The festival season has kicked off. I have no interest in going to any as I don’t want to camp and don’t fancy watching a band in a muddy field while the rain is pouring down. But I did tune into some of Glastonbury and will do when Reading is on on the TV. One of the TV ‘highlights’ last year was Guns N’ Roses with a band of 'all boxes ticked for the cliché rock star look' and Axl Rose’s painful performance of November Rain. It was hilarious.
So anyway, a song for a festival… Chillout Tent is one of the stand out songs from The Hold Steady’s breakthrough album (well a breakthrough of sorts) Boys And Girls In America. It’s a song about going to a festival taking too much drugs and hooking up with someone in the tent where you get medical attention. I guess that happened a few times at Glastonbury last weekend.
Sounds better in a song than it does with hell to pay
