Festivals 2013

[????]

can't escape mine (or anyone elses kids) at Camp Bestival...it's like the garden at the Herne Tavern on a Sunday in July x200, with more expoensive beer.

[titch juicy]

giggirl Wrote:

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> Totally off topic but I don't want to start a new

> thread. Anyone on here been to the Relentless

> Garage in Highbury? I am considering taking a 15

> year old girl to a gig there. It's going to be a

> sold out gig so the place will be at full

> capacity. Is that too overwhelming for a 15 year

> old? Will she see anything? I don't want her to

> have a negative experience and it's frankly not a

> band I personally want to see.

>

> I'm hoping someone on here will have an opinion

> because I don't know the venue.

>

> Thank you.

I've been to a few sold out gigs there- it get's busy (the bar can be difficult) but not overpowering.

I tend to stand front left, near the gents toilet (it doesn't smell) and there's always a decent view and room to breathe. I think you'd be alright.

[uncleglen]

I've also been to the Relentless Garage and there was (a couple of years ago) a spot behind the sound desk with padded leather which, if you get there early enough you get a perfect view.

Just come back from Hammerfest V (Killing Joke, Enslaved,Saint Vitus etc); looking forward to BOA (King Diamond, Lamb of God, Slayer,etc)

[UncleBen]

Gestapo security only concerned with alcohol being taken into festival,rather than safety, to force purchase of ridiculously priced waterd down alcohol. Stinking dirty toilets. Over priced crap food. Queues for everything. Oh,and silly people,mostly women risking infection via foot skin eating fish. Festivals-no thank u.

[Annette Curtain]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> It's not 'an excuse' that's required - it's 'an

> opportunity'.

:)

[MrBen]

I've hung up my festival hat (proverbial, not one of those horrible jester Claypole numbers). First was Glastonbury 2000 and after that giddy high they've all been pretty crap since if I'm honest. Worst was Coachella in California which is policed by undercover DEA and beer Nazis. Worst in UK is clearly the mainstream powerhouse V which is mostly full of daytripping stockbrokers and people who still buy CD's in Tescos. Liked Benicassim tho when its started. I'm also off the gear which I guess makes me boring. I can live with that.

[giggirl]

I've never been a festival-goer. I don't like to be anywhere where I can't plug a hairdryer in. Yes I know that's precious.

I agree with everything Mr Ben said about Coachella except he didn't mention that the glorious weather is pretty much guaranteed. Also, you can stay at a 5 star resort in Palm Springs and they bus you in to the festival (please read the hairdryer comment for clarification).

Px

[Otta]

Was at Reading 2007, and whilst there were loads of us and we had a good time (and there were some great bands on the line up), it set me on the path away from festivals. It was everything that UncleBen describes above, and add teenagers settibg fire to tents on the last night.

Was at WOMAD a couple of years back, and would do that again.

[El Pibe]

WOMAD was my first, 1990 if memory serves, a roasting day at the Milton Keynes Bowl.

My art teacher's husband was the main sound engineer, he collapsed with acute renal failure, so a couple of friends and i got all his equipment in my clapped out Volkswagon Derby and we hot footed it up there just in the nick of time to save the day.

They gave us VIP passes and we got to meet legends like, errrrr, The Screaming Blue Messiahs.

[????]

Reading '78 or '79. The whole 'gig' culture* then was a bit like football, lots of fighting, Punks & Mods vs Sham 69s massive skinhead following and some random rockers that day. Seeing the Clash, Madness, Sham 69 etc involved a potential bundle

*or the punk/Oi/Ska side of it

[*Bob*]

Reading with the first I went to, also in 1990 I think.

It was sh1t - but then I didn't know any better.

[uncleglen]

Having been to the first Glastonbury and perched on scaffolding poles over a trench with only sacking for cover the lavs and urinals these days are mighty fine. There is even hand-gel and lav paper if you're lucky and they come along each morning and suck the sewage out- (at the first Sonisphere we were waiting in line for the tanker to suck out the urinal and the operator didn't have his hood up on his protection suit- the hose jumped out of the urinal and he got covered- yuk)

[malumbu]

I sold myself on e-bay once. The offer was that I'd come over and bore you about how Glastonbury had sold out in the 1980s. I chickened out and got a friend to buy me, but it was quite fun with all the questions that I recieved. I've sort of got over it by now and will peep at it with my eyes half closed on telly whilst trying not to vomit every time some luvvie talks about 'Glasto'.

Although from what I understand Camp Bestival takes things to another level. So I wont be there.

[maxxi]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> ...if you're lucky and they come along each

> morning and suck the sewage out-

So the shit doesn't hit the fans?

[TillieTrotter]

Sharp Maxxi, very sharp.

[uncleglen]

At Leeds a couple of years ago a girl dropped her mobile down the bog- she tried to retrieve it and got stuck and had to be rescued by the fire brigade (if I remember correctly). Also, making use of the facilities at a festival fairly recently, was a bloke who installed himself beneath the lav in order to get a good view of users' nether regions- The partygore metal band Gout regularly perform a song about this called -'The Shite at the End of the Tunnel' ( I wonder which end they mean?)

[malumbu]

I don't know what all the fuss was about regarding the trench bogs at Glastonbury, provided you (a) didn't camp near them, and (b) chose one upwind furthest away (so you could have a good sit down and read the paper)

When they first brought the chemical ones in, it was dreadful as they stank and there was always a long queue. But they have really advanced since then.

When I was a kid and naturally hated the sound of Reading as it was all heavy metal for a short time, I recall the NME publishing a picture of a pissed up lad in the ditch urinals. NME used to be a serious music magazine, for the younger readers out there who only know of the on-line tabloid version.

[uncleglen]

The trench bogs at Glastonbury were ok so long as you didn't get too stoned or drunk. My friend would never use them- she used to take a walk into the bushes at night.

[Atticus]

Woodrot...

old festivals- dirty middle class hippies with theit tops off, student acid casualties, scousers ransacking your tent 24/7, dogs on a string, heavy filth presence, shit music, lou @#$%& reed, screaming bikers running amok at 2AM, drizzle, everyone wearing ex geman army boots, magic mushrooms @ ?10 a pop, hash cakes, shitty blacks tents in green

How do you know they were scousers and if so identifiable, why didn't you stop them?

[*Bob*]

The usual tell-tale signs: colourful mad-made fibres caught on the zips near where the tents have been slashed etc

[*Bob*]

I would have stopped them myself but would have felt like double standards - they were the ones I paid ?5 to get me in on the sly.

[Atticus]

Hilarious

[woodrot]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21962436

jesus christ.

[woodrot]

Atticus Wrote:

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> Woodrot...

>

>

> old festivals- dirty middle class hippies with

> theit tops off, student acid casualties, scousers

> ransacking your tent 24/7, dogs on a string, heavy

> filth presence, shit music, lou @#$%& reed,

> screaming bikers running amok at 2AM, drizzle,

> everyone wearing ex geman army boots, magic

> mushrooms @ ?10 a pop, hash cakes, shitty blacks

> tents in green

>

> How do you know they were scousers and if so

> identifiable, why didn't you stop them?

1)How do you reckon I worked out they were scousers?

2)I didnt fancy getting the shit kicked out of me by mob handed scallys.

[uncleglen]

And don't forget the amazing 'Release' tent where the drug-addled could get support- since their mates were too drug-addled to support them.