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[OneLittleFish]

Just a thread wondering if you take some tunes along for sitting around your tents in the campsite, pint in hand enjoying the SUN? What do you use equipment wise?

Posted this as I've just finished organising my Glasto mixtapes (too organised   )

Got a Sony Walkman cassette player off eBay for four quid (batteries last about four times longer in a cassette one compared to a CD one), one of the mini speakers recommended in another thread, and made up a selection of tunes from Yeasayer to Dreadzone.

Serious business, if you're living with the same festival mixtapes all summer you may as well do a good job of them  

[karlpowell]

Ipod and a car battery for us , with a small set of speakers ....works a treat

[frodoisdead]

You kids with your technology! We tend to just have an acoustic being passed around.

Edited by frodoisdead, 12 April 2010 - 09:37 AM.

[st00ka]

I got a small but suprisingly loud speaker that I bought in Aldi and a cheapo Argos MP3 player, four AAA batteries last about ten hours non-stop.

[ukslim]

frodoisdead, on Apr 12 2010, 09:10 AM, said:

You kids with your technology! We tend to just have an acoustic being being passed around.

Not a bad plan, but you need a kazoo to round out the ensemble.

[guypjfreak]

i camp opposite the pyramid stage so just listen to wots on but dont tend to stay put for long .
mind you i smashed my ankle last year on the last day and its still not quite right so may not be doing as mush stomping as last year but i cant see the point in taking ipods ect to a music festi .just sit talk and get pissed  

[ampersand]

i've got a playlist made up, but it's mainly for the long journey down. will take to the campsite though, but i rarely actually play music. will just make do with chat, breakfast and maybe a wee spot radio.

[ramragon]

just taken a small radio the last few years, tune it to worthy fm

[kaisherz]

this ^^^^^^

Edited by kaisherz, 12 April 2010 - 11:29 AM.

[mandypants]

ramragon, on Apr 12 2010, 10:35 AM, said:

just taken a small radio the last few years, tune it to worthy fm

same

[OneLittleFish]

Sad enough to have the final version of the campsite mixtapes, it's a serious moment when I can get these onto cassette ;

Tape A:

What A Beautiful Day - Levellers
In Between Days - The Cure
She Kissed Me (And It Felt Like A Hit) - Spiritualized
Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth - Brian Jonestown Massacre
(Drawing) Rings Around The World - SFA
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
Gold Soundz - Pavement
Oh Pretty Women - Roy Orbison
Say Please - Monsters of Folk
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Where's Me Jumper? - Sultans of Ping FC
Joy Divison Oven Gloves - Half Man Half Biscuit
No Pussy Blues - Grinderman
Headache - Frank Black
Fight Test - Flaming Lips
Blindness - The Fall
The Last High - Dandy Warhols

TAPE B

Cedar Room - Doves
The Red The White The Black The Blue - Hope of the States
Bring It On - Gomez
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem
Sea Within A Sea - The Horrors
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Neil Jung - Teenage Fanclub
A Distant History - Idlewild
Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Rip It Up - Orange Juice
Do You Remember The First Time - Pulp
Bad Day - REM
Teenage Kicks - Undertones

TAPE C:

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron
Straight To Hell (live at Glasto) - Joe Strummer
Shadowplay (Demo) - Joy Division
Yes - Manic Street Preachers
Alive - Pearl Jam
Dig! Lazarus Dig! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Winterlong - Pixies
Four Winds - Bright Eyes
Hoppipola - Sigur Ros
True Love Waits - Radiohead
Sour Times (live) - Portishead
Julia - The Beatles
Broke - The Beta Band

TAPE D:

Pills (Live) - Primal Scream
Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
To Hell With Good Intentions - McLusky
One Armed Scissor - At The Drive In
Mall of America - Desaparecidos
The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap
Declare Independance - Bjork
Voodoo People - Prodigy
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Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
Zorbing - Stornoway
Driving On 9 - The Breeders
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Bittersweet Symphony - Verve
You're Wondering Now - Specials
The Universal - Blur

Gonna be cracking with a cider in hand, sat at the tent gearing ourselves up for another day of Glasto madness, festival mixtapes 2010 are DONE

[markeee]

nice one OneLittleFish - I don't take anything, nice idea..but for me, got enough to take/worry about remembering/losing

and there's enough music to be had without me bringing some

[breadmanjiro]

I really wanna track down an old boombox and take some tapes of some real East-Coast shit. Nas, Wu Tang, Mobb Deep..... all early 90's stuff obviously, none of that modern crap. Perfect for sitting in the sun having a blaze to.

[OneLittleFish]

markeee, on Apr 13 2010, 01:49 AM, said:

and there's enough music to be had without me bringing some

You see - I'd agree, but last year was in a foul mood on the Saturday (can't even mind why) and went back to my tent for a bit, listened to some decent, laid back tunes and had a read of the Q Daily in my tent, put me right back in the spirit again.

[markeee]

OneLittleFish, on Apr 13 2010, 02:00 AM, said:

You see - I'd agree, but last year was in a foul mood on the Saturday (can't even mind why) and went back to my tent for a bit, listened to some decent, laid back tunes and had a read of the Q Daily in my tent, put me right back in the spirit again.

yea it can be kinda cool but for me it's another thing to remember , i.e. the music device, batteries etc

lol

[OneLittleFish]

markeee, on Apr 13 2010, 02:01 AM, said:

yea it can be kinda cool but for me it's another thing to remember , i.e. the music device, batteries etc

lol

By taking my walkman, I'm almost certainly going to forget to bring something really important  

[Paul ™]

You're spending too much time in the campsite

[jbutcher]

Paul ™, on Apr 13 2010, 08:58 AM, said:

You're spending too much time in the campsite

Good point.

Worthy FM does the job for me, great in the mornings and thats about the only time I;m in camp unless I'm asleep!

[frodoisdead]

OneLittleFish, on Apr 13 2010, 01:46 AM, said:

Mall of America - Desaparecidos

You just made me put Read Music. Speak Spanish on

[sammysundae]

the people camped next to us put on the heavy dubstep at 8 o clock every morning. could have bloody killed them