Glastonbury 1995 - archive photos
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moose
like some cat from Japan
My first with mr moose, and the first in the campervan field, which was full of travellers vehicles and people who never went into the festival proper at all. 24-hour sound systems blasting out from the middle of a square of old coaches/London buses. After 3 days, they didn't bother changing the record for the next 2. Dogs and kids running wild, and Eavis stomping up the field with the police to plead with them to stop, then trying to confiscate sound equipment. The next field along had late night junglists from Manchester, with a sound system in an ice cream van. It was fab. 
There was a load of bother at the new dance tent - the festival organisers had heard about people overheating at raves, and so between acts, they tried to insist that the people in the middle moved outside, to allow some more people to move into the "hot spot" of the inside of the tent. When people didn't move, they threatened cancellation of the next act. After about an hour's delay, they relented and turned on the hose pipes instead.
There was a load of bother at the new dance tent - the festival organisers had heard about people overheating at raves, and so between acts, they tried to insist that the people in the middle moved outside, to allow some more people to move into the "hot spot" of the inside of the tent. When people didn't move, they threatened cancellation of the next act. After about an hour's delay, they relented and turned on the hose pipes instead.
I have my Select poster from 1995 right behind my monitor and can confirm it was a "dome" shaped main stage that year, with the wind turbine to the left as you face it. Twas indeed the hottest glasto ive ever been too, and was also the year that orbital played the main stage before pulp. I was right at the front for em, managed to get myself on the tv coverage and remember being highly pleased to be surrounded by lots of female pulp fans 
although their whinging about orbital doing an encore did lessen their attractiveness somewhat 
although their whinging about orbital doing an encore did lessen their attractiveness somewhat 
editor
hiraethified
I've no worked out that my pics are defintiely from 1993, so I've updated the pages accordingly.
I've also just launched a brand new Festival homepage as I reckon urban75 needed a 'proper' festie section!
I've also just launched a brand new Festival homepage as I reckon urban75 needed a 'proper' festie section!
newbie
undisambiguated
well yes, but the fact that it's off bottom r means the stage is that much closer to henhouse lane, no?
Wasn't the base and wreckage of the old pyramid still there and fenced off? I vaguely remember the smell.
anyway, I think the tree was there in 81 and was a factor in positioning the stage (along with ley lines, the Great Pyramid and other stuff)
Wasn't the base and wreckage of the old pyramid still there and fenced off? I vaguely remember the smell.
anyway, I think the tree was there in 81 and was a factor in positioning the stage (along with ley lines, the Great Pyramid and other stuff)
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
at Glastonbury veterans trying to remember which year's which! Fuckin' hippies... FWIW I haven't got a clue. I was there in '93 - my first! - and '95 and the only thing that differentiates them is the people I was with. Was hothothot both years.
Remember the jazzworld stage being in what's now the greenpeace field? Saw Fun-da-Mental there, with one of the nuttiest mohpits ever.
On the main stage thing, it's defeintely been moved around a lot over the last couple of years, getting it away from the dip in that field.
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Can't promise this incredibly soon, but will do so as soon as I can get a couple of hours ... but I'm off to yet another festie this w/e ...
ska invita
back on the other side
dance tent was having it in 1997
what year did the dance tent come in? i vaguely remember hearing about the outrage of it!
what year did the dance tent come in? i vaguely remember hearing about the outrage of it!
ska invita
back on the other side
this might be of interest
better still
better still
newbie
undisambiguated
of course notBack then, was it as good it used to be?
Excellent
Glastonbury 95.
WBC-WORKER
Well-Known Member
here is the main stage as it looked in the 80's { the one that burnt down }
when it was replaced { it was never rebuilt } GFL decided to ' tilt it ' so rather than facing up the way towards the farm house it was tilted to one side { so making the pyramid area into a diamond rather than a square }.
The tree in this image never moved but was cut down a few years ago due to tree blight but they planted a new tree in its place the year later but its a different type.
someone from GFL claimed the tilt was due to lay lines but its all bollocks as it was a move imposed by H&S
WBC-WORKER
Well-Known Member
I have been to them all since 1979 and here is the years I attended
79
81,82,83,84,85,86,87,89
90,92,93,94,95,97,98,99
2000,02,03,04,05,07,08,09
2010,11,13,14
and I can assure you there was a Glasto in 93 and here is the poster from that year.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
This is a year earlier, 1994. Here's me on the left looking stressed,, though I have a cool Porno For Pyros t-shirt. This is not the first day of the festival, cos I bought the t-shirt there, look at the space!
And here's me and my friends, I'm on the right looking all young and cool with hair:
And here's me and my friends, I'm on the right looking all young and cool with hair:
newbie
undisambiguated
here is the main stage as it looked in the 80's { the one that burnt down }
when it was replaced { it was never rebuilt } GFL decided to ' tilt it ' so rather than facing up the way towards the farm house it was tilted to one side { so making the pyramid area into a diamond rather than a square }.
The tree in this image never moved but was cut down a few years ago due to tree blight but they planted a new tree in its place the year later but its a different type.
someone from GFL claimed the tilt was due to lay lines but its all bollocks as it was a move imposed by H&S
that's a grand picture, you obviously had a better camera in those days than I ever did.
I don't know about the replacement pyramid, I wasn't involved and they ignored my suggestion that it should be built by the children of the original crew, but there was a lot of discussion about ley lines during the building of the one in 1981. There was a fine balsawood model of the project that lived in the top flat, and I think that showed how the orientation was worked out. I wonder where it is now?
1995 was Oasis and Jarvis Cocker and Harry Hill in the comedy tent and blazing hot weather- and there was Les the labcoated bloke from Vic and Bob's big night out wondering around being worshipped. Dealers on every bridge and Green Anarchist mag sellers. Oh and Robbie Williams having just left TakeThat wandering around munted and guesting with Oasis. Went with a group of 5 two had bought tickets - me and my gf of the time for probbaly 80 quid at HMV Oxford Street the week before and the other three went over the fence. Happy Daze and that's about all I can remember.
WBC-WORKER
Well-Known Member
It was a Nikon F2 which at the time was a Pro Camera and cost a arm and a leg + a few telephoto lens and there was a cracking fisheye that cost as much as the camera.
I have loads from that period and when I have time will dig out the negatives.
my comments about lay lines relate to the current stage but as they are facing two different ways they cant be both in alignment.
