Robin Hill Country Park,Isle of WightSimon Le Bon and gang offer guilty musical pleasures, but it’s rapper Missy Elliott and the Chemical Brothers who triumph at this discontinuance-of-season, or fancy-dress intellect-benderWhen several thousand ironic hippies parade past the world’s largest glitterball,you know you’re at Bestival, Rob and Josie da Bank’s discontinuance-of-season, or fancy-dress intellect-bender. The dedication of the 80000 devotees embracing this year’s Summer of Love theme is built on three pillars: wedding-party nostalgia,left-field sonics and surrealist hedonism. How surreal? Troupes of pandas dance around a 3o-foot toy robot while Tina T-urner Tea Lady – essentially Mrs Overall played by Nutbush’s horniest diva – leads a hand-to-buttock conga line. Dinosaur Pile-Up’s monolithic grunge preludes a rave set from the Chuckle Brothers. Bestival’s Ambient Forest crawls with human cockerels and lagered luvvies performing Shit-faced Shakespeare. Enter a shipping container, discover a Marrakesh piano lounge. It is the Noel Fieldings Luxury Comedy of festivals. Related: Duran Duran on being snubbed by Dylan, or riding rutting elephants in Sri Lanka and wearing pink trousers Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com