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Watching the highlight show on BBC2 and loving it.
Any of you lot been?
I've been once, 1990 and loved every minute of it. Happy Mondays who were my favourite band at the time were rubbish. But the whole experience was brilliant. Didn't buy a ticket, but jumped the fence.
Didn't even have a tent, but luckily bumped into a few lads from Brynmawr who let us crash in theirs.
Couldn't believe how big the site was.
Would I go again? I'm not sure. Would you?
1986 , 1992Originally Posted by valleys caveman
First time took majic mushrooms and spent the weekend laughing my head off
1992 concentrated on the bands , Lou reed , fishbone , the fall , blue aeroplanes
Also had several trips to the communal unisex showers which were cold but an experience
Would never go now , all those flags waving whilst you are trying to watch a band ff sake
I took my first acid at Glastonbury. I was with a bunch of lads who were a few years older than me. What they failed to tell me was the acid they'd scored was the strongest at the festival that year (either blue stars or yellow stars) and they originated from Blackwood. I've taken a few acid since then, but nothing compared (Sinead O'Connor was there also) to those stars!
I was hallucinating for hours, but loved every minute of it.
Saw Arthur Lee and Love from a 2003 set. It was absolutely wonderful.
That was one of my highlights too, that guy was a legend, good mates with Hendrix back in the day. Saw him a few times touring back then. beautiful sunny eve that was. Did 4 of them in the 00’s....Loads of mates there and a crew from Cardiff running part of one field. Lost vagueness.....I’m not sure of some of the stuff that went in there and bands I saw live are still coming back to me now watching the highlights, like Jimmy Cliff in his yellow suit, totally forgot I’d seen him.
Brilliant that you saw him live. I only saw the set on tv on Friday night. I didn’t even know he had done Glasto. He was dreadfully unlucky in life. He should have been a huge star. Forever Changes is pretty much my favourite album. It’s now regarded as a classic but frankly it’s a bit late.
He did live a crazy life. Can’t believe he spent so much of it in Jail, 3 strikes rule I believe....unreal. Then he gets out and starts touring and gets diagnosed with Cancer, died soon after. Gutted. I’ll never forget that sunny afternoon watching him there. The Theckla gig in Bristol he did before Glastonbury was probably even better mind as I was stood right in front of him the whole gig. My ex misses best mate gave me forever changes on original vinyl around this time....timeless....
When he did the five year stint in prison it was for an offence somebody else eventually admitted to.
Now the annoying thing is I bought Forever Changes 40 years ago as a school friend had asked me to listen to his copy and I loved it but whilst I still have the album cover I cannot find the vinyl itself. As you say it’s timeless.
.Cheers for the memory jog, got Forever Changes on now, fantastic
Out there and comes in colours are also very good.
Cheers for the memory jog, got Forever Changes on now, fantastic
When he played Orange Skies in New York, I cried.
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Cheers for the memory jog, got Forever Changes on now, fantastic
I have never done acid , always went for the natural approach
But those days are gone , as are my trips to festivals
I've never been one for acid or shrooms, but I've had a dabble and enjoyed myself on the few occasions. Those stars at Glastonbury were on another level. I remember watching The Cure and thought I was flying above the stage
never done Glasto, i did Reading for a good few years back to back
i regret not doing glasto though, past 2 years ive tried to get tickets, sure its not going to be the same as it would have beem when i was in my 20's, but i can now take the splitty and camp in style
i had hopes to go to camper calling this year, though we were flying in from the Miami the day before, plan was to get home, jump in the van and go, its all be postponed though, Manics have said they will play it next year, so might do it next year, it has a few older decent bands and might be a good 1st festival for my girls
I am also going to go to a festival where feeder are playing next year
Surprised you never did it Matt, it was like a week long rave....used to go up on the Monday pm and leave the following one. My body couldn’t take that sort of abuse anymore. I’m just glad I survived some of the ridiculous stuff that went on. One year a normal looking dude with his misses camped right next to about 50 of us, he basically supplied us with E’s the whole time, god knows how many he had on him....Some nights no sleep at all up in the stone circle, random gigs at 4am in a tent in a field I’m not sure where it was even (massive attack and toots and Maytals), pear cider at the world music stage saw a young Amy winehouse there, so many DJs in the glade which was our general base during the week there. Finding my car after 7 days of fear and loathing was a mission, in 2002 I gave up trying to find it....never done Glasto, i did Reading for a good few years back to back
i regret not doing glasto though, past 2 years ive tried to get tickets, sure its not going to be the same as it would have beem when i was in my 20's, but i can now take the splitty and camp in style
i had hopes to go to camper calling this year, though we were flying in from the Miami the day before, plan was to get home, jump in the van and go, its all be postponed though, Manics have said they will play it next year, so might do it next year, it has a few older decent bands and might be a good 1st festival for my girls
I am also going to go to a festival where feeder are playing next year
Its funny, none of use fancied it, smelly hippies everywhere covered in mud and unwashed for the week, a 3 mile hike to the tent, our clobber getting covered in mud, smelly hippies everywhere, I have issues with portaloo's, i hate them ( at reading festival, we camped a few years, then just stayed in hotels, the Madejski or the hilton were good
though looking back and reading stories, i guess we missed a party
I thought the same to be honest through the 90’s and just loved going to clubs all over the place. Hooked up with a crowd who had always done both who persuaded us to give it a go, it wasn’t a difficult persuasion as he said you will never getting better music, women and drugs in the same place for a week. He was rightIts funny, none of use fancied it, smelly hippies everywhere covered in mud and unwashed for the week, a 3 mile hike to the tent, our clobber getting covered in mud, smelly hippies everywhere, I have issues with portaloo's, i hate them ( at reading festival, we camped a few years, then just stayed in hotels, the Madejski or the hilton were good
though looking back and reading stories, i guess we missed a party
just seen been watching Glasto stuff on BBC2, chemical brothers at Glasto, i saw them at reading in 99I thought the same to be honest through the 90’s and just loved going to clubs all over the place. Hooked up with a crowd who had always done both who persuaded us to give it a go, it wasn’t a difficult persuasion as he said you will never getting better music, women and drugs in the same place for a week. He was right
trying to think back about festivals and i remember one being just too good and it turned out to be reading 99, i guess at that time i was moving away from the rave scene and into middle aged rock, but i remember it being a great festival
Friday, Reef, Chemical bros, Charlatans
Sat, The devine comedy, fun lovin criminals and Catatonia ( headline was Blur who i didnt really like, so we went and watched 3 colour red )
Sunday, started early with Toploader on some small stage, then Feeder, terrorvision, Offspring, headiiners was RHCP ( which was a issue as Ice T was on in the rap tent, but we stuck with RHCP )
Been the last two years and would recommend it to anyone.
Stay in the Travelodge down the road if your body can't take the tent though.
Been twice, 2008 and 2014. Got to be done at least once in your life if you're into music and festivals. Drugs not mandatory but I had a whale of a time at both on them
Once 1992.
Got talked into it on the Friday afternoon after one too many bottles of Michelob.
I went equipped with a bag of illegal substances and dough.
Crawled the fence (I was ****ed on acid), got into a row with a Wurzel (I was ****ed on E, so much for the love drug eh), had a liaison with some girl from Bristol, which caused the row with he Wurzel (perhaps there is something in E after all), wandered about aimlessly for two days, shit in a field, ruined a yellow Jacket and a pair of Adidas Montreal, came home on the Monday and received an absolute ****ing from my then employers (I was still ****ed when I went in on Tuesday).
Would I do it again?
I would love too but I think the wife wouldn’t be too pleased with the liaison.
Were the Montreal trainers the ones with the sole that came up quite high on the ankle part? I'm sure I had a pair back in the day. Also had some white G Vilas. I've still got and wear quite regularly a pair of Trimm Trabs
Yep, high heel thing going on with them. Used to only wear ‘Adidas’ and be pedantic about them. Haven’t bought a pair for over 10 years but occasionally throw on a pair of Montreal or ZX.
Prefer a nice pair of quality, comfortable shoes now.
I loved ZX fluxes (remake of the original) when they first came out a few years ago.
If you want a pair of comfortable Adidas shoes, try the Ultra Boost
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