Glastonbury 2007 pt2: the festie!
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welll there's always been a VERY big strand of 'fleece the gullible' about LV anyway - get the credulous up to the field (or the festival 
) and dazzle them with dancing girls and vaudeville while emptying their pockets 
) and dazzle them with dancing girls and vaudeville while emptying their pockets 
Skim
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BiddlyBee said:
Oh god, that's set me off again
wiskey
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Dubversion said:welll there's always been a VERY big strand of 'fleece the gullible' about LV anyway - get the credulous up to the field (or the festival
yeah i wonder if thats contributed to me feelings that people only want to consume. in LV you are expected to consume, not partake.
wiskey said:
Wedding couples and guests?
Moot point maybe ...
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
First year I've not been gutted that I wasn't at Glasto (apart from the years I've attended, of course).. was more upset about missing Unsound Italy.
I loved '99 'cos it was dry.. the others years were just tiring.
I loved '99 'cos it was dry.. the others years were just tiring.
Dubversion said:welll there's always been a VERY big strand of 'fleece the gullible' about LV anyway - get the credulous up to the field (or the festival
Yeah. I dunno. I would rather there was a bar and a flat bed truck hosting citizen fish and RDF. But that won't surprise anyone. Dancing girls and vaudeville are good - but the area, the LV notion, it combines sheer excess (copters) but tries to do it in a way that feels kind of underground, but that's a mixed message to my mind. Given the chance I'd do it differently. But keep the vaudeville and dancing girls.
Does anyone else here think the Pyramid stage should host fewer bands and more stand-up, circus and dance? Just to unlock movement across site?
William of Walworth said:I'd heard that too, the £10,000 caravan package(as opposed to slumming it at £6,000, sans copter
). Someone (elsewhere) quoted from the LV site to prove it, but I'd need to dig around slightly and I'm supposed to be washing my rucsacs ....
It's still possible it was a myth or exaggeration though ...
If I win the lottery I will go to Glastonbury
wiskey said:
not sure i follow your point. by that token, almost everything you do there is consuming, and unavoidably so. Unless we should all be doing workshops?
wiskey said:
That's what Im meant by moot point ... not sure if I've quite got the same take on it as you though. In fact I largely agree with you about people consuming ore and participating/creating less, but I was never much of a creator/initiator anyway, I just join in!
Although our U75 camp in 2002 was pretty fucking good
Later, I'll tell you of my Temporary Art Installation in the Acoustic field beer tent this time ...
Dubversion said:
WORKSHOPS!!!!
Heads to nearest licensed tent to 'consume'
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Its a festival where were eat and drink and be merry but in higher quantities than normal. That's what festivals have always been about.
Consumption. Its such a massive festival that I reckon its effects are actually measurable on the UK economy, all the shit we all buy to live in a field for 5 days.
A consumption free festival is one where nobody turns up.
Consumption. Its such a massive festival that I reckon its effects are actually measurable on the UK economy, all the shit we all buy to live in a field for 5 days.
A consumption free festival is one where nobody turns up.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Sunray said:Consumption. Its such a massive festival that I reckon its effects are actually measurable on the UK economy, all the shit we all buy to live in a field for 5 days.
Well the Chairman of Milletts "forgot" that Glaso was not on last year hence a massive profits warning, a warehouse of tents on sale sale sale, and his subsequent resignation....
William of Walworth said:
Yeh, I saw that too - brilliant. I was at the back, dancing like a lunatic
Also caught some Billy Bragg there on Sunday evening, which was cool.
They were fantastic, I don't know hardly any of their stuff but again was dancing away. We were right at the front, to the left of the stage, and I thought it was great when the sun blasted out then torrential rain followed, and people danced even harder in the rainWilliam of Walworth said:
Hehe, me and me girl stumbled across the cabaret/circus tent, and saw some damn fine acts. A juggler who ended up stripping off to a tiny red thong, juggled machetes on top of this mahoosive uni cycle, then juggled using a chainsaw (which was real cos he cut a can in half just before juggling with itWilliam of Walworth said:
). A few comedy acts who were great, including one who had a tiny girl participant who totally stole the show!I missed so many things, due to mud and timing, but still had a blast. Saturday night after Iggy, me and me girl wandered up to sacred space and shared some killer spliffs with a group of youngsters, and had a top laugh. Getting back to our tent through the Path of Death on the Dragon Field left us helpless with laughter...god knows how we made it back in one piece!
wiskey
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Dubversion said:
no that wasnt what i meant - i was under the impression LV weddings had to be pre booked? before the festival like? so if i turned up on saturday afternoon either wanting a wedding or wanting to watch one i'd be turned away?
its not actually open to all?
or am i wrong? i've never been inside the chapel because its always looked so totally unappealing.
wiskey said:
I think they have to prebook, but no matter, twas a lovely occasion!
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
yep and i'm not taking that away from them 
i also enjoyed Light It Up on the pirate ship stage in trash city, the milk bottle elephant, the stone balancing man, not the hot dog stall's trifle for breakfast, felt catarpillars and blow up pufferfish, the hole/football/volleyball match by the cider bus bar, the various mud fights, the Interval Year film in the leftfield tent (even if we couldnt actually see it), getting teep's sisters face painted and going shopping with them, kangaroo moon in croissant neuf, lilly allen, learys baked potatoes, the fact the price of a can of coke seems to have stayed reasonably static in recent years even if a meal will cost a fiver at least now in most places, the kooks and arctic monkeys (which i heard but didnt see), making a clay model, the impromptu piss taking in the circus field little top when the act failed to arrive, watching people try to retrieve their wellies from the mud whilst standing on one leg, the aeroplanes, the clean and close toilets in the family field and the general happy nature of the stewards and green police. i also spent my first few shifts with a young lad who'd never been to glastonbury before, i loved his enthusiasm.
i didnt enjoy being chuggered on the railway line, being sworn at for driving through the craft field, k'naan, not really at any point sitting down and chilling for more than an hour or so away from the tents, not getting round to eating a single crepe, only getting one break in 4 shifts at work, accidentally ending up backstage pyramid whilst bassey was on, vegetarian delights hot chocolate, following teep's sister into a puddle getting my left foot wet, cold donuts, the coach station experience, the amount of detritus left over and getting my timing completely out and turning a corner to find the entire crowd from the killers leaving the pyramid and trudging towards me.
the things i didnt really get were mainly the skateboard ramp which i never saw anybody use properly and the rudeness of the people i encountered (particularly the pyramid production manager)
i also enjoyed Light It Up on the pirate ship stage in trash city, the milk bottle elephant, the stone balancing man, not the hot dog stall's trifle for breakfast, felt catarpillars and blow up pufferfish, the hole/football/volleyball match by the cider bus bar, the various mud fights, the Interval Year film in the leftfield tent (even if we couldnt actually see it), getting teep's sisters face painted and going shopping with them, kangaroo moon in croissant neuf, lilly allen, learys baked potatoes, the fact the price of a can of coke seems to have stayed reasonably static in recent years even if a meal will cost a fiver at least now in most places, the kooks and arctic monkeys (which i heard but didnt see), making a clay model, the impromptu piss taking in the circus field little top when the act failed to arrive, watching people try to retrieve their wellies from the mud whilst standing on one leg, the aeroplanes, the clean and close toilets in the family field and the general happy nature of the stewards and green police. i also spent my first few shifts with a young lad who'd never been to glastonbury before, i loved his enthusiasm.
i didnt enjoy being chuggered on the railway line, being sworn at for driving through the craft field, k'naan, not really at any point sitting down and chilling for more than an hour or so away from the tents, not getting round to eating a single crepe, only getting one break in 4 shifts at work, accidentally ending up backstage pyramid whilst bassey was on, vegetarian delights hot chocolate, following teep's sister into a puddle getting my left foot wet, cold donuts, the coach station experience, the amount of detritus left over and getting my timing completely out and turning a corner to find the entire crowd from the killers leaving the pyramid and trudging towards me.
the things i didnt really get were mainly the skateboard ramp which i never saw anybody use properly and the rudeness of the people i encountered (particularly the pyramid production manager)
david dissadent
New Member
Participating vs consuming
For me the number of people standing or even sitting near the front of several of the big gigs I seen rather than bouncing aournd and joinging in. Just the lack of feeling that I was part of something people watching entertainment not throwing themselves into it with abandon.
For me the number of people standing or even sitting near the front of several of the big gigs I seen rather than bouncing aournd and joinging in. Just the lack of feeling that I was part of something people watching entertainment not throwing themselves into it with abandon.
Good mix there wiskey
Mine (of good and bad things) to come later, although I've already reviewed the least important element, the music
I saw you posted earlier that you felt lonely at times. I do sympathise with that loads, I've often been lonely on occasion at past Glastonburies, and at times felt like that this time too for various reasons not just the obvious of being single again
BUT given that I wasn't working (maybe it's more difficult if you are) I was almost always able to find friends to talk with and strangers to be friendly to you and to get friendly with
I really don't want to do another single one though. World's** Leading Festival Expert Open To Interesting Offers From Female Festographettes ...
**OK, SE17's ...
Mine (of good and bad things) to come later, although I've already reviewed the least important element, the music
I saw you posted earlier that you felt lonely at times. I do sympathise with that loads, I've often been lonely on occasion at past Glastonburies, and at times felt like that this time too for various reasons not just the obvious of being single again
BUT given that I wasn't working (maybe it's more difficult if you are) I was almost always able to find friends to talk with and strangers to be friendly to you and to get friendly with
I really don't want to do another single one though. World's** Leading Festival Expert Open To Interesting Offers From Female Festographettes ...
**OK, SE17's ...
Did anyone with a decent camera happen to be walking past the Pyramid after the crowd had cleared down on Sunday night?
All I had was the poxy camera on my phone which didn't even come close to capturing it
This was the front of the Pyramid stage after the Who had finished and most of the crowd had dispersed. It was so dystopian it was unreal. Honestly, if you think about the futuristic scenes in T2 you'd be on the right lines, but this was far beyond that.
The ash coloured mud. The destitutes huddled around small fires. The smoke drifting across the field. The detritus of tens of thousands of festival goers who couldn't be arsed taking back to their tents all the paraphanalia they'd been carrying around all weekend.
If the place had been carpet bombed it couldn't have looked more like a bomb site than it actually did.
All I had was the poxy camera on my phone which didn't even come close to capturing it
This was the front of the Pyramid stage after the Who had finished and most of the crowd had dispersed. It was so dystopian it was unreal. Honestly, if you think about the futuristic scenes in T2 you'd be on the right lines, but this was far beyond that.
The ash coloured mud. The destitutes huddled around small fires. The smoke drifting across the field. The detritus of tens of thousands of festival goers who couldn't be arsed taking back to their tents all the paraphanalia they'd been carrying around all weekend.
If the place had been carpet bombed it couldn't have looked more like a bomb site than it actually did.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
They don't have a leave no trace policy like the big chill, then?
christonabike said:They don't have a leave no trace policy like the big chill, then?
Well the clear up message keeps getting pushed, but to unsuccessful effect.
The afterpick this year must be a nightmare with the mud .... but most years they aim to clear up every last fag butt, every last Rizla packet ... every last little bag of weed and quid coin and abandoned unopened beer can and lost fiver ...
Some say the afterpick is a top job!
Must be backbreaking work though ...
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
the abandonment levels were the highest I've ever seen. Not just broken stuff either. More a case of "oops I dropped my chairs in the mud. oh well, I'll just go and get some more from the shop in the market area and then I'll leave those behind too."
Twats. I brought home everything I took with me and it wasn't hard.
Twats. I brought home everything I took with me and it wasn't hard.
