Happy camper: Oberst's new album Cassadaga was released in April
Five things you should do at Glastonbury
1) The most important thing, I'd say, is to prioritise your musical list on your schedule so you don't miss anything you want to see. For me, most festivals are pretty miserable, with the exception of getting to see all the good music. I wouldn't come here unless I wanted to see music. No way.
2) Pack for all weather. We've played here twice before and the first time it was sunny, unbelievably beautiful and the second time it was like hell on earth - rain, floods, apocalyptic weather - and I feel like today it's somewhere in between. It's sunny for a second and then it's sprinkling. I don't mind it, actually.
3) Stay drunk, if you can. That makes it better.
4) Stay high.
5) Try to talk to people, try to be friendly. If there's anything that's to be offered by a festival situation, besides the music, it's the chance to interact with a bunch of random people in an utopian concept of "let's all get together in this fake city and eat, drink, be merry and listen to music".
Five thing you shouldn't do at Glastonbury
1) You shouldn't take mushrooms before you play. I learned that the hard way the last time we played Glastonbury in 2005.
2) Come to Glastonbury if you're not playing. I've never been to a festival where I wasn't playing. At the age where I would have done it, there wasn't a whole lot of festivals going on in America. The ones that are good now, like Coachella and Austin City Limits, only came into existence in the last five years.
3) If you're going to get drunk, drink some water. Although then you have to find a bathroom, which is one of the bummers of being in a festival situation.
4) Don't wear shorts. If you do, don't come without bug spray.
5) Don't lose your positivity. Always remember it could be a lot worse. You could be working down a coalmine.
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