Fruitstock, London 5th/6thAug - you comin'?

[rich!]

Yeah, that'd be nice.

Unbranded beer, obviously. And don't go putting any of your pony dope in it

Last time it was Fullers. That too branded for you?

(Not sure what brand the beer was...)

 

[Dan U]

The reason I didn't end up there last year was because I was at the Great British Beer Festival for most of Saturday. And hungover like a bastard on the Sunday. Can't rule out the same again

I don't really know what a 'smoothie' is really, is it American? and possibly don't really want to. Not ruling out coming along to Regents Park either, though

dont' tell anyone william, but smoothies are actually alright.. and you can make em easy at home. its fruit in a blender basically

they do wonders for a hangover too

 

[Rollem]

i might take the littl'un to this.

we would be sitting in a park no doubt anyway, so why not sit in one with a bit of free entertainment.

 

[art of fact]

wicked fun last year, probably only because we managed nick alot of smoothies and bottles of organic wine.

 

[liberty]

i might take the littl'un to this.

we would be sitting in a park no doubt anyway, so why not sit in one with a bit of free entertainment.

 

[Hollis]

I shall be meeting Hollis outside the Innocent tent at 11am sharp, with plans to sabotage their juice-making machinery. We will be dressed in camouflage smocks and balaclavas should you wish to identify us. We will then proceed to the sound stage, where we will be taking photographs of Birkenstock-clad traitors for our files. We look forward to seeing our comrades then. Thank you.

Dont' worry I have an anti-rich! chant all worked out.. we gonna give the guy hell! Smoothie or no smoothie.

 

[ska invita]

its free - im there

 

[kyser_soze]

It's free, you can bring as much of your own food and drink as you like, and you get moozik too.

What's not to like? Plus it's an incentive to see the inside of a park other than Brockwell...

I shall be meeting Hollis outside the Innocent tent at 11am sharp, with plans to sabotage their juice-making machinery.

And 1000 parents will leave their screaming, unconsoleable smoothie-wanting children with you and we'll stick a BIG sticker on you saying 'Smoothi Machine Wrecker and General Sourpuss'

 

[pootle]

And anyway, aren't innocent pretty good, as a big business go.

It's a British company for a start, they procure all their raw ingredients ethically, try to offset their emissions, have their own charitable foundation etc.

I'd say they were pretty good people, insofar as much multi-millionaires are (I'm guessing smoothies have made them pretty rich) Certainly, I'm sure they don't deserve all this hoo ha for essentially putting on a freebie, eh?

 

[William of Walworth]

Might come on the Sunday, possibly

Will decide nearer the time ...

 

[aurora green]

Actually, if I'm in London and these's nothing better on, Im quite likely to give it a try.

 

[Dubversion]

Pie Face has been giving me a banana strawberry and ginger smoothie every morning to set me up for the day

erm. that's it

 

[bluestreak]

bloody hell, no wonder you're marrying her.

i'd marry rose west if i was going to get that sort of treatment.

 

[Skim]

And 1000 parents will leave their screaming, unconsoleable smoothie-wanting children with you and we'll stick a BIG sticker on you saying 'Smoothi Machine Wrecker and General Sourpuss'

I can see the headline on the Evening Standard newsstand now:

'Woman drowned in giant smoothie by crazed child mob – pictures'

That, Kyser, is a risk I just have to take.

 

[equationgirl]

I'd love to come.

But both the rail and flight estimates come in at around a £100.

If anybody has any cheaper transport alternatives that don't involve baking on a coach for 12 hours, let me know.

 

[rich!]

Dont' worry I have an anti-rich! chant all worked out.. we gonna give the guy hell! Smoothie or no smoothie.

I'm looking forward to this already.

If it goes really well, perhaps you can do an evening of anti-urbanite protest songs at an Offline sometime?

 

[Hollis]

It's free, you can bring as much of your own food and drink as you like, and you get moozik too.

What's not to like? Plus it's an incentive to see the inside of a park other than Brockwell...



And 1000 parents will leave their screaming, unconsoleable smoothie-wanting children with you and we'll stick a BIG sticker on you saying 'Smoothi Machine Wrecker and General Sourpuss'

Like the 30 pieces of silver..

 

[Lisarocket]

I think i'm going to come along to this to see Nouvelle Vague

 

[William of Walworth]

Bumped because this thread's not been posted on for ages ...

Well I went along yesterday for a while, and it should have been ideal -- lovely weather etc. But the festival area was ramma jamma packed -- at anywhere near either the main stage or the dance tent, it was near-impossible to sit down.

Norman Jay was playing some nice tunes, but the crowds spoilt it for me, worse than Glasto 2000 in places (and those who were there that year will know what I mean ) and with fewer quieter places to escape to yesterday, as well (inside the festival area I mean). And what was it with there being no urinals, thus lengthening the queue to the Tardis-toilets for everyone?? Also, the litter strewn about by nearly everyone was truly disgusting, definitely up there in the top five scummiest festivals ever charts -- the crowds were too dense for it to be possible for trucks to get to the far too few and badly overflowing litter bins ... and everywhere else there were mounds and mounds of rubbish. Scary!

On the plus side there was Pieminster

And the Innocent branding wasn't EXCESSIVELY in your face.

And going to a free festival however flawed definitely beat searching the shops for a new mobile, a very tedious process that I'd been plagued with earlier in the afternoon ...

 

[lighterthief]

It was rammed and the sound was crap, even in the small DJ tent. One beer tent with queues six deep, absolute gridlock, crap toilet facilities and a champagne bar selling bottles of bubbly for £35.

 

[max_freakout]

Just arrived back home, with much fresh fruit/veggies/fish which is the only reason i went really, but for that i thought it was ace

 

[ivebeenhigh]

i went. it was soso. we brought our own food and drink. there were lots of queuse, though the toilets for men at least were fine, it was a two minute wait.

highlight of the day and perhaps my week though, was one twat getting up on top of a smoothie van (its a converted icecram van with fake grass all over it) and starting to dance, i say dance he couldnt dance but he was loving the attention - loving the attention so much he didnt notice that he was on a flimsy roof and so fell though the roof of the fan. i was crying with laughter.

Mr Wendell/Tennessee/ Everyday people were all fun, but their was fuck all atmosphere, not helped by a really shoddy/quiet sound system.

 

[William of Walworth]

i went. it was soso. we brought our own food and drink. there were lots of queuse, though the toilets for men at least were fine, it was a two minute wait.

Toilets for MEN? x 10,000

Where I was (the toilets nearest the dance tent) the queue was unisex, and very long and slow ...

Those Fruitstock wankers need to talk to the WOMAD organisers -- the latter caught onto the queue-reducing qualities of urinal areas for blokes, years and years ago ....

Oh, and I agree with others above, saying that the sound levels/quality were CRAP!

 

[bluestreak]

didn't make it in the end, last night was fucking heavy. even walking to the kitchen is fraught will traumas right now.

apologies to the people who texted me to ask if i got there, my phone has been cut off again so i can't make outgoing calls.

 

[ivebeenhigh]

Toilets for MEN? x 10,000

Where I was (the toilets nearest the dance tent) the queue was unisex, and very long and slow ...

Those Fruitstock wankers need to talk to the WOMAD organisers -- the latter caught onto the queue-reducing qualities of urinal areas for blokes, years and years ago ....

Oh, and I agree with others above, saying that the sound levels/quality were CRAP!

There were urinal areas at the other toilets nearer to the main stage, it just wasnt very obvious that they were there. I only worked out that there were urianls as the ratio of men to women was about 1:5 in the queue.

 

[Relahni]

From the few posts i have read Fruitstock doesn't sound great.

Glad we didn't go.

Went shopping instead.

 

[hektik]

There were urinal areas at the other toilets nearer to the main stage, it just wasnt very obvious that they were there. I only worked out that there were urianls as the ratio of men to women was about 1:5 in the queue.

yeah, i found these, i was just about to go stand in the queue (as i had experienced the unisex ones at the other end) and some kind bloke told me there was urinals: it wasn't obvious though.

took all of our own booze with us, so didn't have to queue for that, and the food we bought there was good enough.

had a decent enough time: cant really grumble as it was free.

 

[rich!]

had a "demo / beer festival / fruitstock" day on Saturday.

hadn't noticed Unwin's had closed until then - does that mean there are no decent beer-selling offies in Camden?

and it really was monstrous. Between the "we've covered half an acre of really crowded space with blankets" lot, and the mounds of rubbish ... *shudder*

still - found a nice beergarden afterwards.

Nearly went on Sunday, but decided to take a bottle of rum to Burgess Park instead. Unsurprisingly, they'd forgotten to staff their bars... (4 people working a bar at a London festival. Idiocy!)

 

[Hollis]

and it really was monstrous. Between the "we've covered half an acre of really crowded space with blankets" lot, and the mounds of rubbish ... *shudder*

What can I say rich!.. the laws of karma in operation.. ..

 

[rich!]

What can I say rich!.. the laws of karma in operation.. ..

Yeah, and the beer festival had run out of beer when I got there.

Day somewhat redeemed by PieMinister, that beer garden, and my local getting a new beer on...