Boomtown 2015
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sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
We might be talking cross purposes. We've both been round this scene a bit. Peace.
I wasn't saying you had a prickish attitude, the people you were referring to with "instant ejection"
TheInsider
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As I am back from the hell that was VFest - dear deity, not ever again - if you have photos or videos of the security being arseholes, forward them to the company and the organisers. If you have coherent statements, same again. Take to twitter, etc and push for changes. Remember that not all of them will work for one company and a lot of subbing will have taken place. In future, don't ask for badge numbers, you aren't entitled to have them and they will stop you from getting them. Look for numbers on the shirts or hiviz and get shots of them. Carry the cards which explain, in words of one syllable, why you are legally allowed to film them and what they are legally allowed to do - I believe the press have something along those lines. Like bust cards, surprised nobody has popped up with these yet. Hold them to account. None of us are above this and remember there are often two sides (or more) to every story. As for seizing money - illegal. Only the police can do that and it has to be as part of a formal "proceeds of crime" procedure. Demand a supervisor, demand to be taken to the processing area - get the attention of others and use that to push back on them. They can and will intimidate you - don't let them. If they are doing a legitimate job (my mate was videoed pinning a guy to the ground and laying solid punches into his arm - which looked bad until he stood up and he had a hammer in his waistband that he would not let go of - and this was not for putting in tent pegs...). Sometimes it looks bad but there is a reason. But be proactive in supporting each other. Drugs is drugs - the big target is NOS at the moment for some reason. I gave a bloke a light at the weekend because his joint was getting wet and he was better off smoking it before it fell apart.....
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Its all ok..... boomtown are collating times and dates of any incidents.... and there's photographs and details being posted up on Facebook.
It seems there were a small minority of security there doing "random tent raids" and "confiscating" money from "suspected" drug dealers.... but it seems to have been a few security guards in a small number of places, Lions den camping, and DSTRKT5 camping as far as I can tell.
Boomtown organisers are good about handling this type of thing.
Im glad as fuck I didn't go to VFest.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Specialised have a habit of having security who just want to go hippy bashing. They were the ones who I always had a run in with at glastonbury, and one of the major reasons I stopped going..... the second to last time I went the cunts were going round waking everyone up at 5am monday morning and telling people to go home.... It was one of those moments where they warned us for telling them to fuck off, and it was kind of like "What you gonna do, kick us out? We're leaving anyway!"
editor
hiraethified
Beans On Toast and Captain Hotknives – my two favourite acts of Boomtown Fair 2015
Anyone else see them?
Anyone else see them?
TheInsider
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hotknives -Dear God memories. From Horsham too where I learned my trade on the difficult doors in the early 80s as a large rugby playing under 18 who realised he could make money on the other side of the ruck. I remember seeing these when they were going around and the current guitarist, Marc Carew, is a Long Tall Texan from Brighton I believe. Different HotKnives but that was a flashback and a half!
Beans on Toast - yeah. No. Don't get him. Doesn't half pull in some punters though.
Beans on Toast - yeah. No. Don't get him. Doesn't half pull in some punters though.
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hiraethified
I'm not sure that anyone is particularly "obsessed" with him, but he has a real knack of capturing what a festival is all about, he's got interesting things to say and he's a very likeable guy onstage too. And no one can say that he hasn't worked hard at it!
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hiraethified
Altogether different act.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Beans On Toast and Captain Hotknives – my two favourite acts of Boomtown Fair 2015
Anyone else see them?
Captain Hotknives is our Major Festival Hero of 2015 -- we made successful efforts to seek out his act at 3 fests.
editor : Did he get a nice long Boomtown set?
The CH co-act with Tourettes Hero was fantastic at Glastonbury, but we really prefer him on his own ... he's a one off and in a good way
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hiraethified
Here's my last set of photos:
http://www.urban75.org/blog/boomtow...my-favourite-festival-and-the-official-video/
http://www.urban75.org/blog/boomtow...my-favourite-festival-and-the-official-video/
moonsi til
worked it out now!
He was in my lounge last week after Shambala as he is a friend of a friend. I agree he is ace.
Lame possibly, but as for encapsulating a pretty good spirit of properly excellent festivals since the Festival Era Began**??
Works for some ... still
... And as for festie-related cliches ... 
**I was there in themadays you know
, but if I'd forgotten 90% of Those Good Old (School) Days, I wouldn't still be going to festivals now ... 
