If bloc qualifies as a festival then bloc definitely. If not, then glade . . .
Best festival of 2007
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Farmer Giles
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Bloc Weekender
Primavera. Or Bloc.
Glade was just wrong. Anyone who reckons it was great is insane and/or never went previously when it was sunny and/or is one of those crazed-types who think that things improve when made less pleasant. The whole thing was a nightmarish ordeal, sure a triumph of will in the face of adversity, and all the music I saw was ace, but not being able to sit anywhere outdoors, coupled with not being able to dance properly due to mudbath took all of the joy out of it for me. As did the ongoing fear that i was going to catch dysentery from the floating-toilet-disaster. As it was, I stayed awake for from Friday morning to Sunday night powered by nothing more than Red Bull because I didn't want to sleep (I would have had to take my muddy boots and trousers off) nor did I want to get fucked, because the idea of being wobbly and then coming down in a field of mud didn't appeal at all. I enjoyed the 10hours or so of dancing I did manage, and the hiding from the rain in tents with my mates, but it was not a successful festival for me- I like to be able to kick back in the sunshine with a beer and a spliff! Dammit.
Glade was just wrong. Anyone who reckons it was great is insane and/or never went previously when it was sunny and/or is one of those crazed-types who think that things improve when made less pleasant. The whole thing was a nightmarish ordeal, sure a triumph of will in the face of adversity, and all the music I saw was ace, but not being able to sit anywhere outdoors, coupled with not being able to dance properly due to mudbath took all of the joy out of it for me. As did the ongoing fear that i was going to catch dysentery from the floating-toilet-disaster. As it was, I stayed awake for from Friday morning to Sunday night powered by nothing more than Red Bull because I didn't want to sleep (I would have had to take my muddy boots and trousers off) nor did I want to get fucked, because the idea of being wobbly and then coming down in a field of mud didn't appeal at all. I enjoyed the 10hours or so of dancing I did manage, and the hiding from the rain in tents with my mates, but it was not a successful festival for me- I like to be able to kick back in the sunshine with a beer and a spliff! Dammit.
speed-it-up
New Member
I enjoyed Exit best.
Beautiful Days was ok but spoiled by the weather. Once you have enjoyed foreign weather at a festival it is hard to forgive the English climate.
Beautiful Days was ok but spoiled by the weather. Once you have enjoyed foreign weather at a festival it is hard to forgive the English climate.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Glastonbury, was the only one I did so it wins by default.
Not doing any at all next year...
Not doing any at all next year...
free spirit
more tea vicar?
bloc and glade
bloc for the music, rave banter and off my tits go carting
glade coz I got to build dams & direct traffic & stuff*
*yes I'm wierd like that
bloc for the music, rave banter and off my tits go carting
glade coz I got to build dams & direct traffic & stuff*
*yes I'm wierd like that
Crispy said:
Nah, lifted/self-plagiarised from elsewhere -- I posted it two months ago, the main bulk of it.
Kanda said:Think Glade ['Most spectacular Mudbath'] wins this actually
Maybe it wasn't clear that I was exclusively 'voting' from festies I'd actually been to. I know the Glade was notorious and I heard a lot of mud war stories from survivors!
beesonthewhatnow said:
I knew Glasto was off for you for 2008 and I understand that, but that's
news ...
Skim said:
Maybe I was just luckier .. I met a shed load of loons. Including Cpatain Rbubish!!!
Tort said:
firky said:
Yes, this was fantastic in 2006 and even better (so I hear) this year.
We are definitely going in 2008
firky said:Glastonbury is going to be sunny next year so I am going
That's the spirit!!
Balance of probability has got to be high for a BEING ABLE TO SIT DOWN WHEN AND WHERE YOU WANT Glasto in 2008 ...
at mudbatheing
Watch this or a similar space in January for the welcome return of my 'Festival Season [2008] -- some dates and details' thread.
I was in a pretty bad headstate in January 2007 and couldn't face the task at the time. But several Urbanites were asking after my festographic information service**, and the 2005 and 2006 versions proved useful to a lot of folks, as a quick all-in-one-place Urban-based aide memoire at least. And now I'm much more up for reviving the thing. In fact I look to forward to compiling the thread, and to the 2008 season generally, a lot more. Not unconnected to the fact that unlike eleven months ago I also now have a lovely festival expert in my life who is promising to help me get stuff sorted
**All the information is available elsewhere in fuller and better form. But bashing something together for this site is a quick ready referencer for the untogether, date-forgetful, down the pub Urban stoner festie goer
I was in a pretty bad headstate in January 2007 and couldn't face the task at the time. But several Urbanites were asking after my festographic information service**, and the 2005 and 2006 versions proved useful to a lot of folks, as a quick all-in-one-place Urban-based aide memoire at least. And now I'm much more up for reviving the thing. In fact I look to forward to compiling the thread, and to the 2008 season generally, a lot more. Not unconnected to the fact that unlike eleven months ago
I also now have a lovely festival expert in my life who is promising to help me get stuff sorted **All the information is available elsewhere in fuller and better form. But bashing something together for this site is a quick ready referencer for the untogether, date-forgetful, down the pub Urban stoner festie goer
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
perplexis said:
Well yeah I can see you're point and i agree (except i was in the control box most of the weekend so at least i had a chair), but what i liked was the determination to make it happen (not that you could have left even if you wanted to), the people who hiked 5 miles through the floods and arrived at the wrong site of site and were still smiling, that after a weekend in the somme people went home muddy but happy.
although i have to admit that the 24hr turnaround to get everything washed before womad and then goign back to another muddy field nearly killed me.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Nah, we just fancy a year off. The money that we'd spend on festies is being spent on holidays instead, we fancy lots of nice weekend breaks away at various placesWilliam of Walworth said:I knew Glasto was off for you for 2008 and I understand that, but that's
Change is good as a rest and all that
There will still be a weekend in Wales around June though
Less mud in 2008 though wiskey, near certainty!
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Primavera. It's still the tits
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
And tits, as we all know, are lovely thingsMay Kasahara said:Primavera. It's still the tits
beesonthewhatnow said:There will still be a weekend in Wales around June though
A challenge for our very busy schedule, but not impossible!!
Not yet on my radar ...
Where was this one?
Could add it to my list for 2008.
May Kasahara said:Primavera. It's still the tits
Where was this one?
Could add it to my list for 2008.
twister said:
Musically - Portishead - All Tomorrows Parties this weekend just gone.
i had no idea who anyone who was playing was, apart from Portishead and Aphex, and i was blown away consistently by amazing bands.
It doesn't get my vote for the crowd though. bunch of joyless sods who don't even bob there heads to music. no idea what that is about
Crowd and general good fun - 7th Sun Festival - a 500 person weekend of house and cabaret i went too
i had no idea who anyone who was playing was, apart from Portishead and Aphex, and i was blown away consistently by amazing bands.
It doesn't get my vote for the crowd though. bunch of joyless sods who don't even bob there heads to music. no idea what that is about
Crowd and general good fun - 7th Sun Festival - a 500 person weekend of house and cabaret i went too
