Another thing ticked off my list of things to do before I die

I played at Glastonbury!

When I went to Glastonbury in 2000 I just loved it. I totally relaxed and every time I saw a band playing it gave me a lovely warm feeling inside to see them on stage infront of thousands of people and I just smiled my face off. Years later I was reading a self-help book and it asked me to remember a time when I was really enjoying what I was doing and Glastonbury was the first thing that came to mind. A few months later I joined Carnival Collective and a year later, last week, we played at Glastonbury 2004!

We did a couple of gigs walking about the circus field which was fun but not what I imagined when I first thought about playing at Glastonbury. We did a gig on the Fire and Dance stage which was more like it, it wasn't exactly a sea of people though. On the Sunday morning we played in the Leftfield tent which was much more like it - a really nice chilled out gig that we played well.

It was also great for me as I had designed the new band tshirts and Glastonbury was their debut. I got the idea for a fish-bone design whilst in Cardiff with the band. I was sitting on the toilet on the Sunday morning after our gig, with the shower curtains flapping in my face and they had a fish-bone print on them. In my hungover state I thought that they would look great on a tshirt! Three weeks later they were printed!

Anyway, on the Monday morning at Glastonbury it came! A gig at the Lost Vagueness Dome infront of a sea of people at 4 in the morning when not much else was going on. It was great. I was quite tired and irritable at the time, so it kind of passed me by, but it was still a great experience! One to tell my grandkids about when I'm old!

Other things I have crossed off my list of things to do before I die:

• Cross America (I read On The Road as I did it - me and Sal crossed paths a few times)
• Visit a club called The End Up in San Francisco (I read about it in ID magazine in 92 - it was rubbish by the time I got there five years later)
• See James Brown dance (and boy can he dance!)
• 'Drink sangria in the park' (I don't want to feed animals in the zoo though)

On walkabout.

Leftfield tent. Looking like a seventies funk band.

Dance and Fire stage.