Blur ’s Alex James has called Glastonbury Festival a “gory drugs bender”, and said that with the hype it gets, “you’d think it’s the only festival in the world”. READ MORE: Alex James on revisiting Blur for ‘Britpop Classical’ – and if he’d ever return to Coachella The bassist, who also runs his own festival, Big Feastival, shared his comments about the iconic festival held annually at Worthy Farm during a new interview with The Times . In the interview, he explained that he thinks there are far superior festival events to Glasto taking place across Europe, but people don’t seem to give them the same praise as the South West England event, which spans between 900 to 1,500 acres. “You’d think it’s the only festival in the world,” he shared, adding that he sees it as “a gory drugs bender” when compared to festivals like Roskilde in Denmark which are more “underrated”. “Roskilde’s got amazing food because it’s Denmark, it’s just really civilised and the toilets are nice.…