Weirdest thing you've seen at Glastonbury Festival?

[sime]

The alley ways were great. I miss them too. I still think it's a great area to have at the festival but it's definitely lost a lot of its magic.

[BlackHole2006]

1 hour ago, sime said:

The alley ways were great. I miss them too. I still think it's a great area to have at the festival but it's definitely lost a lot of its magic.

I remember the alleyways in 09 being particularly fantastic. It wasn't hellishly busy back then and and there was some great stuff going on in them. 09 was just a brilliant year all round. 

[Bisque]

I'm 95% sure I was in a venue in the alleyways that was dressed up inside as a rainforest. Someone came up to me & put a small snake around my neck.

[Tranquility of Solitude]

3 hours ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

I've recounted this before on here but in 2009, Shangri-La had a very other-worldly vibe to it. The hidden doorways, the mini-theatrical performances, the oxygen bar and the dentist chair etc. It felt really dystopian and alien at times.

I remember early hours of Sunday morning being in a secret room about 8 feet square with a young woman in a tweed suit/hat combo and fake 'tache selling bloody marys from a water cooler whilst a guy with a guitar sang protest songs in a west country accent in the opposite corner.  I then remember playing the devil at ping pong for my soul and winning tequila shots. I remember stumbling down a tiny corridor after walking through a no entry doorway in a room full of cassette players (ask your parents) and coming out into a beer garden with a water feature with a bar selling real ale. That was without any doubt, the strangest and one of the most wonderful nights of my life.

Shame that Shangri-La doesn't seem like that now.  It's just a collection of dance music venues and the oddness seems to have evaporated.  Either that or I'm too dumb/drunk/old to find them.

@H.M.V  ... given your photo you posted in NFR NFC a few days ago - was this you? 

[Woffy]

32 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

That's what they told you it was!

Nah. Couchy's seen enough of 'those' to recognise one anywhere.

[sime]

20 hours ago, BlackHole2006 said:

I remember the alleyways in 09 being particularly fantastic. It wasn't hellishly busy back then and and there was some great stuff going on in them. 09 was just a brilliant year all round. 

I agree. 2009 was vintage. Blur. Oh Blur...! The alleys used to be a great place to wander around and discover things. I still have hanging up, a really cool set of dark burgundy and black large beads and glass stones all attached together. It was hanging on one of the alley way roofs with other ones with a sign on the wall by them saying "take me". So I did

Edited April 9, 2016 by sime

[dizzymoo]

Did anyone see the shooting star during Pharrell's set on the saturday last year? Around 8.30 pm, first time I've seen one in daylight. I was definitely sober!

[airwaves]

2014  at The Park, whilst waiting to see Thunderbirds are go, two blokes next to me - who also had two women with them.

The two blokes each pulled a tall - highball? - glass from their packs and proceeded to make two bloody marys

Ice - ? Thought this was almost impossible to get at Glasto

Vodka

Tomato juice

Worcester sauce

Tabasco Sauce

Celery salt - ffs, who carries celery salt with them

Stick of celery

Stick of carrot

I texted my wife. She asked 'are they glamping?'

How the f*** would I know

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

38 minutes ago, airwaves said:

2014  at The Park, whilst waiting to see Thunderbirds are go, two blokes next to me - who also had two women with them.

The two blokes each pulled a tall - highball? - glass from their packs and proceeded to make two bloody marys

Ice - ? Thought this was almost impossible to get at Glasto

Vodka

Tomato juice

Worcester sauce

Tabasco Sauce

Celery salt - ffs, who carries celery salt with them

Stick of celery

Stick of carrot

I texted my wife. She asked 'are they glamping?'

How the f*** would I know

Two of my mates always bring the full ingredients for making Bloody Mary's with them to Glastonbury. They normally drink it first thing in the morning though.

[shuttlep]

On 4/9/2016 at 2:58 PM, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Two of my mates always bring the full ingredients for making Bloody Mary's with them to Glastonbury. They normally drink it first thing in the morning though.

that's dedication, I can't even take the ingredients and or Cup for a morning brew.

[craigh1]

2014 Friday night after Arcade Fire, my friend and I walked towards the SE corner and ended up in the circus big top.  

After the compere had finished trying to blow up a rubber glove on his head with his nose, he introduced an all male strip act to the largely family audience.  I say largely family audience in that the whole front row were children.

One part of this strip act had a man dressed as a stereotypical 'nerd' outfit complete with propeller cap and broken glasses.  He proceeded to slowly strip as he did tricks with a yo-yo and then finished a Rubik's cube in about 10 seconds.  As he stripped to the point where he had nothing but a sheath covering his gentleman's region, he decided to whip the yo-yo around his tackle, to the shock and surprise of the children immediately in front of him.

Having seen enough we wandered out and watched a 20/30 foot puppet show with cars dressed as rats blasting out Sympathy for the Devil and a family band with banjos playing metal/rock covers, ending in the village disco dancing to 90s dance tunes with all sorts of formation dancing.

Also, 2011 on my way to my steward shift, wandering through the pyramid field and noticed an 60/70 year old hippy with no top on crying his eyes out.  Worried about him, we decided to see if he needed any help.  As it turned out, it was the 'beautiful music' that had moved him so much.  I think it was the Low Anthem playing, but can't be 100%. 

[Beerqueen]

On 03/04/2016 at 9:16 PM, ogriff said:

That's probably the work of Jonathan Kay. He's in the Astrolabe every day, always a festival highlight. Corrals everyone into fun silly acts in the surrounding fields. 

 

A highlight every year, check him out you won't regret it

Thanks for that - if I do manage to get a ticket at least I'll know who I'm looking for!  

 

28 minutes ago, craigh1 said:

2014 Friday night after Arcade Fire, my friend and I walked towards the SE corner and ended up in the circus big top.  

After the compere had finished trying to blow up a rubber glove on his head with his nose, he introduced an all male strip act to the largely family audience.  I say largely family audience in that the whole front row were children.

One part of this strip act had a man dressed as a stereotypical 'nerd' outfit complete with propeller cap and broken glasses.  He proceeded to slowly strip as he did tricks with a yo-yo and then finished a Rubik's cube in about 10 seconds.  As he stripped to the point where he had nothing but a sheath covering his gentleman's region, he decided to whip the yo-yo around his tackle, to the shock and surprise of the children immediately in front of him.

Having seen enough we wandered out and watched a 20/30 foot puppet show with cars dressed as rats blasting out Sympathy for the Devil and a family band with banjos playing metal/rock covers, ending in the village disco dancing to 90s dance tunes with all sorts of formation dancing.

Also, 2011 on my way to my steward shift, wandering through the pyramid field and noticed an 60/70 year old hippy with no top on crying his eyes out.  Worried about him, we decided to see if he needed any help.  As it turned out, it was the 'beautiful music' that had moved him so much.  I think it was the Low Anthem playing, but can't be 100%. 

And this I think will be my go-to post if anyone asks me why I want to go to Glastonbury!

[karaseen]

On 4/9/2016 at 2:17 PM, airwaves said:

Celery salt - ffs, who carries celery salt with them

ME!!!!!!!!!!  

[airwaves]

6 hours ago, craigh1 said:

I think it was the Low Anthem playing, but can't be 100%. 

The Low Anthem had me in tears too the first time I saw them at End Of The Road - would probably be the same year.

[Gnomicide]

Honestly officer, it's celery salt.

Tell it to the judge, sister.

[shuttlep]

15 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

Honestly officer, it's celery salt.

Tell it to the judge, sister.

I'm googling celery salt, that can't be a thing surely 

[Spindles]

Course it is.  Essential cooking ingredient is yer celery salt.

[karaseen]

Other than the tomato juice and the vodka, I'd say the celery salt is the most necessary ingredient.

[Stu H]

A guy in Glade came up to us before Public Service Broadcasting, appeared sober, to ask us to check if he'd shat himself.

 

He'd apparently curled one off in the woods and was concerned it was down the back of his trousers!

[Joshuwarr]

Oh god does anyone remember that weird moving rubbish pile installation that had eyes? It looked like it was breathing/expanding. Seeing that on the walk back from the south east corner at 6AM when I was, let's say, a little out of it was so terrifying/strange

[fat_man_joe]

3 minutes ago, Joshuwarr said:

Oh god does anyone remember that weird moving rubbish pile installation that had eyes? It looked like it was breathing/expanding.

Do you mean Kanye West?

[shuttlep]

40 minutes ago, karaseen said:

Other than the tomato juice and the vodka, I'd say the celery salt is the most necessary ingredient.

never had a bloody Mary .. am I missing anything?

[Chazwozza]

3 minutes ago, shuttlep said:

never had a bloody Mary .. am I missing anything?

Only one of the best hangover cures known to man...

[theDandy]

I've never had a Bloody Mary either but it sounds completely feral given the ingredients which go in to it?

[Chazwozza]

2 minutes ago, theDandy said:

I've never had a Bloody Mary either but it sounds completely feral given the ingredients which go in to it?

It sounds feral but it's not - add extra vodka to enhance the flavour if it needs it.  And if it doesn't.