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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Kaiser Chiefs at Glastonbury Festival, 2007, by Danny (photo © Danny North 2007)

This was the first time I’d ever shot a band on a main stage at a festival, it just so happened to be Kaiser Chiefs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. Throughout the show I kept getting texts from mates who were watching at home and had seen me shake Simon’s hand when he was walking out on stage. (You can see it one second in here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl86XzmBVZE.) I knew Simon a little back then because he was the bar manager at the pub I spent many hours drinking in and my band had played loads. So funny, I wasn’t really aware that I shouldn’t have done it, I was just so excited to be there and to be shooting it.

I was so high afterwards. Despite the mud – and believe me, there was mud – and despite the rain – oh there was rain – I loved that weekend so much. That moment on Sunday was just so goddamn exciting. That feeling never leaves me, I love and crave for it every festival season, and count the days passing during in winter, waiting to get back out in those fields and on those stages.

POSTED BY DANNY