The Big Chill, Eastnor

[fractionMan]

Dr pk recommends a hefty dose of tequila... come over to the 'special needs' medical bus for a course of treatment later.

Whatever the doctor recommends.

 

[Yetman]

I got 2 1/2 hours to go I got 2 1/2 hours to go, ifyeflippenhummenflerrenyeppen muffumhassunyellunflurrun 2 1/2 hours before I got to go

 

[fractionMan]

I got 2 1/2 hours to go I got 2 1/2 hours to go, ifyeflippenhummenflerrenyeppen muffumhassunyellunflurrun 2 1/2 hours before I got to go

15 minutes to go, 15 minutes to go *la lal la la*

 

[wrysmile]

15 minutes to go, 15 minutes to go *la lal la la*

Damn you, Fractionman and all the other people who have left and I'm stuck at work....

PS. At least I'm not a designated driver and can have beers on the way down!!!

 

[Dask]

Have fun you lot!

 

[Bob]

Enjoy you lucky buggers. I'll be with you in spirit.

I'll drink a fermented yaks milk for you.

 

[rennie]

Have a good time folks!

 

[MarkMark]

big chlateness....

We'll be there from about 12pm tomorrow

(well, better late than never eh?)

I think I'm getting excited!

I'll try looking out for pointed analog brollies at the kittenshop 3am but if I don't meet y'all (yet again!) then have a spankingly good Chill!

 

[art of fact]

me and my mate could of gone to this cos she got offered free tickets but we couldnt even afford the train there... hope everyone has a good time and doesnt come back and rub in how good it was

 

[Ozric]

Woooohoooooo!! Just won tickets from my local leaving tonight.
Never been to the Chill before so looking forward to it!!

 

[pinkychukkles]

For those of you who aren't there (like me) but want to bring a little of The Big Chill into your homes, you can listen to Big Chill Radio streamed to your pc....
Big Chill Radio

 

[citydreams]

So, Big Chill 2006 tickets go on sale next week.

Live in vehicles will be charged £40.

I'll be giving this one a miss from now on.

The Big Chill festival 2006 will take place from 4th-6th August 2006 at the beautiful Eastnor Castle Deer Park.

Tickets for next year's festival will go on sale at one minute past midnight on 2nd November 2005, and will be priced at £120 plus booking fee and postage. Live-in vehicle passes will cost £40 and will be available at a future date.
Under 12s admitted free if they are accompanied by a ticketholder.

We'd like to thank you for your feedback following this year's festival, and are working hard planning and implementing next year's. Currently, planned additions include a return to our roots with a new, outdoor ambient music space, a traditional English Pub with real ales, local ciders, pub games and singalongs, a naughty over 18's area, and an expanded Arts Trail including sound installations and a performance space...

These are just some of the new ideas we're working on - there will be lots more between now and next summer.

In addition to all the new, fun stuff - there will be improvements that will make for a better weekend for everyone, including; more security measures.

After the success of The Big Romance's speed dating events, the Snail Races and the Croquet, our Big Chillers' Spaces are coming back too.

 

[mtbskalover]

So, Big Chill 2006 tickets go on sale next week.

Live in vehicles will be charged £40.

I'll be giving this one a miss from now on.

oh great was only talking about going in 2006 to some buddys a few days ago.

better security and local ciders on sale sounds good, a bit of westons and u cant go wrong.

will they go on sale on their website? i presume so.

 

[hiccup]

£120? Blimey.

 

[mtbskalover]

£120? Blimey.

same as this year (2--5) and well worth it in my opinion, i also went to reading which was 130 i think, kinda worth it, but u cant compare the 2.

 

[William of Walworth]

Never made it to Big Chill, much as I've wanted to at times.

The expense for 2006, plus some of what I've heard about the 2005 one, is offputting anyway ....

The pronises of real ale and proper cider (after the complaints about lack of same, after 2005) are something to be commended, but the stupid fuckers should have sussed that earlier ...

<decides to return to the Great British Beer Festival, Olympia W14, 2005, very likely to be the same weekend, instead >

 

[Dr. Furface]

<decides to return to the Great British Beer Festival, Olympia W14, 2005, very likely to be the same weekend, instead >

Where you'll get to meet lots of fat beer-bores/snobs - some of them even wearing jackets made out of beer towels - and get to discuss the relative merits of Shepherd's Neame, Aston Manor, or whichever are the 'happening' breweries these days.

No, the Big Chill is definitely NOT for you.

 

[William of Walworth]

Where you'll get to meet lots of fat beer-bores/snobs - some of them even wearing jackets made out of beer towels - and get to discuss the relative merits of Shepherd's Neame, Aston Manor, or whichever are the 'happening' breweries these days.

No, the Big Chill is definitely NOT for you.

Stig and I go to the GBBF exactly to undermine your type of ignorant generalisations , and guess what, it works

I'm no stranger to festivals of all types ....

we have our kitchen curtains made of beertowels mindyou ....

 

[hiccup]

same as this year (2--5) and well worth it in my opinion, i also went to reading which was 130 i think, kinda worth it, but u cant compare the 2.

I went this year, and had a fantastic time. I just didn't remember the tickets being that much, but apparently they were. I stand corrected.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I'm going. Had a great time last year.

 

[mtbskalover]

anyone buy tickets yet?

im still getting things organised, in the very early stages, how long till tickets sell out, days, weeks, months?

 

[pinkmonkey]

£120 - thats a lot - I guess there's no Glasto next year so there'll be alot of cashing in from this or that festival. I expect proper security guards has pushed the price up too.

Although we had fun I didn't enjoy it as much as I did previous years (apart from the art trail which I thought was excellent this time)

I don't think we'll go to this either, will perhaps try Shambala under Han and Jan's advice or something else compact and bijoux.

Tickets usually sell out a month beofre but it might be worth getting them a bit earllier due to the 'Glasto' effect.

 

[Dr. Furface]

anyone buy tickets yet?

im still getting things organised, in the very early stages, how long till tickets sell out, days, weeks, months?

Months - last year they went on sale in Jan and you could still buy them up to about 2 weeks before the event.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Tickets usually sell out a month beofre but it might be worth getting them a bit earllier due to the 'Glasto' effect.

Hadn't thought of that - that's one good reason NOT to go next year!

 

[mtbskalover]

Hadn't thought of that - that's one good reason NOT to go next year!

see with no Glasto the demand will be bigger, but i still think the clientel will be mostly good. So ive got a few months to keep planning then. fingers crossed

 

[han]

I don't think we'll go to this either, will perhaps try Shambala under Han and Jan's advice or something else compact and bijoux.

Yesyesyes!!!! Come to Shambala - you will love it! Lovely, fluffy, DIY hippy vibe, no comercialisation whatsoever, and excellent, excellent music. It's ace!!

We're definitely giving the Big Chill a miss from now on - although we have had fantastic times there, it just got more and more commercial each year and now it's just not the kind of festival I want to be going to.

Next summer I'd really like to go to Shambala, the Big Green, and maybe Beautiful Days/Off The Tracks as well There seem to be loads of new little festies popping up all over the place, hurrah!