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Fat_Buddha

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  1. Ask the band while they're signing merch
  2. We’ve stayed in an air bnb the last two years, easy to get out and easy enough to get back in. You’ll end parking a long way away. One thing we learned is to have summat noticeable poking up off the car making it easier to find. our now adult nippers still camp. Last year we were taking one back to Bristol and made the poor bugger meet us at 7 am. Security wouldn’t let us in. And they were pretty unpleasant and aggressive about it too.
  3. I gave up om twitter a few months back and in doing so got rid of loads of good tips for bands to see upcoming tours, records to listen to, all that. There were some great people with great recommendations. Can’t remember any of ‘em. so, any recommendations for good music related threaders?
  4. The beauty of this festival is the sheer range and number of high quality acts on all stages, right from the off, every day, many of whom you’d have no chance of seeing otherwise. Not to mention the ambience and all the peripheral stuff. It’s a bloody bargain.
  5. I’m never bothered with the headliners, a.though it will be nice to see Wilco sober. Me, not them. Nothing wrong with the Green Man line up but it’s very safe. EOTR is much more interesting. The more I listen to the many bands I’m unfamiliar with, the more I’m looking forward to the festival. Simply, Simon has done it again.
  6. Cracking review that, apart from the dissing of country music
  7. Marling, headlined the Garden a few years ago, with a pashmina wrapped around her bonce. Looked like a Nigella Lawson garden party.
  8. Stella Donnelly was great last time, funny as hell, and her new record is getting universally good reviews
  9. Missed Cassandra Jenkins so she can come back please. Ezra Furman, Cass McCombs, Andrew Combs, and a bit more folk and country please. That’s two pleases.
  10. Away from others, who may not wish to share your habit. There’s plenty of space
  11. The lightning was the perfect end to the Aldous Harding set.
  12. THE GOOD The bogs, dunno if I was lucky but every one I used was clean or cleanish and in full working order. The new stall doing spuds. The beer The bands. All the bands. I don’t know how or where I would be able to see such a crazily eclectic range of high quality performers, all day, every day. Low dickhead count. THE BAD Fella we sold a ticket to for 100 quid on Thursday not coughing up was disappointing. Still, hope he had a nice time. We all deserve a nice time. Security kid at car park at about half seven who decided to play silly buggers and not let us in to pick our nipper up. EOTR steward sorted it out amicably enough though. Hot tip…..the pick up point you see in the second field isn’t in operation on Monday morning. Also, if returning to site to pick offspring up, don’t bother before 8, which was when the nice stewards turned up. THE UGLY There wasn’t any ugly.
  13. Someone mentioned weather pro as being the most accurate……it’s predicting 4.4 mm rain on Friday morning. Is that a lot?
  14. Golden Dregs we’re a highlight last year. As for chatterboxes, plenty of em at EOTR, and more prevalent every year
  15. The first bog I went to in the camping field on Thursday afternoon had a huge turd clinging to the side. I was only there to put tents up for others so don’t know what they were like after that. Around the stages they were OK, plenty of urinals for the chaps, and queues for cubicles no worse than usual. The cubicles by the Garden were cleaned Sunday afternoon, there was an amusing disagreement between a bog chap and a steward over how they should exit when the job was done. Sanitiser and bog rolls would have been an issue if you didn’t take your own
  16. Have felt bloody awful since yesterday, did a test this morning, came out negative. It’s probably just a case of my body telling me I’m too old for this shit
  17. Stood in a queue for 25 minutes to see him, didn’t move an inch, so gave up and wandered away
  18. Forgot to mention the Chickpea and Mushroom curry from the Indonesian place…..hot enough to make my whole torso and head throb but absolutely delicious. Honourable mention to the Po Boy from the fish place Also nice ale at prices you could tolerate
  19. On Thursday I had misgivings as the queues for food were massive and the bogs were shitholes, as it were, but it all improved after that. Lucky for us males that there were plenty of urinals. we only go for the music, not the partying so this time we stayed in an Airbnb about a ten minute drive away, through some narrow and quite hairy country lanes. It worked for us, and we’ll be doing it again next year. no bands blew me away as the likes of Eliot Brood, Duke and the King, The Growlers, Phosphorescent, Low Anthem and dozens of others have in the past……but I was still spoilt for choice on who to see and saw some great and greatly enjoyable sets. Sunday was exceptional on every stage, but we stuck mostly to the garden. Being old, with an underlying condition, we didn’t brave the tents, although sat outside the Big Top with a beer and loved hearing if not seeing All We Are and WH Lung. apart from a largeish group of middle aged tossers that congregated on left side of Garden, crowds seemed more like the old days in showing respect to the artists and fellow attendees by keeping quiet. only downside was I cracked my knee very hard an a bollard on an unlit and crowded path. Can’t bend the bastard now. All in all great festie, one of the best given the circumstances and much better than I thought it was going to be without the Americans, Canadians Australians and Africans
  20. Got there about 2, never got it in easier, not a single person in queue at wristband exchange, no queuing to get in car park. Place soon got rammed though, massive queues for food, and don’t seem to be as many bogs
  21. Hawkline was brilliant on the GardenStage a couple of years ago
  22. He is very, very good, recommend a listen to his latest record
  23. I’ve become a bit obsessed by WH Lung and William Doyle over the last week. Nearly all the bands that enthuse me are on early. I could be tucked up in bed by 8. Lovely.
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