Big Chill

[ibilly99]

Just back best festival ever (went to Glasto as well this year) was the zombie with the broken umbrella and throwing brains at the zombie fest.

Fantastic weather ,great food (Pizzas at the Castle stage,chorizo at the Enchanted Garden and Uncle Monty's bread stall.

Best acts - John Cooper Clarke,David Byrne, the Indian fusion band, the icelandic beauty,Penguin Cafe,Jake Chapman I helped to stage the happening that occured and got a fiver signed by him with you stupid c**t love Jake,laughter workshop,orbital,spiritualized,Pharaoh Sanders,Kathryn Williams and a host of others. Fantastic finds by the demon scheduler and really only two stages to shuttle between. Quiet camping was a dream and the people exactly that chilled and very well behaved.

More than just a festival but 3 days when you believe in a better world - can't wait to go back.

[Sue]

woofmarkthedog Wrote:

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> > dancin' round a bottle of tepid Chardonnay wearing

> crocs and a rain mack.Meh

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OMG maybe I won't go to Towersey at the end of the month after all :))

[SteveT]

Jeremy wrote:- plenty of talented musicians can't make a living from their music

Yes, usually because they don't have sufficient talent Jeremy.

[Sue]

SteveT Wrote:

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> Jeremy wrote:- plenty of talented musicians can't

> make a living from their music

>

>

> Yes, usually because they don't have sufficient

> talent Jeremy.

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No, usually because they have loads of talent but the people who hear them (or not) are witless f*****s who wouldn't know a good musician if, er, they heard one ....

[ibilly99]

Yes, usually because they don't have sufficient talent Jeremy.

I obviously need to clean my ears and re-judge what I obviously didn't see and hear - I love talented musicians who play their hearts out and inspire us and BC has this in spades though not necessarily commercial in the normal sense.

[Sue]

Would be helpful if you could distinguish between the post you're answering and your reply?

Like put a load of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX between them?

Sorry just trying to clarify things

[ibilly99]

Sue said;

Would be helpful if you could distinguish between the post you're answering and your reply

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Thanks Sue will do.

[Jeremy]

Plenty of musicians out there have no desire to get involved with the cut-throat music business, and prefer to take a DIY, non-corporate approach to making music. Others simply make music which is not deemed suitable for mass consumption. (In fact most of the gigs I go to probably fall into one of these categories).

[louisiana]

ibilly99 Wrote:

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> Just back best festival ever (went to Glasto as

> well this year) was the zombie with the broken

> umbrella and throwing brains at the zombie fest.

>

> Fantastic weather ,great food (Pizzas at the

> Castle stage,chorizo at the Enchanted Garden and

> Uncle Monty's bread stall.

>

> Best acts - John Cooper Clarke

JCC was in top form. Better than the gig I saw him doing in Liverpool last year.

,David Byrne,

Delivered in spades. The tutus were the icing on the cake.

the

> Indian fusion band, the icelandic beauty,Penguin

> Cafe,Jake Chapman I helped to stage the happening

> that occured and got a fiver signed by him with

> you stupid c**t love Jake,laughter

> workshop,orbital,spiritualized,Pharaoh

> Sanders,Kathryn Williams and a host of others.

Sanders I can take or leave on a Sunday afternoon in the sunshine, but he is a bit of a living legend.

> Fantastic finds by the demon scheduler

Our fantastic find was Shackleton on the Castle stage. Well not a find for me, but for my partner and our friends...

Chris Cunningham (who does the Aphex Twin, UNKLE etc. videos) was completely outrageous.

And the first half of the Hextatic set on the main stage was downright outrageously brilliant. Especially the bit with the puppet dogs perturbed about the LSD in their cornflakes.

and really

> only two stages to shuttle between.

Plus the lovely Enchanted Garden, with the Viva la Vida Cafe playing superb house until 4am on the last night.

We also loved the Stop the City mini-venue, up on the hillside beyond Enchanted Garden, where the art trail used to be. Lots of excellent chill acts, the best views out across the deer park, lakes, castle and valley, with added sunsets.

The size is good (sufficient space between stages, but not too far), and brilliant being able to walk through the woods by fairy-light to your tent. We ended up camping same area as last year as we loved it so much.

Quiet camping

> was a dream and the people exactly that chilled

> and very well behaved.

>

> More than just a festival but 3 days when you

> believe in a better world - can't wait to go back.

4 days. There's stuff running all Thursday now (late into the night), and things don't wind up until 4 am Monday.

If you like minor UK labels, artists that just do their own thing forever, electronica, dancing, general creativity in whatever media, beautiful landscapes, and a 4-day non-stop party, BC is the business. If you like chart music, landfill indie, one-hit wonders, and don't care if you're in an aircraft hanger or a multi-storey car park, perhaps BC is not for you.

[flapjackdavey]

there you go . :)-D

[Jeremy]

Glad you all had a good time!

Perhaps the problem is that I don't really like electronica. At least, I don't like ambient nonsense and I don't like dance music either. Or dancing, for that matter. But I agree it's an amazing setting for a festival.

[Ted Max]

I like truffle oil but not truffles, wearing my "trunk" style underpants inside out, the crack of freshly laundered linen on plump limbs, ripe pears, unripe bananas, the poetry but not the prose of Thomas Hardy, unsigned novelty acts from Bromsgrove with lead singers called Jez, and indoor fireworks.

My question is, where is the festival for people like me?

[Moos]

The indoor fireworks should be the clue for you there, Ted.

[Ted Max]

The hanger or the car park, I'm guessing, with the Gap-dressed legion.

Don't any of my tastes gain me entry to the high culture of the al fresco chill act?

[Moos]

I was suggesting that an Englishman's home is his castle, but really it was cruel of me to imply that you shouldn't go out in public. Ab alio spectes alteri quod feceris, I await your response.

[Ted Max]

You lost me at Ab.

If you're being unkind can you punch me in the face, or something? It's the only language I understand.

[Moos]

Oh Ted. And you had me at Hello.

[flapjackdavey]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Glad you all had a good time!

>

> Perhaps the problem is that I don't really like

> electronica. At least, I don't like ambient

> nonsense and I don't like dance music either. Or

> dancing, for that matter. But I agree it's an

> amazing setting for a festival.

er... ptobably not the festival for you then ol' son .

[ibilly99]

Couple of videos now up.

The first was a laughter workshop that me ,a friend and the official photographer subverted by having a laugh off script.

The second is the result of me arranging for an agent provocateur to interrupt Jake Chapman with a festival happening - I got another signed fiver with You Stupid C**t love Jake

http://www.youtube.com/user/mudfolk#play/all/uploads-all/0/d9F_bdj0CYY

Great 4 days indeed Louisiana !

[louisiana]

Excellent vids ibilly.

Did you catch any of the Chris Cunningham on Castle?

[louisiana]

A little piece of chris cunningham at BC.

[ibilly99]

Sorry no I didn't but my mate did and said it was excellent if a tad shocking in it would be shocking to normal people sort of way. Like I said if you get it the BC is an amazing festival and place to be the sunshine pushed it into the Stellar phase of my memory at the moment. It so good to find the almost absence of lary folk these days at such a big gathering.

Kathryn Williams was also excellent and got a chance to thank her at the Pizza caf - lovely lady and great voice. Just listening to Suns of Arqr at the moment on Spotify that's the great thing about BC it pushes your musical knowledge and boundaries introduces you to new stuff which otherwise I wouldn't be exposed to and it's not on TV and there is no corporates vamping on the place.

Another of my mates vids of the grand old daddy of punk poetry - John Cooper Clarke - funniest man at the festival.

Now where's that time machine

[louisiana]

JCC is in great form at the mo'.

The BC policy of putting things that are not mainstream but are just plain good on main stages is so, so the right thing. There's no other festie that I know that would put Shackleton on a main stage (Castle) in the evening (or last year, The Bays with the Heritage Orchestra). I'd describe some of their choices as 'brave but well-informed'. Any old festie can put some chart band up there, but BC does other things... (and yes, we dipped out of Glasto this year)

I was, in the words of my other half, 'laughing like a drain' at the BC Hexstatic segment about the puppet dogs on acid (last thing on main stage Sunday night). It really was so funny, I've got to track down which disc - if any - I can find this on.

And yes, Latitude...