What was your first festival?
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Dr. Furface
One small step for me
That would be 92 - my first one too.Orang Utan said:Glasto 91 or 92 - the one with Primal Scream, The Orb, Curve, 808 State, The Shamen, Toots and Tom Jones
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
RenegadeDog said:
"Doctor, please help me - my hair's short and neat, and I don't own any flannel shirts!""Ah, I recommend a course of grunging..."
Editor: I can't believe my eyes, those photos are priceless.
British Bikers Bulldog Bash, not sure of the exact year, '91 or '92 I think. I worked it though for an agency, met some great chaps and the Hells Angels were great giving us free drugs and stuff. Can only remember one band that played as I was either working or hammered, Uriah Heep.
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
whilst in my mummys tummy, 31 years ago, she took herself(and me) to Glastonbury and then nearly every year til i was about 15, missed a few, then started going on my own,,,I remember getting lost once, and was taken to the lost childrens compound which was in the Farmhouse, and had my name called over the main stage(when it was a catttle shed)
han said:awww, you looks so cute in those photos!!!!
My first festie was the Phoenix, Long Marston Airfield, about '95....can hardly remember a thing to be honest!
I had to check with a friend if I went to this a while back, what have I done to my head
It was only when he recounted a couple of stories that some vague memories returned
clandestino
no llevar papel
My first was Reading, 1987, but just for the first day. It was morphing from being a metal festival to a rock and indie one, and the first day was indie/goth day. I had fun - it's a good entry level festival.
I also saw an American punk band with a stupid German name that year too.
First Glastonbury was 1992, just for one day. I got a phone call from a friend who was tour managing an artist playing there - "Do you fancy coming down and back on the bus with us, just for the day? If so, be outside the ICA in an hour..." My mind was blown, of course. Reading didn't seem quite the same after that...!
I have a soft spot for the Phoenix festival, just because it was so small and not that many people went. I even DJ-ed in one of the tents the first year, and because there was nothing else on, I ended up playing to a capacity crowd - probably a good couple of thousand...!!
I also saw an American punk band with a stupid German name that year too.
First Glastonbury was 1992, just for one day. I got a phone call from a friend who was tour managing an artist playing there - "Do you fancy coming down and back on the bus with us, just for the day? If so, be outside the ICA in an hour..." My mind was blown, of course. Reading didn't seem quite the same after that...!
I have a soft spot for the Phoenix festival, just because it was so small and not that many people went. I even DJ-ed in one of the tents the first year, and because there was nothing else on, I ended up playing to a capacity crowd - probably a good couple of thousand...!!
ianw said:I also saw an American punk band with a stupid German name that year too.
Norwegian
clandestino
no llevar papel
Whatever, they were rubbish.
ianw said:Whatever, they were rubbish.
that's fighting talk
clandestino
no llevar papel
Their hearts weren't in it - the show didn't have any passion or energy. It was boring. I was gutted.
ianw said:
ok, i'll let you off
Led Zep at Knebworth in the August same year
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
marty21 said:
Ooo, i think i was there,, is that the one in cornwall, and has a nudey beach by it??,, I was deeply embarassed when my mum went topless! I was only 7,,
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
*Miss Daisy* said:
I was deeply embarassed when my mum went topless! I was only 7,,
womad was held on that site (carleon bay) a few years later. i was most put out by all the nekkid people (i was about 6)
The granddaddy of them all.......Woodstock, August 1969
My 15 seconds of fame was having Sly and the Family Stone sing happy birthday to me from the stage.....can't think of a better way to spend your 16th birthday!!
Monterey Jazz Festival is more my style these days!
My 15 seconds of fame was having Sly and the Family Stone sing happy birthday to me from the stage.....can't think of a better way to spend your 16th birthday!!
Monterey Jazz Festival is more my style these days!
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
My first proper festival was Glastonbury 1984. I remember seeing Elvis Costello, The Waterboys and erm Joan Baez.
I can't remember the first one, but I went to loads of free festivals organised by the GLC (Younger readers note, not Goldie Lookin' Chain!), these were usually in Crystal Palace Park or Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank.
I can't remember the first one, but I went to loads of free festivals organised by the GLC (Younger readers note, not Goldie Lookin' Chain!), these were usually in Crystal Palace Park or Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank.
Bajie
Zhu Bajie
err one of those "rock aginst racism" ones, or whatever they where called, not the 1970's, 1990's after a anti-bnp march, lot of good bands...credit to the nation too I think.. I think that counts as a festival.. or maybe..hmm took a lot of acid in those days and all goes a bit hazy, something about a reggae festival too, that was good I think and crimianl justice act thing, or was that a riot 
seemed fun at the time anyway
seemed fun at the time anyway 
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
Elephant Fair was at Port Eliot, St.Germans not Carlyon Bay.
Reading Festival in about 1985. Iggy Pop was playing.
It was great. It was back in the days when everyone would get plastic bottles of cider, drink the cider, piss into the bottles and throw them about.
I dutifully drank the cider, did the honours etc, but when I threw it I was a bit pissed etc so wound up falling over. When I stood up, I got hit on the head by a bottle of piss coming the other way, and was knocked flat again.
It was ace. I slept in the car.
It was great. It was back in the days when everyone would get plastic bottles of cider, drink the cider, piss into the bottles and throw them about.
I dutifully drank the cider, did the honours etc, but when I threw it I was a bit pissed etc so wound up falling over. When I stood up, I got hit on the head by a bottle of piss coming the other way, and was knocked flat again.
It was ace. I slept in the car.
Maggot said:
I used to go to those, top days
