Before you start chasing after me with a rolling pin and your hair in curlers yelling about something I did to your daughter or how this post doesn't have anything to do with guitars, read closely.
Glastonbury is a huge hippie festival in England. First held the day after Hendrix died in 1970, Glastonbury has grown from a small concert on 900 acres of farmland into a huge sprawling hippie music-festival on the same 900 acres. It has roughly 1000 (actual number, not hyperbole) acts performing across a dozen or more stages in three days. Many huge bands have headlined or have started out on the smaller stages and returned as headliners, such as T. Rex, David Bowie, Radiohead and many more. Despite it's massive size (153,000 attended 2005's festival), the festival has yet to become a huge corporate tool compared other festivals its size. It's as close to the good Woodstock (not the awful '94 and '99 attempts) as any of us are going to get.
What does it have to do with guitars? It's a music festival with a bunch of bands, a lot of whom will have guitars. I heard somewhere that Orange Amps sets up a cell phone tower or recharging station or something like that. I don't know how well their cell phone towers work, but if they're as sweet as their outrageously-expensive and totally sweet amps, which have become the standard for Acid Rock, I'll be ok.
More on this awesome story as it develops. They don't announce the full lineup until June (2 months after the tickets have sold out in about an hour), but the headliners this year are The Verve, Kings of Leon and Jay-Z.
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