Sherlock51
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Yes I'd absolutely love to meet you all. See you all at the Perfume Garden at 6pm on Friday?
On the bus now to Preston, well excited :-D
On the bus now to Preston, well excited :-D
Who's off to Beat Herder then?
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I'll be the glamorous bird
Can't wait to see you again missus. Massive huggage ahoy Hope to see you there chuck Aye, it really is. One of the golden things about the place when I first went was the total freedom of it all, absolutely unlike any other festie I'd been to (apart from Solfest that is). Pisses me right off that it's come to this.
Anyway, that's a real shame you're not going, having said all that. Have fun at your alternative
See you there then, apart from we don't know what you look like
kevkaos
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Anyone already at the festival have any idea where these dogs might be? I will be in disabled camping so will probably not need to go through the main ticket exchange or regular entrance(disabled is behind the fortress and uses the same gates as crew) arriving early tomorrow.
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
i would guess that is absolutely the case. a certain festival i went to some years back had to do the same and being on a punter's ticket i had to endure being sniffed, the dog stuck it's head in my bag which contained all manner of naughties, the guard let me through with no further trouble.
g'luck people
The Perfumed Garden
I left on Sunday as I had to start jury service this morning.
Beatherder always surprises and Trash Manor this year was a great addition although I'm not keen on trailer trash usually. Also, like most others I missed the 3 topless women riding camels at 5am Sunday morning. I assume they were something to do with the Jagermeister bar
I spent nearly all weekend running the cafe in the Perfumed Garden. Mine and wolfie's first attempt at cafe running and we made getting on for double what any previous perfumed garden cafe's have made so it was worth it.
I'm knackered now though
in equal measures.
I didn't see any urbs that I didn't already know, where were you?
I left on Sunday as I had to start jury service this morning.
Beatherder always surprises and Trash Manor this year was a great addition although I'm not keen on trailer trash usually. Also, like most others I missed the 3 topless women riding camels at 5am Sunday morning. I assume they were something to do with the Jagermeister bar
I spent nearly all weekend running the cafe in the Perfumed Garden. Mine and wolfie's first attempt at cafe running and we made getting on for double what any previous perfumed garden cafe's have made so it was worth it.
I'm knackered now though
in equal measures.I didn't see any urbs that I didn't already know, where were you?
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You really shouldI think i want to go next year
Those fireworks were the best ones I've ever seen. Like 3D some of them, coming down right in front of your face. Incredibly imaginative and well put together. Wow.
We avoided the Fortress altogether and as a result, my faith in BH is restored, and I'll be back. Met some wonderful beautiful people, had brilliant spangled jam sessions in the tea yurt, lost my fucking everything to the Utah Saints (sooo fucking amazing), had the best healing dal and rice at the Indian Kitchen, huggage and mucho love from Shirl and Wolfie and all my lovely mates, a brief mashed chat with Bingo , and err sorry for calling you Kev all the time btw Kaka Tim . No idea why I was convinced that was your name
We avoided the Fortress altogether and as a result, my faith in BH is restored, and I'll be back. Met some wonderful beautiful people, had brilliant spangled jam sessions in the tea yurt, lost my fucking everything to the Utah Saints (sooo fucking amazing), had the best healing dal and rice at the Indian Kitchen, huggage and mucho love from Shirl and Wolfie and all my lovely mates, a brief mashed chat with Bingo , and err sorry for calling you Kev all the time btw Kaka Tim . No idea why I was convinced that was your name
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Had a brilliant festival. Had a 48 hour pass from partner and kids so was able to get shit faced and free wheel around the festival - not done that in years. Met lots of folks I know and got talking to lots i didn't.
Didn't see many of the named acts - but saw some ace stuff in the masion d'etre tent. Great sound in there, doesn't usually get rammed and features lives bands rather than relentless techno.
Particularly good were Gerald Bell-Fife - singer songwriter/guitarist from bradford who looks about 16 and comes accross like Nick Drake - and Ghost Culture - a one man electronica outift who combined dark, entrancing sounds with great arrangements and musicality.
Could have done without camping behind the smoky tentacles tent. great access to the site - but the tent seemed to feature non-stop gap year student groove and hippy reggae bollocks. Then they blasted out techno a 6 in the morning - ten yards from my tent. Oh Well.
Good to see sojourner in the yurt at daft o'clock. I didn't realise you were calling me Kevin so i wasn't insulted. I am now though.
Had good fun driving the cardboard bus around the site on saturday - including running over un-attentive passengers and kicking people off for smoking. The 'spies' walkabout on sunday got a good repsonse as well (apart from a few knuckle heads in the fortress who took offence for some reason).
Overall Beatherder is a fantastic festival, even for someone like me who isn't interested in techno type stuff. Seemed fewer muntered dodgey bastards this year as well. Would love to play it again like in 2009 and 2010 - next year eh?
Didn't see many of the named acts - but saw some ace stuff in the masion d'etre tent. Great sound in there, doesn't usually get rammed and features lives bands rather than relentless techno.
Particularly good were Gerald Bell-Fife - singer songwriter/guitarist from bradford who looks about 16 and comes accross like Nick Drake - and Ghost Culture - a one man electronica outift who combined dark, entrancing sounds with great arrangements and musicality.
Could have done without camping behind the smoky tentacles tent. great access to the site - but the tent seemed to feature non-stop gap year student groove and hippy reggae bollocks. Then they blasted out techno a 6 in the morning - ten yards from my tent. Oh Well.
Good to see sojourner in the yurt at daft o'clock. I didn't realise you were calling me Kevin so i wasn't insulted. I am now though.
Had good fun driving the cardboard bus around the site on saturday - including running over un-attentive passengers and kicking people off for smoking. The 'spies' walkabout on sunday got a good repsonse as well (apart from a few knuckle heads in the fortress who took offence for some reason).
Overall Beatherder is a fantastic festival, even for someone like me who isn't interested in techno type stuff. Seemed fewer muntered dodgey bastards this year as well. Would love to play it again like in 2009 and 2010 - next year eh?
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Sherlock51
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Good times were had by yours truely too! So sorry I didn't catch you lot on the Friday night. Got pretty mashed after pitching tent with a bunch of 18 year-olds (who I later realised were utter chavs) and missed it! Hope yous managed to catch up!
Enjoyed myself anyway. Weather was pretty cold, but the location, wow! Possibly the best location for a festival I've ever seen in the UK. I'd go there for a day trip tbh, I really loved it.
Must say I didn't like the security checks going in and out of the arena. Got pretty tiring after literally a dozen times in one day, but there you go.
I liked how small it was, you could meet people and ACTUALLY bump into them again which was cool. Music wasn't as hard as I would have liked (kind of assumed with it being northern and an electronic festival we'd get some UK hardcore, more DnB etc, though there was some techno and I was loving some of the sets in the forest.
Wicked bands too, dead quirky.
Only issue were the chavvy 18 year-olds in the general camping area. They were all over the place, and at a paltry 29 I felt old. I'm all up for inebriation but everywhere you looked it just felt like it was going a bit too far, and people I camped beside were just absolute brainless wreckheads. Again, am I showing my age here or was this a more widely-shared experience?
Enjoyed myself anyway. Weather was pretty cold, but the location, wow! Possibly the best location for a festival I've ever seen in the UK. I'd go there for a day trip tbh, I really loved it.
Must say I didn't like the security checks going in and out of the arena. Got pretty tiring after literally a dozen times in one day, but there you go.
I liked how small it was, you could meet people and ACTUALLY bump into them again which was cool. Music wasn't as hard as I would have liked (kind of assumed with it being northern and an electronic festival we'd get some UK hardcore, more DnB etc, though there was some techno and I was loving some of the sets in the forest.
Wicked bands too, dead quirky.
Only issue were the chavvy 18 year-olds in the general camping area. They were all over the place, and at a paltry 29 I felt old. I'm all up for inebriation but everywhere you looked it just felt like it was going a bit too far, and people I camped beside were just absolute brainless wreckheads. Again, am I showing my age here or was this a more widely-shared experience?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
They're called "townies" in Wales...
Sherlock51
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We call them charvas, or radgies, in the north east. They are generally young, working class men and women who are seen as being a bit aggressive, prone to committing crimes and are thought of as being fairly uneducated. They are essentially the forgotten white working classes, whose parents, grandparents often came from manual labour / manufacturing industries / mining and so on but have been largely abandoned and forgotten by the government and society in the last few decades. The term chav is pretty offensive IMO but I couldn't think of any other way to describe those guys! Apols if I offended anyone
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
ah it's "offensive" but, you know "those guys" makes it acceptable then even though you find offensive yourself?
ACE logic!
Sherlock51
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"Those guys", "them", "that group of people", hell I don't like pigeon-holding anybody but if you can advise on how to complete that sentence without apparently getting on your tits feel free to enlighten me!ah it's "offensive" but, you know "those guys" makes it acceptable then even though you find offensive yourself?
Sherlock51
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No if you look I back-tracked on the usage of the word, not the other way around. Anyway who the hell cares?
lazythursday
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Beatherder main camping area is always a disaster zone. Middle aged, refined wreckheads should always camp in either the vehicle field or the extra camping area at the far far end of the main bit.
Sort of wish I'd gone though I promised my mental health not to do it this year. Now by next year perhaps I will learn to pace myself...
Sort of wish I'd gone though I promised my mental health not to do it this year. Now by next year perhaps I will learn to pace myself...
Sherlock51
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Consider that a lesson learned! Never again!
Is it eck always a disaster zone. The dickhead ratio's gone up sure, but we were by one set of teens who were lovely and another who were knobs. Gonna happen with bigger numbers.
Some of us can't afford a fucking camper or can be arsed walking the extra. That extra makes all the difference Monday morning lugging your shit back to the car!
lazythursday
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It may be a bit of extra walking but I'd rather not live in a sea of nitrous oxide cannisters, puke and teenage psychosis. But yes, some of them are lovely to be sure. Bit of a lottery though, in my experience.
