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Sunrise celebration 2008

Thanks for that, pogo -- that's pretty much the only spirit in which I intended that earlier post. I was probably just back from the pub at the time I out that up -- no real offence intended ...

For the record, I LOVED Sunrise in 2006 and I'm very confident it will be great this year as well :)
 
ah come on everyone let's be honest about this - there are definately some aspects of the hippy side of festivals who's primary reason for being allowed on site is the sheer amusement value they bring with them.

I've had many a fun filled bimble at glastonbury trying to find the daftest hippy thing I can to pretend to be deeply interested in for a few minutes until I have to walk away to have a proper giggle out of sight (ish).

I'm sure I've provided enough entertainment value over the years, only fair the hippies pull their weight on the stuff to giggle at front IMO.

I have yet to attend a yoghurt weaving workshop, but I've had hours of fun already just imagining what one is and giggling about it for instance...;)
 
free spirit said:
I've had many a fun filled bimble at glastonbury trying to find the daftest hippy thing I can to pretend to be deeply interested in for a few minutes until I have to walk away to have a proper giggle out of sight (ish).
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each to his own I suppose.
I generally have more respect for people.
 
Call me old fashioned but I still really enjoy a bit of the old hippy shit in relatively small doses. I’ve never had a gong bath in my life & I don’t intend starting now but I always make time to take myself off for at least a wander round the tipi fields and the healing, craft & green areas at assorted festivals. It’s just a great way of chilling right out and also provides some pretty interesting photographic material. It’s certainly not my primary reason for attending festivals but I’d be sorry to see it all disappear. Sunrise has a great variety of entertainments but it is nevertheless one of the more hippified events. And I love the way that it is a complete alternative to more full on in-your-face festivals like Endorse It. Variety is the spice & all that…. :cool:
 
It's the Virtual Reality Orb

still half wanting to come to this but already booked a weekend in Glasgow instead
 
Pavlik said:
each to his own I suppose.
I generally have more respect for people.
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Oh stop being a grumpy old fucker! I was taking the piss FFS .... :rolleyes:

I'm with Tort. I like wandering round the hippy areas at all festivals and when there, I actively avoid actually pointing and openly laughing at the more 'out there' outbreaks of utter bonkersness, but over 24 odd years of festiegoing I'd be the last to deny that hippies are a pretty important part of festivals (this one especially) and I fully accept (though some would not) that many festivals would lose a lot by their absence. I actually DO have good respect for a good deal of the stuff that hippies (and Travellers, activists, anarchists, DIY spirited folks and alternative types generally) have done for festivals over the years. That doesn't mean I'm obliged to be so 'open minded' about ley lines, horoscopes, Tarot, 'Reiki', astral rebalancing, crystal rubbing etc. that my sceptical, rationalist, evidence preferring braincells fall out. I've ALWAYS combined tolerence/respect for some aspects of hippiedom with the very wise festival maxim :when I hear the words 'healing' and 'workshop' I head for the beer tent' :p

I'm also with free spirit ..... some level of ridicule is unavoidable really .. :p

That doesn't mean that that I'm any less of a genuine festival goer than those who gullibly and uncritically drink in all and every aspect of chakra realignment and all that nonsense ....
 
William of Walworth said:
Oh stop being a grumpy old fucker! I was taking the piss FFS .... :rolleyes:

I'm with Tort. I like wandering round the hippy areas at all festivals and when there, I actively avoid actually pointing and openly laughing at the more 'out there' outbreaks of utter bonkersness, but over 24 odd years of festiegoing I'd be the last to deny that hippies are a pretty important part of festivals (this one especially) and I fully accept (though some would not) that many festivals would lose a lot by their absence. I actually DO have good respect for a good deal of the stuff that hippies (and Travellers, activists, anarchists, DIY spirited folks and alternative types generally) have done for festivals over the years.

I'm also with free spirit ..... some level of ridicule is unavoidable really .. :p
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well why didnt you say. :)

I still disagree with you though on a couple of points though.
For starters I think the term hippy is derogatory.
Secondly, a festival without any alternative types would be like a trip to Centre Parcs imo.
I personally dont think the festival scene would exist at all without the alternatives. I can see that the festies are being taken over by big business these days but they never would have got this far without the alternative scene.

You're right about me being a grumpy git though. I've got a stinking cold atm.

I think ridiculing people who've put a lot of effort into entertaining you makes you look ignorant though.
When you work a festival like Glastonbury for a couple of years you realise how ridiculous these people who walk around taking the piss really are.
 
I think we probaby agree about this a bit more than you think. Any pisstaking I do end up doing is essentially intended to be restrained/good natured and in a festival context is not in any way lacking in respect for all the good stuff that the hippies/alternatives have done for festivals over the years. I also agree that sneering at hippies (not a particularly deregatory term for me, I think hippies are mostly great!) at Glastonbury etc. the way some idiots do, is stupid. It's only the REALLY out there stuff I find hard to swallow ... I'm a rationalist historian FFS ....
 
Pavlik said:
I think ridiculing people who've put a lot of effort into entertaining you makes you look ignorant though.
When you work a festival like Glastonbury for a couple of years you realise how ridiculous these people who walk around taking the piss really are.
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I've worked the festivals for the last 10-12 years, including 7-8 years at glasto, and when I say worked, I mean as in 5-7 days minimum working 18+ hour days, or often 2-3 days no sleep to keep things running.

If I do manage to escape for a bit then I'll tend to head to the green fields / stone circle / hippy area of the festival to relax for an hour or so. I mostly do this for the more chilled vibe / to catch up with a few mates, but invariably there will be something that'll catch my eye in my slightly glazed state as being utterly hilarious.

if i laugh it's probably because it's the more polite response than 'get the fuck out of my way you daft hippy, this is my first break for 2 days, I've got to be back on shift in an hour & I'm off for a coffee and a spliff and a catch up with pictish state circus / groovy movie / someone like that...'

I fully respect what the greenfields / healing fields type folks bring to the festivals, and have been introduced to a fair amount of stuff that I'd not otherwise have known about via them, but there's always one who just takes things that little bit too far...
 
latest additions to the lineup as posted on myspace this morning.
I dont know any of these names. Thought I'd share it with you all anyway.

Shona Foster
Joe Driscoll
MC Xander
Portico Quartet
Polar Bear
Jamie Woon
Excentral Tempest
Elova
Scifax
HEDLUV
Bschmang
Digitalis
Cut a Shine
Ned and Maff (the egg)
Mad Dog McRea
The Travelling Band
Melosa
Swiss FX
Lazy
New Groove formation
School Of Trobar
Naughty Jack
The Moon Music Orchestra
Gabby Young and Other Animals
Chancery Blame and the Gadjo club
Mad Cows
Goldenburn
World Troubadour
Samantha Marais
Dan Arborise
Leo James ... and more to follow!!!!
 
Digitalis played the Trades club recently but we never made it that night for some reason. New Groove Formation have pestered me to go & give them a watch on MySpace & sound OK from what I've heard.
 
I can heartily recommend Mad Dog McRea. I've seen them several times and they're real crowd pleasers, playing a sort of Irish folk-punk type of music.

Highly recommended.
 
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