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[just-spence]

Niblet, on Mar 1 2010, 09:13 PM, said:

03 - coz I spent a great deal of the festi with new friends, not bad weather, a glowstick fight in Kidney Mead and System 7 in the avalon tent whilst I was ripped (you get the picture...)

that glow stick fight was starte by me   i was still in the army then and managed to get over a thousand glow sticks to take to glasto to sell , in the end i couldnt be bothered so we just started hooning them out red green and blue .. we had a few realy bright orange ones that lasted for about 5 mins .. .. it was like somthing out of star wars ..... . people were trying to hold on to them to start with and everyone was shouting at them to keep chucking them around ... makes me smile  

[just-spence]

tax payers money going to a good cause ......

[greenfairy43]

just-spence, on Mar 2 2010, 10:46 AM, said:

that glow stick fight was starte by me   i was still in the army then and managed to get over a thousand glow sticks to take to glasto to sell , in the end i couldnt be bothered so we just started hooning them out red green and blue .. we had a few realy bright orange ones that lasted for about 5 mins .. .. it was like somthing out of star wars ..... . people were trying to hold on to them to start with and everyone was shouting at them to keep chucking them around ... makes me smile  

I started one in the eFests Camp Triangle in Pennards in 2008.

An eFester, WiltsKen was sitting by the fire with a whole heap of the thin, light glowsticks down his jumper. He stood up & they all fell out, I was rather spangly at the time so I was mesmerised! I threw some, they got thrown back, I threw more, which got thrown back......queue lord knows how many very messy eFesters  breaking open every tub of glowsticks we had (LOTS!).......

We had an amazing Dane with us, you know who you are, who just picked up anyone from "The Other Side", who came pinching our loot we were stockpiling for a mass throw, chucked 'em over his shoulder & went bounding off through the tents dumping them elsewhere in Pennards!

It was a classic night, totally random & all in amazing good heart!


Mmmm Tracers.......

[Joshuwarr]

2014 was a great year as well. I think it was the first year of the Rectangle Stage which was opposite the Pyramid Stage on the other end of the site. Shame it burnt down the next year. The headliners were pretty naff though, Oasis reforming was a pretty big ticket seller.

2018 was pretty awful. So muddy, especially since they went back to the old fencing system, I think reports were that half a million were onsight! So many people died during The Beatles!

[laid back in the sun]

greenfairy43, on Mar 2 2010, 11:14 AM, said:

We had an amazing Dane with us

is that the next one up from a great dane???  

[ukslim]

1995 - My first year, lovely weather, just overawed by it. Plus I had energy!

2000 - Overcrowded, could have gone horribly wrong, and for some people it did. But it felt edgy and exciting. And we saw David Bowie. DAVID BOWIE! And he did an all-oldies set.

2009 - A roaring success for all kinds of reasons. Nice weather. The Park maturing nicely. Lots of late night goodies to replace the 'unofficial' stuff that's been lost.

[Pinhead]

1995 - my second, my warmest, my best mates, my music, my graduation!

T'was like being reborn.

[Langdale Wolf]

ukslim, on Mar 2 2010, 02:37 PM, said:

2000 - Overcrowded, could have gone horribly wrong, and for some people it did. But it felt edgy and exciting. And we saw David Bowie. DAVID BOWIE! And he did an all-oldies set.

He was good, wasn't he?  I'll never forget that night.

[Tugger2k]

Langdale Wolf, on Mar 2 2010, 02:44 PM, said:

He was good, wasn't he?  I'll never forget that night.

get f**ked arsehole

[Langdale Wolf]

Tugger2k, on Mar 2 2010, 02:47 PM, said:

get f**ked arsehole

    

Sorry mate.

[Steve P]

2005 for me. Worst lineup IMO of all the years I've been, but was there with a great group of mates. Was utterly spangled from the moment I got through the gates and just had a blast. Even the flood was fun  

[Craig_G]

laid back in the sun, on Mar 2 2010, 02:30 PM, said:

is that the next one up from a great dane???  

lmao.  You just made me spray coffee out my nose.  

[LittlemissC]

ethereal, on Mar 2 2010, 12:39 AM, said:

Another vote for 1995, too hot to sleep so everyone stayed up
Page/Plant, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Elastica and Veruca Salt was a dreamy line-up, to mention a few.

'94 was my first Glasto and me and three chums spent our entire 3 month bursary on the experience - bought our wrist bands from a dodgy traveller at a roadside spot and just winged it from there.  Space cakes and cider all weekend, scorching sun and fab bands - just the best.

But '95 matched it - I thought I was going to die at Elastica's gig, the crowd were so up for it.  And as for the pogo-ing nude guy - those dangling bits still make me laugh    .

Also apparently spent an entire evening chatting to an inflatable elephant only at Glasto...

[ellal]

'89 - last time I can recall pulling up in a van onto the main site and pitching a tent right next to it!
Really edgy (especially the last night), but also the last before the 'troubles'...

2000 - as has been said - Bowie!..