When festivals weren't ?300+ middle class w*nk

[????]

http://youtu.be/6utdlMvuD74

Sham Army

[jctg]

At least your chance of having the shit kicked out of you are considerably lower at Bestival etc.

[????]

'Tis true, going to gigs and football had a lot more risk in the 'good old days' .....there was some excitement in that though :)

[LadyDeliah]

I want to get to The Big Green Gathering this year. Did it a few years back as a litter picker (free entry & food :-)), but might buy a ticket this year. Not as expensive as other festivals, but it's full of hippies, travellers and the great unwashed, like festivals of yore :-)

[RosieH]

Everyone should be the great unwashed at a festival. Queuing an hour for a shower that dribbles cold water down one side of your body only and gives you athletes foot is no one's idea of a good time.

It's why god invented wet wipes.

[uncleglen]

I've got a fold up washing bowl from a camping shop and a microfibre towel and all festivals have taps on site- fantastic.

[Otta]

The one thing I can't compromise on is cleaning my teeth in the morning, even if it does mean queueing for the one tap whilst desperate for a wee.

[Jeremy]

Yeah definitely wet wipes instead of showers at festivals. Brushing teeth is doable with just a small amount of bottled water.

Can't be doing with hippies and crusties though.

[aquarius moon]

Can't be doing with hippies?

Shame on you.

Flower power, patchouli oil, 'Hair', The Beatles.........

There was nothing better than being one. Wish I still was.

[????]

never trust a hippy.....as Mr Rotten wisely said :)

[aquarius moon]

Were you a hippy Quids?

[????]

Nope...punk and soulboy for me

[aquarius moon]

I would've loved to be a hippy in the 60's but was born a few years too late.

Any other ex-hippies on here?

[StraferJack]

I don't trust hippies

Or punks

Or soul boys

Or ravers

Or grungers

Or teddies

Or..... Etc

[Parkdrive]

???? Wrote:

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> never trust a hippy.....as Mr Rotten wisely said

> :)

Is this the same Mr Lydon who sneered at the establishment of the 70's who did those butter ads and now lives in LA?

[????]

The very one. Never trust a punk.

[ernesto]

festivals were always middle class, even back in the "good old days"

[Robert Poste's Child]

Of course they're middle class - they're organised events.

[miga]

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[ernesto]

almost. original "glasto" ( fe3ckin lol) was a quid or so and the likes of hawkwind probably were paid in drugs anyway.festivals and tours were loss leader to plug the albums

Now music sales are dead and the money is in touring. and if you want quality acts like Nick Cave ( fe3cking lol II) , then you need to pay proper money

[El Pibe]

HMHB never play festivals.

ernesto's case rests

[miga]

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[KidKruger]

My first glasto we parked a huge old campervan on a flat area up the hill from main stage, facing the stage - maybe 1/4 mile away, we had friends camped even nearer, they had a small fire going the whole weekend for pots of tea and heating up tins of food. There were loads of unscheduled gigs in private tents or outside them powered by generators, dealers had blackboards outside their tents listing what they were selling or openly roamed around shouting out what they had in stock, the stalls selling trinkets were many but casually organised, it absolutely poured down, we sold 40 gallons of wine and got busted by the hells angels - my mate who made the wine swapped 3 gallons for a massive slab of red leb.

There was a small white marquee, the base lines you could feel a mike away, when you went inside if was trestle tables at one end with loads of West Indian rastamans selling tea and biscuits, they were too wrecked to remember what you'd ordered and who had ordered it, the opposite end of the marquee was a wall of speakers, in between a crowd getting down to dub and reggae, spent a couple hours a day there.

When it rained too hard in the evening a dozen of us piled into the van and watched the main band from huge the front seat or seats behind, front window was massive.

It was a crazy show but so, soooo much more fun than nowadays - haven't been since 2000 as a result.

[ernesto]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> HMHB never play festivals.

> ernesto's case rests

http://louderthanwar.com/mid-80s-half-man-half-biscuit-song-told-the-truth-about-jimmy-savile/

[bob]

My first festival was the Great western could not even call it working class proper rough.

Bob S