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OPINION - Glastonbury? No thanks — with its mix of rain, camping and Coldplay I'd rather be at Taylor Swift instead

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Glastonbury starts again this week and the excitement is palpable. Though I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less.

I can pinpoint the moment my Glasto dream died. It was 2011, in the early hours of Sunday morning and I was lying face down in mud.

The rain that year wasn’t just torrential, it was horizontal – tents flooded and were swept away and transformed into 900 acres of pure quagmire. Trucks were called in to help clear the worst affected areas and straw

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