- Artists:
- The National »
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The verdict on this year's Green Man festival, then: pretty awesome by all accounts. Best festival of the summer? Maybe. One of our bands of the festival, The National, enjoyed themselves too - so much so, in fact, that drummer Bryan Devendorff decided to treat us to a captioned selection of his festival snaps. Enjoy!

1. I spy a hill

2. Terry emerges from the bus

3. In harmony with the land

4. The Dark Lord

5. A security worker at her station. Poised and lovely, like a flamingo

6. Scott and Terry were briefly hijacked by these dudes who were all juiced up on Strongbow

7. Part movie re-enactment, part raver. When I tried sneaking a candid of Terry and this guy, he went all samurai and was like: "Avast! I be searchin' for ye olde M-D-M-Aaaay"

8. A family of elves jives together on the dance tarp, powerless against the music of Peter, Bjorn and John

9. Friend of the woman in pink Spandex (in a squeaky voice): "Shall I hold your fag for ya?"
The woman in pink Spandex: "Aaggghhh...."
Green man: (smiles)
[Freeze frame]
Voice over: "And so I met Muriel, my lover. She wore Spandex; she smoked Silk Cuts. Ours was an affair of the heart..."

10. This picture was taken by Beth of the spectacular Bowerbirds. My brother and I are looking a little bug-eyed here. We were trying too hard to look "serious". You might recognise that other guy from the Starbucks Face of Summer ad campaign circa London 2006
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jesus
i hope that guy had better luck than me looking for drugs.
That family of elves pic makes me chuckle
They played some seriously good music in that Records Rock tent when I went in to look around.
That family of elves pic makes me chuckle
They played some seriously good music in that Records Rock tent when I went in to look around.

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