![]() ![]() The Romans knew that you don't need a Funktion One sound system to make somewhere sound great - just build it in a circle and make it go up a bit, and hey presto, you've got an amazing sound space. I prefer to to be up in the gods jumping on the wood in order to get a full perspective of the place - I have genuinely never been more blown away by a club space anywhere in the world. It's a wooden amphitheatre built out of re-cycled railway sleepers, with the DJ booth up on high opposite an immense wooden Pharaoh and down below there is what can only be described as a bear pit where the most hardcore of folk dance the night away. but it doesn't matter a jot what's on in there - it's about the space. Through the night it's DJs, through the day it's all kinds of stuff like paint and tomato fights, fire eating etc. No need for inebriated trannies to carry this one off - just the absolute creme de la creme of design and production from curators Bearded Kitten. There, on the Common in Shangri La, laid The Temple. As much as that sounds like a living nightmare for a middle-aged straight man, it was a great use of a few hours, but mere child's play compared to the utter genius of what was just around the corner. It then ended with me tripping over a gimp in a cage on the dancefloor while Seth Troxler was playing gay disco in the background. There are many options for open-minded blowing like the NYC Downlow area for example, which began by me being berated by a transvestite on a balcony above the queue for refusing their offer of "get your cock out and get free entry" (I was whipped with a dildo as a penalty). You can talk all you like about the big acts at Glastonbury, but to me the genius of the place is the utter farce that descends after hours, well away from the main stages.Īs a man who has spent at least some of every summer since 2004 in Ibiza, I am obviously a bit biased towards surreal partying and DJ culture but as my visit to Glasto's after-hours mayhem in Shangri La proved this weekend, you don't have to like the music or the scene that it references in order to get it. ![]()
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