I’m going to Glastonbury! Fuckyeah! I’m also gonna be playing! I know what you’re thinking… on the Pyramid right? Well, not quite. My girlfriend’s getting free tickets to show her art performance Total Eclipse of the Head and I’m gonna be helping them out by playing some music.
I haven’t been to Glastonbury since I was about fourteen in 2000. I was pretty lucky, went with my mate from school Daniel and we managed to jump the fence with my sister and her friends from uni. It was the last year that security was pretty lax. There were so many people, apparently like twice as many as capacity. Almost every fence was down by the end of it, we just walked out.
My eyes got pretty opened that year, not a drugs thing, I was still pretty naive and didn’t even notice that most people were out of their minds. But I did see this woman fucking a rock! I was up at stone circle, it’s like the hippy area where most people would just stay there the whole festival taking hallucinogens. There was this black drummer in like a trance drumming these congas and this dancing girl across the way was getting really into it started stripping off, jumped onto one of the huge stones and started riding it along with the music. I was shocked! People started laughing and shouting “somebody fuck that girl!”. It’s a real family event.
I’m working on this program for my APC20 so that I can perform using Ableton, based on the Keyboard Sequencer from the last post. I’ve just figured out how to get the lights to do what I want them to, which took a whole day, so now it should be easy [hmmm right].
I couldn’t decide on a track to upload with this post so Ella decided for me. This is a tune I made with Tumbling Squares called Stumbling Home.