Chinese Lanterns Light Glasto Night Sky
Chinese Lanterns have gradually but for sure become an integral part of the festival feeling and Glastonbury is for certain the supreme – the big daddy- of all festivals. This year, the lanterns created an even more important visual aspect in the Somerset farm, as they featured as part of Blur’s emotional set which closed the festival on Sunday night. This was the 1st time that Blur has taken to Glastonbury’s stage since 1998 and it was a euphoriant and moving performance- not least because the sight of sky lanterns floating towards the moody skies created such a breath taking vistaThey even urged one Glasto-poet to write a stanza in honour of them in his poem For Tomorrow:Ten unsteady Chinese lanterns sailedacross the sky like lovers,lovers who had wounded us whom we had not seen for years.Neither did they escape the attention of the headline act. Damon Albarn from Blur commented that “they are beautiful” adding “It seems like there’s been a really, really positive atmosphere here”, no doubt this was helped along by the calming, hypnotic Chinese lanterns being launched.So there you have it- Chinese lanterns, wish lanterns, whatever you desire to call them- never fail to motivate, even at Glastonbury.
