Glastonbury 2007 pt2: the festie!
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aqua said:
Honestly?
You liked all that mud?
I am jealous I didn't go - you're right - but not as much as I would've been a few years back. It's not so much the weather, more the gripes that people have about the line-up, the sound, LV going downhill, how expensive it is these days, the difficulty in getting a ticket, too many people etc.
These things were pretty important to me at Glastonbury when I used to go regularly - each year things seem to get a little bit worse and it moves a little bit further away from the festival I used to love.
I know I'm sounding like a miserable old git here but that's honestly the way I look at it these days.
I'm gonna give it one more go - next year, possibly (although the logistics of getting a ticket from abroad when you've got terrible 'net connections and a 5.5 hr time difference to contend with are monstrous) - and I really want to be happily surprised that my favourite festival hasn't lost it forever.
Right now, I'm thinking that smaller festivals are the way forward for me these days. I might not get to see many bands I like, but Im more likely to get the sort of festival atmosphere I'm after.
aqua
made of cheese and gin
I liked it, I had a ball and it was my best yet a serious case of I didn't go with expectations tbh
There were too many people for me, so I avoided the popular places (though tbh I spent so much of it wankered it could have been a perception thing rather than reality). I saw who I wanted, met up with who I wanted and bimbled as much as ever
you would have loved it just as much honest
I'm thinking of having a year off next year to do some new festies though, I'm allergic to doing the same thing year in year out anyway so maybe we'll have a cider induced daft natter at a different one
a serious case of I didn't go with expectations tbhThere were too many people for me, so I avoided the popular places (though tbh I spent so much of it wankered it could have been a perception thing rather than reality). I saw who I wanted, met up with who I wanted and bimbled as much as ever
you would have loved it just as much honest
I'm thinking of having a year off next year to do some new festies though, I'm allergic to doing the same thing year in year out anyway so maybe we'll have a cider induced daft natter at a different one
aqua
made of cheese and gin
but nearly everyone has said they enjoyed it or have made suggestions where it could be improvedNVP said:That's reassuring, ta.
I've found reading a lot of these threads pretty grim reading overall, I've gotta be honest.
I never got LV, it always stank of trying too hard for me, and yes it seems tired this year but then so would I if I was the same for 4 years, and trash city was wicked
I can list everything I loved about this year if you want
scifisam said:
So did we and the interior was fucked with mud after that fucking carpark hilarity
I rang the hire company and said 'look I'm being honest here, it's literally covered with mud inside, be honest with me, are you going to keep the deposit, cause if so I'll get a bloke in Brixton to do it for £80'
They said I'd just be charged a £25 exessive cleaning charge and I've got a signed note to say so after the handback inspection
JTG said:The rest of the set was great - Life, Love & Unity etc - but I love a band who know damn well that they have one tune which is indisputably their finest and that everyone is waiting for. They started it, it was just kicking in and then they stopped it the bastards
My favourite festival band by a mile
Looking forward to seeing them somewhere I don't have to yomp across half the site to get to them, then yomp a similar distance back.
Plus the buggers came on half an hour late. Some of us have schedules!!!
wiskey said:
Every time I've been there when it's been really wet it's sapped the will to have fun.
Plus, when you've just made it from Avalon to the Acustic Tent through the glue, at top speed, only to discover that Ritchie Havens *isn't* playing, your entire sense of "whahey this is fun" just evaporates...
Mind you, Sieze the Day did a set on the track at the top of the Green Fields, which was fun...
William of Walworth said: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 ...
I've been on site on the Tuesday afterwards and met people who *just arrived* intending to stay for the clearup...
Dubversion said:my one line review:
far from his best work but it amused, served a purpose and wound up some of the hippies
On the way back, as part of the monumental slow crawl to the M5, we went through Glastonbury itself. On a big bit of blank wall, he'd done the "policeman searching little girl with balloon and teddy bear", which I really enjoyed. Right place for it...
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
pagan said:mmmmm Can't say I put much faith in that review mate
Um, it was just my opinion.
Am I not allowed to have an opinion?Our campsite was so close to the stage that I honestly think we could see and hear as much from there as we did when we tried to get closer to the stage. We left in the middle of the Who, because sitting around the campfire sounded so onviting, and it sounded the same when we were there.
William of Walworth said:Learning from mistakes innit. The post festie feedback/reports within the Council and to the Council from Police, Ambulance, etc. are my constant October reading on Mendip's site
Do Oxfam make representations?
They're dull and bureaucratic, those reports but often contain hidden nuggets of useful information
For some versions of Glasto obsessed nutters anyway ...
I must admit to having read (most of) the 170 page Council Health and Safety report one year... Did yo know the food stalls get inspected several times a day?
bouncer_the_dog
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Skim said:Did anyone else find the car parking stickers really, really, really difficult to peel off?
just when I thought I couldn't get any crosser this happens...
x 1mTiny Tea Tent
That setup gets sold every 2-3 years, as far as I can tell.
Mind you, this year we only went to it to sit outside it by their fire and sup ale. (Probably the last pints of Wherry on-site...)
I did get a really good cup of coffee at the cafe by the Strummerville stage on Sunday night, which was ace.
newbie said:
That setup gets sold every 2-3 years, as far as I can tell.
Mind you, this year we only went to it to sit outside it by their fire and sup ale. (Probably the last pints of Wherry on-site...)
I did get a really good cup of coffee at the cafe by the Strummerville stage on Sunday night, which was ace.
