As the Glastonbury Festival sells out in record time, we ask ‘Who is to blame?’: Paul McCartney, Mean Fiddler, Michael Eavis, or someone else. Canada, perhaps?

As is set out in the Festival’s license, the bill cannot be advertised in advance, although of course many, like Macca, have announced themselves, or have been ‘strongly rumoured’ in the press. See: Oasis, Muse, Morrissey and every other band you’ve ever heard of. The advantages of this are far reaching, though.

Keeping the roster under wraps helps ensure that only the devoted festival-goers go. Rather than letting the event be besieged by fat, largered up Oasis fans or spotty, under-aged Libertines kids, well paid businessmen seeking a break from the mundane can thus enjoy the event in peace. There’s nothing worse than spending the weekend in a field with mad, fanatical Radiohead fans. But we'd do well to remember that only the middle classes bemoan spending the weekend with the middle classes.

That in itself however, is the beauty of Glastonbury.

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