Glastonbury 2005

[Tort]

It's going on the Official Website too and Bumpsville all the way from here to Pilton!

 

[Wolfie]

thank you comrades

and remember - "under the pavement - the disco"

 

[boing!]

I'v just found out I can get a performers ticket, 'cause my mates putting on a fire show, and he needs some people to do 'backstage' stuff.
Only problem is Im a bit unsure about cancelling my ticket, as I also brought a friends on my card, and someone on efests has posted a thread sayng they havn't been allowed to cancel one ticket, they're only allowing you to cancel the whole order.

Anyone know if theres any truth in this? It seems a bit odd to me, but I don't want to gamble loosing my mates ticket.

 

[William of Walworth]

Boing -- definitely you should check directly with the people who know, ie those who administer the crew passes. Your mate should have their contact details or might be able to ask them himself, on your behalf.

Good luck .. sounds like a skanky blag to me mate

You have til mid May to cancel the normal tickets (Friday 13 May is the deadline for doing this I think).

 

[the B]

I've crawled back onto the boards when I should be revising. But yeah, it's my birthday during Glasto and I'd be so amazingly chuffed if I could get two tunes played during Glasto PROD.

*lends Dub a fiver*

Congrats for getting there to do your thing too

 

[William of Walworth]

Will post this link, etc. up on EFestivals very very soon ...

So long as Lisarocket doesn't beat me to it

On EFestivals tomorrow folks. If I'm in a good mood I'll even start a new thread about it ...

Looks like Dub beat me too it on EFestivals ...

He started a new thread over there, I have just bumped/added to it to recommend it further ...

 

[boing!]

Boing -- definitely you should check directly with the people who know, ie those who administer the crew passes. Your mate should have their contact details or might be able to ask them himself, on your behalf.

Good luck .. sounds like a skanky blag to me mate

You have til mid May to cancel the normal tickets (Friday 13 May is the deadline for doing this I think).

Yeah, i'll see if he can speak to who-evers responsible and explain the situation.

Its not a complete blag! He does genuinly need some people to help set light to things and stuff, honest.
And he might need some djembe players or something too which I can help out with (oh dear, letting my hippy side out there a bit ! ).

I just want to be able to go through the backstage shortcuts really.

 

[William of Walworth]

Are you Eric Djembe-Djembe then???

 

[Lisarocket]

Will post this link, etc. up on EFestivals very very soon ...

So long as Lisarocket doesn't beat me to it

...and then Dub beats both of us to it

 

[William of Walworth]

He can't rely on 'staff' or 'agents' -- has to do the promotion himself!

 

[William of Walworth]

At least one post a day on this thread til June?

It can be done!!

 

[Dubversion]

He can't rely on 'staff' or 'agents' -- has to do the promotion himself!

i hadn't actually realised you were going to do it - i met a mate at Jamm on Saturday who said people had been asking so i thought i'd get stuck in

cheers for the intention though, and people over there seem right up for it

 

[William of Walworth]

New Pope in 'Didn't Get Glasto Ticket' shock ...

I doubt I'll be seeing His Holiness down the Cider Bus in June, chatting with Mr Eavis about the relative merits of Methodism and Catholicism :

Full version of 'Rock Music' quote :

It is not just people who do not believe in Roman Catholicism who attract the new pope's ire. Four years ago, he wrote that rock music was "the expression of elemental passions which, in the big musical festivals, have taken on a cultural character, that is to say, [the character] of a counter-cult, opposed to Christian worship".

Suspect he may have been taking theological 'advice' from Anne Goode** there ...

**The late Anne Goode, famous in and around Pilton village for opposing the Glastonbury Festival with a hysterically evangelical fewrvour : she erected a 15 foot crucifix overlooking Worthy Farm in her garden, and is on record as reckoning that the Festival was a haunt of Satanists ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Mudbath 1985!!!

Hope these links to very old photos of Glasto 1985 work. They were posted on efestivals, and that year was one of the most notorious mudbaths in Glasto's history, probably THE worst.

Treat these pix as aversion therapy, anti-mud charms ... note ancient tents and ancient cars and vehicles ...

Travellers' Bus being dragged by tractor (apparantly the only bit of sunshine all weekend)

Pyramid :

Main road through site : note cars parked next to tents ...

Apparantly it had been raining more or less continuously since about June 10 that year ...

...And because of of the notorious wild tales of MUD that I heard (my mate's truck got stuck axle deep), and after I'd thoroughly enjoyed the fantastic, hot Glasto of 1984, I didn't return til 1994!!!

Thus missing the truly wild late eighties and early nineties years.

Many thanks to Megadaisy of EFestivals for those pix. Elsewhere on that site there are scannings of 1986 Glasto programme <essential later edit : I mean 1985, 1986 and 1987 Glasto programmes>, and 1989 Treworgy!! programme ... Treworgy was a NUTCASE of a festival, utterly notorious in the annals of Travellerdom, sound system chaos, and general ridiculousness, but which very sadly I never made ...

Anyway as I said, ignore the mud in those pix above. It WILL** be hot and sunny this year folks. We're well overdue a full on heatwave, we haven't had a proper one since 1995 -- 2003 doesn't count because the real heat, only about 25C or so max in any case, was for only part of the festival, and wasn't forecast at all ...

Small print :

**Current invented projections from hopes. Subject to change. Legal redress cannot be obtained later

 

[moose]

I went to that one. In some ways it wasn't as bad as the mud we get now, in that it was very liquid so easier to get around in than the claggy stuff we get now there are many more peeps churning it up.
There wasn't as much urgency in scurrying about the site, either.

 

[Dubversion]

Treworgey remains the greatest festival i ever went to , bar none.

absolute fucking mayhem. i've never necked so many microdots in my life

 

[Riff]

Does this tent have a cool production name or what?

 

[felixthecat]

Oooh, oooh, mudbath 1985 - my last Glastonbury before I moved overseas! We (me and sister and boyfriends) went with my dads caravan and sold bacon butties to make a few quid! I'm sure I've got pix somewhere from that festie of me looking impossibly young wearing wellies and fishnet tights .

Ah, memories.......

 

[William of Walworth]

How are you sorted for this year, felix? Can't remember whrether you got tickets or not

If I could go back in time, I would definitely do Glastos 1986 to 1993 inclusive (but not 1985 ), also a couple more Stonehenges in the early Eighties (I only got to the last one, 1984), the Elephant Fayres, early WOMADs, lots more Strawberry Fairs (although this year will be around my fourteenth or fifteenth) and above all TREWORGY .... as Dub and all other accounts have said, it was the daddy of chaotic drug fucked lunacy ...

To my knowledge, almost no Treworgy pictures survive -- there are precisely none on the Net, I've looked (unless someone can now correct me). That link to a scanned Treworgy programme that I posted above is probably almost the only concrete evidence that it existed ....

Moose : Glasto mud's not like it used to be eh??

 

[Dubversion]

To my knowledge, almost no Treworgy pictures survive -- there are precisely none on the Net, I've looked (unless someone can now correct me). That link to a scanned Treworgy programme that I posted above is probably almost the only concrete evidence that it existed ....

i've got a load in a box

 

[William of Walworth]

If you ever get to scan them, please let me know

That programme is worth a look too ... No doubt it'll bring some memories for you, those that weren't destroyed at the time ...

I've got quite a lot of good photos (prints) of the Travellers Field at Glastos 1999 and 2000 (vehicle porn ) plus a fair few other Glasto photos from those years, mostly around the site ... I intend to scan those when I have access to the equipment to do it .... plus when I've worked out how to use it ... plus where to store them ...

OK after the suimmer then ...

 

[Tort]

A fair bit of interest in PROD on the Official Site too. See Here and Here

 

[Dubversion]

still got my programme too, amazingly

i've got a big pile of glastonbury 87 pics and from every year since. AND some video camera stuff from 94-96 till i got bored carrying it around

 

[Dubversion]

good one, Tort... i'd already plugged on the glastonburyfestival.co.uk site and efestivals, didn't realise there was ANOTHER forum

thanks for that..

 

[Tort]

Treworgey remains the greatest festival i ever went to , bar none.

absolute fucking mayhem. i've never necked so many microdots in my life

Seconded. Total anarchy. Hawkwind played on the back of a lorry & I couldn't even sit up to watch cos my elbow had grown roots!

I also discovered dance music that weekend when some bloke drove a sodding great mercedes van into the middle of the main arena, set up speakers & decks & blasted out techno all night. And I thought "OK now I get it!" & I've had my hands in the air ever since!

 

[Dubversion]

i remember The Trojans finishing the Sunday night. and Gaz Mayall dancing through the crowd with his melodica.. i'm SURE the lasers were writing 'the trojans' on the hillside, but i might have imagined that.

and the people who had a pizza takeway in a wooden shed on the hill who decided on Sunday night they couldn't be arsed and just walked off to get mashed, letting everyone help themselves to the food

 

[Tort]

I do remember the toilets being completely unusable & everybody doing like the bears do.

 

[Dubversion]

damn right

weirdest bill too - Carter USM on the Friday afternoon!!!

 

[Dubversion]

I also discovered dance music that weekend when some bloke drove a sodding great mercedes van into the middle of the main arena, set up speakers & decks & blasted out techno all night. And I thought "OK now I get it!" & I've had my hands in the air ever since!

a lot of books and stuff reckon that was the first proper collision of the dance and festival scenes... could be

 

[In Bloom]

I should be going this year, if I can sort this beer tent stuff out in time, which would mean I can go to Glasto for free

*fingers crossed*