The Flaming Lips & Chuck Berry to headline Camp Bestival...!
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The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
What PieEye said 
I've been told tonight by a good mate of mine who has good reason to know** (admittedly he said this in the pub 
) that Chuck Berry does frequent Euro tours when he can't be arsed to get his hand in the pocket to pay for proper rehearsals for his backing band (apparantly always Euro based, every time different, scratched together) .
**He. my mate, is a best pal of an ex 10CC member, now a prolific session muso, a guy who I've also met and who doesn't seem at all like a shitstirrer nor pisshead
Plus he (CB) seemingly stays on stage for a limited time shall we say, relying on his son and daughter to do most of the work. Admittedly he's 81 now ....
Is this gossip reliable does anyone know?? Sounds dangerously plausible ...
) that Chuck Berry does frequent Euro tours when he can't be arsed to get his hand in the pocket to pay for proper rehearsals for his backing band (apparantly always Euro based, every time different, scratched together) .**He. my mate, is a best pal of an ex 10CC member, now a prolific session muso, a guy who I've also met and who doesn't seem at all like a shitstirrer nor pisshead
Plus he (CB) seemingly stays on stage for a limited time shall we say, relying on his son and daughter to do most of the work. Admittedly he's 81 now ....
Is this gossip reliable does anyone know?? Sounds dangerously plausible ...
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Is this gossip reliable does anyone know?? Sounds dangerously plausible ...
It does, but I'm not really expecting him to be much good.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
ohWhat PieEye said
I'm going to Lulworth soon... I'll see if I like it
(£120 though)
Neither am I, but Deb simply has to see him whatever, so we're going. Oh well, Flaming Lips should be good ayway
And the fest site will be nice
hammerntongues
Well-Known Member
When you see him do The Walk it will all be worthwhile , I have seen him do a very short set and yes his daughter did take over for a big chunk but he still did enough to send everyone home happy. House pianist and drummer and he walked on carrying his own amp , backed up of course but it was great to see something so simple .
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Suzanne Vega
And Scroobius "I'm-too-important-to-play-offline" Pip
That weekend I'm going to the promisingly named Dour Festival in Belgium - "Dour" being the name of the town it's in, rather than the anticipated atmosphere.
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Well, I'll be seeing you there Ouchmonkey and William and Debs....
My mate asked me to come with her and her bubs, so me and my bubs are going....
Off to check out the line up....... Flaming Lips and Chuck. Rest can be kids stuff, so we're numptying it around for a couple of days
My mate asked me to come with her and her bubs, so me and my bubs are going....
Off to check out the line up....... Flaming Lips and Chuck. Rest can be kids stuff, so we're numptying it around for a couple of days
It's THIS weekend!
Bumplety bump!!
Who's still going?
Ouch, madamv?
Weather forecast for the weekend : hard to call right now, but somewhere between indifferent and OKish on the South Coast on current trends, with more of a tendancy to meh. But more than likely we'll escape a washout.
We arrive about 5 pm Friday
Bumplety bump!!
Who's still going?
Ouch, madamv?
Weather forecast for the weekend : hard to call right now, but somewhere between indifferent and OKish on the South Coast on current trends, with more of a tendancy to meh. But more than likely we'll escape a washout.
We arrive about 5 pm Friday
Yer obligatory weather links
Metcheck for Lulworth
BBC 5 dayer for Dorchester (Lulworth not indexed on BBC weather).
Nothing scorchio, but not too bad -- limited showers, some sunshine, especially on Sunday which looks quite nice
Metcheck for Lulworth
BBC 5 dayer for Dorchester (Lulworth not indexed on BBC weather).
Nothing scorchio, but not too bad -- limited showers, some sunshine, especially on Sunday which looks quite nice
Ahh shame, have a good weekend anyway!
Looks like only myself and Deb are Urbanites at the old Camp B thing then ...
Whateva, it'll be
Looks like only myself and Deb are Urbanites at the old Camp B thing then ...
Whateva, it'll be
Just back
The traffic management on Friday afternoon/early evening was a total disaster. All the traffic, including cars approaching from the Bournemouth direction, was being directed via the route from due North and then from the West. My train got to Wool at 4:36 pm, Deb picked me up straight away yet we were not on site til well over three hours later (distance from the station : 4 miles). So much sitting in traffic on narrow lanes ...
The 'organisers' seriously underestimated the number of cars -- one theory (very plausible) was that because there were no childrens tickets and carpark tickets being sold (kids were free and carpark tickets you were meant to buy on arrival) they had zero idea of how many cars were expected, and apparantly a lot of families came in two separate vehicles (one partner working til later and arriving later, etc.)
The allocated main carpark and main camping site filled up much sooner than expected, and they had to faff about -- for hours it seemed -- opening up an overspill carpark and overspill campsite.
Also, it was raining amd blowing quite a wind when we were setting up the tent ....
And we missed Kitty Daisy and Lewis and Imperial Leisure and Cut a Shine .....
After that really shitty start, things did improve considerably. The site (grounds of Lulworth Castle with beautiful views of the Purbeck Hills and the Cove) was truly beautiful, and the weather improved a lot, especially Sunday.
Chuck Berry -- 90% of our reason for going -- was pretty good once the initial appalling sound problems were resolved. As I felt was likely upthread, his son and daughter did most of the work, Ingrid is a BRILLIANT harmonica player and has a lovely voice. Chuck did do 'the walk' -- once!
Not enough classics though -- where was Maybelline? Johnny B. Goode?? The set lasted one hour and one hour only, strict city. So we felt a bit shortchanged, but Deb (being a real rock and roller) is happy that she's finally got to see him, makes up a bit for missing out on Bo Diddley for her ...
The Flaming Lips were ace (fantastic lightshow that we were bowled over by from the balcony of the Castle), Billy Bragg ONLY did ancient greatest hits and the Wurzels were a top laugh again. We were spellbound by the Imagined Village too, but Kate Nash lost us really.
My personal highlight was DJ Derek -- superb!
Another goodie was the Shellac Collective, playing only vinyl (lots of it actual shellac 78s!) and nothing newer than 1970
The Tofus, a late addition to the bill anyway, either pulled out or were pulled out -- if the latter, perhaps Rob Da Bank couldn't deal with the risk of them swearing and getting angry-political, with so many kids and families there!
</pure speculation>
There were a million kids there -- official. And most of them were very near the Real Ale tent, which, insanely, was sited right in the kids field .... if you in any way averse to thousands and thousands of small screaming babies and fractious overexcited children, this festival won't be for you to say the least.
The beer, thankfully, was excellent and in plentiful supply. Dorset Brewing Company won a lot of new friends this weekend!
Food was a little pricey, but uniformly lovely.
Nice to meet Flounder and partner and chat the festie chat, a few Endorse It posters went up around the site!
And Hattie Hatstar (midnight gigs at Groovy Movie) gave us her new CD for FREE, on being told (by us drunks, on Saturday night, ahem ... ) that we saw her last year on the evening of the FIRST day we met. At the Rhythm Festival at the beginning of last August. Romantic and so on!
The traffic management on Friday afternoon/early evening was a total disaster. All the traffic, including cars approaching from the Bournemouth direction, was being directed via the route from due North and then from the West. My train got to Wool at 4:36 pm, Deb picked me up straight away yet we were not on site til well over three hours later (distance from the station : 4 miles). So much sitting in traffic on narrow lanes ...
The 'organisers' seriously underestimated the number of cars -- one theory (very plausible) was that because there were no childrens tickets and carpark tickets being sold (kids were free and carpark tickets you were meant to buy on arrival) they had zero idea of how many cars were expected, and apparantly a lot of families came in two separate vehicles (one partner working til later and arriving later, etc.)
The allocated main carpark and main camping site filled up much sooner than expected, and they had to faff about -- for hours it seemed -- opening up an overspill carpark and overspill campsite.
Also, it was raining amd blowing quite a wind when we were setting up the tent ....
And we missed Kitty Daisy and Lewis and Imperial Leisure and Cut a Shine .....
After that really shitty start, things did improve considerably. The site (grounds of Lulworth Castle with beautiful views of the Purbeck Hills and the Cove) was truly beautiful, and the weather improved a lot, especially Sunday.
Chuck Berry -- 90% of our reason for going -- was pretty good once the initial appalling sound problems were resolved. As I felt was likely upthread, his son and daughter did most of the work, Ingrid is a BRILLIANT harmonica player and has a lovely voice. Chuck did do 'the walk' -- once!
Not enough classics though -- where was Maybelline? Johnny B. Goode?? The set lasted one hour and one hour only, strict city. So we felt a bit shortchanged, but Deb (being a real rock and roller) is happy that she's finally got to see him, makes up a bit for missing out on Bo Diddley for her ...
The Flaming Lips were ace (fantastic lightshow that we were bowled over by from the balcony of the Castle), Billy Bragg ONLY did ancient greatest hits
and the Wurzels were a top laugh again. We were spellbound by the Imagined Village too, but Kate Nash lost us really.My personal highlight was DJ Derek -- superb!
Another goodie was the Shellac Collective, playing only vinyl (lots of it actual shellac 78s!) and nothing newer than 1970
The Tofus, a late addition to the bill anyway, either pulled out or were pulled out -- if the latter, perhaps Rob Da Bank couldn't deal with the risk of them swearing and getting angry-political, with so many kids and families there!
</pure speculation>
There were a million kids there -- official. And most of them were very near the Real Ale tent, which, insanely, was sited right in the kids field .... if you in any way averse to thousands and thousands of small screaming babies and fractious overexcited children, this festival won't be for you to say the least.
The beer, thankfully, was excellent and in plentiful supply. Dorset Brewing Company won a lot of new friends this weekend!
Food was a little pricey, but uniformly lovely.
Nice to meet Flounder and partner and chat the festie chat, a few Endorse It posters went up around the site!
And Hattie Hatstar (midnight gigs at Groovy Movie) gave us her new CD for FREE, on being told (by us drunks, on Saturday night, ahem ... ) that we saw her last year on the evening of the FIRST day we met. At the Rhythm Festival at the beginning of last August. Romantic and so on!
Today was our best day really!
I saw a couple of people with pink flamingos onsite!
We nearly went to Corfe this morning, but decided that instead of heading for Swanage, we'd get an earlier breakfast in Wareham.... then we went back to Lulworth Cove (after a diversion for our failed effort to reach Tyneham, but the road was closed off, bloody MoD!!! ).
But the views from the Purbeck Hills and from the cliffs by Lulworth Cove were spectacular today, gorgeous sunshine!
The Sailors Return at East Chaldon was ultra- for quality beer and lunch ....
I saw a couple of people with pink flamingos onsite!
We nearly went to Corfe this morning, but decided that instead of heading for Swanage, we'd get an earlier breakfast in Wareham.... then we went back to Lulworth Cove (after a diversion for our failed effort to reach Tyneham, but the road was closed off, bloody MoD!!!
).But the views from the Purbeck Hills and from the cliffs by Lulworth Cove were spectacular today, gorgeous sunshine!
The Sailors Return at East Chaldon was ultra-
for quality beer and lunch ....
bingiman
Jah Gaza
that's why you are a festographer william
you don't rush back to work on monday
I enjoyed it. I have kids and there was loads for them to do.
I even managed to have a mad one on saturday night
I too queued up, but I do have a van which makes life easier, and in the end it was worth it.
you don't rush back to work on monday
I enjoyed it. I have kids and there was loads for them to do.
I even managed to have a mad one on saturday night
I too queued up, but I do have a van which makes life easier, and in the end it was worth it.
