PICTURE0.jpg&resize=full 6

Oof, nme.com has people swimming 7, that's how bad it is...

  1. Removed old radiotimes.com link here.
  2. Removed old timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1667814,00.html link here.
  3. Removed old today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-06-24T095447Z_01_HO339132_RTRUKOC_0_LEISURE-BRITAIN-GLASTONBURY.xml link here.
  4. Removed old radiotimes.com/html/2005/06/24/homepage/highlight.jpg link here.
  5. Removed old images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,208888,00.jpg link here.
  6. Removed old today.reuters.co.uk/genImage.aspx?uri=2005-06-24T095445Z_01_HO339132_RTRUKOP_2_PICTURE0.jpg&resize=full link here.
  7. Removed old nmefestivals.com/gallery/i/682 link here.

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