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Mon 09 Sep 2010Posh camping? I don't think so
AT 7AM yesterday morning, I was losing the will to go on. A very drunk and very tone-deaf man in a tent near mine had been singing You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,over and over again for the best part of three hours. Sometimes he would pause for up to 10 minutes – or just long enough for me to fall into a fitful sleep – before bursting into song again.
This particular barney culminated in the man shouting: “I saw you run off with that fella in the kaftan,” to his less-than-contrite girlfriend. Electric Picnic is a kaftan kind of place.
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