Glastonbury 2009
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Ground Elder
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She's back now with a fine tat haul: 2 cookers, 3 good tents, half a dozen chairs, a sleeping bag, 4 inflatable mattresses and the best part of a crate of lager 
Her report: we worked fucking hard and then danced to loads of drum and bass.
Her report: we worked fucking hard and then danced to loads of drum and bass.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
, I chose to see the Horrors instead of Neil Young , it was a tough call but really enjoyed them . QUOTE]
pennimania posting
I was there too
they deserved a much bigger crowd.
Wish I had known another Urb was there
Looby
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She's back now with a fine tat haul: 2 cookers, 3 good tents, half a dozen chairs, a sleeping bag, 4 inflatable mattresses and the best part of a crate of lager
Her report: we worked fucking hard and then danced to loads of drum and bass.
Out there still, I suspect, are several camping stores worth, and a small off license.
On Info I told quite a few newbies, who were planning on leaving late, about the tatting - assuring them that people wouldn't be going around doing general thieving, but that shouldn't leave their stuff unattended.
There were two teenage girls who were on their own, and had never been, and looked a little apprehensive (mum only coming to pick them up at 8pm!). So when I suggested decamping to the bus station until five, then shunting out to Bath & West for the final wait, they looked very reassured.
As it happens, my tatting was very novice level... William of Walworth kindly shoved some cans my way before him and Debs departed on Monday evening. If it wasn't for that, I think I'd have done the rounds myself though.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
I think my eldest might be up there as we speak. Hopefully he'll bring me back something niceShe's back now with a fine tat haul: 2 cookers, 3 good tents, half a dozen chairs, a sleeping bag, 4 inflatable mattresses and the best part of a crate of lager
Her report: we worked fucking hard and then danced to loads of drum and bass.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Hello all, I managed to have another great year despite phone not working making it impossible to hook up with people. I enjoyed seeing Filthy Dukes, Status Quo, Dizzee Rascal, Kissy Sell Out, Eat Static, Pendulum, The Horrors in the The Park (despight being so drunk I kept falling off the chair I was standing on), Chrome Hoof in the early hrs of Sun night/Mon morning at Trash City (loved the 6 foot chrome robot that rolled into the room mid set togive a speech), hi-light had to be Prodigy on Sunday night, absolutely mental with the whole crowd jumping about like loons.
At some point while coming back on site from my van some security knob said he had to check my wrist band because I wearing my sunglasses on my forehead rather than over my eyes which is apparantly the sign of a drug dealer. I may have dreamt this though.
At some point while coming back on site from my van some security knob said he had to check my wrist band because I wearing my sunglasses on my forehead rather than over my eyes which is apparantly the sign of a drug dealer. I may have dreamt this though.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Does anyone know who this bearded man is?
Isn't it the lead singer from the Flaming Lips?
plasticene
New Member
Some great pics here http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/glastonbury_2009.html
including the lightening one.
BTW if any of you are, or know, the girl in #8, please get in touch!
including the lightening one.
BTW if any of you are, or know, the girl in #8, please get in touch!
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
Got battered at the cider bus, me and mystery girl were interviewed by the BBC about Jacko but I think I fucked up our moment on the telly box by mentioning something about him allegedly being a big old perv.
I was very excited about this and probably texted everyone in my phone.
Then thursday night our tent was robbed. I always wake up when people are opening our tent but I was so pissed I didn't. They went through all our stuff in the porch and then came in the sleeping bit, went through my clothes my make-up etc got my purse which was under my mattress by my headand my camera. I always sleep with stuff in my sleeping bag but was stupidly pissed so I guess I've learnt my lesson. It makes me so fucking mad though, fucking thieving cunts.
Will post more tomorrow but I've just woken up and ordered pizza. My right arm is burnt from hanging it out the car.
We were doing really well until you said something like 'oh he's just a big old paedophile, everyone knows it' - ha ha that girl was disgusted she just said 'oh we can't use this now' and marched off with her cameraman trailing in her wake!
Sorry you got robbed, it's a sickener
Im glad you had a good time, I left very early so I didnt get to see you before I left.
Thank you
Ah, yes... err oops, sorry
But in my defence I was just a little pre-occupied on Friday morning with a certain gig on Friday night!!
And besides BBC girl said it was unconfirmed. She also asked how did we feel about that?
Confused - is he dead, or isn't he?
We saw that, very impressive it was too.
Anyway, had a fabulous festival, sat through the thunderstorm at the cider bus, gave up on Rolf Harris but did see some good bands. And I met some lovely people, mostly at the cider bus.
Its a sign of the times. All the headliners are the Grandads of rock. Not just something wrong with Glato.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Headliners at Glastonbury are irrelevant really. Apart from the Prodigy, didn't see any of them.
There are something like 42 stages at Glastonbury. Saw some old and some new and some stuff thats not music.
Only problem I had was that while sangri-la was and amazing show piece visually, the music they played left me flat at the best of times.
There are something like 42 stages at Glastonbury. Saw some old and some new and some stuff thats not music.
Only problem I had was that while sangri-la was and amazing show piece visually, the music they played left me flat at the best of times.
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that's hardly a problem with shangri la though. i saw acts in shangri la ranging from swing, to hip-hop on brass, to gypsy, to dub. i don't think you can accuse the shangri la organisers of being unadventurous with their musical choices. on the whole, i had some of my best festival moments there, for music and the other stuff.
strung out
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i don't think shangri la was intended for people like you then. that, arcadia and trash city were the best bits of the entire festival imo, both by day and by night. pisses all over what lost vagueness had to offer.
This year, any one of the three would have single handedley pissed over LV.
Arcadia are showmasters... that rig, running at fulll tilt, is jaw dropping. And they had an awesome lineup. I was only there for Alex Metric (sadly, noise restriction in place at that time), but did pass by another time when they were really hoofing it.
Shangri-La did brilliantly well. Last year they were the 'big new hope' post LV, but were a bit "stuff in a field" at first glance... this year I think they totally nailed it.
Its Glastonbury, there are a lot of fucked people, playing dub isn't gonna strike a chord. Got to know your audience. One place playing banging tunes would have been cool.
Not knocking them, truly amazing job and great when I'm straight, but not when I'm fucked.
Looked like there was good stuff going on in the alleys... But on banging line up stuff it seemed that Arcadia won that one.
strung out
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Its Glastonbury, there are a lot of fucked people, playing dub isn't gonna strike a chord. Got to know your audience. One place playing banging tunes would have been cool.
Not knocking them, truly amazing job and great when I'm straight, but not when I'm fucked.
as far as i could tell, shangri las was where an awful lot of the munted people went between 12-6am, and the majority of them seemed to be enjoying it! the igloo seemed like a fairly decent place for fucked people and i'm sure there were plenty of places in the alleys that had all kinds of music going on, in addition to the main stage which went on til 5ish.
strung out
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agree there, arcadia was awesome. evil nine on the saturday night was one of my top moments from the festival (though it wasn't loud enough!)
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
Does anyone know who the bands were at the Fluffy Rock Cafe on Thursday afternoon? Not entirely sure of the time but probably earlier in the afternoon rather than later
Garcia Lorca
Anger can be power
did anyone check our handy work in the greenpeace field? i spent 2 days straight soldering circuit boards and led arrays for the runway lights and another 2 days boarding up the out of control tower.
Aha, i did get to see a bit of urbanite work in action after all then! yeah, the greenpeace field looked really good this year! good work, sorry.... nah im not really, that i missed yer DJ moment, you know how glasto goes.... its fooking hard to plan at 3am!
glad to hear that it went well tho.edit to add - one of the best gigs i saw all weekend was also a band ive never heard of before and stumbled upon, 360 ska?
lots of people looking for a lively wee gig that evening and they provided it.. makes it even better when you see the band fucking loving it so much
nice one lads;
