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Mondays
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Sunday afternoon mellowness was the prevailing mood throughout the first half of Happy Mondays' set on the Pyramid Stage. The main Mondays' conspicuous state of wastedness didn't exactly help matters - although Bez did his usual bug-eyed arm-whirling routine, their tracks didn't exactly sound over-rehearsed, and a general torpor gripped the almost exclusively cross-legged hordes covering the hill above the stage. Then, suddenly, all hell broke loose.
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Kermit the rapper seemed to lose the plot, wandering off into the crowd at the front of the stage. Then, out of nowhere, a naked girl bounded up onto the stage, made a beeline for Bez, put an arm around him and danced with him - in, if anything, an even more unhinged manner.
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This got the crowd on their feet, almost instantly, and the sudden effort was rewarded by an impromptu floorshow that lasted a surprisingly long time - nobody on stage seemed to mind that the unclad interloper found a comfortable little spot on stage in which to whirl away, blissfully.
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Inevitably, unkind suggestions circulated that the Mondays' newest and least adequately attired member might actually be an audience plant, as all of a sudden, everybody was on their feet and the gig kicked off. The Mondays simply reeled off a string of old baggy classics, culminating in an emotional sequence of Hallelujah followed by Step On. After Step On, the Mondays staggered off, no doubt to collapse spectacularly in some hospitality tent, leaving a field full of people waving their hands in the air with stupid grins on their faces. Classic Glastonbury behaviour.
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