Glastonbury 2008
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Excellent band - DJed for them in the past and saw them on Friday. Liam the frontman rocks
I took a few photo's of them, I'll send them over to you if you like.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
11. Yeah, that bar was pretty cool. A couple of friends of my girlfriend ran that. It was good.
15. Only shower i had all weekend!?!? (poo, smelly, (me that is))
Musical
Highs.
1. Leonard Cohen -- THE best performance of the weekend IMO. By very many country MILES!
I get to see him again at Big Chill too, unexpectedly!
Revalidated Sunrise ticket
(respectful gap
)
2. Dr Meeker in the Glade, that was a random discovery on Saturday afternoon. As good as JTG said! Wish I'd caught more of them, superb.
3. Stackridge, amazingly unhippy and very together and witty, somewhat dated sound obviously, but very sharp and fresh we thought, more than pleasant Sunday afternoon listening while lazing on Acoustic Hill. Will check them properly at Rhythm Festival.
4. Latin Dub sound system in Leftfield -- while on a middle of the day shift on Thursday in Ford Info opposite. Nice tunes for working time!
5. Billy Bragg late at night one time at Leftfield. He's still got it I think!
6. What little I heard of Martha Wainwright on Pyramid, Saturday -- one to watch at Big Chill and (I think?) WOMAD.
7. Eddy Grant. Great sound and seems a lovely bloke, sound politics too. Really enthusiastic performer ... got the audience well going (had to miss the very start of Leonard for him to finish, but shit happens!). He's coming to WOMAD too ...
8. Hazel O'Connor -- SO much better at Avalon (Friday?) than in 2005 or was it 2004? She has the voice!! Brought a tear to my eye I can tell you during 1 or 2 of her big numbers!
9. Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs -- wicked start to Friday at Avalon! Funny as fuck, the tramp-'tribute' to Jay-Z by Wino Tyrone (the dready washboard player) was something the New York man should have heard for a laff, he might have seen the funny side I reckon. Pisstaking in just the right way ... ... and they're pretty good musicians as well even though they claim not to be a real band at all, but 'just' a bunch of ex vagrant buskers. Which is true, but they're better than that, Hobo Jones is a real showman! And their genuine modesty and delight to be there at all was charming, they were all 3 really appreciative of the big audience and reaction ....
10. The fabulous WURZELS, Avalon, Saturday. We had 2 litres of stromg cider to start with, 0 litres well before the end of their set. Nuff said!!
11. Catching Pronghorn by surprise at the Outside Circus Stage on Sunday -- we'd not picked up on that gig (although it's a usual one for them, I'd just forgotten) and they were great ... two stand up basses!
12. Los Campesinos! Other Stage, Saturday. Deb's idea and a fine choice. Unusual sound and very smart lyrics.
13. Sorry, maybe the beer of the time talking, but we had a fabulous skankaround at Jimmy Cliff on Friday! Ulp ...
14. Atilla the Stockbroker, Cabaret Tent, Sunday. Still ranting after all these years and for me that's fine, his newer stuff celebrates his refusal at 50 to give up on the wrath. I don't care that I've seen him a squillion times, he varies his (vast) repertoire a fair bit each time. One of the great original perfornmance-punk-poets and if John Cooper Clarke respects him, that's good enough for me!
15. Some mad and outrageously dressed tranny, plus brolly twirling troupe of lovelies, doing Rihanna's 'Umbrella' in one of the Trash Ciy venues, Thursday night.
16. 20 minutes of Dreadzone-DJ set, Trash City, after midnight Saturday, outside on the main fire-sculpture. Probably the setting and well up for it crowd enhanced things, but they were spot on!
17. Quite liked 3 songs of Vampire Weekend (Other Stage, Friday) but the rain drove us away ....
18. Mandolin player from Chickenshed Zeppelin and his girlfriend (a fantastic, gentle singer). They were camped next to us in Dragon, and their friendliness made listening to their impromptu folky practising by their tent a privilege and pleasure. Lovely people.
19. I know fuck all about the Men They Couldn't Hang, but Deb did and insisted we went to see them at Avalon. I was surprised to be so impressed!
20. Joan Baez. Despite being rendered three quarters incapable by the excellent beer at that late stage of Sunday at Acoustic, I could tell that her voice was on finest form. Shame we only heard 4 songs ... can't remember what they were ... err ....
21. Oh yes, Kissmet in Avalon, Friday. Superb!!
22. 3 Daft Monkeys, Avalon Cafe, late Thursday. But then I'm a fanboi ....
Lows.
1. Shaky. Great disappointment. Got bored. Play Green Door and cut out all that dull new shit you clueless fucker!
2. Missing Massive. For the fifth bloody time at Glasto -- I'm jinxed, could have EXPECTED that work rota to fall as it did!
3. Missing Buddy Guy
4. Missing Manu Chao on Sunday nght (see point 20 above!)
5. Missing the Tofus. Oh well, will see them at Beautiful Days.
6. Missing Zion Train in Dance East on Friday, were they any good? Oh well, will see them at Beautiful Days.
7. Missing Dreadzone in the Glade, late Friday. Oh well, will see them on Saturday at Workhouse!
8. Missing Pama International
Oh well, etc.
9. Disappointed by King Blues (especially) and by the Slackers (both Leftfield, Thursday), the latter were not shite by any means but not that great at all either, provoking us to wander off to where we could sit down .... (it was raining then, and the Acoustic Hill beer tent was open ... ).
10. Deb reports that Neil Diamond on Sunday was poor, she's loves his R2 cornball cheesemerchantness and she was looking forward a lot, but felt let down. I specifically chose to go sitewandering to avoid him. Let's just say I'm not and never have been a fan ..... but what did others think?
11. Sinead was inaudible, that may have been the sound being too low rather than her fault particularly, but it's a vast tent up at Acoustic and she should have insisted on better sound and tried to project! Crowd was huge too, which no doubt didn't help. Reminds me of being similarly disappointed by Beth Gibbons at the same venue back in 2002, for the same micro-voice/inadequate-sound reason.
12, Kept hearing snatches of anonymous, boring indie crap while wandering about. But I didn't have to linger and I'm an old fucker who's allowed to dislike and not know about what the NME and the 'kids' like ...
13. Missing Joan Armatrading, of whom reports reach me that she was great!
14. Missing too much stuff in Shangri La.
15. Missing The Gossip.
ETA -- but the lowpoints/disappointments don't really matter. The Highs, especially Leonard, more than made up for them and we had such a fantastic time overall that we have very very few real complaints ....
Besides, it's vibe not lineup, man ... see post 3539 above ...
Highs.
1. Leonard Cohen -- THE best performance of the weekend IMO. By very many country MILES!
I get to see him again at Big Chill too, unexpectedly!
Revalidated Sunrise ticket
(respectful gap
)2. Dr Meeker in the Glade, that was a random discovery on Saturday afternoon. As good as JTG said! Wish I'd caught more of them, superb.
3. Stackridge, amazingly unhippy and very together and witty, somewhat dated sound obviously, but very sharp and fresh we thought, more than pleasant Sunday afternoon listening while lazing on Acoustic Hill. Will check them properly at Rhythm Festival.
4. Latin Dub sound system in Leftfield -- while on a middle of the day shift on Thursday in Ford Info opposite. Nice tunes for working time!
5. Billy Bragg late at night one time at Leftfield. He's still got it I think!
6. What little I heard of Martha Wainwright on Pyramid, Saturday -- one to watch at Big Chill and (I think?) WOMAD.
7. Eddy Grant. Great sound and seems a lovely bloke, sound politics too. Really enthusiastic performer ... got the audience well going (had to miss the very start of Leonard for him to finish, but shit happens!). He's coming to WOMAD too ...
8. Hazel O'Connor -- SO much better at Avalon (Friday?) than in 2005 or was it 2004? She has the voice!! Brought a tear to my eye I can tell you during 1 or 2 of her big numbers!
9. Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs -- wicked start to Friday at Avalon! Funny as fuck, the tramp-'tribute' to Jay-Z by Wino Tyrone (the dready washboard player) was something the New York man should have heard for a laff, he might have seen the funny side I reckon. Pisstaking in just the right way ... ... and they're pretty good musicians as well even though they claim not to be a real band at all, but 'just' a bunch of ex vagrant buskers. Which is true, but they're better than that, Hobo Jones is a real showman! And their genuine modesty and delight to be there at all was charming, they were all 3 really appreciative of the big audience and reaction ....
10. The fabulous WURZELS, Avalon, Saturday. We had 2 litres of stromg cider to start with, 0 litres well before the end of their set. Nuff said!!
11. Catching Pronghorn by surprise at the Outside Circus Stage on Sunday -- we'd not picked up on that gig (although it's a usual one for them, I'd just forgotten) and they were great ... two stand up basses!
12. Los Campesinos! Other Stage, Saturday. Deb's idea and a fine choice. Unusual sound and very smart lyrics.
13. Sorry, maybe the beer of the time talking, but we had a fabulous skankaround at Jimmy Cliff on Friday! Ulp ...
14. Atilla the Stockbroker, Cabaret Tent, Sunday. Still ranting after all these years and for me that's fine, his newer stuff celebrates his refusal at 50 to give up on the wrath. I don't care that I've seen him a squillion times, he varies his (vast) repertoire a fair bit each time. One of the great original perfornmance-punk-poets and if John Cooper Clarke respects him, that's good enough for me!
15. Some mad and outrageously dressed tranny, plus brolly twirling troupe of lovelies, doing Rihanna's 'Umbrella' in one of the Trash Ciy venues, Thursday night.
16. 20 minutes of Dreadzone-DJ set, Trash City, after midnight Saturday, outside on the main fire-sculpture. Probably the setting and well up for it crowd enhanced things, but they were spot on!
17. Quite liked 3 songs of Vampire Weekend (Other Stage, Friday) but the rain drove us away ....
18. Mandolin player from Chickenshed Zeppelin and his girlfriend (a fantastic, gentle singer). They were camped next to us in Dragon, and their friendliness made listening to their impromptu folky practising by their tent a privilege and pleasure. Lovely people.
19. I know fuck all about the Men They Couldn't Hang, but Deb did and insisted we went to see them at Avalon. I was surprised to be so impressed!
20. Joan Baez. Despite being rendered three quarters incapable by the excellent beer at that late stage of Sunday at Acoustic, I could tell that her voice was on finest form. Shame we only heard 4 songs ... can't remember what they were ... err ....
21. Oh yes, Kissmet in Avalon, Friday. Superb!!
22. 3 Daft Monkeys, Avalon Cafe, late Thursday. But then I'm a fanboi ....
Lows.
1. Shaky. Great disappointment. Got bored. Play Green Door and cut out all that dull new shit you clueless fucker!
2. Missing Massive. For the fifth bloody time at Glasto -- I'm jinxed, could have EXPECTED that work rota to fall as it did!
3. Missing Buddy Guy
4. Missing Manu Chao on Sunday nght (see point 20 above!)
5. Missing the Tofus. Oh well, will see them at Beautiful Days.
6. Missing Zion Train in Dance East on Friday, were they any good? Oh well, will see them at Beautiful Days.
7. Missing Dreadzone in the Glade, late Friday. Oh well, will see them on Saturday at Workhouse!
8. Missing Pama International
Oh well, etc.9. Disappointed by King Blues (especially) and by the Slackers (both Leftfield, Thursday), the latter were not shite by any means but not that great at all either, provoking us to wander off to where we could sit down .... (it was raining then, and the Acoustic Hill beer tent was open ... ).
10. Deb reports that Neil Diamond on Sunday was poor, she's loves his R2 cornball cheesemerchantness and she was looking forward a lot, but felt let down. I specifically chose to go sitewandering to avoid him. Let's just say I'm not and never have been a fan ..... but what did others think?
11. Sinead was inaudible, that may have been the sound being too low rather than her fault particularly, but it's a vast tent up at Acoustic and she should have insisted on better sound and tried to project! Crowd was huge too, which no doubt didn't help. Reminds me of being similarly disappointed by Beth Gibbons at the same venue back in 2002, for the same micro-voice/inadequate-sound reason.
12, Kept hearing snatches of anonymous, boring indie crap while wandering about. But I didn't have to linger
and I'm an old fucker who's allowed to dislike and not know about what the NME and the 'kids' like ...13. Missing Joan Armatrading, of whom reports reach me that she was great!
14. Missing too much stuff in Shangri La.
15. Missing The Gossip.
ETA -- but the lowpoints/disappointments don't really matter. The Highs, especially Leonard, more than made up for them and we had such a fantastic time overall that we have very very few real complaints ....
Besides, it's vibe not lineup, man ... see post 3539 above ...
Clear up a mystery for me please folks, what's with Candi Staton? She's been getting rave reviews on this thread. I missed her this time (deliberately I'm afraid) but when I saw (OK, endured!) her at WOMAD last year I found her (then) heavily evangelical gospel a complete and total cringe.
Not trying to kick things off here, each to their own and all that, a lot of the stuff I love is no doubt disliked by many here too, but .....
x 10,000
Not trying to kick things off here, each to their own and all that, a lot of the stuff I love is no doubt disliked by many here too, but .....
x 10,000Don't care if it sounds bigheaded, but I honestly think we (Randy & Earl) were ace on Sunday night up at Slippery Dicks. We'd played in the Pussy Parlure earlier which was fun, but it was a bit quiet cos the weather was so great, and our obligatory backstage slot doesn't count.
But we did about 4 hours at Dicks and once all the crew and Dicks regulars and the usual Dicks munters started arriving back from Manu Chao (spit!) we had a really good crowd dancing and making us feel really welcome. One of my favourite sets ever
But we did about 4 hours at Dicks and once all the crew and Dicks regulars and the usual Dicks munters started arriving back from Manu Chao (spit!) we had a really good crowd dancing and making us feel really welcome. One of my favourite sets ever
Top tunage at Slippery Dick's
Glad that went well , but for me tis an annoyance... had been fully intending to go to SD's on Sunday night, having visited that afternoon. But we were too trashed and exhausted and then we found our tent had been gone into when we got back, so we had to stay and crash.
I don't otherwise think that my working shift at 7 am Monday would have put me off though ...
Glad that went well
, but for me tis an annoyance... had been fully intending to go to SD's on Sunday night, having visited that afternoon. But we were too trashed and exhausted and then we found our tent had been gone into when we got back, so we had to stay and crash. I don't otherwise think that my working shift at 7 am Monday would have put me off though ...
Kanda
Diving wanker
It was announced in that mornings Glastonbury Times.
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
whih isnt easily available in cockmills before you set out with kids... shame
If they handed them out round the camping areas that would be fab
If they handed them out round the camping areas that would be fab
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
i was given one in cockmills on friday morning by a lovely man standing in the campsite.
and as i drove round pennards on sunday they were handing them out and the campsite crew had stacks.
anyway - got home, slept a bit, sat in the garden and read the weekend papers. now trying to sort through photo's and have discovered that most of them look like this :
which is irritating
and as i drove round pennards on sunday they were handing them out and the campsite crew had stacks.
anyway - got home, slept a bit, sat in the garden and read the weekend papers. now trying to sort through photo's and have discovered that most of them look like this :
which is irritating
Yay!! Just seen that Dr Meaker (my 2 in my list of musical highs aboive) are appearing at Workhouse this weekend! So I get to see em properly ....
Top banana
Top banana
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
we came off site and were being directed twards glastonbury town so we turned right at the pub in pilton and went to shepton via west compton, if we could have got around the ston easton junction as well I think we would have been even quicker.
still we did door to door in a shade under 2hrs.
We had no delays at all getting to the A303. The water pump giving up and waiting 5 hours for the AA was our only delay!!
I TOLD you to get that done
Kanda
Diving wanker
I TOLD you to get that done
Getting a lift back on a flatbed actually saved me money on petrol
Getting a lift back on a flatbed actually saved me money on petrol
There is that, I suppose
Actually, the flatbed probably USED less petrol
Kanda
Diving wanker
There is that, I suppose
Actually, the flatbed probably USED less petrol
Of course it did, it was a deisel
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
its traditional for the wine stall to get saddo's dancing to hey jude . . . but this year they were completely outdone by the Square Pie Company who were belting out timewarp to a huge crowd. sad bastards.
bmd
Island in the stream.
It was fantastic wasn't it? Saw them do the same set earlier in the year but this one seemed so much more polished and confident. Si John is a genius, Dynamite and Onallee clearly loved doing it all again and whatever Roni was doing at the back there, it was obviously working. Quite a few old uns in there (myself included) who remembered it all from first time around and it was good to see the young uns getting a close up view of how we used to live
And that 10 minute bassline medley was the nuts
I can never understand the wine bar late at night, all these brilliant things to do and people want to stand around dancing to Spandau Ballet, Oasis or whatever other dreadful bollocks they're pumping out.
Ah God, honestly that bassline just ripped my head off. I was with my kids so no drugs were involved but I got such a huge rush off that.
My gf said the same about the wine bar.
I saw you, in Cockmills on Wednesday about mid day, in fact I saw loads of Urbanites in there but I just didn't know what to say so I didn't bother. I
Kanda
Diving wanker
I'd normally agree, kanda - but the fucking Timewarp?
Yeah, it's shit, but that's our opinion. I certainly wouldn't call people sad bastards for listening to a certain type of music or tune.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
No look, tolerance and openmindedness, and an understanding and accepting view of other creeds and cultures is an admirable thing. but it's the fucking timewarp.
Kanda
Diving wanker
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
So
here we are then, and it was a good week I had a feeling it would be a special one and it was.
After never actually receiving our tickets (and they still aren't here) we managed to get on site and set up a great little camp with firewood 20ft away, a tree for shade and decent neighbours.
I enjoyed just bimbling about, stayed sober all week so energy levels weren't as inflated as everyone else's but by saturday i'd get myself into the swing of it and had a fabulous time.
I went to see Amy just to see her once before she dies. she was shit, we could hear her from the tent so went over and as we got to the back of the arena she shut up and a 10min instrumental started
I also saw JZ, I had intended to see the first 15mins and then wander off to see the fire show which i really wanted to see, but I thought I'd arranged to meet someone at the end so I stayed for the whole thing. I thought that he was really polished, it was a great show and very smooth. I don't like the music but everyone else seemed to. I don't think it worked because people wanted to dance and he's not dancing music but apart from that he held his own.
In fact I thought there wasnt enough dancing at the main stages, so i made a point of catching the last 3 numbers of manu chao closing the show on sunday at jazz because I wanted to end on some happy music.
Failed to make it to dance because its not worth it unless its dark and I had other things to do by then. Saw more on the Avalon stage than I have done in previous years, biggest crowd I've seen in that field for the Wurzels and their dance remix of combine harvester was excellent. Hobo Jones was ok in a festival band sort of way, aright in a field with lots of others singing along.
Thoroughly enjoyed toasted cream cheese bagels and halloumi wraps from the Halls Dorset Smokery stall, HUGE bits of cake from Fayres Fair and hawiaan bruchettas from Blue Note Cafe. Sadly the trifle from Vegetarian Delights has gone downhill and I failed to find a single purveyor of chocolate milkshakes all weekend.
Was essentially non plussed by shangri la, the continental drifts tent looked the most promising but I never bothered going back. Trash City however worked well and I actually found myself smiling involuntarily as I walked in the gate on sunday night. But then I've always had a soft spot for the mutoids.
Only downsides were having issues with the security people in our field (not helped by visitors antagonising them whilst we were out which I got blamed for), my feet hurting and a few niggles with work. So pretty good overall
here we are then, and it was a good week
I had a feeling it would be a special one and it was. After never actually receiving our tickets (and they still aren't here) we managed to get on site and set up a great little camp with firewood 20ft away, a tree for shade and decent neighbours.
I enjoyed just bimbling about, stayed sober all week so energy levels weren't as inflated as everyone else's but by saturday i'd get myself into the swing of it and had a fabulous time.
I went to see Amy just to see her once before she dies. she was shit, we could hear her from the tent so went over and as we got to the back of the arena she shut up and a 10min instrumental started
I also saw JZ, I had intended to see the first 15mins and then wander off to see the fire show which i really wanted to see, but I thought I'd arranged to meet someone at the end so I stayed for the whole thing. I thought that he was really polished, it was a great show and very smooth. I don't like the music but everyone else seemed to. I don't think it worked because people wanted to dance and he's not dancing music but apart from that he held his own.
In fact I thought there wasnt enough dancing at the main stages, so i made a point of catching the last 3 numbers of manu chao closing the show on sunday at jazz because I wanted to end on some happy music.
Failed to make it to dance because its not worth it unless its dark and I had other things to do by then. Saw more on the Avalon stage than I have done in previous years, biggest crowd I've seen in that field for the Wurzels and their dance remix of combine harvester was excellent. Hobo Jones was ok in a festival band sort of way, aright in a field with lots of others singing along.
Thoroughly enjoyed toasted cream cheese bagels and halloumi wraps from the Halls Dorset Smokery stall, HUGE bits of cake from Fayres Fair and hawiaan bruchettas from Blue Note Cafe. Sadly the trifle from Vegetarian Delights has gone downhill and I failed to find a single purveyor of chocolate milkshakes all weekend.
Was essentially non plussed by shangri la, the continental drifts tent looked the most promising but I never bothered going back. Trash City however worked well and I actually found myself smiling involuntarily as I walked in the gate on sunday night. But then I've always had a soft spot for the mutoids.
Only downsides were having issues with the security people in our field (not helped by visitors antagonising them whilst we were out which I got blamed for), my feet hurting and a few niggles with work. So pretty good overall
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Sad bastards? For liking something you don't??
Geezus
oh dear
bit of an overeaction perhaps?? I dont think i'm known for criticizing other peoples tastes in music.
newbie
undisambiguated
2008 should be recognised as the year Glastonbury went mainstream in the seagull world. It's great to see fencejumpers back in quantity.
Up till now it's just been a few fringe deviants, but this year the normal, workaday seagulls came avisitin', aswoopin' and asoarin'. Maybe there was a primetime documentary or sponsorship from the Gulldian or something? Anyway, they all seemed to be having a great time, particularly during their meets in the Jazzfield at dawn (prearranged on a forum?), but also when they were just milling about, watching the world go by, listening to the bands and playing with their mates.
They'll be back next year, I reckon. Probably some of them are booking time off work already, as well as telling the stories, showing the photos and saying WOW! to themselves every now and then, with a seagully smile
Next year will be heaving....
Up till now it's just been a few fringe deviants, but this year the normal, workaday seagulls came avisitin', aswoopin' and asoarin'. Maybe there was a primetime documentary or sponsorship from the Gulldian or something? Anyway, they all seemed to be having a great time, particularly during their meets in the Jazzfield at dawn (prearranged on a forum?), but also when they were just milling about, watching the world go by, listening to the bands and playing with their mates.
They'll be back next year, I reckon. Probably some of them are booking time off work already, as well as telling the stories, showing the photos and saying WOW! to themselves every now and then, with a seagully smile
Next year will be heaving....
Kanda
Diving wanker
oh dear
bit of an overeaction perhaps?? I dont think i'm known for criticizing other peoples tastes in music.
But you just did, therefore, you are
it was a bit hitchcock 
