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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alicia Canter

Glastonbury festival: Fatboy Slim wows Trash City

Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City. Entrance
Welcome to Trash City, 'an apocalyptic dream world ... where space pirates, bootleggers, illegal aliens and all the scum of the universe can come and party the night away', well, so says Glastonbury anyway Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
It's still daytime at the moment though, so how about a trashy alternative to camping? Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
Rubbish Fairy’s House Of Doll – a 'technicolour den of disorder' combining art, music and performance Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
Inner city wildlife – a sculpture from scrap-pile art and party collective Mutoid Waste Co Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
The safest way to get around in the mud Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
Part of a replica of a bombed New York tenement created to house the world’s first travelling gay disco Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
The disco itself, the New York City Downlow Club, voted best venue of 2007 by NME Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
Preparing for a girls' night out Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
Like fairies? Like rubbish? Then this is the place to be Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
Any hotel seems appealing when camping is the only alternative Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
What to do if you can't find a skateboard in Trash CIty Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
What does this do? Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
... Oh I see Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
After hours of 'will he? won't he?' rumours, Fatboy Slim shows up ... Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
... and sets Trash City alight Photograph: Alicia Canter
Trash City: Saturday at Glastonbury 2009: Trash City
The 'secret gig' wasn't so secret after all, it appears Photograph: Alicia Canter
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