[Closed] Glastonbury

never been, really want to go next year though, with wife and my son who will be 13 months old, maybe in a camper van

Chicks in wellies and mini skirts, drool

Grew up nearby... parents used to help run the medical facilities.

Been 12 times since 1992. Wish I was there this weekend. 🙁

Just spotted the Wolves flag in the crowd. 😀 That is always there, front left of the Piramid.

Who was there with me?

me...for the two really sunny ones. 8)

(Rolf + Tom Jones)

Rolf was '92 wasn't he? First up on the Friday? I was mashed off my Swede on cider by midday. Talk about not pacing myself!

Dizzee is giving it some on BBC at the moment.

I've had so many good moments over the years.... [url=

being one of 'em[/url] - all the old ravers were close to tears.

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was one hell of a singalong....

[i]Dizzee is giving it some on BBC at the moment[/i]

There's a great [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGI_VcxHKEI ]'acoustic'[/url] version of [i]Dance Wiv Me[/i] - Calvin Harris dancing like a supercool geography teacher.

Never been, the lineup this year looks shite as well.

Does look pretty nice over there at the moment 😥

The big red head with Dizzee looks pretty nice too.

_tom_ - Member
Never been, the lineup this year looks shite as well.

People that go to Glastonbury for the line up are missing the point. But you probably knew that.

Nope, if I paid that much for a weekend I'd hope to hear some half decent music 😆

waiting for willie nelson*

* actually waiting for Cambridge

[i]the lineup this year looks shite[/i]

The main lineup forms about 10% of the fun... 😀

mmmm. If there is nothing at Glastonbury for you...I feel for your ears. I have been a few times, and rarely visited the main stages. Avoid the arena bands and you see some real gems.

Was there in '95 when it was as hot as this weekend, managed to fall asleep standing up during Oasis I was so knackered & fell on the people in front of us in the crowd!

I remember pretending to be a Christian in the God Tent to get a free brew.

I'll probably burn for that.

[i]you see some real gems[/i]

Indeed.

[i]I'll probably burn for that[/i]

hari krishna tent for free scoff & no divine retribution, iirc.

Edith is looking a bit rough in a "you would" sort of way.

[i]"you would" sort of way.[/i]

By the friday night, and transformed by cider, I feel that sort of way about most things.

Only went to Glastonbury once & i was 'working'.

If you were there in '92 you'll remember the 50ft 5 ton Wickerman built, run & burnt by the theatre group 'Dogs of Heaven'. I was part of that, spent the shows naked apart from a pair of German para boots, a coat of body paint & a horned helmet with a slit in it to allow my red mohican to show through!
IIRC we had the 2nd biggest crowd of the weekend, 2nd only to Tom Jones 🙂

Snoop Dog is an a-hole. Time to move to Willie Nelson on BBC4.

Corinne Bailey Rae is just beautiful.

I used to go to Reading each year cos the lineup was always better IMO. Glastonbury always seemed full of divs not giving a toss about the lineup 😉

You're so 'core.

89 or 90 > 95 here i think.

The 90s are a bit of a blur, not sure if i went once or twice, remember The Levelers as the highlight of one trip, dancing in warm summer rain.

never been to Glastonbury or Leeds festivals; went to Reading c1986. Waste of a weekend IMO.

My fave band is playing the Avalon stage round about now but as per usual the BBC won't show them. Never mind, I saw them in Holmfirth last night for £17 instead of £150 & I bet we got a longer set too.

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New Model Army

John_drummer

I spent a couple of hrs in '92 chatting with Justin, Joolz & Rev in the backstage/food area. I'd forgotten all about that til you posted that pic!
Haven't seen NMA in yrs now, need to sort my act out and get to a gig again.

Was there in '95 when it was as hot as this weekend

Me too, although I reckon it was hotter that year. I actually passed out with heatstroke! *

*Not eating or sleeping between thursday and sunday had nothing to do with this utter collapse of bodily functions, a fact fully endorsed by the medics I was caning it with 🙂

Going to see the army down here in August, first time for years.

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30th Anniversary dates in the autumn - 2 consecutive nights at any given venue, 2 sets per night, no support band. Songs from all 30 years will be played. I sooo want to go but Nottingham's the nearest they're coming to me and frankly that's too far. They really should do 2 nights at Holmfirth.

Or Bradford really, but nobody would go 😉

Saw Johnny Cash one year when I had an op on my knee and was on crutches, went the next year too......bit of a blur to be honest.

'94 '95 '97 '2000.

So many good memories, was going to take my lad this year...other stuff got in the way. Next year for sure.

30yrs?

Bloody hell, the audience will be on zimmer frames let alone the band! 😆 Had some good times with the old kitbag & clogs...

1975 to 1999. Grew up on the festi circuit, many seminal moments. My dad is there trading as usual. Friends run the acoustic stage. Used to love it. Don't miss it now. My folks know the medical lot noteeth, they're from down the road.

30 years yes but Justin is the only original member; he'll be 51-52 now. The rest of the band are considerably younger

51/52?

Now i feel old 🙁

I'm 45 if it makes you feel any better

Saw Steve Lamacq leaving the Swan Hotel in Wells on thursday morning....getting too old to camp now?

Florence and the Machine were pretty good IMO on the red button.

I was the a few times in the early naughtys, I'm not as pls as some f you, but did manage to catch two of my all time top 5, radiohead and flaming lips- talking of which I'm ready for Wayne and the crew now- also remember scoring some of the best e's ever:))))))

I can hear it now from my house as I type ,saves me £185 !! My kids always go though and I did in the early 80s when it was about £15

La roux 😐

Mumford & Sons doing a couple of new tracks on the red button....

I was there a few times in the mid-90s. May even have served you a beer (in the worker's beer tent not the god tent). The only act I can vaguely remember is Orbital which suggests to me that I must have spent the rest of the time at soundsystems and in the dance tent with some good shrooms.
Not sure if I'd want to go these days - I think it can do without another thirtysomething!

[i]I can hear it now from my house as I type ,saves me £185 !! My kids always go though and I did in the early 80s when it was about £15[/i]

Bingley Live in September is just over the hill from me; if the wind is in the right direction I can hear it from my house

the line-up hasn't been updated lately but at £30 + booking fee for the whole weekend I'd say it's a bargain. Anyone scheduling a run of The Bingley Bash might get to see it for free, from a distance. cheapskates 😉

First went in '89, you just parked where you wanted and camped next to the vehicle. I've no idea who played that year, suspect the Waterboys. I think. Went a lot until mid nineties, recall orbital on the NME stage was a big highlight one year, and stumbling on Osric tentacles in random small tents in middle of nowehere. Walked straight in one year, no ticket or owt, that wouldn't happen nowadays. I remember the Wicker man burn as well. 😎

Cheers for the head up about Mumfords on red button, quality.

1992 - arrived in the back of a mini van to see television but the only thing I can remember is being mesmerised the length of the queue for 99's from a full on Mr Whippy van in the morning dawn

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Magnificent!

1994 ... me, the missus and two mates from york squashed in to a tiiiny daihatsu with all our camping gear! Ace memories

Particularly remember Weller playing as the sunset, the Manics (when they were still a bit edgy), Blur, Radiohead, The Pretenders !!! and a new band called oasis playing a short mid-afternoon set.

One glorious weekend ... we're watching now looks ace, we must go back!

all i can remember is late 90s, sea of mud,lots of little white things , Daft Punk. oh and two weeks to recover.

In the early 90s I was following the DiY and Smokescreen soundsystems at free parties across the Midlands. I remember thinking that Glastonbury seemed a bit too commercial compared to the free party scene, but maybe that was a tad elitist. By the mid 90s, some friends and I started going to the Big Chill, and I loved that as it was not that large.

When I see Glastonbury on tv, it does seem fantastic, but I would probably feel that it is just a bit too large for me, and I would probably feel a bit to claustrophobic and would not want to stand in a crowd for a long time. At O2, as head of music and games in the later 90s, I went to the V festival which we were sponsoring, so that was good - I had a hotel and a chauffer (i.e. someone in their golf from the marketing agency). Great days the 90s, whatever scene you were into. 😀

I can't take the oppressive crowds these days, but Mrs M is there stewarding being a hippy granny (although she's not,yet). Good music, good vibes, she says. Being in a very superior campervan instead of a tent helps, I reckon.

£180 for all those bands over 4 days? Absolute bargain!!
Compare that with a single gig from one of your better-known bands.

I went in 86 and watched England v Argentina on a telly that someone had rigged up to a car battery or generator or something. How times have changed, that would be on a big screen now.

Went again in 93 and spent most of the weekend in an opium induced bubble of loveliness. Took me 3 hours to find my car on Sunday evening 😳

Played on the pyramid stage in '81. One and only visit.

john_drummer - Member

I'm 45 if it makes you feel any better

Pah. Youngster.

I just tune in to the Beeb these days and catch what looks interesting although so far, Florence and her Machine plus Vampire Weekend (WTF is that?) is NOT doing it for me, I'm afraid.

Never mind.I just saw that Kylie is going to guest with the Scissors later...

1989 - 2005
First was he best, horses, dogs and crusties.
Listening to chants of Hash for Cash, black hash hrough the night
Last was the worse, no atmosphere, no weed, and gangs of jap tourists wandering around in packs taking photos of people smolking spliffs. It also seemed that everyone there was white and middle class, whereas in the past the crowd was a lot more varied and colorful.
Trying to avoid the coverage as despite not wanting to go, I still feel as if I am missing my summer holiday.

Went in 95 and 97. One hot dry rave and one wet mud gloopy mess.
Went in 95 mainly to see the stone roses. Only recently forgiven squire when found out it was mtb accident that resulted in his broken collar bone.
97 was a mess, we camped in the stone circle field, no sleep even if you wanted to. Was an effort to get anywhere on site so we hardly left the dance tent or the beer tent next to it.

I was there 79 & then 81-86. Got fed up with partly too many people & the mud. 79 was nice, with about 10000 people. We used to go more for the vibe than the bands.

I'm trying to think of bands i saw that i thought were any good (sorry Woppit 🙂 New Order i guess were the highlight. The Pop Group were great (iirc they played a double set after the UK Subs discovered the backstage mescal tea), and Tim Blake at the very end of '79.

We much preferred the Elephant Fayre in the 80s. Much nicer venue, bands we actually wanted to see, chilled vibe, and river estuary mud for proper mud baths.

Haven't seen NMA in yrs now, need to sort my act out and get to a gig again.

they're playing at Beautiful Days in August..which is a three day festi set in the heart of Devon..

also playing are James.. Levellers.. the Wailers.. Billy Bragg.. Fairport Acoustic Convention.. Bellowhead

[url= http://www.beautifuldays.org/artists/x ]full line - up here[/url]

We much preferred the Elephant Fayre in the 80s. Much nicer venue, bands we actually wanted to see, chilled vibe, and river estuary mud for proper mud baths.

a far far better festival than Pilton ever was. I spent one year basically glued to a bassbin in the dub tent.

Went a few times from 91 onwards. Last time was 2006.

Really want to be there.

Highlight was probably Orbitals first ever gig; the one with Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth...

[i]I still feel as if I am missing my summer holiday[/i]

My feelings exactly. Regardless of whether*/how/why it's changed, I never fail to enjoy myself... looking across the site at night, from somewhere high up, still just knocks for me for six.

(*ba-boom-tish).

went in 87, 89 and 2000

Husker Du, sleeping in my tent next to the car and some great acid

😛

2000 was shite, too many people, too many kn0bheads.

[i]2000 was shite[/i]

Apart from The Dame doing every single song that the crowd wanted him to do. Bless him.

The Dame ? Shirley Bassey?

David Bowie

Florence and the Machine were pretty good IMO

really?!
we were forced to switch channels as the song butchering hag wailed her way tunelessly through yet another nerve jangling adventure in musical murder..
quite quite foul and hideous. (in mine and my other halves opinion)

Florence and the Machine were pretty good IMO

really?!
we were forced to switch channels as the song butchering hag wailed her way tunelessly through yet another nerve jangling adventure in musical murder..

Cannot agree more, horrible noise, if you're going to do covers at least try and do the original some justice. Fleetwood Mac will be spinning in their graves at that pitiful attempt at "The Chain" And Candi Staton certainly has nothing to fear

I only went once in 94 I think RATM, Weller, Jah Wobble, Jonny Cash oh and I seem recall the Ireland v Italy World Cup Game game being shown on the big screens at the Pyramid stage. After that the cider and some other dubious substances seem to have ereased large chunks of my memory

I don't [i]want[/i] to be rude about Florence, but in a musical universe that includes the likes of [url=

I'm baffled as to why people find her so appealing...

I like Groove Armadas set, much better vocals than FatM and that Danny LaRoux pish

Elephant fair. Good shout! Glastonbury pre police on site was a true antidote to the 80s.

anybody go to castlemorton now that was a proper festy?