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Secret Garden Party 2009: Former Cynic In Significant U-Turn (Caveats Apply)

I might give it a go next year if I can get tickets.

Not that I really go to see the bands anyway :)
 
I might give it a go next year if I can get tickets.

Not that I really go to see the bands anyway :)

you're missing my point - i didn't care that the line-up wasn't stellar, it just makes the ticket economics harder to justify. But then I didn't buy one :D
 
you're missing my point - i didn't care that the line-up wasn't stellar, it just makes the ticket economics harder to justify. But then I didn't buy one :D

I'm not on about just you, I'm thinking about both threads.

When you whine about ticket prices, I just ignore you , you blagger :D
 
my reservations still stand: it is the whitest, wealthiest, youngest, wackiest festival I've ever been to.

You should try the Kimberley Festival for that - El Jugs went a couple of years ago with a photographer friend of ours. I was working abroad. Invite only, at a Stately Home, for food you can help yourselves to their veg garden, free light aircraft rides and......













... Sting and family camping in a teepee. Seriously. :p

He came back from there more hedfuked than I've seen for a long time. Saw pictures of him wearing a purple toga and heard he took too many mushrooms before the airplane ride. :D
 
You should try HedgeFest.. was at Knebworth the other year.. a gathering of Hedge Fund Managers and such... :D

True Story.
 
slightly less for early bird ticketsm but the Glastonbury ticket price includes a world class line-up across a dozen or more stages.

SGP has a thin line-up, and then most of the fun is provided by the punters or small groups of people putting stuff on in return for VERY small payments from the promoters. So it's a great festival but the economics don't stack up

You could buy pints but not all the bars was £3.70, as opposed to £3.60 a can. Was thinking about where the money went at the time. Those temp bridges aren't cheap, and there must be some very happy scaffolders and velour salesmen right now, but reckon mostly its public liability insurance.
Most of the crap in the media about health and safety, isn't down to H&S its down to having to pay a premium to cover your arse in case something goes wrong and you get sued. Risk assessment of that usually ends up with here's a massive quote which you can reduce by x by wrapping y in cotton wool, banning this blah blah.. One of the reasons I thought the death was depressing. Will see what happens.

So did the punters make it special? or the organisers?

As much as I liked EP, I thought the punters were cunts on the whole...

I'd trade a shit lineup and wicked time for a good lineup and crap punters any day.

Agree. You can go to Glastonbury buy a program and plan a military operation seeing all the big names you think you want to see, and get fucked off being stuck in queues of milling people, or mill around stopping for things that have grabbed your attention that you are enjoying that you may never have heard of. I'd do mostly the later, every time.
 
SGP has a thin line-up, and then most of the fun is provided by the punters or small groups of people putting stuff on in return for VERY small payments from the promoters. So it's a great festival but the economics don't stack up

ain't that the truth- i was asked to provide a soundsystem for the VIP area (8kW!) in 2008 in exchange for a single free ticket. :eek:

needless to say i sacked them off :)
 
:eek: :D @ Jeff.

you've gawn soft. :(

well, they do say it happens to us all.... ;)

lots of my mates go to this, it being just up the road an all. they're saying it wasn't as good as last year, but they still had fun from all accounts.
 
just been looking through a friend's photos on fb.

did you see the samba band, Arco Iris Jeff? that's the band me n unix used to play with. apparently i could've got a blag through them....so leccy, maybe next year i could get you in that way. you'd have to paint your face wierd and wonderful colours of course. :cool:

from what i'm hearing, there were a lot of ways to blag your way on site....
 
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