Unresolved Glastonbury Issues

[Biddlybee]

She follows me around, I'm happily watching something and suddenly she'll pop up and say something banal, breathe like an asthmatic immersed in ice-cold water and say something moronic.

ok

I'm not watching it.

A couple of years ago I got back from the alternative Glastonbury in Brockwell Park on shrooms and it was on. I had to leave the room.

ok

 

[bmd]

The main issue I have with Glastonbury is that if I try and watch any of the highlights on TV it'll almost certainly involve listening to Jo Whiley.


<Shudders>

I have this idea for a website, it's basically just a forum where everyone can share their hatred of Jo Whiney - shutupjo.com.

Have you seen her quote from the best of Glasto memories bit on the BBC site? Allow me -

Best: "Seeing Coldplay headline the main stage for the very first time - unveiling new songs like Fix You for the first time as the lights twinkled like fireflies all around. Then afterwards Chris Martin came and read a bedtime story to my daughter India who was about five at the time - that was a sweet moment.

Worst: "The last time we did Glasto, my show launched on air only to be unfairly curtailed by lightning and thunderbolts so that we were taken off air. We had the Kaiser Chiefs all lined up to be on the show live - instead, Ricky and I just wandered off into the boggy distance in our wellies with our brollies because there was nothing else we could do.

Shut up Jo, with your fucking showbiz arsery.

 

[Slow Hands]

There's something about working at Radio 1 that means you are obliged to feature a pop star in every sentence you utter.

 

[bmd]

There's something about working at Radio 1 that means you are obliged to feature a pop star in every sentence you utter.

That explains a lot. It's in the contract I presume?

Chris 'wanker' Moyles does something similar only he has to mention himself in every sentence.

 

[foamy]

There's something about working at Radio 1 that means you are obliged to feature a pop star in every sentence you utter.

if i had a penny for every time i heard:

"when i was playing table football with *insert minor indie celebrity name here*"

 

[bmd]

instead, Ricky and I just wandered off into the boggy distance in our wellies with our brollies because there was nothing else we could do.

Yes there was, Ricky could have done us all a favour and killed you.

 

[foamy]

Yes there was, Ricky could have done us all a favour and killed you.

perhaps with the brolly?!

 

[bmd]

perhaps with the brolly?!

Yeah! You see, it's a game everyone can play.

 

[bmd]

The Magic Numbers at Glasto this year. They're like twins who share the beard.

 

[fucthest8]

At the risk of completely derailing the thread

Actually, scratch that, I'm too late. Anyway.

Can I just say I've never been to Glasto and I've never wanted to. It's always struck me as an awful lot of people being allowed to enjoy the illusion that they are free, whilst just being penned in.

I'm sure it wasn't like that once, but it's always looked like it to me since I was old enough to notice it.

As you were

 

[ice-is-forming]

((mrsqs cringworthy memories ))

personally i just leave mine well alone i think (secretly) that they may be there for a reason ie:a deterrent

but its weird how yer brain chooses some over others isn't it?

 

[frogwoman]

i know what u mean, when i look at stuff i did, like fun stuff, during the first four months of this year or at times b4 then when i was really ill but didnt know what was wrong, or when i was back at school, like dates etc, i could cry thinking abt it even tho i had a good time (or pretended too LOL) i5 hurts to think about it

its weird with places too like i once took a walk around on my own where me and my x wouold go and felt like cryin rememberin the gud times!!

so can understand abt glasto itz an imprint on ur mind (and not a pleasant one bythe sound of it!) you dont have to go, i dont like the idea myself!xx

 

[Dhimmi]

There's something about working at Radio 1 that means you are obliged to feature a pop star in every sentence you utter.

That's just what Eric Clapton told me...

 

[Maggot]

is lauren lavern pregnant?

I think she is. She left the XFM breakfast show quite suddenly. They didn't say she was preggers but they dropped some heavy hints.

 

[Maggot]

Yeah! You see, it's a game everyone can play.

Glastonbury Cluedo?

It was Ricky Wilson in the Avalon Field with the umbrella.

 

[118118]

yeah i went psychotic around the 2nd time i went (a few years ago now). it wasn't very pleasent tbh.

 

[ska invita]

Goodness me,

dont feel bad Mrs Quad - I cant handle any depictin of class a b c or d drugs in film without feeling more than a little queazy - even alcholol films like "My Name is Joe" get me giddy - so we move in woth our lives, eh? All power to you and best wishes - never mind this post, I know what youre going through so I hope youre hanging in there - see you on the other side etc.

 

[samk]

Can I just say I've never been to Glasto and I've never wanted to. It's always struck me as an awful lot of people being allowed to enjoy the illusion that they are free, whilst just being penned in.

I'm sure it wasn't like that once, but it's always looked like it to me since I was old enough to notice it.

How else can The Powers That BeTM get a chance to play Internment Camp with real live hippies?

 

[Winkybag]

Posting from Glastonbury:
To be honest, it's muddy and wet, BUT I'm having a ridiculously good time
Just hanging out with amazing friends, with no constraints of time or work.
Just in my tent, ready to crash out, it's been a very long day

 

[mrs quoad]

is lauren lavern pregnant?

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=50584&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=

I don't know who Jo Whiley is

Or Lauren Lavern come to that

But I hope something happens to her to keep her off air for everyone anyhows

 

[chymaera]

Can I just say I've never been to Glasto and I've never wanted to. It's always struck me as an awful lot of people being allowed to enjoy the illusion that they are free, whilst just being penned in.

Glastonbury is not somewhere I would want to go as it is FAR to big and noisy an event for me.
That having been said several of the best camping weekends I have every year are in places with some very serious security to get into and back out of.
They are in locations not normally accessable to the public and also a long way away from "civilisation".

 

[foamy]

as much as you dont like Jo Whiney you've got to feel sorry for her...

she just said the highest point of her career was dressing up as a rabbit and dancing on stage with Mika

poor Jo

 

[MysteryGuest]

poor mika too.


actually, poor everybody.


(((((group hugs for everybody)))))

 

[foamy]

the guy she was talking to (cant remember his name) just said - thats rubbish, it would have been much better if it was the Super Furry Animals. And jo said: yeah, but they didnt invite me to do it


hee hee

 

[mrs quoad]

FWIW this thread seems to've cured my Glastonbury Issues

Twice in the last 48 hours I've suddenly realised something about Glastonbury's popped onto the radio, and I haven't even noticed.

I'm now merely disinterested rather than painfully affected

Urban Cures Neuroses. Proof

 

[samk]

Urban Cures Neuroses. Proof

Can you be sure it doesn't just pass them on to someone else?

 

[bmd]

dont feel bad Mrs Quad

Mrs Quad!?

 

[girasol]

I'm not watching it.

A couple of years ago I got back from the alternative Glastonbury in Brockwell Park on shrooms and it was on. I had to leave the room.

The refusenik picnic, the one with the homemade mini pyramid stage?

That was a great event, I think it was the last time I had mushrooms

 

[Edie]

Sorry for it's unrelatedness Mrs Q, but...

For years I've bin saying 'I really want to go back to Glastonbury' etc.

Then yesterday I realised with total clarity, that I really couldn't think of anywhere I'd less like to be.

Mainly cos I really don't like listenning to bands, I don't like the way everyone faces the same way and ignores each other, it's crushed at the front but you can't see nowt at the back.

The mud and filth and being cold and perma-wet.

All the fucked people.

The expensive food.

The fact that the vast majority of people are from the same age/ social group, and they tend to be younger and richer than me.

To be honest, I'd just rather not go

I rekon Bee has it bang on the money btw mate. First experience of mental illness runs deep.

 

[goldenecitrone]

It's official. Glastonbury is now shit and full of wankers.