Glastonbury

Posted by: Simon Matthews on 18 February 2003

Was granted a licence last night.
Tickets not on sale as yet. REM and the Stones in headliner rumour. I will post more band news as they anounce it.

Forget reading,V2000 etc - this is the best festival in Europe bar none.

Peace, love and a good set of waterproofs!
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Chris Brandon
Used to love Glastonbury,it was a bit of a social high-light on the annual calender. ( along with Reading and Donnington,the Elephant fayre etc.)

But,that was Many years ago before it grew and grew....and grew and became (imho) too commercialised.

in a way,it kinda lost it's roots...man Frown

Chris
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Simon Matthews
"But,that was Many years ago before it grew and grew....and grew and became (imho) too commercialised".

When was the last time you went?

I ask this because I know of no other event which could cater for 150,000 people in the way that glastonbury does.
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Simon Matthews
The tossers are in the minority. When was the last time you went Alan?
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Chris Brandon
Last time was in the earliy Eighties when it was known as the Glastonbury CND Festival (or something like that).

The last couple that I remember included,Roy Harper,Curtis Mayfield,Marillion,Jackson Browne,Van Morison,The Chieftains,Incantation,John Cooper-Clark.

I think that they were limited to between 2ok - 30k people and it cost about a tenner to get in at Worthy Farm(?)....although i usually managed not get in without having to pay. ;-)

Like I said....some time ago !

Happy memories....

Chris
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Simon Matthews
Chris

Great bands then. Still plenty of great bands now.

Alan

One shitfest out of the last 5 festivals ain't bad. No less chance of raining at the big chill!

"Too many cultures" - Thats the point my man! Maybe you guys are just getting a bit old for this sort of thing Wink

I can live with a few tossers, a bit of mud and a busy site. In compensation you get the best four days of fun and music to be had.
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by NB
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You know things are getting grim when 30 is 'too old'..
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What chance is there for someone that is looking at 40 soon!! Frown


Regards

NB
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Simon Matthews
One of the best things about Glastonbury is that it has a 'all are welcome' attitude.

At a festival where it is ok for a guy to walk around stark bollock naked with a cardboard sign on his head saying 'acid for sale' it is generally accepted that wrong attitude not wrong age is what makes some people unwelcome.
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Simon Matthews
Alan

They all look a bit clean, straight and bored Wink
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Simon Matthews
Best not to ask him too many questions!
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by Mekon
I haven't been to Glastonbury since 1990, but I fancy it this year.

I won't be drinking perry laced with petrol again though.
Posted on: 18 February 2003 by garyi
I have never been.
I went to homelands once.

it was shit.
Posted on: 19 February 2003 by Mekon
Wasn't homelands one of those dodgy softdrink/mobile phone advertising exercises?
Posted on: 19 February 2003 by bornwina
I went to Homelands twice - on the second occasion my misses gave birth to my twins in the early hours the following day - I still had the thump of the PA's in my head mingling with the thump of the heart monitors - very bizarre, particularly the state I was in.

Just booked my hotel room for Reading - fuck that slumming it in tents at my age.

ps has anyone been to the Coacalla (?) festival in California? any tips?