A logical choice to follow Mark Stewart and a track that often bombs around my brain. ‘Beef’ takes me back to the heady days of 1990, the tail end of my first year at Sussex University and the Glastonbury festival. Three drug-fuelled days spent with friends from the campus. I have no idea how much I slept, or if I slept at all. I know I only went to the bog once and it was cathartic. I slept in someone else’s tent because mine had been hijacked, and there was a sound system about 50 metres in front of me blasting out ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ on repeat. Thankfully that changed to ‘In A Silent Way’ just before dawn. By then, however, the damage had already been done and, admitting defeat, I set off with John Hassay to the folk tent. It was in full swing and we ate ice cream and chatted to a Scottish lad there about different types of acid. ‘Beef’ was big on the main field sound system, which added to the apocalyptic nature of the whole occasion.
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