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Cover story: Summer Festivals ; 103 VISUAL ART What’s come over us all? Spring comes round and we hover feverishly r ~ - - by our computers, waiting to splash out big money on tickets for OVerCrOWded festivals before we have any idea of their line-ups, ;- Regardless of the crush and the long queues for the toilet, we just can’t “1 EAT THERE “"5

. . . . FORTNIGHT re5ist these iamborees in the sunshine (or mud). OK, our love of the "3 PLAY summer festival isn’t new: audiences have been every bit as enthusiatic T , i about wigging out in a field, as the Woodstock revellers were in 1969. t "5 TRAVEL But demand and the number of festivals is going through the roof. "7 SHOP Read our guide to the best of this year’s fests, starting on page 18. 118 HEALTH & ADVICE ; . - . i _. _ . , _ 119 CLASSIFIED O O I L—u____—_m~_“ Hu_ ‘5 - w Also In this issue i ‘I I ' 14 Sons and Daughters Angular guitar crossed with rockabilly il—‘"" —' ‘—" "' has turned these kids into the hottest thing on the block. We go ‘28 ANSWER MACHINE: gigging with the children of the Glasgow music revolution. ; BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ; 16 Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith The sixth and final film in AND F'NALLY ° ' ' George Lucas' brilliant epic is upon us, and rumour has it that it is a puinshed by The List Ltd good one. So how come everyone’s not celebrating? i HEAD Omeg;

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