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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mika

Glastonbury festival: the five tribes of Glastonbury

At festivals like Glastonbury, I think you've got five different types of people. You've got the attention seekers who dress up in the amazing costumes. Festivals aren't the same without them, so you'd call them the Bestival type.

You've got the complete stoners and the people who are totally out of it from the moment they get here to a few days after they leave, and they go for it all the time - without them, some tents would be empty.

Then you've got kids like the ones I've seen today - they're hipper than anyone I've seen. I wasn't that cool at 12; in fact I wasn't that cool at 23. If you're a kid and you're lucky enough to get taken to Glasonbury with your parents then it almost becomes more normal in a way. You don't have to be wasted in order to enjoy it because it's not anything too unusual.

Then there are the indie kids, and finally journalists! No, liggers. The liggers barely make it out of the backstage bar, which is pretty lame. I haven't even been to the backstage bar! I've just been drinking alcohol-free cranberry slush puppies at four quid a pop. Four quid! Life is expensive at festivals when things aren't for free. As for which tribe I am, I go through all four types of characters, excluding the liggers. I transition from one to the other.

If I was DJing here, my top Glastonbury floor-fillers would be some Bonde Do Role, I heard a fantastic Spank Rock remix of CSS's Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above on the Fabric Live CD so that would be one of them as well, some Tiga - I think he's massively underrated. I'd chose Sexor. Tiga's a very stylish man as well. Oh, and Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy.

You can find all our Glastonbury coverage here.

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