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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Kelly Nestruck

A dip into the Glastonbury inbox

Back at GU HQ in London, let's take a peek at what's been arriving at glastonbury@theguardian.com.

Reader Scott Taylor writes: "I'm in London and won't be anywhere near this sorry-arsed, mainstream festival."

Oh. OK. Um, let's move on to reader "Teddave". He writes

"dear guardian unlimited

"pls dont go to glastonbury (surely only neo-sloanes call it glasto) and feign work. pls assure us that yr esteemed organ is going to retun to some proper jornalism rather than apeing the tiresome commodity driven lifestyle twaddle that the indy purports to pass off as reporting.

"pls no stories from glastobury.

"PLS PLS PLS

"its boring, self-indulgent and meaningless. if you work at a newspaper do yr job properly. have a great freebie but pls dont pretend yr working and then make us suffer with it.

"gawd, yr adrift a in a hall of mirrors."

That's all [sic], obviously.

So that's the view from not-at-Glastonbury. Now to Glastonbury, where everyone seems to be having a lot of fun, especially reader Christina Reif, who has been sending in lots of photos. Here is one she took of the Lightyears at the Small World stage:

The indie rockers played to a "captive audience", writes Christina, who we thank very much for the pix. Now why don't the rest of you out in the field send some in? That address again is glastonbury@theguardian.com.

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