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What with working, the mud and the sheer weight of numbers with nearly 30,000 extra bodies onsite, I’m afraid my usual wanderings from stage to stage were severely curtailed this year and I saw considerably less acts than I usually manage to catch. Even with the 12X optical zoom on my Lumix lens I was too far away from the stage to get any sort of reasonable shots of the likes of Bjork or Shirley Bassey. Many of those that I did get were impaired by waving flags & camera booms or the sheer distance I was from the stage, so I’m afraid that several of these photos aren’t up to the standard that I had hoped for.

The musical highlight for me was definitely Damon Albarn’s African Express collaboration on the Park Stage on Saturday night. The list of names he managed to attract to that small stage away from all of the main action of the festival was simply jaw dropping & I spent an amazing evening there with a very special new friend and probably no more than a few hundred other hardy souls who braved the conditions to get there. The photo that I got of Albarn & Norman Cook together is probably the highlight of my stage photography efforts to date but there are several others from the evening that I am also very proud of & I hope they are a fitting memento for those who were lucky enough to experience such a wonderful evening.
3 Daft Monkeys
3 Daft Monkeys
In the Bimble Inn
In the Bimble Inn
Stumbled across by chance
Stumbled across by chance
Reverend & The Makers
Reverend & The Makers
Marc Vedo
Marc Vedo
Chimanimani
Chimanimani
Seth Lakeman does a solo set
Seth Lakeman does a solo set
Eugene Hutz
Eugene Hutz
with Gogol Bordello
with Gogol Bordello
I'll get closer at Beautiful Days
I'll get closer at Beautiful Days
Bikini Beach Band
Bikini Beach Band
Shortly before Janet Jackson style Wardrobe Malfunction
Shortly before Janet Jackson style "Wardrobe Malfunction"
Rodney Branigan
Rodney Branigan
& his amazing dual guitar technique
& his amazing dual guitar technique
Quite outstanding
Quite outstanding
Oi Va Voi
Oi Va Voi
With new violinist
With new violinist
& vocalist
& vocalist
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris
Infadels
Infadels
Pigeon Detectives
Pigeon Detectives
Sugardaddy
Sugardaddy
Amadou & Mariam
Amadou & Mariam
First of the African Express artists I caught
First of the African Express artists I caught
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Interesting collaboration
Interesting collaboration
Toumani Diabate
Toumani Diabate
With Symmetric Orchestra & guests
With Symmetric Orchestra & guests
And more guests
And more guests
Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal
Terry Hall
Terry Hall
Doing Message to you Rudi with The Specials
Doing "Message to you Rudi" with The Specials
More from Baaba Maal
More from Baaba Maal
K'Naan
K'Naan
Ben Harper
Ben Harper
Tinariwen
Tinariwen
led by the enigmatic Ibrahim Ag Alhabib
led by the enigmatic Ibrahim Ag Alhabib
and playing their inimitable Toureg desert blues
and playing their inimitable Toureg desert blues
The Reverend again
The Reverend again
Messrs Albarn & Cook
Messrs Albarn & Cook
Magic Numbers
Magic Numbers
On their own
On their own
& with Amadou & Mariam
& with Amadou & Mariam
Biggles
Biggles
& his Wartime Band
& his Wartime Band
With special guest Sammy
With special guest Sammy
Goldblade
Goldblade
Classic punk poses
Classic punk poses