Did you see Johnny Cash at Glastonbury?

[clandestino]

I think Dubversion chose to go see Pulp as well.
by all accounts they were really really good that year and I would have liked to see them as well, but,
It's JOHNNY CASH!

They were excellent - it was a really exciting show. It really felt like something was happening. That something, of course, was the beginnings of Britpop.

But it wasn't like I hadn't seen them before, quite a few times, and it wasn't like I wasn't going to see them again - headlining the self same festival the year after, for example. I really should have gone to see JC - my girlfriend did (and if we were together then, I'd have gone too.)

 

[clandestino]

And also, looking at the timings, it wasn't as if I couldn't have caught the end of JC after Pulp. Those were the days when I could have taken a shortcut via backstage too.

*sigh*

 

[William of Walworth]

On another JC Glastonbury related note, in his biography he is described as being extremely apprehensive about the sort of reception he would be getting at what he perceived to be an event that wasn't his natural constituency. He was extremely surprised & gratified by the warmth of the audience response. So, if you were there, you made an old man very happy

I was very enthusiastic, all the more so for being surprised, and quite near the front too

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm none the wiser as to what I was doing instead of watching Cash.. wasn't watching Pulp either.. be interested in finding out what else was on at the time WoW..

OK, but this will take time ... rest of stages were small/obscure. Couldn't immediately see any refeennce to Avalon Stage in the 1994 programme (main section), but that might have been on a different page, will recheck. A lot of other stages/venues were circus and the like. Some may not even have been listed in the main programe?

No access to home archive right now, and I'm out tonight and away Up North from early tomorrow. Will try and remember to do this early next week though.

 

[William of Walworth]

Co-Creators

Just out of interest, do you mean you wish you'd known they [Co-Creators] were playing Glastonbury? Or did you never see them? They were an amazing live band - you'd have loved them!

Oh I've seen em, I think at Deptford Free Festival for one, I loved them. But for some reason, missed out on them at Glastonbury 1994 and I don't remember being aware of them being on.

I only have a battered and rubbish old tape of them as well ...

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm quite relieved to find out I missed him because of Pulp. At least that's a fairly respectable excuse. It could have been a lot lot worse...

I was late to Pulp, in terms of awareness, only got into em a year later with all the pop pickers. I was late to Johnny Cash too, literally a bit late to his show I mean. But look at where lateness got me in both cases!

IT'S GREAT BEING UNCOOL!!!!!

 

[corporate whore]

OK, but this will take time ... rest of stages were small/obscure. Couldn't immediately see any refeennce to Avalon Stage in the 1994 programme (main section), but that might have been on a different page, will recheck. A lot of other stages/venues were circus and the like. Some may not even have been listed in the main programe?

No access to home archive right now, and I'm out tonight and away Up North from early tomorrow. Will try and remember to do this early next week though.

Cheers, if you can that'd be great chances are I was just monging around somewhere, blissful in my own ignorance of what was going on the Main Stage..

'94 was the last one before an official dance tent, wasn't it? Definitely remember seeing Eat Static in a tent in '95..

 

[William of Walworth]

Yes, official Dance Tent's first year was 1995. Plenty of dance around in 1994 though. I remember Exodus had a couple of Army Trucks and a powerful system right in a main market somewhere, and the Firemen raving on top of their engine late Saturday night outside the Legalise Cannabis Campaign's Stupormarket and their sound system became a thing of legend and the subject of a well known Pete Loveday cartoon

 

[corporate whore]

Plenty of dance around in 1994 though.

Ooooohhh yeah.

 

[Spandex]

Sunday afternoon: With superhuman effort I prised my eyes open and engaged my frazzled brain enough to manage to realise that I was in my tent. As I laid there it dawned on me that it probably wasn't early anymore. It wasn't early when I'd got back to my tent. In the safety of my sleeping bag I heroically crawled the foot or so to the entrance of my tent and unzipped the door to allow the blinding light in.

Outside, my trip buddies from the night before were sitting staring into the middle distance while someone else shouted "it lives" at me. Some people were just getting ready to set off to see Johnny Cash. "You wanna come?" they asked. "Fuck that" I replied.

Everyone who saw him is a bastard.

 

[wavey davey]

if its any consolation, I can remember hearing JC from my tent, but was waaaay to wasted to find or operate my legs at the time to go and see him.

I do remember laying there thinking 'Iknow this one, its ace. And this one. And this one. AND THIS ONE!!!'

Eventually managed to get it together enough to see the end of his set - we were only camped up the hill from the Pyramid, towards the farmhouse, and the site was smaller then...