I've just had a look at the line up and you're not wrong, y'know. Hopefully Nina Nastasia, Jeffrey Lewis and Rachel Unthank will all be on the same day ... but that's probably wishful thinking. No camping does make it an attractive option. My office overlooks the site as well (but not quite the stage, unless I lean out of the window dangerously).
The "I'm not going to a festival this year" solidarity thread.
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I've just had a look at the line up and you're not wrong, y'know. Hopefully Nina Nastasia, Jeffrey Lewis and Rachel Unthank will all be on the same day ... but that's probably wishful thinking. No camping does make it an attractive option. My office overlooks the site as well (but not quite the stage, unless I lean out of the window dangerously).
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Yay, come! I can watch you drink more beer 
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I was nearly going to one this year but unfortunately it clashes with other things.
Phew!
Is that the one we were trying to get you to?
It happens twice a year
Yeah strawberry fair is a possibility actually - got lots of mates in Cambridge. Depends- as long as I've finished my exams by then I'll be there
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
aqua
made of cheese and gin
but we know of one where you can shower
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Because I hate them.
Good answer!!
We hates having whingeing tossers reluctantly hanging around spoiling our fun anyway
, so watch TV and point and laugh at us mud caked windswept rug-fukked losers while you sit indoors ....
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
You're on!so watch TV and point and laugh at us mud caked windswept rug-fukked losers while you sit indoors ....
Nice one
Should be a particularly high Urban contingent as usual at SF (maybe 20 or more last year?) and there'll be a dedicated Strawberry Fair thread here before too long as well
Yay, come! I can watch you drink more beer
Hell, I might even get drunk just for your vicarious pleasure!
CalmerChameleon
famous destroyer of peace
Your kindhearted and generous spirited comment is duly noted, thank you ....
Sorry, I'm nice really, honest.I'm going to one (maybe) but only because its just down the road and involves very little money or effort on my part.
I'll probably spend the rest of the summer travelling abroad.
Been to enough festivals in my time really.
Festivals are all well and good but I'd quite like to experience a few other things before I die.
I'll probably spend the rest of the summer travelling abroad.
Been to enough festivals in my time really.
Festivals are all well and good but I'd quite like to experience a few other things before I die.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Soz - I look like an idiot quoting the post just above my own but, uhhh....yeah!
but, uhhh....yeah! Soz - I look like an idiot quoting the post just above my own
lol
I'll post another one quick to take the heat off you
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Argh - you cunt! 
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
moonsi til
worked it out now!
^^^^lol ...:d
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Congrats.Also pregnant. No Primavera for me this year
I might pop along to endorset, I'm not going to glastonbury, does unsound count as a festival?
Pavlik said:
Managed to get on a plane for the first time since 2002 and combine going somewhere entirely new this weekend just gone (we went to Granada -- surprisingly cheap to get there) with our first festival of the season -- Dragon Festival near Orgiva. Madness!
So doing new things/going to new places and going to festivals are not necessarily mutually exclusive. We do far more festivals than most
, but we would always I think try to include some new ones on our schedule -- we include 2 new, small ones in Wales this summer and will probably end up at my brothers's 50th birthday minifest as well.I'd hope never to get jaded by or negative about or all cynical on festival going. Festivals have done it for me for over 24 years now and I've met a lot of new friends and heard a lot of excellent new music and experienced a lot of new ideas because of it, and that will continue. They've kept me going through bad times and enhanced the better ones. I remain pretty positive about them even at this advanced age ...
I do appreciate we're VERY lucky to be free of (most) responsibilities and to both be in work -- festivalgoiing is not a cheap process and doesn't suit everyone anyway, which is fine . Takes shedloads of organisation too ... 
. Takes shedloads of organisation too ... not at all mate.
Last summer, while you were crawling out of your tent with a sore back I was calling down for room service in an amazing room, overlooking the mountains in Manali, then sitting out on the balcony smoking charas for breakfast.
I've been going to festies for 30 years, (since I was 13) and I love bumping into all my old mates and having a drink/smoke with them and I love checking out all the stalls and I really love checking out all the stuff in the healing fields over the last few years.
One of the best things that ever happened to me was a shamanic healing workshop in a festival btw.
But there's a whole big world out there.
Personally, I feel most alive when I've just arrived in a country I've never visited before.
And I'm more than happy to go to festivals in other countries if they happen to be on when I'm there. I've been to loads in France and Spain over the years.
Fair play to you if going to festivals is your thing though.
All I was saying is I prefer to do some other stuff with my spare time these days.
