Glastonbury 1995 - archive photos
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I was there in 1995 (my third) and I can remember it reasonably clearly. More to follow when I have time 
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
although i can understand that people didnt take cameras until 97ish mainly i cannot believe how difficult it is to find a single decent picture of the stage in '93 
i might have to dig out another glastonbury book or two and have a look.
and yes, they do all get a bit muddled
i might have to dig out another glastonbury book or two and have a look. and yes, they do all get a bit muddled
editor
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I've spent ages trawling the web and found no definitive answer (I suspect that some pics I've found have the wrong date on them too!)wiskey said:although i can understand that people didnt take cameras until 97ish mainly i cannot believe how difficult it is to find a single decent picture of the stage in '93
and yes, they do all get a bit muddled
I'm beginning to think that 1993 is the most likely choice, but it's a bugger trying to remember what happened at what year when I spent the greater part of my time at all the festies somewhat over enhanced!
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
95 they built the dragon
i found this image
of the re-built stage in '94. . . which i think dates yours as '93 if your sure it wasnt '92.
wiskers
(image from here)
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interestingly it looks from that picture as though the entire main drag of the market runs through what is now backstage. . . unless the stage is a lot closer to the bottom of hen house lane
i found this image
of the re-built stage in '94. . . which i think dates yours as '93 if your sure it wasnt '92.
wiskers
(image from here)
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interestingly it looks from that picture as though the entire main drag of the market runs through what is now backstage. . . unless the stage is a lot closer to the bottom of hen house lane
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
1995 was the year that the fence came down by the stone circle. By Friday the touts were having trouble getting even £10 for a ticket.
It was stupidly crowded though - I remember trying (and faliing) to get to see Portishead in the acoustic tent with about 250,000 other people.
It was stupidly crowded though - I remember trying (and faliing) to get to see Portishead in the acoustic tent with about 250,000 other people.
editor
hiraethified
This is doing my head in! The BlagArt thing from 1995 is the same one as in my photo - surely they couldn't have built that daft thing exactly the same twice over?!
But there's definitely no wind turnbine in my pic, so that means it must be earlier!
But there's definitely no wind turnbine in my pic, so that means it must be earlier!
editor
hiraethified
I was there in 95 - that picture looks a bit gloomy though, IIRC it was hot all weekend (maybe it clouded over at one point).
I remember it very well, I paid some bloke £10 to throw me and my tent over the fence without realising that 200 yards further on I could have walked in for free.
And he stole my Maglite torch
I remember it very well, I paid some bloke £10 to throw me and my tent over the fence without realising that 200 yards further on I could have walked in for free.
And he stole my Maglite torch
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
editor said:
I was there! I was 15 . remember telling all my friends that i was gonna go to glast for about 4 months , they finally crackedd pissing themslves when they told me that there was no way i was gonna go because i the tickets had sold out! I was so down, because it had gone round the school that i was going , and then again that i wasn't, but then in a woodwork lesson (or 'technology' as it was called) this kid came up to me and said that his dad did the advertising for glast and would give me a ticket if i wanted to come with him, and a backstage pass, and he had loads of weed, so i said...YES. Anyway we camped in the New Age Traveller bit (now the lost vagueness) and I will never forget getting Jarvis Cockers autograph on a packet of fags before his seminal pulp set (e's and Wizz and Misshapes being amazing). He Wrote 'dear **** smoking is great love Jarvis'. I treasured it for years until my dad threw it away because he thought it was...an old packet of fags. Anyway '95 was MENTAL!!
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
what year???
well fuck it 1995 was still good. and blatently there was no pyramid.
well fuck it 1995 was still good. and blatently there was no pyramid.
magneze
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I went in 1994. I seem to remember that it was the year that the pyramid stage was indeed hastily replaced before the start as it burned down. I don't remember much as it was a long long time ago but here's a few:
Sunshine!
Orbital, best band in the world ever ... end of ...
Bjork prancing about in a pink tutu
Loop Guru - where are they now?
Senser - ditto?
Galliano
... lots of other stuff I'm sure but my poor memory is failing ...
...
Anyway, it was great ... went to a number of festivals after (Tribal Gathering '95 I seem to remember) but never quite made it back to Glasto. Wanted to go this year as it was kind of a 10th anniversary but missed out. Ah well, there's always next year! 
Sunshine!
Orbital, best band in the world ever ... end of ...
Bjork prancing about in a pink tutu
Loop Guru - where are they now?
Senser - ditto?
Galliano
... lots of other stuff I'm sure but my poor memory is failing ...
...Anyway, it was great ... went to a number of festivals after (Tribal Gathering '95 I seem to remember) but never quite made it back to Glasto. Wanted to go this year as it was kind of a 10th anniversary but missed out.
Ah well, there's always next year! 
miniGMgoit
OverWeightUnderAchiever
I was there. It was my first ever festival. I was sweet 16. I didnt have a ticket and asked some people to take me in. I said my dad was supposed to come pick me up as he was inside but I had been waiting for hours.
I think they knew I was lying but got in to the spirit of it and got me past the gate as an under 14
I remember taking vast amounts of Mushrooms and Acid and for some reason when I hear Rez by Underworld it reminds of that weekend even though Underworld wernt there.
I got really badly sunburnt and the cherry fell of a spliff and landed in my eye. I was walking around with a huge pussy burn on my eye lid for the whole weekend.
Dear God.
Manicly tripping burnt 16 year old.
Sounds nasty
Glad I didnt meet me there. 
I think they knew I was lying but got in to the spirit of it and got me past the gate as an under 14
I remember taking vast amounts of Mushrooms and Acid and for some reason when I hear Rez by Underworld it reminds of that weekend even though Underworld wernt there.
I got really badly sunburnt and the cherry fell of a spliff and landed in my eye. I was walking around with a huge pussy burn on my eye lid for the whole weekend.
Dear God.
Manicly tripping burnt 16 year old.
Sounds nasty
Glad I didnt meet me there.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
wiskey said:i think your pictures are '93 mike.
the only person who will know is newbie . . .
is this your stage?
(btw doesnt it look tiny)
Is that the Pyramid stage? I was there in 92, 93, 94, 97 (god forbid) and the Pyramid stage was huge even then. That looks like a scale model!
Another thing, it was scorching in 92,93,94 so it can't be then.
I have the official programme for 93 in my hands and am looking at pics to scan now.....
Magnese, I remember Bjork being good prancing about but M People before her were fucking great (this was before they became crap mor band).
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
mwgdrwg said:Is that the Pyramid stage? I was there in 92, 93, 94, 97 (god forbid) and the Pyramid stage was huge even then. That looks like a scale model!
and just to confuse it more i'm almost 100% that 94,95,97,98,99 were all dome shaped stages and not pyramid. the original one burning down in 94 and the replacement not coming until 00.
and no ed to the best of my knowledge the other/NME stage has never been pyramid shaped.
oh and by general agreement i think we've established that '95 was a very hot year. with a wind turbine although that was initially there in 94.
i think
The good old days ...
Looks like I only ever saw the original Pyramid stage once ever -- in 1984
My first one, that. Now if I had some pix from THAT year, they'd be a sight to see! Didn't take any pix at all until 1999 though, and all mine from 1999, 2000 and 2002 are prints (including some excellent vehicle shots from the Travellers Fields of 1999 and 2000)... I struggle to remember much about 1984 though as it was a lonnnng time ago but may make more effort another time ... I have clearer memories of my first ever festival, the last and largest of the peaceful Stonehenge Peoples Free Festivals a week before Glasto in 1984 (in fact Stonehenge that year lasted the best part of a month). At it's peak (around Solstice) there were nearly as many people at Henge as at Glasto ... the two festies together had a lasting effect despite the fact that for reasons too feeble to go into at length here (involving the notorious mudbath of 1985) I didn't return after 1984 til 1994.
Both 1994 and 1995 fade into each other a bit in my memory now, except that 1994 was quite hot, and 1995 was scorching!
1994 : It was about twice or more times as big as in 1984 and I got quite a culture shock. The Green Fields had become huge. I loved the whole Avalon area, saw a great now long gone band called the Dharmas there several times. On the main stage, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello were the big acts I remember best. The Exodus collective had their lorry and rig (playing mellow roots reggae) on the main site, about halfway between the main stage and the second stage. Joe Bananas (just where it is now) still had a full on hard core heavy duty all night sound system, and I was there when the famous incident drawn by Pete Loveday ("Russell") of the firemen dancing on top of their Somerset Fire Brigade engine, happened. There was still an open air cinema screen in the camping field nearest the Cider Bus (just where it is now!). There were Travellers vehicles in their own field and some others all around the edges of other, camping fields. There was a Travellers/Site Workers pub high up in the Green Fields called the Dog and Vomit. The bar in the Acoustic Tent was inside, at the back of the tent,and had the best real ale on site. Oh yes and I am the envy of some people because I wandered along to the main stage on Sunday afternoon to see Johnny Cash -- out of purely idle curiosity, because I wasn;t at all into that sort of stuff then, but he was brilliant!
1995 : I persuaded my two mates to come with me. We were odd and weird because we actually bought tickets. Stupidly (as was common in those days) we didn't get down until the Friday and most of the camping areas were full, which was a blessing in disguise, as it forced us to end up camping in the small triangular field where the Urban camp was in 2002 (now a Lost Vagueness crew area). I remember the fence coming down at the top of the Standing Stones field, and HORDES of people, primarily Bristolians and from surrounding areas, pouring in. They got cheered, including by us ...
The weather was scorching throughout with almost unbroken sunshine except for some overcast one morning which soon cleared. The first of what is now the Lost Vagueness fields were as now occupied by Travellers vehicles. On the main stage I remember P. J. Harvey (whom I was quite a fan of then), Page and Plant .... and not a lot else ... I stupidly missed Massive Attack and Pulp that year. Apparantly I went to Oasis, one of the few gigs I've ever been toi that I had no memory of whatsoever. Saw a great band called the Revolutionary Dub Warriors in something called the Hub Tent (from Bath), this was just below the entrance to the Acoustic Field. There we saw Billy Bragg, Sharon Shannon, Diffrd and Tilbrook doing old Squeeze songs together. Saw loads and loads of obscure Green Fields acts in little tents, can't for the life of me remember most of them. But my main and best memory of that year was the constant hot sunshine, and KNOWING for a fact that it was not going to rain,and having a reliably poisitive Glasto forecast for the pre-festival period, the weather has never been as reliable since (except in the non Glasto year of 2001 ) --- every other festival since 1995 it has rained at least once. Sitting around the stone circle and in the Green Fields. Another random memory was some top sounds in something called the Caned Toad Club in the Green Fields ....
(There was no sitting around at all to be had in my next two festivals, Mudbath I (1997) and Mudbath II (1998) ... that's why 1999 although with only moderate weather was up there with my best ever because of the sheer relief of being able to SIT DOWN!!!)
It's amazing I can remember so much of 1995 though, because we were chain smoking spliff pretty much from breakfast to dusk. But the hash of then while a bit better than soapbar was a good deal less strong than skunky pleasures of now.
And we drank shitloads of beer and cider too. And the food was yummy, varied, veggie and cheap
Was the Tiny Tea Tent there as far back as 1994/1995?? Didn't discover it til 1998 ...
Can probably add more 1994/1995 memories and may do so later ...
Looks like I only ever saw the original Pyramid stage once ever -- in 1984
My first one, that. Now if I had some pix from THAT year, they'd be a sight to see! Didn't take any pix at all until 1999 though, and all mine from 1999, 2000 and 2002 are prints (including some excellent vehicle shots from the Travellers Fields of 1999 and 2000)... I struggle to remember much about 1984 though as it was a lonnnng time ago but may make more effort another time ... I have clearer memories of my first ever festival, the last and largest of the peaceful Stonehenge Peoples Free Festivals a week before Glasto in 1984 (in fact Stonehenge that year lasted the best part of a month). At it's peak (around Solstice) there were nearly as many people at Henge as at Glasto ... the two festies together had a lasting effect despite the fact that for reasons too feeble to go into at length here (involving the notorious mudbath of 1985) I didn't return after 1984 til 1994.
Both 1994 and 1995 fade into each other a bit in my memory now, except that 1994 was quite hot, and 1995 was scorching!
1994 : It was about twice or more times as big as in 1984 and I got quite a culture shock. The Green Fields had become huge. I loved the whole Avalon area, saw a great now long gone band called the Dharmas there several times. On the main stage, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello were the big acts I remember best. The Exodus collective had their lorry and rig (playing mellow roots reggae) on the main site, about halfway between the main stage and the second stage. Joe Bananas (just where it is now) still had a full on hard core heavy duty all night sound system, and I was there when the famous incident drawn by Pete Loveday ("Russell") of the firemen dancing on top of their Somerset Fire Brigade engine, happened. There was still an open air cinema screen in the camping field nearest the Cider Bus (just where it is now!). There were Travellers vehicles in their own field and some others all around the edges of other, camping fields. There was a Travellers/Site Workers pub high up in the Green Fields called the Dog and Vomit. The bar in the Acoustic Tent was inside, at the back of the tent,and had the best real ale on site. Oh yes and I am the envy of some people because I wandered along to the main stage on Sunday afternoon to see Johnny Cash -- out of purely idle curiosity, because I wasn;t at all into that sort of stuff then, but he was brilliant!
1995 : I persuaded my two mates to come with me. We were odd and weird because we actually bought tickets. Stupidly (as was common in those days) we didn't get down until the Friday and most of the camping areas were full, which was a blessing in disguise, as it forced us to end up camping in the small triangular field where the Urban camp was in 2002 (now a Lost Vagueness crew area). I remember the fence coming down at the top of the Standing Stones field, and HORDES of people, primarily Bristolians and from surrounding areas, pouring in. They got cheered, including by us ...
The weather was scorching throughout with almost unbroken sunshine except for some overcast one morning which soon cleared. The first of what is now the Lost Vagueness fields were as now occupied by Travellers vehicles. On the main stage I remember P. J. Harvey (whom I was quite a fan of then), Page and Plant .... and not a lot else ... I stupidly missed Massive Attack and Pulp that year. Apparantly I went to Oasis, one of the few gigs I've ever been toi that I had no memory of whatsoever. Saw a great band called the Revolutionary Dub Warriors in something called the Hub Tent (from Bath), this was just below the entrance to the Acoustic Field. There we saw Billy Bragg, Sharon Shannon, Diffrd and Tilbrook doing old Squeeze songs together. Saw loads and loads of obscure Green Fields acts in little tents, can't for the life of me remember most of them. But my main and best memory of that year was the constant hot sunshine, and KNOWING for a fact that it was not going to rain,and having a reliably poisitive Glasto forecast for the pre-festival period, the weather has never been as reliable since (except in the non Glasto year of 2001
) --- every other festival since 1995 it has rained at least once. Sitting around the stone circle and in the Green Fields. Another random memory was some top sounds in something called the Caned Toad Club in the Green Fields .... (There was no sitting around at all to be had in my next two festivals, Mudbath I (1997) and Mudbath II (1998) ... that's why 1999 although with only moderate weather was up there with my best ever because of the sheer relief of being able to SIT DOWN!!!)
It's amazing I can remember so much of 1995 though, because we were chain smoking spliff pretty much from breakfast to dusk. But the hash of then while a bit better than soapbar was a good deal less strong than skunky pleasures of now.
And we drank shitloads of beer and cider too. And the food was yummy, varied, veggie and cheap
Was the Tiny Tea Tent there as far back as 1994/1995?? Didn't discover it til 1998 ...
Can probably add more 1994/1995 memories and may do so later ...
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
i think the food in 94 was a lot more wholesome and served from makeshift counters, by 95 there'd been a subtle shift to premade burger van style. i dont know about the tiny tea tent but i'm farly certain simple simon was creating great cake then. was 95 the year they got virgin cola to sposor it?
newbie
undisambiguated
I'm a bit confused by this thread, but fwiw, I reckon the stage above is the original pyramid (which means I handcrafted the apex with a crystal on top for the laser to diffract through); that the CND logo is the orginal plywood one which someone on the big thread said has gone missing; that the CND logo means that it was pre-Greenpeace/Oxfam (when was that?); and then the clothing and hair doesn't look 90s, and look at all that space... I reckon that's a muddy one in the early 80s. About 85 at a guess, based on the photo of a muddy year currently on my fridge.
As for this one,
That stage is in the wrong place- where's the tree? The one that was always at the side of the pyramid and is now at the back corner in the reorientated position.
can I put my anorak away now please?
