Mud, sweat and beers at Britain's Glastonbury music Festival

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

GLASTONBURY, England (AFP) — American rockers The Killers topped the bill Saturday at Britain's Glastonbury Festival, where revellers refused to be downcast as they trudged through the sludge swamping the muddy site.

The giant three-day jamboree of music and alternative culture was mired in the traditional bog, with few among the up to 180,000 Glastonbury-goers not caked in a thick layer of mud.

Rain fell again on the second day of the world's biggest performing arts festival, which annually takes over the 800-acre (320 hectare) Worthy Farm in Somerset, south-west England.

The Killers topped the bill Saturday on the main Pyramid Stage, with The Kooks, Paul Weller, Paulo Nutini, Lily Allen, Dirty Pretty Things and the Guillemots also on the line-up.

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