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It was a day that will become a Glastonbury legend - the day the heavens opened and turned much of the valley into muddy water. Lightening struck the Dance Village, roads were closed down, about 200 tents submerged under as much as eight feet of water and the show delayed.
 | Yet once the clouds parted and the bands were on stage the festival resumed a life of its own. By night fall the mud was just another unique feature of the festival.
The White Stripes and the Killers put on fabulous shows to a packed audience on the main stage, music could be heard all over the 100-acre farm on both big and small stage. And tucked throughout the site were performance artists, acrobats, comedians and dancers. |
When I woke up bleary eyed this morning, it sounded like the party was still going as strong as when I retired to my tent.
In fact, the party only stopped at 4pm today when Michael Eavis and Bob Geldof took to the main stage for a minute of noise to send a message to the G8 in Gleneagles to Make Poverty History and Clean Energy our Future.
 | "On 6 July we will face down those eight men that can do this thing. This is not a question of money," said Geldof. "To die of want is an intellectual absurdity and it is morally repulsive. I would ask the people watching this on television to imagine half of this field dying now. And the other half. Those men at the G8 would have resolved the issue resolved between breakfast and the meeting."
Geldof ask everyone to join hands and join him sending a message to Gleneagles. Bands stopped playing across the festival as everyone joined in making a minute of noise. |
"I want you to individually believe you can change the condition of the most put-upon and beaten-down people on this planet."
You too can send a message to the G8 to take action in Gleneagles in 11 days. Upload your photo and add a message to Tony Blair.
Posted by tracy at June 25, 2005 06:50 PM
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