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Working Week/The Untouchables/Midnight Oil/The Style Council: Glastonbury CND Festival, Somerset

William Shaw, Smash Hits, 3 July 1985

MUD: IT'S what you get if 40,000 people tramp around a small farm for 48 hours in almost constant rain. A lot of mud. By Saturday, the second day of three, Glastonbury Festival looks a lot more like a refugee camp than a really "fun" place to be — thousands of sodden tents in a sea of oozing, squelching, splashing, horrible mud. And, for that matter, the crowd look more like a bunch of prisoners of war than people on a weekend's holiday.

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