Glastonbury 2008

[Yetman]

I'm liking the sound of those Trash City things ... I missed out on going there entirely last time , but they've got more space now ...

Trash city was wicked, let down massively by the mud

The moustache disco was fucking brilliant as well

 

[mr steev]

I won a Shakin' Stevens dance contest when I was a kid... wonder if I still have it?

a-whooooaa whooooooaa julie...

 

[gblack1987]

porn? what dya take me for!
nah apologies I take it that upload site must be a bit shitty,
try this http://rapidshare.com/files/111532841/glastonbury_line-up.doc.html

 

[El Jefe]

so with reference to this

Drag Strip Big Band Tent – a large clear span tent, with stage, lighting and bar. The venue will run from 10pm – 6am Thursday through to Sunday night with a capacity will be around 700. The Drag Strip is a large-scale music and performance venue deigned to look like a Mexican border-town biker bar. Aside from bands and acts the venue will house a cast of over 20 in-house performers playing various characters, whose role is to interacting with the audience at all times. The venue is being designed inside and out by award-winning theatrical designer Robin Harvey; whose previous work has included sets for Punchdrunk’s Faust.

I've started my campaign to get a slott here. Well, i am called El Jefe after all

 

[moose]

Seems like being a Man U fan but only caring about the reserve team, to continue the football analogy. Why not give FCUM your support?

Actually, that's the main reason I ain't going Once I found the will to give up top-flight football - after a lifetime of devoted support - in favour of a homemade non-league club, everything else in life just fell into place

 

[Sunray]

Trash city was wicked, let down massively by the mud

The moustache disco was fucking brilliant as well

Who ever took those, I suggest you learn about white balance. Its set to indoor lighting.

 

[gabi]

Does kind of give it more of a post-apocalyptic feel tho. Doesn't exactly sell the delights of Glasto tho. Shivers down my spine remembering that fucking mud.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

The problem with things being post apocalyptic is there usually has to have been an apocalypse. Which is awesome with stuff like Mad Max (desert) or Dawn of the Dead (big shop) but Glasto had its own mud-pocalypse.

 

[William of Walworth]

Yeah it's true, those pix don't lie, conditions were apocalyptic last time , that's why I never made it down to Trash City (except to sludge-trudge past) to be honest.

But this year will be different, I'm confident as it's reasonably possible to be about that.

To redress the balance of those earlier pix, here's how it CAN be and how it very possibly can/will be again, with only a moderate amount of luck/justice/redressing of the law of averages ...

Thursday of 2005 (Urban75 main website pix by the editor)

Sunday of 2005

(some of the inbetween images censored )

 

[pennimania]

Hey

we can say it's next month now

I think the lineup's not bad I really want to see the Brian Jonestwn Massacre

 

[mysterygirl]

Yeah it's true, those pix don't lie, conditions were apocalyptic last time , that's why I never made it down to Trash City (except to sludge-trudge past) to be honest.

But this year will be different, I'm confident as it's reasonably possible to be about that.

I so hope you're right about this. I have two bad ankles, and since I got my ticket it has turned out that one of them might be needing surgery. Im going to struggle as it is, bad conditions are going to cause me a real problem

Fingers crossed for the sunshine then!

 

[William of Walworth]

Can't guarentee anything obviously, but I'm monitoring the weather on geeky sites -- so normal people don't have to!

Very early signs (signs that are far too early so far, to be fair ) lead me o be very cautiously optimistic .... at this stage ....

Watch various spaces as time goes on though ....

I really hope for your sake and for 180,000 others' sake that we have a nice Glastonbury this time. A muddy one is very far from inevitable despite a pretty bad run of recent ones and despite some peoples' conviction that the 'June monsoon' bollocks is true -- it's a meterological myth at least as far as inevitability is concerned.

Hope you get through OK, mysterygirl, there's various advice available concerning minimising the pain of getting out and about a very large and slopey site.

I'm sure you've sorted yourself with some strong, ankle-supporting walking boots?

 

[Sunray]

Can't guarentee anything obviously, but I'm monitoring the weather on geeky sites -- so normal people don't have to!

Very early signs (signs that are far too early so far, to be fair ) lead me o be very cautiously optimistic .... at this stage ....

Watch various spaces as time goes on though ....

I really hope for your sake and for 180,000 others' sake that we have a nice Glastonbury this time. A muddy one is very far from inevitable despite a pretty bad run of recent ones and despite some peoples' conviction that the 'June monsoon' bollocks is true -- it's a meterological myth at least as far as inevitability is concerned.

Hope you get through OK, mysterygirl, there's various advice available concerning minimising the pain of getting out and about a very large and slopey site.

I'm sure you've sorted yourself with some strong, ankle-supporting walking boots?

Boots.

I'm kinda hoping I'm in my sandals this year.

 

[William of Walworth]

Here's hoping!

Me I'll be combining boots with shorts/t shirts ...

And taking off the boots to use as pint holders as often as it's possible to be resting near a good source of beer or cider

Boots are good in warm/dry weather too -- protect and support the feet/ankles whatever the conditions

 

[Dr_Gonzo]

There was a feature in the Observer about bands to catch at festivals this year and it had My Bloody Valentine down as playing glastonbury, I couldn't see them on the line up so I guess they might be one of the special guests on the Pyramid Stage.

 

[Sunray]

I'm lead to believe My Bloody Valentine are a Bestival exclusive.

 

[Looby]

FLIP FLOPS!

That's what I'll be wearing. Down with wellies, wellies are eeeevil.

 

[William of Walworth]

There was a feature in the Observer about bands to catch at festivals this year and it had My Bloody Valentine down as playing glastonbury, I couldn't see them on the line up so I guess they might be one of the special guests on the Pyramid Stage.

As Sunray says, that was a plain mistake, Bestival only for MBV.

 

[William of Walworth]

FLIP FLOPS!

That's what I'll be wearing. Down with wellies, wellies are eeeevil.

I'm no fan of wellies, but flip flops will knacker your ankles, even with zero mud ....

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I wear my para boots at festies no matter what the weather, lots of support for your feet when walking miles. Flip flops would fuck my feet something rotton.

 

[Sunray]

I wear my para boots at festies no matter what the weather, lots of support for your feet when walking miles. Flip flops would fuck my feet something rotton.

Why?

I trekked up into the Himalayas for 2 days, I'd have gone longer but cold prevented me, in my Nike sandals. Also did the really muddy northern hills of Thailand. Was more difficult, mud was 2 ft deep in places, but it was nice to just cross knee deep swollen streams by striding through them. They had the backs on but were and still are very comfortable.

Boots are only of use for extremely uneven or muddy ground where you are at risk of twisted ankles or losing anything not tied to you.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Boots are only of use for extremely uneven or muddy ground

That'd be most festival sites then

 

[Sunray]

Men

Girls

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Wearing boots whatever also has the advantage of not having to take anything else, thus saving weight/bag space

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I suggest these:

 

[ajk]

Sod that.

 

[William of Walworth]

I suggest these:

You WANT those to be necessary this year, don't you, bouncer? You GLOAT over your fantasised prospect of yet another mudbath, don't you, Mr Positive?

Can't wait til I hear your frustrated reaction to widespread accounts of such gear being left locked up, in cars, unused ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Sod that.

Yet more mud assumptionism, eh?

We really need a scorcha this time actually, to shut the mud assumptionists up for a while ..

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It's gonna rain, we had our one day of summer today

 

[ajk]

Yet more mud assumptionism, eh?

We really need a scorcha this time actually, to shut the mud assumptionists up for a while ..

Hey, don't forget, I'm the bloke who on leaving his house in 98 looked back at his wellies and thought to himself "It was muddy last year, I won't be needing those this year".

Trench foot was brilliant.