Glastonbury 2007 pt1: the build-up

[wiskey]

bit dull innit - fortunately this year i didnt have to go through it all again for womad, so poor derv had to suffer alone.

 

[sojourner]

Nice one

Gawd, it makes yer all excited seeing it like that, all fresh and naked

 

[Pieface]

you doing same sort of thing there?

 

[DeadManWalking]

gutted I missed the Sunrise festival last weekend http://www.sunrisecelebration.com/ think last day is today. It was pretty near Glastonbury I heard. Also missing stonehenge tonight

 

[sojourner]

you doing same sort of thing there?

Who, me? Or wiskey?

Edit: sorted

 

[wiskey]

you doing same sort of thing there?

i presume thats to me - no we're doing oxfam stewarding.

 

[wiskey]

gutted I missed the Sunrise festival last weekend http://www.sunrisecelebration.com/ think last day is today. It was pretty near Glastonbury I heard. Also missing stonehenge tonight

are you? i never had you down as a full on hippy

 

[Riff]

By now I would have been on site for about six hours, done the first three runs to the car (only three on the first day - just beer runs after that!), the BBQ would be on now and we'd be preparing to tootle down to the Cider Bus.

 

[wiskey]

theres a high chance i'd be working, watching the site fill up and all the newbies wander round thinking 'gosh, isnt it busy' whilst i think 'if only they knew

 

[moose]

Well I'm pissed on cider anyway, despite the absence of a big blue bus.

 

[wiskey]

 

[Riff]

sigh!

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Glastonbury 2007 eh?

A lineup to die for, I remember it well.

 

[wiskey]

 

[William of Walworth]

gutted I missed the Sunrise festival last weekend http://www.sunrisecelebration.com/ think last day is today. It was pretty near Glastonbury I heard.

I was at this, will report soon.

 

[Gerry1time]

so are there public footpaths through the site you can get onto throughout the year? Always thought there would be and wanted to take a wander round, but gf insists that there aren't...

 

[wiskey]

so are there public footpaths through the site you can get onto throughout the year? Always thought there would be and wanted to take a wander round, but gf insists that there aren't...

not afaik (get an OS and check), the festival isn't made up exclusively of eavis' land, he uses a lot from the two neighbouring farms.

i doubt he'd shoot you though

 

[wiskey]

glastonbury 2006

 

[StuPC]

Ahh...pics are quite melancholy, aren't they?

Weather would have been just perfect this year, too.

Ho-hum...

[Sighs, wanders off]

 

[Velouria]

not afaik (get an OS and check), the festival isn't made up exclusively of eavis' land, he uses a lot from the two neighbouring farms.

I have seen people claim a public right of way does run through at least part of the site, and they claimed they were going to try and use this right of way to just walk into the festival. Think that was on the efestivals boards about two years ago.

I have no information on where this right of way runs, or any success they had

i doubt he'd shoot you though

what about his neighbours?

 

[wiskey]

Ahh...pics are quite melancholy, aren't they?

Weather would have been just perfect this year, too.

Ho-hum...

[Sighs, wanders off]

the weather was superb until 3pm yesterday.

the pics are a bit melancholy but then we took them at about 9pm as it was getting dark.

 

[wiskey]

I have seen people claim a public right of way does run through at least part of the site, and they claimed they were going to try and use this right of way to just walk into the festival. Think that was on the efestivals boards about two years ago.

I have no information on where this right of way runs, or any success they had

what about his neighbours?

i've said all i'm going to.

respect the highway code, shut gates, dont annoy cows dont destroy anything keep to the paths. etc

 

[StuPC]

the weather was superb until 3pm yesterday.

the pics are a bit melancholy but then we took them at about 9pm as it was getting dark.

And that suits the mood of a no-Glasto year perfectly - still beautiful, but quiet and a little empty.

Thanks for those, wiskey.

 

[wiskey]

cinema field as it normally is

 

[wiskey]

And that suits the mood of a no-Glasto year perfectly - still beautiful, but quiet and a little empty.

its all waiting for us next year mate

 

[Velouria]

its all waiting for us next year mate

this year, it's nothing but moo-sic ...


<gets coat >

 

[Tort]

Positive thinking! Glasto 07 is now closer than Glasto 05!

 

[TylerD]

Positive thinking! Glasto 07 is now closer than Glasto 05!

Will they show the football?

 

[William of Walworth]

Will they show the football?

There ain't none, in June 2007!!

Interesting interview with Roy Gurvitz, founder of Lost Vagueness, here

Most interesting bit :

Q. 2. Will you be at the next Glastonbury?

Roy : :It is up for discussion. Mean Fiddler [which has been managing the Glastonbury festival operation since 2001] has been taken over by Clear Channel, a very right wing, Bush supporting organisation that has donated a lot of money to the Bush administration. I would be amazed if Michael [Eavis] sticks with that. Glastonbury entered into a five year contract with Mean Fiddler, and that is up this year. I don’t think I would go if Clear Channel was calling the shots in 2007, but I would look at going if Michael was back to being independent or signed up with another licensee that isn’t Clear Channel.

Good. I hope that Roy/LV can add to possibilities that Michael/Glastonbury might SACK Clear Channel, the corporate scum!

 

[Velouria]

Good. I hope that Roy/LV can add to possibilities that Michael/Glastonbury might SACK Clear Channel, the corporate scum!

Yes please please please let it happen... Anyone but ClearChannel!

Is it coincidence that there's a fallow year this year, when ClearChannel would hev been running operations...?