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Glastonbury 2016: The music that made it magical
Fuck the mud, fuck the rain and fuck Brexit, we had an absolute ball regardless
Ben UFO b2b Job Jobse - The Temple, Sunday
Midland and Palms Trax were a tough act to follow, but Hessle Audio co-founder Ben UFO and Dutch DJ Job Jobse had no trouble in keeping our wellies on the dancefloor. The entirety of their 3am to 5am set was jam packed with smile-inducing cuts, dousing us with lush, grooving house. One commenter on social media said the two DJs "absolutely schooled" it and we're not ones to deny it. As the night sky started to fade away and the grey morning began to emerge, the realisation that the festival was nearly finished started to kick in and that dreaded sick feeling in the stomach started to make itself known. BUFO and Job may well have had the same symptoms and made sure they'd be kept at bay by treating everyone to the delicate synths and mind-massaging drums of Lock Eyes' '21 Le Fou'. What a dream. Words: Dave Turner
[Photo Credit: Dave Jensen & Ed Bishop]
And that was it. The last tune at Glastonbury was played. Although it was a sad time knowing that we'd only have one last jaunt to the Stone Circle before heading back to the grim reality that is post-Brexit Britain, Ben UFO and Job Jobse saw us out in style. It's always a tricky thing, picking not only the song to end a set, but one to close out the best festival in the world...
If anything was going to do the business it was Armand Van Helden's 'I Want Your Soul'. Cue an epic sing-a-long that united The Temple for seven minutes of pure euphoria. The mud by this point was upsettingly heavy under-foot and the sky was grey but who gave a fuck? No-one did. Everyone who was in The Temple for the last six hours of Glastonbury knew they'd made the right choice. Words: Funster
Thank you to every selector, every vendor, every stage manager, ever dancer, every flag-bearer, every drag queen, every trans-sexual, every member of security, every band and every single person who gave Glastonbury 2016 their fucking all. It was a weird year but by God it was a belter. Funster
[Photo Credit: Egle Trezzi]
