Leedspete
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I'll be 38.
Is there an age where everyone feels it's acceptable to stop camping and get a campervan/caravan? I know it's personal based on backs, rickets etc but I'd think 40 and been to 10 festivals is a fair enough point to duck out.
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I was there too in 99 and I think I was with my brother and i only remember seeing Blondie and Lonnie Donegan - and he didn't even do "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight?"
I can remember being in the dance tent and being asked to leave by security because my brother was so out of it he kept crashing into people, but I don't know who we were there for.
I also remember going into my first one in 1986. We were in a campervan with some friends but we didn't know the girl whose van it was. As we were given our wristbands she said "Oh no! It's a CND festival - Daddy is going to DIE when I tell him I borrowed the van for a CND festival!"
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Oof I had totally forgotten this. Incredible stuff. I was in a different dimension during that set. Was that really 1999?? doesnt seem that long ago at all.
I actually meant top epic musical moments for this thread onm the big stages so my bad for badly articulating that, but it's good to read about peoples experiences away from the music too.
I think my top 5 glasto moments EVER would probably only include 2 musical moments.
I can still remember my first time walking in......sigh happy days
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1. Underworld in 1999. First Glastonbury, and end of the set where King Of Snake goes into Born Slippy just blew me away.
2. Stevie Wonder - just thought it was an amazing atmosphere with not one sarcastic comment from anyone to be heard. Best time I've had at the Pyramid stage.
3. Shedding a tear or two standing on my own in the rain to Morrissey singing This Charming Man and There is a Light. Friends all watching something else. Couldn't have been happier! I'd never seen him before.
4. Atmosphere at the top of the hill looking at Park Stage when Pulp were on last year. Could hardly hear the music but everyone seemed so happy and playful and content. Everyone just bantering with each other and laughing, such a nice vibe.
5. Just the numerous very early morning walks around 6am when it's pretty quite but you stop and talk to pretty much every person you see on your way to or from somewhere.. And just going around a corner and finding something funny going on and then just joining in.
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I think the music scene is very poor at the moment at the industry has gone to it's default setting of pop. Sadly the festivals can't conjure acts out of thin air.
Glastonbury can at least fall back on it's non-music side and can get headliners for a relatively cheap price. In pure terms of line up the V used to have some very good years but has now turned into a pop festival, which is commercially very shrewd if musically unfortunate.
Of the big boys, I suspect the 'rawk' festivals might struggle. Reading has lacked direction for a few years and the Download and Sonisphere both chase a limited supply of the same bands.
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A friend said they'd drop our tent back. I almost wish they hadn't cleaned it now. I'll leave it out for a bit as a reminder.
Car stickers - seen loads around Nuneaton in the past couple of weeks, especially a lot from 2010.
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Did you get one? Always fancied Bestival but some of the threads about the smaller ones have made me rethink for next year.
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Shopping just got delivered so lager in the house again. Knowing whenever I've had enough of work I can just walk into the kitchen and grab a cold one.
If we go back to Monday, found out OH is pregnant - a new Glasto goer is about 4 weeks into development.
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in my blood.
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So we queued up at a stall which was playing Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 on a loop system. I also remember feeling quite peculiar!
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-It can be the same without food. I nearly did the whole of Glasto 2007 without eating. I only 'broke' at about 7pm on the Sunday evening when I ate something ridiculous like a burger. The lack of food didn't dampen my enjoyment of the festival (the mud did), but I was heavily dosed with appetite suppressants.
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I used to love Oasis and I saw Noel at the Royal Albert Hall last year. Im still unsure on Beady Eye
On one hand this is tragic, maybe as it's at T.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5_F3SrHZVg
This on the other hand is excellent.
You might not like Oasis, however they have more than deserved their place in the music hall of fame.
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What a waste of time you posting on this topic. If you don't know which songs were sung by Liam and which were by Noel. Liam was a great singer when he used to sing, now he just shouts them but is still a good frontman. I think Noel will only do smaller intimate gigs
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The "Noel" stuff I think you're talking about is Masterplan, Talk Tonight, Sad Song, D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman, Half the World Away etc? The melodic more acoustic stuff?
The "Liam" stuff would be more like Rock and Roll Star, Slide Away, Some Might Say, D'You Know What I Mean?, Go Let It Out, The Hindu Times etc.
Although they're all Noels songs. So is All Around the World though, which is one of the worst offences by a big band at their height ever committed to tape. As is the video.
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ahh right, you dont like the only half-decent stuff theyve done and like the shit stuff. Got it.
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No? Liam w/Noel.
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hang on, didnt liam do lead vocals on every song on definitely maybe, their only decent album?
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It's really grown on me, but then I've been working in Manchester this week and XFM have been playing it constantly.
He's a talented guy, his brother is a dick. Would hope he wouldn't ditch any of the great Oasis songs he sings on for live gigs, the ones with Liam wouldn't be that missed.
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The repeat business angle makes perfect sense. Makes me wonder though why I haven't got anything decent. Not that I do them very often now. Perhaps if I was taking them regularly I'd stumble across some of the better kit.
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I had a reputable
source getting my Glasto ones. He got two different kinds, and both were mediocre. I personally don't know of anyone who has found decent ones in recent years. I don't suppose that doesn't mean they are not out there. -
<four yorkshiremen accent>
lucky buggers, us Bradfordians were promised a Westfields and all we got is a hole in the ground
</four yorkshiremen accent>
6 years and counting :angry:
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Phil Lynott, Freddie Mercury, Ronnie James Dio, Paul Gray, Wurzel, Gary Moore, Dimebag Darrell, Cliff Burton, John Entwistle, Stuart Adamson, Joe Strummer, The rev, Amy Winehouse.
Must stop going to gigs.
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People not taking the money out of bulging wallets is to be applauded, I suspect some people would keep the money and hand in the cards and id in the hope of it getting back to the right person. Not sure how I feel about that.
Has anyone ever found a camera and taken photo's on it before handing it back? Many years ago at Bowlers in Manchester security wouldn't let my friend take his camera in. Cue a few weeks later when he takes it into Boots (yes, actually having photo's developed) and the bouncers have taken loads of pictures of their arses. Snigger.
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Why why why did you bring this back to my memory?
When she dedicated a song to the lack of women singer/songwriters she should really have practiced it beforehand
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