Big Green Gathering - who's coming?

[Ground Elder]

There are, I think, going to be three official bars on site this year. No idea what they'll be selling, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't some local organic brew made at the full moon from bio-dynamic hops and water from a sacred spring.

So lets put a stop to all this nonsense and get back to slagging crap hippy bands

 

[bluestreak]

i wish i was going.

 

[docus]

Do any sound systems go to BGG? Any impromptu parties at night?

 

[William of Walworth]

There are, I think, going to be three official bars on site this year. No idea what they'll be selling, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't some local organic brew made at the full moon from bio-dynamic hops and water from a sacred spring.

So lets put a stop to all this nonsense and get back to slagging crap hippy bands

Hey hey! Up to date information as opposed to recycled old rumours from .... someone ...

 

[psycherelic]

I'm going to be site crewing in the most hippy of hippy parts of the BGG- the earth energies area!

I haven't been for about 6 years but until then I had been at every one since 95 or whenever they started again..

The BGG is very hippy but it is also a very good fun, chilled out festie, I plan to be quite wasted every day I'm there

 

[Sunray]

You calling Dub a Morris dancer?

My imagination is a great thing.

 

[han]

Kangaroo Moon are part of the Gong 'family', and do fantastic charitable work including taking retired police dogs to swim with dolphins, and funding research into the appearance of saints in common foodstuffs, I'll have you know. *

x 100000000000

There are plenty of 'rugs and soundsystems at the BGG, it's certainly NOT tame. It's a bloody lovely festival. I'm actually not going any more though - a cornish chum has invited us down for the weekend and it's gonna be bloody lovely down there if the weather stays like this.

Have a fab one, peeps who go, and bring us back a noseflute!

 

[han]

We're going to the first couple of days of this now, (w00t! ) on the way to visit Cornish chums....

It'd be great to meet any other urbanites who are going, for a cyder/chai (!) or two....Penni?

 

[han]

hello psycherelic <waves>

 

[TeeJay]

I've never been to the BGG mainly because Stig warned me off -- not least she warned me that there is no beer tent!!! I hope this changes, how stupid not to have a tent selling organic ales and ciders or something, from ethical small producers ... that would be totally in keeping with the BGG thing ...

Instead, there'll probably be your usual crew selling Stella and Strongbow from the back of trucks, which isn't a problem exactly, but the organisers could do better I reckon.

If you know where to look you will be able to find some decent, if unofficial, cider there. It also isn't that hard to take your own either - they even have a free shuttle bus that runs up and down cheddar gorge to the local village/town.

edit1: just seen the thing about the bars

edit2: WoW the easiest way to find out some facts is the website: http://www.big-green-gathering.com/

Alcohol: You may bring alcohol onsite for personal consumption but excess quantities will be conviscated. Please remember this is a family gathering.
http://www.big-green-gathering.com/index.php?pageid=39

 

[DJWrongspeed]

to get u in the mood here is our resonance radio doc me & Piers Gibbon did last year, has some beautiful recordings>

BGG 'Clearspot' show

 

[Pavlik]

Just got back from here and had the most fantastic 36 hours I've had for a long time. Everyone was in really good spirit and seemed really happy to be alive.
Met three very lovely girls from brighton and laughed so much all day sunday that we ended up getting told off by the healing field facists for having too much fun
Still flying high on a charice truffle right now and i've gotta be at work in half an hour.

 

[Ground Elder]

Well that was fun Best BGG for years.

 

[han]

Alternative energy/technology stuff was great. Solar panels, wind power, Croissant Neuf soundsystem - ace.

Campaigns field - also brilliant. (apart from the 9/11 conspiracy theorists ). Good to bump into some old chums there.

Healing field and ESP - neau comment. - actually, no, I will make a comment. It was dreadful. Shamanic drum workshops, ear acupuncture, laughter workshops, and a bloke who could help you 'spiral into this curving mystery' or 'show you the joy of being a water-bearer' all made us scarper from the healing field as fast as we could into the Farmers field where the sane, cyder-drinking people were.

We had a larf. but for all the wrong reasons

 

[Pavlik]

Alternative energy/technology stuff was great. Solar panels, wind power, Croissant Neuf soundsystem - ace.

Campaigns field - also brilliant. (apart from the 9/11 conspiracy theorists ). Good to bump into some old chums there.

Healing field and ESP - neau comment. - actually, no, I will make a comment. It was dreadful. Shamanic drum workshops, ear acupuncture, laughter workshops, and a bloke who could help you 'spiral into this curving mystery' or 'show you the joy of being a water-bearer' all made us scarper from the healing field as fast as we could into the Farmers field where the sane, cyder-drinking people were.

We had a larf. but for all the wrong reasons

I also had a few laughs for the wrong reasons.
I don't understand why people are so closed minded about certain things on this forum. Have you ever tried a shamanic healing or ear acupuncture Han?
There seems to be this idea here that if you don't believe in something, it's bollocks, whether you've tried it or not.

 

[Crispy]

I have an open mind, it's just that I have a selective door policy.

 

[Dubversion]

I don't understand why people are so closed minded about certain things on this forum. Have you ever tried a shamanic healing or ear acupuncture Han?
There seems to be this idea here that if you don't believe in something, it's bollocks, whether you've tried it or not.

I wasn't there, precisely for the reasons Han's cited. Why are people closed minded? because a totally open minded person is pretty much a moron, IMO.

Shamanic healing? fuck it.

if i have a car crash, I want to hear a siren, not fucking windchimes.

 

[madzone]

if i have a car crash, I want to hear a siren, not fucking windchimes.

Daft.

 

[William of Walworth]

I have an open mind, it's just that I have a selective door policy.

It can never be too often repeated, some people are so openminded** that their brains are in danger of falling out ...

**To patently barking utter cobblers ...

Why are people closed minded? because a totally open minded person is pretty much a moron, IMO.

I anticipate the risk of a row in this thread though, so I'd better retreat for now ...

 

[han]

I also had a few laughs for the wrong reasons.
I don't understand why people are so closed minded about certain things on this forum. Have you ever tried a shamanic healing or ear acupuncture Han?
There seems to be this idea here that if you don't believe in something, it's bollocks, whether you've tried it or not.

Pavlik - I'm not criticising ALL alternative therapies - some of them are proven to have a complementary effect to conventional treatment and are offered on the NHS (eg. acupuncture).

I was just questioning the necessity of having such a VAST area of a festival devoted to things that are trying to make people better.

I mean, if I was physically or mentally ill, I wouldn't go to a FESTIVAL to get better, would I?

 

[aurora green]

a bit of middle ground...

..If you were looking into alternative therapies and seeking one that might suit you, the Green Gathering is a great place to go....


And btw, acupuncture is so effective, you can get on the national health around here..

 

[han]

..If you were looking into alternative therapies and seeking one that might suit you, the Green Gathering is a great place to go...

Good point.

And btw, acupuncture is so effective, you can get on the national health around here..

I just said that

 

[aurora green]

I just said that

Doh!

 

[han]

But I'm not dissing the Big Green - it's just really different to when I last went which was about 8 years ago. Then the emphasis was almost entirely on alternative energy issues such as wind power, solar power, biodiesel etc, which was the main reason why I went this time.

I just didn't have a clue it'd be 50% devoted to healing and divinatory arts.

We still had a good time, just spent all our time in bits we WERE interested in, and yes if someone wanted a little taster of probably the biggest selection of alternative therapies I have ever encountered in one place, the Big Green would be a great place to go.

Though why they'd want to do that at a festival IS a bit of a mystery to me. But each to their own, I guess

 

[han]

I have an open mind, it's just that I have a selective door policy.

 

[Ground Elder]

I just didn't have a clue it'd be 50% devoted to healing and divinatory arts.

50% - reckon you were at a different festival to me. What ooji woojiness there was was easy enough to ignore and largely kept itself to the allotted fields. There's always been crystal wavers and snake oil salesmen at the BGG. I recommend travelling in the opposite direction at first sight of an incense filled white gazebo.

However, Seize the fucking Day played next door just as I started work on Sunday, so were unavoidable

 

[han]

50% - reckon you were at a different festival to me. What ooji woojiness there was was easy enough to ignore and largely kept itself to the allotted fields.

fairy nuff.

I think maybe it was just so overpowering when I went round those Healing/Divinatory fields that my mind has distorted it in my memory

 

[bendeus]

50% - reckon you were at a different festival to me. What ooji woojiness there was was easy enough to ignore and largely kept itself to the allotted fields. There's always been crystal wavers and snake oil salesmen at the BGG. I recommend travelling in the opposite direction at first sight of an incense filled white gazebo.
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My thoughts exactly. I simply avoided the worst of the yoghurt weaving and devoted myself to stuff which interested me, namely permaculture and campaigns-style stuff. Some of the talks/workshops in the permaculture area in particular were excellent and inspirational. I'm going next year and no, I don't want any fucking inversion therapy

 

[William of Walworth]

A friend from efestivals, galgo, PMed me to confirm what Ground Elder said before -- that beer is there!

Apparantly the Bimble Inn (enormous tipi with bar and stage -- this will be at Beautiful Days too) was at the BGG with their excellent beer, also another beer tent.

Plus what she, bendeus and han are saying about other interesting stuff makes me contemplate going BGG wards next year perhaps, instead of the thief infested WOMAD ...

Possibly!

 

[Pavlik]

Pavlik - I'm not criticising ALL alternative therapies - some of them are proven to have a complementary effect to conventional treatment and are offered on the NHS (eg. acupuncture).

I was just questioning the necessity of having such a VAST area of a festival devoted to things that are trying to make people better.

I mean, if I was physically or mentally ill, I wouldn't go to a FESTIVAL to get better, would I?

Acupuncture was considered 'yogurt waving' not so long ago too.
It's just going to take a little more time for modern folk to realise that there's more to life than fags, booze and aspirin.

I find the healing field a relaxing place to be with friends if i'm feeling a little burnt out.
IME most of the treatments available are a lot cheaper (or free) than they would be if you walked into a clinic in a town, which is another reason people might try something out. Also, people have more time and are more relaxed at festivals so may feel more inclined to try something new.

and Dubversion; maybe you should try a shamanic healing. might just chill you out a bit.