This year's Glastonbury has been hailed as the best year in festival history. Rock legends, free love, all night dancing and never ending optimism that Daft Punk might actually show up; it all culminated in one of the most super fantastic, incredible, creative, spiritually enhancing, bonkers and out of this world collective experiences ever had in a field in Somerset.
Unusually for British summer time, this year’s festival saw some of the best weather its possible to imagine, except of course in the Greenpeace field! This year, the Greenpeace field experienced some rather more extreme weather as 2013 was the year the North Pole came to Glastonbury.
Polar bears, winter wonderlands, intrepid explorers, arctic retreats, hot tubs, oil rigs and about five different types of snow made one of the most amazing fields Glasto has ever seen and worked hard at delivering a powerful message about the melting Arctic ice and the oil companies prospecting for the resources that lie beneath it. If you haven’t signed up for the Save The Arctic campaign yet, do it here now.
The Camden crew were in toe this year in various roles around the festival but the highlight for most of us was the huge snowball fight that took place on Friday night, featured on primetime on the BBC’s One Show. Whilst I’m no Glastonbury virgin, this was however the first year I've worked at a festival. Admittedly I always thought it would be a bit rubbish working at a festival, why would you want to when you could just pay and do whatever you want for three days? So if I’m being honest, I went into it somewhat reluctantly.
But what no one told me, was that at Glastonbury, working for Greenpeace is actually part of the festival experience. Not only are you part of one big huge fun family for five days but as a campaigner especially, you get to spend your time talking to people about a really important cause with some of the most interesting and surprising characters who also genuinely care what you have to say (albeit occasionally a few sandwiches short of a picnic, let’s be honest, it’s going to happen).
At the end of it all you come out of it in such a positive and enlightened place you know you are probably physically embodying all of the most ridiculous festival cliches but it feels so good you just don’t care.
Hope everyone else who was there had as awesome a time as us, roll on 2014!
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