WELCOME TO GUESTIVAL!

by artrocker.com
EDITORIAL It’s Primal Scream coming straight down the wire to you wherever you are - for the world’s first ever online music festival! You don’t have to move from your room, just stay put and hoover up the radiation from your computer screen. There’s no need to venture out into the wilderness, get accosted by any fucking hippies or to get trench foot in a quagmire of piss and shit. Those days are gone! The day will soon come when the festival experience will get switched on and tuned in to the chip in the back of your head. But for now Guestival 2008 is here at Artrocker.com. So, in the exclusivity of your own home no less, grab yourself some tins from the fridge, pull out your secret stash, sit back and confuse yourself in the realms between the real and the virtual worlds of rock and roll. 




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