Glastonbury 2007 pt2: the festie!
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pinkmonkey
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Sunray said:
Yes I remember the last time we went (2 years ago), alot of the stuff we wanted to see, we just couldn't be arsed as it was such hard work to get there. I found it knackering walking in the mud, the biggest pain of all, not being wet, because we didn't really get wet. If I go again, I might take skis, they could work, y'know?
well i had an absolutely fantastic time. One of my favorite glastonbury's in fact. Everyone i met was lovely and friendly and enjoying themselves. The mud amused me most of the time, got a bit tiring by sunday, but didn't really bother me much.
To be honest after bjorks set on friday, i could have spent the entire of the rest of the festival face down in a puddle and it would have still all been worth it.
To be honest after bjorks set on friday, i could have spent the entire of the rest of the festival face down in a puddle and it would have still all been worth it.
felixthecat
are we there yet?
I had loads of random conversations with people, and lots of random hugs too. Ooooh - and a random snog from a bloke young enough to be my son (go felix!!
) in Lost Vagueness on Sat night during the attempt to break the world 'largest number of people kissing at the same time' record. God knows who he was, but damn, he was cute !Caught quite a few circus and caberet acts, and one slightly bizzare one in LV where the young lady who was doing her acrobatic act hanging from the chandelier in nipple tassles and knickers removed the aforementioned underwear and whilst hanging upside down proceeded to remove some purple love beads from her nether regions.
Sunray managed to see more bands/acts than I did 
Ones I did see
Thursday
3 Daft Monkeys, twice. They were excellent at Leftfield, and late at the Bimble Inn was just right for them
Pama International, Leftfield, superb
The Beat, Leftfield, superb
I was dragged to Tarantism in Small World..
But I had a chair, a fire, some beer and some weed ...
Friday
Part of Gogol Bordello, Main Stage, excellent (and I thought the sound for them was pretty reasonable) but there was a deluge and I was due at Bus's/hipster's wedding in LV chapel and I went to find some Rbubish, so I left early.
Rodney Branigan, Croissant Neuf. This was a random discovery with Tort. Mr Branigan was a GENIUS!! Played two guitars at once ... and was just generally as excellent as one man with a guitar or two can be.
Oi Va Voi, Avalon -- Act of the festival for me ...
Arcade Fire, Other Stage. I was impressed to start with, but I suffered from not knowing their material. And being distracted by the eventually more entertaining sight of a couple rolling around in the mud, mud fighting, mud wrestling, etc., while their almost impeccably clean children looked on from the bank.
Two songs from Amy Winehouse, Jazz Stage
Some acts in the Circus Tent (lisarocket's and rocketman's inspired idea) including some cool fire j*ggl*ers and a man who sat on a 10 foot unicycle, pedalled it with one foot, used the other foot to kick saucers and cups onto his head and as a finale, kick up a spoon into the top cup. He also juggled from the unicycle, NVP would have hated him!
The Waterboys, Avalon -- BRILLIANT -- best I've ever seen them.
Saturday
Mostly drinking
Two songs from Pronghorn, Open Air stage, top circus field
Iration Steppas, Roots Tent, Dance Village, brilliant -- loved them.
Stephen Marley, same venue ...
Iggy Pop (most of), Other Stage -- BRILLIANT.
Unintentionally heard most of the Saw Doctors, on Avalon, from the Bimble Inn. They're not my cuppa, but they suited the mood of the moment!
Sunday
Four songs from Tinariwen, JazzWorld.
Errr ... that's it for Sunday -- unless you count some utterly class DJing on a wicked system in the backstage bar in J-area
Acts I was most sorry to miss
Bjork
Broken Family Band
3 Daft Monkeys again on Avalon, Saturday, they would have raised the roof and got everyone dancing on that stage. Best specifically festival band of the moment, IMO.
Seasick Steve, he sounds ace!
The Who.
Madness, but the crowds at LV seemed impossible.
Back to the Planet
Loads of other cool shit.
ETA :
Including John Fogerty and Richie Havens.. would have LOVED to have seen them both.
Bands that failed to play
Tofu Love Frogs, LV Ballroom, Friday night/Saturday morning
WTF was going on with them? I happened to still be up at 5 am, and was going through LV when 'Hackney's Finest' were announced .. they were tuning up, getting ready then ..... walked off stage, never to return. No reason, no explanation. Cue lots (well about 150) of disappointed punks, dreads, truck dwellers and old schoolers ...
Ones I did see
Thursday
3 Daft Monkeys, twice. They were excellent at Leftfield, and late at the Bimble Inn was just right for them
Pama International, Leftfield, superb
The Beat, Leftfield, superb
I was dragged to Tarantism in Small World..
But I had a chair, a fire, some beer and some weed ...Friday
Part of Gogol Bordello, Main Stage, excellent (and I thought the sound for them was pretty reasonable) but there was a deluge and I was due at Bus's/hipster's wedding in LV chapel and I went to find some Rbubish, so I left early.
Rodney Branigan, Croissant Neuf. This was a random discovery with Tort. Mr Branigan was a GENIUS!! Played two guitars at once ... and was just generally as excellent as one man with a guitar or two can be.
Oi Va Voi, Avalon -- Act of the festival for me ...
Arcade Fire, Other Stage. I was impressed to start with, but I suffered from not knowing their material. And being distracted by the eventually more entertaining sight of a couple rolling around in the mud, mud fighting, mud wrestling, etc., while their almost impeccably clean children looked on from the bank.
Two songs from Amy Winehouse, Jazz Stage
Some acts in the Circus Tent (lisarocket's and rocketman's inspired idea) including some cool fire j*ggl*ers and a man who sat on a 10 foot unicycle, pedalled it with one foot, used the other foot to kick saucers and cups onto his head and as a finale, kick up a spoon into the top cup. He also juggled from the unicycle, NVP would have hated him!
The Waterboys, Avalon -- BRILLIANT -- best I've ever seen them.
Saturday
Mostly drinking
Two songs from Pronghorn, Open Air stage, top circus field
Iration Steppas, Roots Tent, Dance Village, brilliant -- loved them.
Stephen Marley, same venue ...
Iggy Pop (most of), Other Stage -- BRILLIANT.
Unintentionally heard most of the Saw Doctors, on Avalon, from the Bimble Inn. They're not my cuppa, but they suited the mood of the moment!
Sunday
Four songs from Tinariwen, JazzWorld.
Errr ... that's it for Sunday -- unless you count some utterly class DJing on a wicked system in the backstage bar in J-area
Acts I was most sorry to miss
Bjork
Broken Family Band
3 Daft Monkeys again on Avalon, Saturday, they would have raised the roof and got everyone dancing on that stage. Best specifically festival band of the moment, IMO.
Seasick Steve, he sounds ace!
The Who.
Madness, but the crowds at LV seemed impossible.
Back to the Planet
Loads of other cool shit.
ETA :
Including John Fogerty and Richie Havens.. would have LOVED to have seen them both.
Bands that failed to play
Tofu Love Frogs, LV Ballroom, Friday night/Saturday morning
WTF was going on with them? I happened to still be up at 5 am, and was going through LV when 'Hackney's Finest' were announced .. they were tuning up, getting ready then ..... walked off stage, never to return. No reason, no explanation. Cue lots (well about 150) of disappointed punks, dreads, truck dwellers and old schoolers ...
i think some people are being too hard on the punters and failing to factor in the depleting effect the weather can have, as others have said. It is hard to keep up your spirits in the worst of it, it can make people fractious and even a bit panicky (like the poor sods getting stuck in the worst log-jams)... course there were some twats, but i think the sheer effort involved made things seem less friendly that usual. As for the lack of diversity - don't buy that either, the usual mad array of little bands playing all over the place was in evidence, it was just harder to get there. there were many things i wanted to see (Back To The Planet, for example 
) that i just didn't make it too because i knew i'd have a nightmare and that i'd probably be late....
) that i just didn't make it too because i knew i'd have a nightmare and that i'd probably be late....
Sunray said:
In a nutshell ... it's so frustrating!
I'm even almost glad I missed the Who, when accounts from the frontline reached me of the state of the Pyramid Field by 10:30 Sunday night! Yet at the same time I really wanted to see them ...
i've probably forgotten some but ...
Ant Kleptone, Silent Disco - stunning as ever.
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Pussy Parlure - just wonderful, a little phased by it all but a real joy
Tinariwen, only caught half but it was just astonishing, wish i'd seen the whole thing
Beirut - actually made me well up. Zach was nervous and pissed, he buggered up Postcards From Italy but it still made we weep like a bloody child. Fantastic, best thing all weekend.
Gogol Bordello - at that distance and at that volume, i realised I think they're a bit shit. Songs are virtually identical and it's all about the atmosphere, of which there was none.
Bjork - fantastic, moving, beautiful, bonkers
Arcade Fire - stuff off the first album fantastic, stuff off the second totally lacklustre. Was amazed how noticeable the split was.
Iggy - seen him too many times to be that enthused beforehand, but he was ace. Total fun.
Dub Dada - rocked it as ever
Iration Steppas - ditto, they never let you down
Bong Ra - was great till he just turned gabba at the end.
Carl Cox (i was waiting for someone, ok? ) - how is he so famous?
Nina Conti - same set as ever, still funny
SImon MUnnery - seemed like he was phoning it in a bit but made me giggle
Broken Family Band - not at their best but still pretty bloody wonderful
Biffy Clyro (Briefly) - the world only needs one Placebo, and that was Scarfo..
must be more but memory fails me
Ant Kleptone, Silent Disco - stunning as ever.
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Pussy Parlure - just wonderful, a little phased by it all but a real joy
Tinariwen, only caught half but it was just astonishing, wish i'd seen the whole thing
Beirut - actually made me well up. Zach was nervous and pissed, he buggered up Postcards From Italy but it still made we weep like a bloody child. Fantastic, best thing all weekend.
Gogol Bordello - at that distance and at that volume, i realised I think they're a bit shit. Songs are virtually identical and it's all about the atmosphere, of which there was none.
Bjork - fantastic, moving, beautiful, bonkers
Arcade Fire - stuff off the first album fantastic, stuff off the second totally lacklustre. Was amazed how noticeable the split was.
Iggy - seen him too many times to be that enthused beforehand, but he was ace. Total fun.
Dub Dada - rocked it as ever
Iration Steppas - ditto, they never let you down
Bong Ra - was great till he just turned gabba at the end.
Carl Cox (i was waiting for someone, ok?
) - how is he so famous? Nina Conti - same set as ever, still funny
SImon MUnnery - seemed like he was phoning it in a bit but made me giggle
Broken Family Band - not at their best but still pretty bloody wonderful
Biffy Clyro (Briefly) - the world only needs one Placebo, and that was Scarfo..
must be more but memory fails me
LDR
kiwitanga
I'm inclined to agree with you. I loved them in Budapest, really loved them and I still rate that has one of my best experiences of my life.Dubversion said:Gogol Bordello - at that distance and at that volume, i realised I think they're a bit shit. Songs are virtually identical and it's all about the atmosphere, of which there was none.
When I saw them in Brixton a few months later, I still enjoyed it but couldn't help but feel it was missing something.
I still like Gogol Bordello. I must do, because the circumstances in which I saw part of their set on Saturday couldn't have been worse. In a deluge, under a tree, under an umbrella (and still getting soaked), behind the bottom of the main hill down from the farm (traffic heavy).
I still liked what I saw, but I can't really judge them properly on that. Will get a proper idea at Beautiful Days, where the stage will be considerably smaller.
I still liked what I saw, but I can't really judge them properly on that. Will get a proper idea at Beautiful Days, where the stage will be considerably smaller.
ah, i forgot Winebox's Friday set on the main stage. She was marvellous... Charming, funny, in fantastic voice, great choice of songs. A true star
Dubversion said:
I liked what little I saw of her JazzWorld set ...
The rockets dragged me off to the Circus though
ah, yes - also saw Dead Silence Band twice in the Flaming 8 Bar (Trash City now much more fun than LV, which is on its last legs IMO)
TopCat said:Sunbound/Unsound in 2008 folks?
No beach - guarranteed?!!!
amended
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
foo said:oh wow.
i'm so jealous Skim.
was she fantastic?
i saw the Killers and a few others on the telly but missed her. is there any way of watching her set again (youtube or whatever?)
4 tracks:
Closeups of the way-cool touchscreen synthesizer thingy included
Sunray said:
"oh, can we start on 1-2-3 again - i was DRINKING"
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Dubversion said:
I have slightly hazy memories of a burlesque/caberet/punk show in the Flaming Love Palace in Trash City - ballet dancers who pole danced? Loud trashy punk as well? Or am I mistaken and its all part of a drug induced hallucination?
If it was i'll have another one please
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
William of Walworth said:I liked what little I saw of her JazzWorld set ...
The rockets dragged me off to the Circus though
Erm. That's because we went to see her but only saw the last song!
Saw that you mentioned the circus earlier. How could you call the great Dave just 'a man on a 10 ft unicycle'
