October 2007
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Afghan Glastonbury brings music to minefield →
The Independent
By Jerome Starkey, in Kabul
More than 170,000 Afghans packed into the country’s first pop festival this week, the biggest recreational gathering since the fall of the Taliban almost six years ago and a gig that could have been dubbed Glastonbury Afghanistan. It was a far cry from the misery of suicide bombs and house-to-house fighting and like Glastonbury, it shared an...