If Eavis won't admit the truth, will Glastonbury next year be better?
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i remember '92 - seen the security (about 7 of them) kidnap by force some poor bloke from his stall at 4am and hit him alot then bundle him into the back of a land rover then drove off - ruined my trip coz i was really concerned for the bloke
thems were the days eh
i had a great time in 92 as it goes.
got over the fence for a quid, did loads of tequila slammers and my first real pill, then danced for a day and a half in the circus warp tent and was home with my feet up before the riot kicked off.
sorted
free spirit
more tea vicar?
Why? Because it has a trippy image on it and some nonsense writing?
How about this alternative festival advert repleat with hippy imagery?
I think you people just like to piss and moan tbh.
I think you've just buggered your own argument there... Bestival is entirely marketing itself as an alternative, non-corporate festival. Whether it manages that fully I'm not sure, but Rob Da Bank knows what a festival should be like and Bestivals his attempt to create that albeit on a fairly big scale.
Idaho
continuity character
Oh god... I feel so ashamed. I feel betrayed.
If only I hadn't made myself the sole defender of Michael Evis and Glastonbury festival - I would have never got myself in this dreadful, frightful mess.
Whadda mistaka ta maka
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
thems were the days eh
i had a great time in 92 as it goes.
got over the fence for a quid, did loads of tequila slammers and my first real pill, then danced for a day and a half in the circus warp tent and was home with my feet up before the riot kicked off.
sorted
yeah it was good - i was working on a burger stall (a friends) so it was like watching tele as we peered out of the burger stall - seen some mad mad people - ahh i did love glastonbury.also had the ladder with us that year!
my sis got caught up in the riots - lost her glasses and a shoe
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
The "riot" was in 1990. People have given up on Glastonbury because it has become too much like hard work and there are plenty of alternatives these days. Mind you I haven't been since 1992, so I'm probably not allowed to have an opinion
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
The "riot" was in 1990. People have given up on Glastonbury because it has become too much like hard work and there are plenty of alternatives these days. Mind you I haven't been since 1992, so I'm probably not allowed to have an opinion
oh well i was there both years so you must forgive me...glastonbury jaunts seem to merge into one big glasto memory!
i think the last time i went was 95' so my opinion dont mean much either...
i remember when there was a huge big ship made outta wood in the kids field
i loved that ship (think it was a ship)
pootle
little moran
I guess you don't know much about Hova then? Explain exactly how he's manufactured
Ignore - cos other people have already mentioned this
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Okay, but that's plus booking fees as well. I haven't been since '85 and I know even back then it was more expensive than other festivals (for example, The Elephant Fayre was always cheaper and had many of the same acts...it was also a smaller festival).
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
It's always easy to forget how much things cost while you're inside the festival too: I always remember Rizla changing hands for £1 a pack and bog roll being sold at some really ridiculous prices!
As for Jay-Z, I don't think that many people are put off by him; it is a big festival after all!
The "riot" was in 1990. People have given up on Glastonbury because it has become too much like hard work and there are plenty of alternatives these days. Mind you I haven't been since 1992, so I'm probably not allowed to have an opinion
are you sure?
you mean the one with the travellers against the security?
i could have sworn it was 92.
oh well, i missed it whenever it was and like miss daisy,
i only have a general glastonbury memory which involves lots of friends, mud, crowds, drugs and dancing.
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
1990 - I was sitting in a friends truck in an amplified relaxed state when someone poked their head around the door and announced that the security were coming for the travellers again* and burning buses as they went. Rushed out of the truck to see some of my crusty brethren on the back of flat bed making petrol bombs and the gate into the travellers' field barricaded. In the distance there were ominous clouds of black smoke.
Then everyone came back with their war stories, Hawkwind played on Wango Riley's and that was that.
*there was a mistaken belief that the security were the same as those used at Treworgy the year before, where all manner of shit had occurred.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
The major difference being that at Treworgey, the security had all legged it pretty sharpish which led to the chaotic scenes that followed. Whereas the fuckers at glastonbury appeared determined to seek some kind of retribution for people being perceived as reluctant to leave iirc?
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
At Treworgey the security attempted to take control of the festival and the cash but were beaten back and then fucked off. Pilton 1990 the security had a number of run ins with travellers over the festival, culminating in their "arrest" of a couple of travellers who were out tatting.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Aha, that's it, i'd forgotten about that inre: Treworgey, all sorts of rumours were flying around about people with shotguns and the organiser having a nervous breakdown and other stuff that's lost in the mists of my mind
i missed all that too.
i seem to have missed a lot of trouble over the years at festys and free parties.
i put it down to me being so wasted that i wouldnt have noticed even if it had been going on right in front of my face
