GLASTO MEMORYS

[markeee]

just been reading your glasto stories while at work - love it!

[gooner1990]

urgh just read it..W T F what's with some people?!

1 thing..I have been to Glasto several times..but where's Muddy Lane?!

[markeee]

Goes up along the side of Kidney Mead/Big Ground.

Presume the toilets being referred to are the ones by the Meeting Point or just inside the camping area for Kidney Mead.

[eFestivals]

I've merged all these threads as they're better all kept together.

[Pinhead]

Its where the 'Pulling Together' pilon is.

I used to call it the 'Message Meeting Point as next to the Information Point that was there in those days there used to be a huge steel bollard there covered in messages from people trying to find people or say where they had camped to their mates - this was before the days of mobiles . . .

Was also roughly where the Leftfield Stage moved for a couple of years, where Queens Head was at one point I think (with Maximo Park crush one year), technically its the very Northern extent of what's known as the 'Main Drag' I think, and at the bottom of Muddy Lane that runs down along side Family Camping then Big Ground all the way from Ped B. Its muddy because its got steepish banks on each side, is enclosed by trees, is used by the po trucks and other site tractors, and becomes a river when it rains. Used to be a lot of peeps pissing in the hedges along there before the campaign to disuade people from doing it. Best thing though is that about half way down there is a gap in the hedge and a great view straight into the mouth of the Pyramid across the camping area.

There - everything you wanted to know about Muddy Lane but found it too boring to ask

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I remember the 'message meeting point'. The thing was completely covered in messages which would presumably have taken some considerable time to read through, if memory serves me right. Thank the Lord for mobile phones now so that people can actually meet up when and wherever on site.

[markeee]

Its where the 'Pulling Together' pilon is.

I used to call it the 'Message Meeting Point as next to the Information Point that was there in those days there used to be a huge steel bollard there covered in messages from people trying to find people or say where they had camped to their mates - this was before the days of mobiles . . .

Was also roughly where the Leftfield Stage moved for a couple of years, where Queens Head was at one point I think (with Maximo Park crush one year), technically its the very Northern extent of what's known as the 'Main Drag' I think, and at the bottom of Muddy Lane that runs down along side Family Camping then Big Ground all the way from Ped B. Its muddy because its got steepish banks on each side, is enclosed by trees, is used by the po trucks and other site tractors, and becomes a river when it rains. Used to be a lot of peeps pissing in the hedges along there before the campaign to disuade people from doing it. Best thing though is that about half way down there is a gap in the hedge and a great view straight into the mouth of the Pyramid across the camping area.

There - everything you wanted to know about Muddy Lane but found it too boring to ask

[Pinhead]

I remember the 'message meeting point'. The thing was completely covered in messages which would presumably have taken some considerable time to read through, if memory serves me right. Thank the Lord for mobile phones now so that people can actually meet up when and wherever on site.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Yeah - mobiles make more sense true, but I miss those little social features like this in the geography of the site, harking back to more interpersonal days.

Anyone remember the 'Milk Bar', across the road from Cider Bus, roughly at left hand entrance to Pyramid (looking at it). Before LV and the birth of the naughtly corner, it used to pump out tunes all night and attracted a number of E'd up punters just dancing outside. Remember going mental to Madness once there at 4 in the morning.

[norm wilson]

Here is some memory's from 2005 the flood year . HOW CLOSE THE FESTIVAL CAME TO BEING PULLED more to follow Norm http://styfnorm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/where-waters-meet.html fun was had by all

[Pinhead]

Nice one Norm - clears up a mystery for me and many others I'm sure as to where that canoe suddenly came from 'the morning after' . . .

Thinking back to that event, many of us were sure it was going to be cancelled too due to the frankly unbelievable monsoon that night. Was working for Oxfam that year and camped up in Tom's Field behind the farm where we could see the extent of the flooding, and the word around the teams at that point was that it was going to be called off. Was gutted for a while until we heard news to the contrary come though. I think they only missed one morning band on the Pyramid whilst getting the power and PA back on-line.

I remember it was still nearly dark in the morning such was the cloud cover, and much of the power seemed to be off around the site with little but the main lights on at stages. Up in Tom's the mobile base station had been hit and the field, although higher up, had several streams running through it and through the Oxfam marquee. Then we heard about Pennards . . .

[gooner1990]

2005 floods, well I was sound asleep in my tent up in Kidney Mead away from all the flooding...In my drunk state I'd left my mobile phone on during the night and at some point on the friday morning it goes off with a phonecall from my mother who is on holiday in Cyprus.

Her ' You ok?'

Me 'Errr yeh, I was asleep, what's up?

Her 'Well we are sat at the breakfast bar in the hotel in Cyprus, they have Sky News on here and it's showing Glastonbury is underwater'

Me 'Is it?!'

(My last memory is of it being stupidly hot on the weds & thurs and I was completely sunburnt)

Her 'So you're ok?'

Me 'Yep I'm fine'

Put the phone down and looked out of the tent door to see some rain but nothing from what I could see too bad. Went back to sleep for a couple of hours, then when me and my mates got up we went to walk the 2 minutes down to the Meeting Point/Leftfield area and were like

[norm wilson]

Nice one Norm - clears up a mystery for me and many others I'm sure as to where that canoe suddenly came from 'the morning after' . . .

Thinking back to that event, many of us were sure it was going to be cancelled too due to the frankly unbelievable monsoon that night. Was working for Oxfam that year and camped up in Tom's Field behind the farm where we could see the extent of the flooding, and the word around the teams at that point was that it was going to be called off. Was gutted for a while until we heard news to the contrary come though. I think they only missed one morning band on the Pyramid whilst getting the power and PA back on-line.

I remember it was still nearly dark in the morning such was the cloud cover, and much of the power seemed to be off around the site with little but the main lights on at stages. Up in Tom's the mobile base station had been hit and the field, although higher up, had several streams running through it and through the Oxfam marquee. Then we heard about Pennards . . .

[norm wilson]

2005 floods, well I was sound asleep in my tent up in Kidney Mead away from all the flooding...In my drunk state I'd left my mobile phone on during the night and at some point on the friday morning it goes off with a phonecall from my mother who is on holiday in Cyprus.

Her ' You ok?'

Me 'Errr yeh, I was asleep, what's up?

Her 'Well we are sat at the breakfast bar in the hotel in Cyprus, they have Sky News on here and it's showing Glastonbury is underwater'

Me 'Is it?!'

(My last memory is of it being stupidly hot on the weds & thurs and I was completely sunburnt)

Her 'So you're ok?'

Me 'Yep I'm fine'

Put the phone down and looked out of the tent door to see some rain but nothing from what I could see too bad. Went back to sleep for a couple of hours, then when me and my mates got up we went to walk the 2 minutes down to the Meeting Point/Leftfield area and were like

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Thanks for another story norm. They're really appreciated.

[norm wilson]

More. More norm. These tales are ace. Hanging on every word you write. Good stuff.

[norm wilson]

Thanks for another story norm. They're really appreciated.

[markeee]

Read them all - need more norm my reading material whole at work..make the time go by quicker!!

[norm wilson]

Bad Security, Traveller Scape Goats and Dogs . Here is my memory's of the 1990 Incidents . Might shock a few people but they actually happened. Hope it spreads some light on events ..cheers Norm http://styfnorm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/bad-security-traveller-scape-goats-and.html

[norm wilson]

Being a Scouser down South I have supported Liverpool bands at Glastonbury over the years . People who go to Glastonbury tend to support their own bands from their own areas who grace the stages of Glastonbury . Love to hear about list of bands from different areas or countries that people have supported over the years . Makes you proud when you see a band from your own town play , Have you experienced that ?. You always bump into old friends that you never knew were at the festival off the cuff meetings a few beers and a laugh , and swap notes and gossip in a field in Somerset . Another string to Glastonbury's mighty bow. Here are a few of mine over the years . http://styfnorm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/some-top-liverpool-bands-to-play.html

[norm wilson]

Was Paul McCartney up to his old tricks at the weekend making a habit of this http://styfnorm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/did-paul-mccartney-end-drought.html

[Pinhead]

Lol - I remember Eavis' talking about his Cloud Buster on a Points West interview well before Macca's gig in 2004. I think some of the footage from this report from the 90's has crept in to the odd bit of BBC Glasto coverage in the past too, and might be on one of the various official Glasto 'films' as well.

Does anyone remember the 'mega-mortar' firework that Eavis bought in one year, so huge that it had to be set off from a length of 1.5m diameter sewer pipe buried into the ground. I think this was in the very early 90's, perhaps '90 or '92. I remember this getting reported on by Points West again around that time.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Thanks once again for the stories norm.

[Guest Flip]

Bad Security, Traveller Scape Goats and Dogs . Here is my memory's of the 1990 Incidents . Might shock a few people but they actually happened. Hope it spreads some light on events ..cheers Norm http://styfnorm.blog...-goats-and.html

[markeee]

Great review mate. I personally saw nowt of the dodgy security in 1990 but then again, I was a very young guy on his own at his first festie and loving it.. Your last comment about the security nowadays being good is prabably mainly true but they are the reason I don't go now. Firstly, the security on the re-entry gate from the camper field searching campervan dwellers every time upon entry and exit, confiscating and then reselling. Also, the security wandering openly around the dance area taxing hammered people.. They tried it with me but got nowhere, others were not so lucky....