Some Fear Teachers parties were shit hot, others not, the one in the pit near Alton was a blinder, and Dead Silence band is funky as fuck, so not all bad.
Or the Stroud one the year before, in the old Great Mills warehouse.Some Fear Teachers parties were OK, the one in the pit near Alton was a blinder, and Dead Silence band is funky as fuck, so not all bad.
Castle Morton was OK, nowhere near as good as Lechlade 3 weeks before though
Was living in Chippenham at the time, took 2 hours to get in to that fucking warehouse! In August of that year Spirals played for 14 days non-stop on Bodmin Moor, that was fun too. The same site was used about 4 years ago, filth busted every fucker in the weeks that followed
that makes me wish i had been born a few years earlier!
The Alton one was a greatSome Fear Teachers parties were shit hot, others not, the one in the pit near Alton was a blinder, and Dead Silence band is funky as fuck, so not all bad.
Castle Morton was OK, nowhere near as good as Lechlade 3 weeks before though
My arrival was classic. Got lost, driving around atop a transit zoning in on bass. Finally getting close enough to hear the thump, dumping the van and then marching through the woods getting closer and closer to bass but unable to see anything, then reaching the edge of pit and seeing everyone dancing around the fire and strobes on white sheets with pentangles n'stuff on them. The tune that was being played at the very moment....
Heh, Si Brown playing Where's your child? in that pit whilst tripping my tits off - a golden fucking moment of my life!The Alton one was a great
The Exorcist! Couldn't have scripted that.
I should say that I have a bias to FT parties as they were my mates and we all lived locally so they were all good'uns to me
My 21st bday party was a FT party on the beach in Climping
I now have the deep suspicion we probably know each other!Heh, Si Brown playing Where's your child? in that pit whilst tripping my tits off - a golden fucking moment of my life!
And Climping, didn't realise it was next to a beach, in the morning someone asked if I fancied going to the beach for a spliff, "Nah, I wanna stay at the party" - "The beach is there, next to the rig you twat!"
And when I got home at midday my mum was in a mood, I was supposed to be moving out of the house I'd lived in since I was six, the new occupiers were there waiting to move in, of my worldly possessions I'd moved exactly fuck all. That was some come down
Duke's on Friday night, Hand and Spear Saturday, off to Wisley, Horsell..... them was the fucking daze
Dunno, probably. My memory is a bit slow to boot these days
PossiblyI now have the deep suspicion we probably know each other!
I used to know him but not him.
mates of mine used to go to them and Tender parties, really banged on about them but I never went.
One of my college friends was another of their DJ 's But yeah, Julian Coalesce was the daddy of them all.yes
They did Climping two weeks on the bounce, how?And Climping, didn't realise it was next to a beach, in the morning someone asked if I fancied going to the beach for a spliff, "Nah, I wanna stay at the party" - "The beach is there, next to the rig you twat!"
Needless to say the donations were considerably bigger than said donation box but the money was left with the landlord on the understanding it all went to the charity. Then the rozzers dropped us back
Was House Doctor anything to do with them? And where were they based? I get confused between themand Clueless from Cambridge (iirc
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but also, at the time, )
