Unexplored Corners

[essex_jim]

In reply to the 2 people who asked about where I got the cheap polos, I really don't know! My 1st year and I never once got my bearings right, however, I do remember the shop being called vintage something or other...a quick google and I find this /index.php?showtopic=137838">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=137838 those directions sound about right.

[starknaked]

Sounds like Blue rinse if ya ask me. There is one where i live in Leeds and sounds a lot like your description! can't believe i haven't spotted it at glastonbury!

edit: ahh it isn't called 'vintage something' so i guess i could be wrong.

Edited May 18, 2011 by starknaked

[crozbie15]

Look closely and ye shall find. Can't be more helpful I'm afraid. It's such a drag on our time fielding these questions.

[essex_jim]

Sounds like Blue rinse if ya ask me. There is one where i live in Leeds and sounds a lot like your description! can't believe i haven't spotted it at glastonbury!

edit: ahh it isn't called 'vintage something' so i guess i could be wrong.

[paolo1980]

Yeah, you must be a real busy guy with the time to post a reply but not an answer.

[crozbie15]

Why don't you read the thread because your question's already been answered.

I stumbled into the Underground Piano Bar last year - outSTANDING.

[sjhopewell]

I have never been on the monorail after 3 visits. Always looks too packed!

[Aragorn]

I see what you did there

if poster about U/Ground Piano Bar searches forum someone posted a map to where it is

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

Yeah, you must be a real busy guy with the time to post a reply but not an answer.

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

It's not my question, i just found the reply ironic.

Edited May 19, 2011 by Lynne Scratch Perry

[cejx]

Nope. Slap bang in the middle - just outside all the little corridor things. It had a name, and when I get home tonight I'll dig it out . Well worth it. Xx

[jimmyk83]

Yes, these things are a real drag on my time, fielding questions that is.

Or you could read for the (at least) two times someone's posted a map.

[posthuman]

Ironic or sarcastic? I was aiming for cryptic, but I'll settle for sarcastic.

The Underground Piano Bar is the stuff of legends. I've never found it and was rather pleased to see the map of where it was. This feeling then changed to slight disappointment as it had taken the mystery out of the place.

The aim of my post was to hopefully reinstall that mystery into the question-poser.

[doogleduck]

Agreed. I'm a bit disappointed that a map has been posted, as I've said elsewhere, the place treads a thin line between urban legend and reality, it's a shame for that to be broken.

There have always been enough clues for the determined folk, putting a map out there spoils it.

*And the place is tiiiiny.

[sparkythetortoise]

I see your point, but I'm going to leave the link up.

[posthuman]

Quite right.

And lets put things in perspective. It is, after all, listed on the Glastonbury poster as "The Dragon field Underground Piano Bar" so its hardly a state secret!

[Pinhead]

The railway tunnel is what they used to call a 'cattle creep' - literally so cattle could wander through from one field to the next without having to cross the railway line. OMG - do I really have information like this taking up space in my tiny brain . . .

[MyTwistedWords]

my first year last year so seeing everything was impossible, i lost my bearings every ten minutes, was utterly wasted most of the time etc. so this year i'm really looking forward to finding new things, exploring as much as possible... this is made much easier by the line up as the things i want to see are handily squashed into neat little clusters leaving much of my time free for wandering

[formed a band]

in about 8 visits seen a fair bit of stuff, not the piano bar though, never been to the north part of the stone c for this piano bar, can you drop down into shangri la that way?

i love shangri la

Edited July 2, 2011 by formed a band

[verrymerry]

I've never been down the Rabbit Hole although I've been in the main bit.

Never been inter-stage or back-stage

Never used the proper showers (did sneak into crew camping though last year to visit friends who were working and got use of theirs )

Never been in the crows nest (was closed when I went up)

Never had an oggie, square pie or pie minister (not for lack of wanting I might add, just never got round to it in... 5 years!)

[Bender]

I discovered the underground piano bar! Albeit completely by mistake!

Bez's acid house = Bez & Bender's Acid House now (can i pop me tent up there? )

Strummerville was brilliant, but the tone of my night was going in a different direction so i was led to Bez's by a someone i'd met earlier on

Edited July 2, 2011 by Bender

[mandypants]

I stumbled across Strummerville in '09, the first time I went, but haven't found it since. Finally got to see an Arcadia show this year, but I still haven't seen the underground bar, down the rabbit hole or been right to the top of the stone circle hill for a look around. Steep hills kill!

I have had a bit of a mental tick list though, this year I saw Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip in Oxlyers in West, I haven't really bothered with the dance village, not my scene on the whole. I haven't seen a band in John Peel yet. I had a wander through the Kidz Field for the first time this year, which was even more colourful than the rest of the festival, gorgeous! I found the tunnel and stone dragon last year, and we were camped very near the other tunnel in Oxlyers this year, so yeah, it does exist

The one thing I simply haven't been able to manage is the late night stuff, I really want to go in Slumbarave, NYC Downlow and all that, but I'm so knackered by 1am and I can't seem to change my body clock enough to stay up any later than that. I want to see the random weird stuff going down in Shangri la, but again, it's late at night, which is a bugger. I'm not a drinker, so bars don't interest me. Oh, and I haven't been in Croissant Neuf for a show. So, still a few things for my 2013 to do list

[MissKim]

I don't know how everyone else here feels, but I think part of what makes the Piano Bar so great is that it treads the fine line between urban legend and reality, and it's so hard to find that once you've managed to unearth it, you feel as though you've found a unicorn.

Also, it's tiny, so making its location obvious and widely known means that:

- The magic is gone

- Nobody will be able to get in because it's swamped, especially as this year it will be a pain in the backside to get from that part of the site to the Shangri-La areas.

Just my tuppence.

[formed a band]

Everyone has the right, they pT their money

[MissKim]

Everyone has the right, they pT their money