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I might go to Glasto if there were more boybands on the line-up

As fans gather at Worthy Farm this weekend, Will Gore wonders if the Eavis family are missing a trick

Saturday 25 June 2022 21:30 BST
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<p>Looking at the line-up for 2022, I can find a few acts I’d like to see</p>

Looking at the line-up for 2022, I can find a few acts I’d like to see

To say, on the actual weekend of the festival, that Glastonbury isn’t the be all and end all may sound like sour grapes, given that I won't be there. And let me be clear, I don’t hate Glasto or music festivals per se.

I can’t stand a festival bore, obviously; the sort who wears their entry wristbands for a month after getting back to the office, or who wangs on about how they got trench foot back in the mudfest of ’98, or who won’t accept that you’ve experienced life unless you’ve got stoned at Worthy Farm under a moonlit sky with members of a minor Britpop collective.

They are also the kind of people who love Jarvis Cocker for being so arch, but who then sway along to Elbow’s relentless ‘One Day Like This’ in a display of such saccharine, cultish devotion that it would make David Miscavige proud.

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