Spike Island - Pulp

This new Pulp track's been growing on me over the past week, especially as I've just realised that this June it will be 30 years (!) since we saw their career making Glastonbury performance when they were drafted in at the last moment to replace The Stone Roses. Time flies eh? 1995 was a different world and we were hopelessly ill prepared for our first camping festival. I'm pretty sure we just took a tent, two sleeping bags and a change of clothes. No pillows, no food, no coats, no loo roll and...now this is serious...no booze. Madness. We didn't turn up until midday on the Friday either, although Glasto wasn't the almost week long shindig that it seems to be now. Fortunately '95 was one of the dry ones, unfortunately it was scorchio and we hadn't taken much dosh with us. Remember, there were no smart phones or mobile cash machines in those days, so it was cash or nothing. We made it until early on Sunday evening and then Lady Baron who, in her own words, resembled "an animal experiment" (she suffered from a particularly nasty bout of hay fever that year), wanted to go home. I don't think I took that much persuading. Despite stating that she'd never go to another camping festival ever again we went to nine more Glastos and numerous other events over the past 30 years and are still dragging our old bones to at least one a year...