Endorset Festival 2007 - August 10th-12th (with ADDED POLL OPTION!)

[dolly's gal]

Then I went to bed at 2 on sunday but was kept up all night by that annoying needing a piss but not able to do one pill effect. I

Oh my word, i spent a glorious half hour in the porta-loos at 6 in the morning on Saturday precicely because of this reason. I was also tripping v hard, which made the experience delightful. Well, more delightful than it already was of course.

I decided to call it a night on Sat when I started crying my eyes out in front of the main stage. hohohoho what fun!!

 

[Onket]

.......I started crying my eyes out.......

I managed to hold it together until Monday afternoon!!!!!

 

[dolly's gal]

I managed to hold it together until Monday afternoon!!!!!

i iz teh lightweights!

 

[Balbi]

You were great dolly, was fantastic to meet you

 

[Stig]

Well, I liked it. It was good.

Haven't been able to post a thing yet, as we had rich!'s bro staying last night and I'm working today, and it seems like the busiest day at work so far this year. meh...

I haven't even properly looked at my photos yet. Maybe tonight.

My only regrets is that I don't seem to be able to stay up for three days straight anymore so had sleep rob me of hours of festival-going.

I can't stay up for one day straight. I went to sleep every single night, missing all the prods and even some headline bands. Maybe now is the time in life to take up doing pills and stuff.

I still liked it though, it was definitely the best festival I've been to in ages.

 

[dolly's gal]

You were great dolly, was fantastic to meet you

awww likewise balbers

 

[editor]

Can I officially award Endorse-it the 'urban75 Festival Of The Year' honour?

 

[Crispy]

Don't see what else could beat it.

 

[wiskey]

despite being laughed at we set off for bed at about 3am on friday night, and when we got to a deserted camp urban we though everyone else was out partying . . . oh no, they were all snoring away in their tents - definately a good move given the heat on saturday morning we were up taking drugs at 10am feeling most refreshed (not been that twisted by midday for a long while). massive thanks to topcat and gloworm for the splendidly cool hospitality in the bear proof tent.

and thanks to all of you who kept silent about derv's birthday (turns out just about everyone but him knew) - i'm dead chuffed it went so well

i thoroughly enjoyed just about all of it - my only down side was the constant barrage of noise. on saturday afternoon it all got too much and we went for a walk off into the fields until we had a great sound from the main stage and nothing else. it started getting really annoying by sunday night though when i lay in my tent trying to block out the collective noise from 3 competing sound systems.

it was great being camped in camp urban, makes a nice change from being in crew or other camps. it was cool having enough space in our little tent for a smoke on sunday night with various people.

i liked the size of the festival although i would say that one or two more food stalls would be nice. and more of the mutoids stuff please. oh and cloth wristbands cos those plastic ones are so irritating. but fair play for the benches, the first festival i've been to since glasto which has had public seating, i never had to queue for the spotless toilets, i never had to queue for food. it was all good.

i havent had so much fun in years

wiskers

and my only comment from a work point of view was that it was bloody hot and dry and there were no obvious fire points in the campsite or the stubble field.

 

[wiskey]

Can I officially award Endorse-it the 'urban75 Festival Of The Year' honour?

certainly wins hands down above any of the others i've been to and theres no way on earth leeds is going to beat it.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

In re: to all of those with the day off work or who made it in

Well, I didn't book a day off work, but I had a study day. It took me till 3pm to start anything though (after a panicked phone call to Crispy saying why am I so shit )

I am teh shit homeworker.

 

[wiskey]

i was sposed to be in work last night - and tonight

it aint gonna happen

 

[Balbi]

Yup. Festie of the year

 

[Biddlybee]

was this year better than last year then?

*regrets not going*

 

[Pieface]

You know that's one of the main reasons why I stopped
taking pills, it's so annoying!!! (well that and the comedowns)
:

It has never happened to me before but it drove me absolutely fucking crazy

Had some mdma on Saturday, but as usual the only effect it had on me was to make me feel limp and tired.:

does that to me as well...

I need some new drugs.....

 

[Balbi]

I'm finding green tea and green and blacks are solving a few of the pain enquiries presented to my head this morning by various parts of my body

 

[dolly's gal]

I need some new drugs.....

i'm off the drugs now. after friday's cocktail of badness i never want to consume anything drug-like ever again.

*polishes halo*

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Yup. Festie of the year

IMO, yes (though there has only been a choice of two).

However, I suspect (in my case anyway) that what made it so was the huge proportion of urbanites there. Being surrounded by good friends and lovely acquaintances who it's very difficult to lose is going to add a substantial amount of win automatically.

I reckon I would have enjoyed it if it had just been me and Crispy. But with everyone there, it was just ace.

So thanks everyone. You all helped make my festival!

 

[Pieface]

i'm off the drugs now. after friday's cocktail of badness i never want to consume anything drug-like ever again.

*polishes halo*

Well it was a barrage from Cheg's account - I do hope you're feeling ok now!

 

[Crispy]

i'm off the drugs now. after friday's cocktail of badness i never want to consume anything drug-like ever again.

I'd like to apologise for avoiding you on Friday when you came back to camp - you were about 10x as wasted as I was, and I couldn't quite cope

 

[dolly's gal]

Well it was a barrage from Cheg's account - I do hope you're feeling ok now!

just call me amy winehouse!

yeh fine now tar love

 

[dolly's gal]

I'd like to apologise for avoiding you on Friday when you came back to camp - you were about 10x as wasted as I was, and I couldn't quite cope

i'd have avoided me if i could. in fact, i think i might have tried to

 

[Spion]

In work today. I have a numb tongue, sore throat and a sensation not unlike a low-ish voltage running through me - must be that Endorse-It bug

 

[dolly's gal]

yeh lots of people have this bug. must have been something we ate

 

[Spion]

must have been something we ate

LOL

 

[mr steev]

was this year better than last year then?

*regrets not going*

Sorry to tell you, but yes, I thought it was better than last year... and that was great! The atmosphere and the people were as sound as the year before but this year we had the weather, and the line-up was fanstastic (for an old crusty like myself ) I can't remember the last festival I went to where I sat in front of a stage for most of the day wanting to see band after band. The only time I got up was to dance or to get some more cider

I went to work for a couple of hours this morning, and am very glad I didn't have to stay any longer. It was a struggle. I then went shopping and had to call my mate out to give me a jump start. But I am now home and am gonna spend the rest of the day eating, drinking wine and getting stoned

 

[TopCat]

http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/tallchris99/EnDorset%202007/

What a brilliant time. The weather, people, setting, everything. I loved it.

That Victorian silk dress worked by the way.

 

[JTG]

bastard comedown


I haven't been as trollied for such an extended period of time as I was from Saturday morning to the early hours of Sunday, like, ever.

Missed Back To The Planet

 

[zora]

That was amazing and lovely. (Well, not that amazing because I went last year and I already knew that it'd be amazing iyswim).

I am a teeny bit jealous of all the munters, because I didn't feel quite right enough in the head from the start to join in and could only consume teensy dibs and dabs apart from large quantities of fine cider and ale.

But I got my kicks from tea and cake, the general atmosphere, the sun and being around all you guys who are made of 100% win (with special mention to the hosts TopCat/gloworm and Iemanja/Mation and their assorted hanger-ons )

and the music. Highlights for me were two bands that I'd made a special effort to see as I'd seen them before and they didn't disappoint. The Big Hand who'd rocked Offline at Jamm a few months back were great fun.
And Lazy Habits (connected by their trumpeter to the band Imperial Leisure of last year's guerilla-gig-by-the-portaloos-fame) were amazing again. The atmosphere in the tent for their second gig on saturday afternoon wasn't all there at first as everyone was sitting down- and they are very much a bouncy bouncy band - but the surprise beatboxer who came up on stage from the audience broke the ice and had the band members jaw dropped and the audience on their feet. Utterly brillant.
Also loved Zion Train. Came as a bit of a surprise after feeling so-so about them last year that I was bouncing around like a made thing to their set this time around. (Even if clearly noone has told the singer that Ketamine is not just for horses, but for children and kittens, too - albeit not necessarily for breakfast on top of a large glass of vodka and orange but that's a different chapter.)

Anyway, big love to everyone who went and to everyone who's coming next year!

Oh, and I nearly forgot to say a very special thank you to citydreams for a lift that extended beyond Salisbury to our front door!

 

[Balbi]

Aha, Lazy Habits That's what they were called.

And their cd is a mere £5 from their website www.lazyhabits.com