Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
I'm straight off to Burning Man after this one, where I've heard talk of it being likely to rain too. You couldn't make it up.
Beautiful Days 2012
- Thread starter Teaboy
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Ground Elder
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Weather report from site 10 minutes ago - sunny, mud at a reasonable level, but very windy.
Not sure why you had problems with Orange reception there? Not what I remember. So long as you head uphill, you should be fine (IME)
Cheers. Was expecting far heavier downpours today particularly, but maybe Escot ended up a bit more sheltered from the worst. But yes boots/wellies etc will be needed by the look.
Would normally give a nice friendly forecast update at this late stage, but details/exact positioning of the dividing line between wetter and drier conditions in the SW even as early as tomorrow, still looking a tad uncertain ....
I'm in contact with a very knowledgeable Bristol-based meteorologist on the geekweather forum (not its real name
) -- if he gets back to me before tomorrow morning, will repost here ....
No news in time from Bristol. But in general -- take wet/mud weather gear AND warm weather gear, take both! even more than for festivals normally, because we're likely to get a real mix of both in the SW over the w/e on latest readings. Which look warm AND wet at different times.
We're setting off inside an hour. See some of you near or inside the main beer tent this evening! 
We're setting off inside an hour. See some of you near or inside
the main beer tent this evening! 
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Weather's looking much better now, anyone there got any updates on the state of the site?
Thanks, welly-less Bahnhof.
Thanks, welly-less Bahnhof.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yeah, I'll be the one with mudcaked trainers and no spares 
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
3 daft monkeys on the main stage on saturday afternoon were great
editor
hiraethified
They were good. I was in the press pit for PIL and boy were they loud!
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Just got back, not too bad a festy, but I don't think it's one for me, bit too many grumpy people for my liking, some australian bloke told me to fuck off cus I didn't have any weed to sell him. I got stuck up a fire tower for 8 hours with diesel fumes from a generator pumping in my face.
PiL were good, although I don't really know them, I quite liked bellow head.
Doubt I'll be going again but I do understand why people like it, personally I found it a little old hat and a bit uninspired. Or maybe I've been a little spoiled with an amazing Sgp and an even more amazing boomtown this year. On reflection I was well aware it wouldn't have been aimed at my kind of demographic before I went so maybe I just had too high expectations for it.
Btw was there just a smell of shit throughout the site for the whole weekend?
Cool heart shaped fireworks, and a near brown pants moment when the herd of cows started charging at me during the fireworks
PiL were good, although I don't really know them, I quite liked bellow head.
Doubt I'll be going again but I do understand why people like it, personally I found it a little old hat and a bit uninspired. Or maybe I've been a little spoiled with an amazing Sgp and an even more amazing boomtown this year. On reflection I was well aware it wouldn't have been aimed at my kind of demographic before I went so maybe I just had too high expectations for it.
Btw was there just a smell of shit throughout the site for the whole weekend?
Cool heart shaped fireworks, and a near brown pants moment when the herd of cows started charging at me during the fireworks
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
That smell of shite was just Devonshire mud, 1000 years of cow shit innit.
Was good, not brilliant though. Little things like the stars on the speakers on the main stage not working from Friday onwards, perhaps taking a little too much for granted.
And my trainers are fucked.
As is my head.
Was good, not brilliant though. Little things like the stars on the speakers on the main stage not working from Friday onwards, perhaps taking a little too much for granted.
And my trainers are fucked.
As is my head.
Shame you encountered grumpy people sim, maybe you were unlucky though, because we met lots of friendly ones
We had a pretty good time overall, especially after the rain buggered off. The mud was horrid before it started to dry up, but it became progressively less of a pain in the arse as the rapidly warming up, increasingly sunny w/e went on. Also, BD organisers at least made some effort to get straw,gravel and woodchip put down -- probably not enough, but those lazy stingy fuckers at Sunrise in June, a far worse washout, did zero!
Lots of acts we loved, and Toots has still got it at nearly (?) 70!
Bellowhead were as ever excellent. I was also impressed by the (new to me) Skints.
Away from the main stage, we particularly liked the Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican (Band Stand(, complete with comedy Doonican wigs -- songs were as funny as fuck
with no Val Doonican covers either -- bonus! 
Also liked Small Town Jones, Bimble Inn, Sunday -- excellent rapping from Mr Jones with a very nice dubby sound from the band.
Not that I'd ever think of being arsed to dress up myself, but I loved all the effort that people put into the hearts-themed dressing up on Sunday, some were very impressive. My frind Mark promised to buy the first person he saw in a Hearts of Midlothian shirt a pint, and he did (and he doesn't even like Hearts! )
And well done rich! for having the nous to avoid the obvious with his Ace of Spades card!
Thanks too to Stig for the sunshine shades, she gound them at Boomtown the week before and made me a present of them. They had a massively impressive 'increase the sunshine' effect. Like being on drugs! A bit
Otter ales as usual excellent, and some of the ciders were dangerously good too.
Fewer food stalls than last year, which I hope gets reversed in a generally warmer sunner next year (please!) with fewer fest traders struggling financially. Pretty good choices for us veggies from those stalls that were still there though -- the Vegan stall breakfast near the main stage, was grand!
It must have passed me by that BD has by now expanded to 13 and half thousand punters, as 5co77ie from efests told me -- I was still under the impression that it was no bigger than 10 to 11,000 people, which is apparantly at least two years out of date
.
But the busy-ness of the site and the hugely expanded camper van field should have told me something I suppose
Great times. Will definitely be back in 2013
We had a pretty good time overall, especially after the rain buggered off. The mud was horrid before it started to dry up, but it became progressively less of a pain in the arse as the rapidly warming up, increasingly sunny w/e went on. Also, BD organisers at least made some effort to get straw,gravel and woodchip put down -- probably not enough, but those lazy stingy fuckers at Sunrise in June, a far worse washout, did zero!
Lots of acts we loved, and Toots has still got it at nearly (?) 70!
Bellowhead were as ever excellent. I was also impressed by the (new to me) Skints.
Away from the main stage, we particularly liked the Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican (Band Stand(, complete with comedy Doonican wigs -- songs were as funny as fuck
with no Val Doonican covers either -- bonus! Also liked Small Town Jones, Bimble Inn, Sunday -- excellent rapping from Mr Jones with a very nice dubby sound from the band.
Not that I'd ever think of being arsed to dress up myself, but I loved all the effort that people put into the hearts-themed dressing up on Sunday, some were very impressive. My frind Mark promised to buy the first person he saw in a Hearts of Midlothian shirt a pint, and he did (and he doesn't even like Hearts!
)And well done rich! for having the nous to avoid the obvious with his Ace of Spades card!
Thanks too to Stig for the sunshine shades, she gound them at Boomtown the week before and made me a present of them. They had a massively impressive 'increase the sunshine' effect. Like being on drugs! A bit
Otter ales as usual excellent, and some of the ciders were dangerously good too.
Fewer food stalls than last year, which I hope gets reversed in a generally warmer sunner next year (please!) with fewer fest traders struggling financially. Pretty good choices for us veggies from those stalls that were still there though -- the Vegan stall breakfast near the main stage, was grand!
It must have passed me by that BD has by now expanded to 13 and half thousand punters, as 5co77ie from efests told me -- I was still under the impression that it was no bigger than 10 to 11,000 people, which is apparantly at least two years out of date
.But the busy-ness of the site and the hugely expanded camper van field should have told me something I suppose
Great times. Will definitely be back in 2013
Ok I'm just about feeling human again so can write some of my thoughts down. All in all I think we were very lucky with the weather all things considered, when we arrive just as the gates opened on 2pm Thursday the site was in very good condition despite all the rain they'd had, it was only the storm on the Thursday night and rain on Friday morning which caused the mud. After all that the weather was excellent and I never expected so much sunshine. The main stage area held up incredibly well and never got particuarly muddy at any point it was more the paths.
Music on the whole was good, not sure I really got PIL but enjoyed lots of other stuff. The festival itself was as slick and well orgainsed as ever although I will second WoW's observations regarding the lack of food options and other stores, perhaps this is due to the country bing fooked at the moment.
I didnt check out the new area as it wasnt really my thing, but I think its reflective of the way BD is slowly moving from a family friendly festival to a family festival. We still desperatly need more late night entertainment and the silent disco is not the option at all.
All in all it was a great weekend but maybe not a classic, I think I'd like to see a little bit more effort put into things around the site next year because away from the stages there was really only bits and bobs going on. I heard of a few tent thefts but we didnt have any problems.
Thing is this festival just about does enough to appeal to all, so in that sense it will probably continue to sell out for years to come.
Music on the whole was good, not sure I really got PIL but enjoyed lots of other stuff. The festival itself was as slick and well orgainsed as ever although I will second WoW's observations regarding the lack of food options and other stores, perhaps this is due to the country bing fooked at the moment.
I didnt check out the new area as it wasnt really my thing, but I think its reflective of the way BD is slowly moving from a family friendly festival to a family festival. We still desperatly need more late night entertainment and the silent disco is not the option at all.
All in all it was a great weekend but maybe not a classic, I think I'd like to see a little bit more effort put into things around the site next year because away from the stages there was really only bits and bobs going on. I heard of a few tent thefts but we didnt have any problems.
Thing is this festival just about does enough to appeal to all, so in that sense it will probably continue to sell out for years to come.
editor
hiraethified
It was far more family-minded this year. There was less random madness, less surprises and less random people. Whether that's a good thing or not very much depends on whether or have a pile of kids in tow or not, I guess.
I can't bear Silent Disco. It's an utterly crap gimmick that to me runs completely against what a festival experience should be (i.e. chatting, meeting people and sharing music together, not being sealed in your own little wacky headphone world).
I can't bear Silent Disco. It's an utterly crap gimmick that to me runs completely against what a festival experience should be (i.e. chatting, meeting people and sharing music together, not being sealed in your own little wacky headphone world).
I've seen it just about work at glasto a couple of times when the place was packed and they were handing out the headphones to everyone on the way in and there was a proper dj and everyone was listening to the same dance tunes. £20 deposit for headphones to listen to the proclaimers with about 25 other people? No thanks, so it was off to the bimble and leviticus etc every night.
I'm glad Leviticus and Bimble are there, we weren't at either much this time as it happened but it's good that there are some late-on options. I'd agree there needs to be more late stuff though and I've never been near a 'Silent Disco' in my chuff -- hate the notion!
We're not family minded at all, and have no time for chiildren ourselves, but the (increasing?) family friendliness of BD is still fine IMO -- loads for them to do to the extent they're not getting in your way very much if at all, when we're on our way to do adult stuff like beer tents ...
Perhaps it's something? to do with former -- or present! --partyheads and punks etc making better parents </made up theory >
If you want to go to a fest where the family stuff really does nearly take over anything else, (don't) try Camp Bestival!
We're not family minded at all, and have no time for chiildren ourselves, but the (increasing?) family friendliness of BD is still fine IMO -- loads for them to do to the extent they're not getting in your way very much if at all, when we're on our way to do adult stuff like beer tents ...
Perhaps it's something? to do with former -- or present! --partyheads and punks etc making better parents </made up theory
>If you want to go to a fest where the family stuff really does nearly take over anything else, (don't) try Camp Bestival!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Silent discos are pants, but going for a piss at 3am on Saturday there was still music pumping out from somewhere, Bimble Inn?
Leviticus were, imo, shite. But I always thought Exodus were tossers, so in the absence of a banging party I'm always gonna be a hater.
Another vote for Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican, proper entertainers; plus the fat bloke/lead singer give us a CD and then took it back to get them all to sign it, whilst promising to buy me a pint "the next time I'm in Huddersfield" (Next time???).
Probably won't be back next year as new kid on the way, but from a parent's pov it was good for the kids without seeming to me that the kids' shit got in the way of the grown ups stuff too much. And the next generation need an introduction after all.
Leviticus were, imo, shite. But I always thought Exodus were tossers, so in the absence of a banging party I'm always gonna be a hater.
Another vote for Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican, proper entertainers; plus the fat bloke/lead singer give us a CD and then took it back to get them all to sign it, whilst promising to buy me a pint "the next time I'm in Huddersfield" (Next time???).
Probably won't be back next year as new kid on the way, but from a parent's pov it was good for the kids without seeming to me that the kids' shit got in the way of the grown ups stuff too much. And the next generation need an introduction after all.
editor
hiraethified
The Beautiful Days photos are up!
http://www.urban75.org/blog/beautiful-days-festival-2012-photos-from-the-festival/
http://www.urban75.org/blog/beautiful-days-festival-2012-photos-from-the-festival/
Great pics mate. There's a few in there of non-Urbanites misbehaving so I'll make sure to point them in this direction. One tiny correction for you "Rev Hammer in the Big Top" is actually Chris Wood.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I guess there's something to be said for not messing with a winning formula, but it didn't seem to float your boat...
A few reservations in that review Mr T
Nice pix as ever though
Nice pix as ever though
Just been looking at editor's pix now -- great stuff.
Never saw you all w/e ed,
, but glad you enjoyed it ...
Never saw you all w/e ed,
, but glad you enjoyed it ... Similar threads
