Anyone go to Homelands? Anyone see Pulp!?

That was possibly the most surreal experience of my life. Go up there about 7:00, expecting Pulp not to be on for a while, then being told they were on in 5 minutes! (this is very early, we thought, is it because no one here cares? probably.) reassuring that despite large police prescence, acid can still be bought on the way in. then you get searched which is horrible, especially if you are drunk and being shouted at by a man with a mad scottish accent, who almost tells you to drop your trousers. so run into main arena, halfway through what is probably their 2nd song (missed e's and whizz, but not everything can be perfect) the new songs are good, especially sunrise, which has this big, what goes on-ish ending. common people is unbelievable, kind of throbbing. and then they end about quarter to nine. jarvis is a god, it's official. the only source of wit in this entire field. what were they doing here, god knows. saw orbital later on, their light show was good, and the visuals - pacman eating up corporate symbols, from what I can remember, and everyone is having a really good time. saw the orb at 4:30 in the morning till 6:00 am, when the organisers have the excellent idea of playing 'mr. sandman', after the orb do this lilting techno-comedown thing, with no seemingly no beginning or end (it just...stops) spend hours between ten and 4:30 wandering about a field in hampshire with 50,000 other people, laughing at awful DJ's, and especially in the drum'n'bass tent, which makes no sense at all, and b-boys in baseball caps are dancing very. very. badly. it is now cold and disorienting experiencing a hangover to the worlds biggest bass. some people went on the gravity defying funfair rides. but it was fun, and gains extra marks for being the only festival I can walk to.

so anyone else go? what did you think?

Bill