Glastonbury 2009
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jontz01
taking refuge in the loft
Damn! Trust you to spot my mistake.
PS I am using you and Derv as an example as to why my friends with toddlers should take the plunge and come along for the first time. They've decided to bail from London, and by random chance, have settled on Castle Cary.
Lovely, stunning photos paulo, gutted I didn't get chance to meet you - I wanted to have a little chat about your underground antics... I was with Sunray but got sooo tired you ended up with Dave instead [I've seen the text]
jontz01
taking refuge in the loft
did anyone else giggle at the kiddies with mobile numbers scrawled on their backs? a guy (40 if he was a day) in our field was written on by his g/f after getting lost on the thursday night off his face.
hahahaha I saw a few munted adults with phone numbers scribbled on them... "If found please return: 078xx etc etc"
we had a lost child brought to us, and when the dad came to pick her up he said "she's got numbers written on her arm, but I can't remember what they are"did anyone else giggle at the kiddies with mobile numbers scrawled on their backs? a guy (40 if he was a day) in our field was written on by his g/f after getting lost on the thursday night off his face.
genee_rave
New Member
It's seeing other people's photos which make me realise how shite mine are!
Mooncat
Hug me - I'm vaccinated
Yes, William, we were there Friday and Saturday nights before heading off to Devon. Sat on the monument thing on high street till the early hours listening to bands playing in Backpackers and meeting loads of interesting peeps.
Which weekend was that, 20th-21st or 27th-28th? If the former we must have been very unlucky to miss you, we were passing the monument all the time ...
Ahh, shame to miss you, we were onshift (at Other Stage Info) noon to 4 pm that day, but on odd occasions one or other of the Info Crew have to leave the counter to get stuff, etc. Oh well!
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
I wish I'd taken some pictures of the cider bus on thursday night. And perhaps less of the stage/s and more of people.
Ho hum. At least the pictures of people that I did take were from in front of them - ie their faces - and not of their backs.
Apart from the one man with long orange shorts on and a very suspicious looking brown stain down the seam of the seat of his shorts.......
Ho hum. At least the pictures of people that I did take were from in front of them - ie their faces - and not of their backs.
Apart from the one man with long orange shorts on and a very suspicious looking brown stain down the seam of the seat of his shorts.......
Maybe I was making coffee for the team or something, or off behind scenes sorting supplies
.... shame you didn't ask for me!Shaving at Glasto this year was strictly at a premium for me, only managed it twice over ten days. Oh yeah and Debbie still thinks I'm a bloke, as far as she can tell ...
EXCELLENT pictures from Tort and paolo 
Loved them!
Loved them!
Interesting questions there Hollis .....
As they was almost certainly aimed at me, let me answer ... Debbie and I became Info Crew by applying for it prior to Glastonbury 2008, and by saying on the application that we'd been coming to Glastonbury for many many years and knew the site and how the festival worked pretty well in consequence. We both had plenty to offer.
Admitedly I knew 'InfoMan' (one of the chief core workers of Festival information Services) personally from a few years back, and I knew one or two others who had done the work, so in that sense at least you could maybe call it 'nepotism'. Or just knowing how to apply, it's not exactly publicised because they want responsible and experienced and knowledgeable people on the Info Points, merit does play an important and genuine part.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
That's nepotism pure and simple William, and you know it!
You worked for the first time at Glastonbury and got a decent job because you knew someone
And that's ok, because some deserve it
(I was in Greepeace camping because I knew someone)
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
(I was in Greepeace camping because I knew someone, and I deserve it)
same- did you meet the lanky fucker who spent tuesday and wednesday bent over the table next to the production office behind sipson village frantically soldering runway lights? next year i'm hoping to be in shangri la doing considerably less work due to someone i know... because i'm worth it.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
Got there Thursday
I may put myself up for working it next year, not sure how it works though, so you get to deffo stay in that field
It's ace
I may put myself up for working it next year, not sure how it works though, so you get to deffo stay in that field
It's ace
I didn't directly deny it did I?
But I'm not feeling guilty, certainly not under interrogation from Hollis, because I KNOW we have plenty to offer in the job. We do work hard when on shift ....
You worked for the first time at Glastonbury and got a decent job because you knew someone
And that's ok, because some deserve it
(I was in Greepeace camping because I knew someone)
Looks like you see it similarly anyway
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
Well, you put the effort in over the years, you made friends, kept in touch, all for friendship
Then the opportunity comes and you take it
None flaky experienced people are what's needed in this situation
Good stuff
Then the opportunity comes and you take it
None flaky experienced people are what's needed in this situation
Good stuff
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
I wish I'd taken some pictures of the cider bus on thursday night. And perhaps less of the stage/s and more of people.
Ho hum. At least the pictures of people that I did take were from in front of them - ie their faces - and not of their backs.
Apart from the one man with long orange shorts on and a very suspicious looking brown stain down the seam of the seat of his shorts.......
and my bum, while I was asleep!
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Well, you put the effort in over the years, you made friends, kept in touch, all for friendship
Then the opportunity comes and you take it
None flaky experienced people are what's needed in this situation
Good stuff
Exactly that. I had a big chat with someone this year who's been involved for yonks, and got the impression once again/even more that it is about who you've got to know and what you've done, but that's as it should be in many ways. The festival crew is one big interconnected family in a way, and you need to have been there a few times and appreciated what it's about before you can really play a decent active and committed role. Well, you don't definitely need to have done so, but it massively helps.
That was my 10th or 11th Glasto, and found the knowledge i've built up over the years was really handy in the job i did, and enabled me to offer more to the festival generally, even just people stopping me to ask directions (they never expected the detail in the response they got...). If people want to get more involved, then stick with it and you'll get there.
Not sure there's any such thing as a 'cushy' job though, all of them seem to work you really hard, you have to enjoy what you're there to do and not mind missing out on being at the festival as a punter. If i wasn't working there nowadays i wouldn't go as a punter anymore, or would pay for my ticket and work there anyway. On the other hand there are people I know who've worked there and have never gone back to do so again, since they hated it.
I guess if a job looks fun, then it's probably also very important, so they need to know that people are going to keep their head together over the weekend and do the work. Conversely, Lord Camomile and i went down to Blue gate on the monday morning at oh god hundred hours and found none of the stewards had turned up to direct traffic so security were having to do it. Unless you can make sure you can get reliable people, then stuff like that risks happening.
Meh, i'm rambling, make of the above what you will.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
It makes sense ^^^^ that does
Of course it does, you are agreeing with me, haha
Didn't see my quote in there at first
Of course it does, you are agreeing with me, haha
Didn't see my quote in there at first
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Hooray!
ETA: yeah, quote wasn't in there at first, as the reference to LMHF's bum wasn't there when i started writing. So had to quote, else i risked appearing to make some entirely different point.
ETA: yeah, quote wasn't in there at first, as the reference to LMHF's bum wasn't there when i started writing. So had to quote, else i risked appearing to make some entirely different point.
chemn
shmemn
Photos going up now at my flickr page
genee_rave
New Member
I got a bit emotional looking at them on Tuesday!!
Seriously tempted to add them to a few of mine and get one of these made: http://photo.jessops.com/cewe-photobooks-small-photobook.html
This time last week I had just arrived and was enjoying some cider in the sun, I want to be back!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
blimey, some absolute corkers there (n yours weren't bad at all either tort)
Yeah that set is amazing. Best I've ever seen over the years.
