'Music has the power to bond people and even with people you've only met five minutes earlier,' 🎸
Over 200,000 people flock to Glastonbury every year. It's by far the biggest music festival in the UK and features a total of 62 stages.
Vodafone is the provider this year, taking over from EE and promising "the highest capacity ever" on its network, but that's no use to me on O2. That realisation soon hit me after I'd stupidly arranged to meet my friends 'by the Pyramid Stage', a vast arena that was rapidly being flooded with thousands of people for the Arctic Monkeys' headline set on Friday.
Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now It was a choice between attempting to battle my way even further in, on the slim chance I might stumble upon them, or fight my way back out and resign myself to a night singing along solo. I reluctantly resigned myself to the latter and admittedly had a bit of a wobble, looking around at the groups of friends laughing and drinking together. I felt lonely despite the number of people.
She asked if I was alright and I explained I'd lost my friends, which she looked dismayed by. She was with a bigger group and they welcomed me to stick with them, despite us being total strangers. As the band launched into Sculptures of Anything Goes I felt my mood buoyed by the bass and the cheerful whooping of everyone around me.
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