Glastonbury meet

[Bogey]

There now follows an apology:

Sorry to King Mob, Hencole and NatNats for being somewhat off my titties on the two occasions we met. Although my memories are somewhat sketchy, you all three of you seemed like good and nice people, not to mention tolerant. Thanks for that. Really.
Excuses:
a) I didn't actually intend to be so wonged, it was merely circumstances conspiring against me. (not least the bunch of dullard hippies I was camping with, whom I may have mentioned).
b) It's Glastonbury ffs! woo-hah! Have it! etc.

No more apologies.

To those of you who didn't turn up at the allotted time: tut, tut, tut. Very disappointing. I'm looking at you mayer, and you Rats. And too busy scoffing floury kebabish things, eh, falafel?

It was good though, wasn't it? On the whole.

[Gamma Ray]

It was good though, wasn't it? On the whole.

Yes, it sure was.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:14 pm

How the hell did you get home by 3 pm? We met some guy in Glastonbury itself who queued for nine and a half hours to get off site. Maybe he was exaggerating, but it certainly was a mission.

Did you make it to the casino hencole? I believe I was there for a few hours on saturday night (enjoying the can can girls) but I was busy getting cronkied.

[Bogey]

Tee-hee! Ace.

We were in-car by about 20 past eight, and we were off the site a mere twenty-five minutes later. Mmhmm. Back by two as it happened. After a lengthy detour to Taunton no less.

I remember a few years ago, some people we were camping with decided (sensibly) to leave as early as they could. We fuckered about and ended up leaving in the early afternoon. We got off the site fantasticly quickly (given the time of day) by making a "judicious" short cut through a gap in a hedge. However, the hedge also featured a ditch, and there was a hefty thunk as the car crossed. It was only after we'd gotten onto the M5, immediately after in fact, that the car decided it had had enough. The AA were called, and they took us to the nearest service station, you know the one. As the man was inspecting the damage, who should roll in, but our long-since departed friends. They'd been stationary for ten hours. The only downside was, having gotten a lift with them (rather than the AA man, obviously), I had to stay up till two in the morning waiting for my car to come home.
There's got to be a lesson in there somewhere, hasn't there?

Did you make it to the casino hencole?

Oh yeah, hencole was all suited and booted, and very dapper you looked too sir.

As for you. Gamma Ray, did you turn up to the meet, or have I merely forgotten you?

It was good to get back early, plenty of time for a shower and change, before going to watch some R4 comedy being taped.
Christ, the life I lead.

[hencole]

Just got back now. People were trying to get out of the car parks for hours and hours. Luckily we found an alternative cross country route of the car parks!

i didn't actually make it to the casino allthough I was suited and booted. The first time I tried to go I'd had one too many shrooms and did something more tranquil instead. The second time I tried I got soaked and my trousers broke revealing all my glory. Next time though, next time.

Sorry to King Mob, Hencole and NatNats for being somewhat off my titties on the two occasions we met

Didn't think you were too gone when we met. No more then anyone else. Pleasure to meet you and sorry I didn't get hold of you again on the Sunday.

I bumped into Mr Ratscocks briefly. Sadly no further meet up happened due to a combination of my phone running out of battery and general fuckery. A real shame as i was hoping to see him and King Mob wrestling in the mud.

I can't quite believe I've never gone before and I had a whale of a time.

So who's going to the Glade festival next month???

[Jet Set Willy]

Hell, that was fun.

I wouldn't be in the least suprised if I met someof you by accident.

I was a bit messed up by Sunday though which was annoying.

[Bogey]

Well I'm still kind of hoping to get a day ticket to Leeds, so I can see The Pixies at least once this year. (why oh why oh why did they not do Glastonbury???).

And thanks, hencole for exonerating me somewhat there. My phone was off most of the weekend, so it was a largely pointless exercise, but a shame nontheless.
I take it your car didn't suffer the same punishment as mine did way back for its gauntlet-running. Good moves.

[no_offenc]

Well I'm still kind of hoping to get a day ticket to Leeds, so I can see The Pixies at least once this year.

I didn't know they were playing Leeds...

In fact, they aren't.

Sorry.

[Bogey]

Bollocks! So they're not!
Tish & pish.

[Ambient Sheep]

I bumped into Mr Ratscocks briefly.

Ratscocks went to Glastonbury?!?!?!?

's funny, that.  I smell a...errm...rat.

[Bogey]

Apparently so, but despite our best efforts to contact him, he remained elusive.
Bah, I always knew he was fictional; some kind of meta-whore* or something.

*I did not just say that.

[falafel]

Well, I just got home to Leeds. Made it out of the car park in under an hour, by 4, but after that things got... complicated. Got a train at quarter to 9 from Bristol,; the waiting around absolutely killed me, especially considering I was already quite the worse for wear in the first place.

I'm tired.
Shame about missing the meet, too. I was roped into helping a mate shift crates of beer from the car park to the tent. Plus, at that point I was still absolutely clueless about where anything was. I got completely lost for most of Saturday afternoon - yes, that's Saturday, when I'd already been there for three days - but I suppose there may have been other "factors" involved. People kept laughing at me as I circled the signposts in confusion. But yes, I did have quite a few of my eponymous kebabs. The number of falafel stalls was quite surprising actually; there seemed to be one on every corner.

Aynway, Orbital were astonishing, absolutely the highlight of my festival. Belle and Sebastian were good too, as were the Chemicals and Ojos de Brujo and, thinking about it, everybody I saw. Apart form Ben Harper who was frankly a bit dull, and James Brown, who seemed to have to take a long step back every five minutes to get his breath back. Had a nice wander around in the early ours this morning, then sat around my tent circle with my mates giggling like a twat till sunrise. Nice way to close it all, really. Hope everyone else had a fantastic week; I know I did, and can't wait to get back next year.

edit: that'd be car park, not cat park.

[Bogey]

Right, I want to camp somewhere near "you guys" next year. I can't tell you how annoying it is to have so many unlikeminded people near you, it really does spoil it. A lot.
They weren't horrible people at all you understand; on the contrary, they were all nice and genial and so on, but.... oh, I'm sure you've been there before.

And yeah, Belle & Sebastian really impressed me a lot. I don't own any of their records, and can now state that their "drippy" reputation is entirely unfounded.

And Morrissey was just Wonderful!

[Rats]

Aye, tis a shame we didn't get together. We phoned you saturday and sunday night to find out where you were but your phone must have been dead. I wish we'd came down the friday night when you rung now. We were shattered and had just walked the whole length of the site and even contemplating walking all the way over again was too much.
It was wierd having some stranger just walk over and go "are you steven ... from cramlington?" I thought I might have won something. We bumped into each other early and hungover and he got our phone number and there was that mandatory uncomfortable silence before we shambled off in seperate directions.
The best thing all weekend was bill bailey (who was joined briefly by kevin Eldon to do a kraftwerk version of the hokey kokey) and stewart lee who had to do the first half of his set through a megaphone with a little lamp pointing at his hat when the power went off but coped really well "This is what standup was like during the blitz". and Bright Eyes who stood there whimpering in utter despair as the sun shone. Even the sing-a-long-a-gibberish of oasis was good when you were there.
Jerry Sadowitz was on at the same time as morrissey so I bloody missed him.

[Bogey]

Who, Morrissey?

[Rats]

Jerry. I had to see Morrissey being fat and old.

[falafel]

Ooh, yeah, Bright Eyes. And then Wilco. That was good. Forgot about them...

[king mob]

There now follows an apology:

Sorry to King Mob, Hencole and NatNats for being somewhat off my titties on the two occasions we met. Although my memories are somewhat sketchy, you all three of you seemed like good and nice people, not to mention tolerant. Thanks for that. Really.
Excuses:
a) I didn't actually intend to be so wonged, it was merely circumstances conspiring against me. (not least the bunch of dullard hippies I was camping with, whom I may have mentioned).
b) It's Glastonbury ffs! woo-hah! Have it! etc.

No more apologies.

To those of you who didn't turn up at the allotted time: tut, tut, tut. Very disappointing. I'm looking at you mayer, and you Rats. And too busy scoffing floury kebabish things, eh, falafel?

It was good though, wasn't it? On the whole.

No need to apologise, Nat & myself were fucked on mushrooms so we were staring at your grinding teeth which was disturbing a wee bit.
It was a nice night at the Tiny Tea & watching Engerland lose in style & we apologise for not catching up with everyone on Saturday as our mobiles ran out of battery and we were just a wee bit fucked.

Still it was a good festival but i've now got the worst flu i've had in years & can barely keep my eyes open, gahh!

[Bogey]

Well I got the shits on the way home; always better after the event.

And cheers, King Mob, glad to hear I wasn't too much of a nuisance.
See y'all next year!

[Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry]

yo man glastonbury bites

dont go dude

[Jet Set Willy]

I had enough trouble finding my friends there, and not having enough time to do everything I wanted, so I don't think the meet was ever on the agenda for me.

I almost found myself though.

[Bogey]

yo man glastonbury bites

dont go dude

I'm not sure whether you've noticed, but you're a little late with that important advice.

[weekender]

late vibes dude

[king mob]

yo man glastonbury bites

dont go dude

Ever though of writing soundbites for Tony Blair?


In another bit of bad news the father of the drummer of Muse died just after they finished their performance on the Pyramid stage.

Click.

[king mob]

Caught the first part of this by accident last night

Up Late at Glastonbury - Jenny Eclair presents a mix of comedy and interview from Glastonbury 2004, Britain's largest music, theatre and arts festival

11pm Radio 4

First time i've heard the Cabaret tent getting highlighted like this, worth a listen.

[Joy Nktonga]

Radio 1's One World show has just started a "live fromGlastonbury" compilation show (from midnight) for 2 hours. Live stuff, from this years's Glasto. So far, in order: Scissor Sisters, Goldfrapp, Gomez and currently PJ Harvey (I think, although I'm really not 100% on that).

[king mob]

Radio 1's One World show has just started a "live fromGlastonbury" compilation show (from midnight) for 2 hours. Live stuff, from this years's Glasto. So far, in order: Scissor Sisters, Goldfrapp, Gomez and currently PJ Harvey (I think, although I'm really not 100% on that).

bollocks, i missed that!

[Almost Yearly]

In another bit of bad news the father of the drummer of Muse died just after they finished their performance on the Pyramid stage.

Click.

I think that's relatively (hur) good news. In your average father/son saga I mean ... he couldn't have been left in much doubt as to the success his son was enjoying, could he. Mind you, perhaps it was the adrenaline wot done it. Man kills father with repeated blows from one over-amplified foot.

[Partridge's Love Child]

Maybe he laughed himself to death.  I was pretty close to it myself.

[Rubbish Monkey]

why didn't any of you think of this............or did you?

[Rats]

Whoever bought that needs to be steralised and made to eat their children.