Glastonbury 2007 pt2: the festie!
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We're still heading home in the PieEye-mobile.
I had a great time despite the fearsome amounts of rain (last night was particularly horrendous but our tent did the business).
Most of my best times were in the small tents watching the quirky stuff like whirling dervishes and tap-dancing banjo players, although Bill Bailey was amazing in the cabaret tent (that was so rammed, people were feinting).
Shirley was a hoot, The Who were amazing for the first five songs, but Iggy was the star of the show for me.
I had a great time despite the fearsome amounts of rain (last night was particularly horrendous but our tent did the business).
Most of my best times were in the small tents watching the quirky stuff like whirling dervishes and tap-dancing banjo players, although Bill Bailey was amazing in the cabaret tent (that was so rammed, people were feinting).
Shirley was a hoot, The Who were amazing for the first five songs, but Iggy was the star of the show for me.
Musical highlight: Dreadzone in the West Tent of the dance field. Little Britain is still an utterly wonderful tune to dance like a twat to 
Non-musical highlight: Wearing me Rovers top at PROD and getting no less than five separate people coming up to me and enthusiastically raving to me about how good Wembley was
Thumbs aloft to Dub for kicking PROD off with Original Nuttah btw. Fucking love that tune
Non-musical highlight: Wearing me Rovers top at PROD and getting no less than five separate people coming up to me and enthusiastically raving to me about how good Wembley was
Thumbs aloft to Dub for kicking PROD off with Original Nuttah btw. Fucking love that tune
Ran from one stage to another only to find the same shite we'd just fled from.
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Home safe and sound and baby collected from weeping grand parents
Hmmm, this one definitely needed a bit extra from the 'get up and go' pot. Got wet, muddy and knackered. Stoned and pissed. Happy and cheerful. No really stand out moments, no really crappy ones either.
This is our last one for a few years, til bubs is about 10. Then we will be in a camper van in the family area so it will be a totally different festival for us. Which we are ready for now, in our old bones 
Arcade Fire, Willy Mason. Best for me.
Lovely to see Dub and PrettyPie... Didnt make PRoD so regretted not being about to meet some urbanites.
I met Tort though - hoorah!!!
Roll on Endorse-it
Hmmm, this one definitely needed a bit extra from the 'get up and go' pot. Got wet, muddy and knackered. Stoned and pissed. Happy and cheerful. No really stand out moments, no really crappy ones either.
This is our last one for a few years, til bubs is about 10. Then we will be in a camper van in the family area so it will be a totally different festival for us. Which we are ready for now, in our old bones
Arcade Fire, Willy Mason. Best for me.
Lovely to see Dub and PrettyPie... Didnt make PRoD so regretted not being about to meet some urbanites.
I met Tort though - hoorah!!!
Roll on Endorse-it
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Yes Diana, Michael Eavis was saying something about a new PA on that stage not quite being up to scratch...
@ Trashy - cheers! Although I am off now for some rnr with my baby.... Cant type for shit atm too..... takes ages for me to get a comprehendable post out!
@ Trashy - cheers! Although I am off now for some rnr with my baby.... Cant type for shit atm too..... takes ages for me to get a comprehendable post out!
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
yeah we went to see the killers and it was ridiculously quiet. the other stage had a much better sound.Diana said:
i really like rufus wainwright..especially seeing him in drag!
someone dragged me to see the babyshambles, and they played surprisingly well! much better than when i saw them at reading a few years ago. didn't really need kate moss snogging pete every 5 minutes though...
(although i sneakily found it quite intriguing
)i was disappointed by the lack of stuff to do after 2am though.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
yeah people said it was louder further back, but in the middle it was rubbish.JTG said:The Pyramid was loud and clear in Family Camping
And there's loads to do after 2am, you just need to find the right place to do it
i think you're right about after 2am, we tried The Park but the bar was shut and then we tried lost vagueness but it was shut??!! we ended up going up to the stone circle. (this was saturday)
similar thing happened on the friday after the Glade.
electrogirl said:
I'm not certain, but given that Madness were playing in LV at 2am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, they may very well have shut the whole area down. Sensible health and safety measure.
The Stone Circle just depressed me when were there 24 hours before you were. Horrible apart from the very charming company I was in
I was disappointed not to meet more urbs, but the ones I met were very entertaining and delightful
Iggy was my highlight, but Shirley Bassey yes a great surprise too
Had a ridiculously bad morning, which culminated in a friend losing his car somewhere (we spent 3hrs trying to find it) but luckily some other friends picked us up, after some kind policeladies took pity on my semi-comatose state, gave me a mars bar & let me sit in their police car with the heater on for an hour
All in all, a great Glastonbury, despite the wet/mud. When it's sunny, it's my favourite place in the world.
Iggy was my highlight, but Shirley Bassey yes a great surprise too
Had a ridiculously bad morning, which culminated in a friend losing his car somewhere (we spent 3hrs trying to find it) but luckily some other friends picked us up, after some kind policeladies took pity on my semi-comatose state, gave me a mars bar & let me sit in their police car with the heater on for an hour
All in all, a great Glastonbury, despite the wet/mud. When it's sunny, it's my favourite place in the world.
felixthecat
are we there yet?
JTG said:
They did. That made me glad I wasn't a steward, particularly a fire steward.
We're back...finally. We've only been driving since 11.15am! Took us 2 bloody hours to get off the field, then the A39 was choccer, then the friggin rain meant almost zero visibility. Am very, VERY tired.
We got there too late for the meet up on Thursday (see traffic jams and yet more driving rain) but great to meet the people I did see...even though people were starting to think that I didn't actually exist!
The mud...well...what can I say? There really is NOTHING like glastonbury mud. Bollocks to health spas, if you wanna get fit quick, trog round there for 4 days. Our tent looked like the Somme inside, and was made even worse last night thanks to my mate drunkenly falling into no less than 7 huge fucking puddles, then falling all over the tent
I learned some new survival tricks, such as how to skin up under a poncho in the pissing rain, and eat whilst maintaining balance in mud so sucky me wellies nearly came off several times.
Huge thanks to bees, William, and moose - my holy trinity of tent bearers and erecters You'd best come to Hebden for those drinks I owe you
I had a corker, some quality glastonbury madness moments, but I have to say it was bloody hard work, and having been when it's sunny, they are two completely different festivals dependent on the weather.
We got there too late for the meet up on Thursday (see traffic jams and yet more driving rain) but great to meet the people I did see...even though people were starting to think that I didn't actually exist!
The mud...well...what can I say? There really is NOTHING like glastonbury mud. Bollocks to health spas, if you wanna get fit quick, trog round there for 4 days. Our tent looked like the Somme inside, and was made even worse last night thanks to my mate drunkenly falling into no less than 7 huge fucking puddles, then falling all over the tent
I learned some new survival tricks, such as how to skin up under a poncho in the pissing rain, and eat whilst maintaining balance in mud so sucky me wellies nearly came off several times.
Huge thanks to bees, William, and moose - my holy trinity of tent bearers and erecters
You'd best come to Hebden for those drinks I owe you I had a corker, some quality glastonbury madness moments, but I have to say it was bloody hard work, and having been when it's sunny, they are two completely different festivals dependent on the weather.
....and the fact that we left early was actually a stroke of brilliance. From talking to people who are still there staying on Monday would not have been fun.beesonthewhatnow said:Ouch, I ache
That was brilliant, the only low point was my brother fucking his ankle up, but even that hasn't put that much of a downer on what was a brilliant weekend.
nosos said:....and the fact that we left early was actually a stroke of brilliance. From talking to people who are still there staying on Monday would not have been fun.
It wasn't, even for me as someone who was at the top of the site and only had to walk along the permanent roads to reach the bus station. I felt for anyone trying to get through the middle of the site this morning
I saw: king blues, bloc party, arcarde fire, bjork and shitmat. Everything apart from bloc party was awesome (though once the speed wore off the mud made shitmat far too much effort). I slept through modest mouse ( ), the second king blues performance seemingly got cancelled ( ), couldn't wait all of Rufus Wainright, couldn't handle the crowds for madness and missed pendulum because we left sunday afternoon.
), the second king blues performance seemingly got cancelled ( ), couldn't wait all of Rufus Wainright, couldn't handle the crowds for madness and missed pendulum because we left sunday afternoon.I know! I got through ok on that score in the end though, a mate helped me out last minutemoose said:We had something else for you, too, but never found you
JTG sorry mate - he did mention you now, it's just that I was talking to him whilst sweating in my own mud and aromas and had only just woken up so not quite at my best
han
love is the answer
Well, I only saw stuff on the telly as wasn't there - but recorded and watched all of the BBC coverage, and I thought Shirley Bassey, Iggy Pop, CSS, were the performers who shone
The fogies can rock much harder than the youngsters these days, innit. They know how to perform, how to get a crowd doing
It's such a shame about the mud...it looked severe!..but sounds like a good time was had by many
JTG - Little Britain is a top tune innit!
The fogies can rock much harder than the youngsters these days, innit. They know how to perform, how to get a crowd doing
It's such a shame about the mud...it looked severe!..but sounds like a good time was had by many
JTG - Little Britain is a top tune innit!
han said:JTG - Little Britain is a top tune innit!
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
Just gave us another chance to mash it up when they did it for real - the tent went nuts, people standing on the rails around the masts in the middle etc etc.My favourite festival band by a mile
I'm never camping in a tent again though, ever. Makes it all so much more difficult. I changed my clothes after day one, but then as I got increasingly muddier, it seemed pointless to put anything clean on (not that I had much clean mind) cos it was impossible to change into it without it getting mud on. It's still stuck in parts of my nails, can't quite get it all out
Campervan next time, for sure
Campervan next time, for sure
