Kevin EG Perry heads in for a mash-upWe should have been packed by now. In another, better timeline, we’d have spent yesterday trying to remember where we left our wellies.
Today we’d be crammed into cars, sleeping bags under our feet to make space for more booze in the boot, setting off on the slow pilgrimage to some corner of a Pilton field that is forever Glastonbury.Not this year; not in our new prevailing reality.
Social distancing does not easily lend itself to 200,000 people getting mashed in the mud. We must make do. The BBC will be broadcasting classic sets all weekend, as close as you’ll get to the Pyramid stage in 2020, but what of the festival’s notorious late-night south-east corner?