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Pome: In The Queue At Glastonbury

And the time wasted you’ll never get back

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JAMIE JACKSON
Aug 09, 2025
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This dude MAY have camped in the queue. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

In The Queue At Glastonbury

in the queue at Glasto 24

about 5 deep from getting in at 5 past 8 in the AM

a dude in full mountaineering gear like he garbed for the final assault on Everest in subarctic snow not the swelter of that 30 degreeplus Wednesday morn wore loads from his friends:

mate, what you dressed like that for???

mate, you look like Edmund Hilary???

mate, it’s fucking boiling, what the fuck you doing???

you come in fancy dress - as yourself???

guffaws and the gang all round;

yet you see them still - EG::: at Cheshire Oaks summer of 25 - today - garbed up the same and you have to love it becAuse:::

it’s a look

a tribe

a culture sub of nowhere

you have to love that the kids want to depeche mode the streets

because you did the same and

still do now,

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