16 replies to this topic

[nickoo]

how do the proper old skool hippies get their tickets? i see them every year and they dont seem the type who would be wired up to the web...just wired!

[mike99]

its not what it used to be its now people with money. Its a shame but it had to happen

[haznutuk]

nickoo, on Oct 5 2009, 01:33 PM, said:

how do the proper old skool hippies get their tickets? i see them every year and they dont seem the type who would be wired up to the web...just wired!

We invented the web  

[Katster]

nickoo, on Oct 5 2009, 01:33 PM, said:

how do the proper old skool hippies get their tickets? i see them every year and they dont seem the type who would be wired up to the web...just wired!

Some of them are part of the entertainment (ala trash city), some of them have been going for years and therefore probably get let in by their old pal Michael. But yeah, I've often thought the same. I guess it just comes down to the fact that old skool hippies generally get what they want, one way or another  

[nickoo]

i agree that there is fewer each year but i just find it interesting... wizards of the web!

[Boosh]

Katster, on Oct 5 2009, 01:36 PM, said:

Some of them are part of the entertainment

hahaha
I know what you mean, but this sounds epic harsh if you look at it the wrong way.

[Katster]

Boosh, on Oct 5 2009, 01:39 PM, said:

hahaha
I know what you mean, but this sounds epic harsh if you look at it the wrong way.

I know, I did think about editing but hoped it made sense. I didn't mean they are part of it unintentionally!! Lol. I meant as in, they are involved in the runnings of the festival......people like angel gardens etc.

[DreadlockDan]

"hippies" aren't allowed the internet or phones or they dont have any friends with either internet or phones either?

[Boosh]

*prods with stick* dance, hippie, dance!

[Sipperana]

Maybe they're all employed by the organisers, paid to dress as hippies, and sell job lots of pseudo-ethnic goods made in a warehouse in Milton Keynes...

[Katster]

Boosh, on Oct 5 2009, 01:44 PM, said:

*prods with stick* dance, hippie, dance!

[mike99]

they get in but just dont pay

[haznutuk]

mike99, on Oct 5 2009, 01:51 PM, said:

they get in but just dont pay

In which case they are crew.

Hazel

[random_man]

c'mon even the hippies of the 60/70s were all really just posh kids who went to uni and decided to rebel against there parents (because they suddenly realised no one liked them because they were too posH)

they're only hippies when it suits them!

[bekimo]

I imagine if they cant get their heads around the idea of the interweb they will have access to a phone.  Phones existed in the 60's you know!!

[strudders]

Most have a connection of some sort or mates that will help them out.  A lot work and the rest are part of the green fields, Trash city.

However they are diminishing at a rapid rate for some of the smaller festivals as the cost is becoming prohibitive as is the commercialisation of the festival it would seem.

I think this may be my last this year, still looking forward to it immensely, but I am not sure I want to see it deteriorate any further down a path I don't like.

I owe Glastonbury festival a alot and would like to remember it for what it was not what its become.  

Also I am as blind as a bat and its a F8ck off big site to get muttered and lost at!  

[ukslim]

Yeah, hippies aren't (necessarily) penniless. £180 is a lot of money, but as we all know, if you make Glastonbury a priority, you can find it.  And the Internet is full of hippies. The first web directory (The Whole Internet Catalog) grew from the Whole Earth Catalog. And those particular hippies are very wealthy.

Meanwhile, I think everyone in the Healing Fields and the Green Crafts field etc. are crew.