GILLESPIED !

[swede]

For starters Id like to thank the placid casual for coining the phrase, I genuinely think this should become efests universal terminology for being wasted/drunk ect.

 

The question is, whats the most Gillespied you've ever been at Glastonbury, bad and good:

 

Good - Friday last year during Paulo Nutini/Arcade Fire/Arcadia - everything was right with the world, I was in an unbelievable place at that point, just riding the wave of an awesome Gillespie moment.

 

Bad - 2010, my honeymoon, took a bad pill which came on at the end of Flaming Lips, paranoia hit as I was walking towards the SE corner, I was convinced bad things were going to happen in there,  so my wife had to take me back to the tent. Sat outside the tent freaking out and then pissed all over the outside of my own tent. The worst bit was the next morning as all you could smell in the baking heat was my tent.

[tom22]

And that's why I don't do drugs.

[big__phil]

This is going to be a fun thread.

 

Best - god knows, can't remember. I'm sure it was great though! I remember the first time I saw Arcadia, in was in a good place.

 

Worst - threw up on my mate's back leaving Shangri La. Always in Shangri La.

[swede]

And that's why I don't do drugs.

More good nights then bad my friend.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Bobby Gillespie's been on the wagon for a while now, no?

[pentura]

I like this thread. Will definitely be using this term!

 

Good: Friday night last year, Bimble Inn with Too Many T's, wouldn't be my music of choice but loved them and had a lot of fun. Onto the Cave and Block 9 after that until the sun came up

 

Bad: The next morning!

[PabloCoke]

I thought gillespied was a round about t

Rhyming slang for Es. Didn't think of bobby, silly me.

I thought;

E > TABLET > GARY ABLETT > GARYS > GARY GILLESPIE > GILLESPIED.

a massive etymology fail by me then !

[FuzzyDunlop]

Good: 2011 Sunday Morning - Went to the stone circle. On the walk back it dawned on me that the flags at the other stage were flapping in exactly the same direction. I was showing the litter pickers who incredibly were not as amazed by this as I was, or the fact I could see the point where the cloud stopped and the sky started.

Bad: 2011 Wednesday - By 7pm I was head to toe in mud after getting that bolloxed I fell face first. I was flapping about apparently trying to "free myself"... Thankfully I remember none of it.

[Untz]

There is a picture out there somewhere of me crawling out of my tent on the, I think, Thursday night in 2007. It's bloody horrendous. I had taken all my drugs and then some on a belly full of Brothers. I felt so ill in the morning I had to go to the medical tent, I genuinely thought I had done some damage to my heart and my friends were too fucked to check my pulse. Not only that, but I also developed an illness that night so had to spent the rest of the festival sober as I couldn't even manage a half pint of Brothers. 

[pentura]

Not at Glastonbury but in my experiences the only bad time I've had was at Happy Mondays a few years back. What I was told was an E was actually 2C-B. Resulted in a very, very strange night

 

EDIT: Enjoyable though...I think!

Edited June 15, 2015 by pentura

[rostro]

Bobby Gillespie's been on the wagon for a while now, no?

 

For some reason, I'd thought that it was Jason...

 

[SteveTLizard]

I too am liking the tone of this thread, might well post more than once as memories trickle back ....

 

Bad: 1999, managed to consume all supplies on Thursday night, threw up in a bin bag tied to a friend of a friends tent, he was a right moody twat and thought I'd ralphed on his tent so nearly came to blows.  Spent the next 2 days in a complete 2 and 8, only pulled myself together to enjoy myself by Sunday, Fun Loving Criminals were blinding from what I remember.  Oh the excesses of youth.

 

Good:  Last year walking past the Hell stage in the south east corner on Saturday night, feeling very happy with life and my lot, with some very good friends in very similar mood.  Addictive Tv, who I'd not previously heard of were just doing their Star Trek mashup, we stopped and watched the whole set, amazing, the Walking dead mashup was ridiculously good. 

[Hotchilidog]

Good. Thursday night/Fri Morn 2009 an enjoyable day on the ale meant I could finally stomach the wine on sale at the cheesy tunes Wine bars in the market area and ended up dancing for a couple of hours in the mud with some other very happy people indeed. It was my first Glastonbury and I think it was the moment I really got it.

 

Bad. None through over-indulgence funnily enough but I got sunstroke on the way in in 2010. I had to crash out on the Railway track whilst my less than happy partner trekked off with the tent to find a camping spot. Not an episode I am particularly proud of.

[PabloCoke]

Good. Most of the time most years,

Bad. Ive had an amazingly bad trip after taking god knows what at the end of a three day bender.

[The Placid Casual]

It would have to be (ironically) after Primal Scream in 2013. I'd been in the front circle from the start of their set, and during that time I thought it'd be a good idea to get through 2 500ml bottles of Jack and Coke. I'd already been drinking throughout the day, so classically, I ended up a classic Gillespie after they'd finished. I was working with Oxfam for the festival, so I decided to go and talk to another bloke who was wearing the oxfam lanyard and had a chat about God knows. We were then talking to 2 girls in the crowd before I had to stumble my way out to a less dense portion of the crowd due to feeling ill (I wonder why!) It wasn't long after that my Telegraph bag came in handy for all the wrong reasons as I chundered into it (accurately, I may add). Not knowing what to do with said bag, the classic Gillespie in me told me to give it to a security guard at the back of the front circle, who seemed happy enough to dispose of it. He also gave me some water, what a nice chap. This ended up working perfectly, as when the Stones came on I peaked again and had an amazing time during it, even if I can't remember any of Primal Scream.

[The Placid Casual]

By the way, this is my favourite thread ever

[Wooderson]

Peak "Boab" was '05, obv.

[Anderson19]

I also thought it was Jason Gillespied!

[The Placid Casual]

The beauty of the phrase is that you can apply it to a Gillespie of your choice.

[imamazed]

Got absolutely Gillespie'd on the Sunday of 2013 as we were all getting rid of our surplus booze. I think we sat up on the hill and went to that swing bar place by The Park. 

 

Ended up coming to about in a friend's tent about 30 minutes before our coach left. Awful, awful journey home that.

Edited June 15, 2015 by imamazed

[Anderson19]

Keith Gillespied!

[big__phil]

It would have to be (ironically) after Primal Scream in 2013. I'd been in the front circle from the start of their set, and during that time I thought it'd be a good idea to get through 2 500ml bottles of Jack and Coke. I'd already been drinking throughout the day, so classically, I ended up a classic Gillespie after they'd finished. I was working with Oxfam for the festival, so I decided to go and talk to another bloke who was wearing the oxfam lanyard and had a chat about God knows. We were then talking to 2 girls in the crowd before I had to stumble my way out to a less dense portion of the crowd due to feeling ill (I wonder why!) It wasn't long after that my Telegraph bag came in handy for all the wrong reasons as I chundered into it (accurately, I may add). Not knowing what to do with said bag, the classic Gillespie in me told me to give it to a security guard at the back of the front circle, who seemed happy enough to dispose of it. He also gave me some water, what a nice chap. This ended up working perfectly, as when the Stones came on I peaked again and had an amazing time during it, even if I can't remember any of Primal Scream.

 

Great effort. I wonder if Gillespie noticed how Gillespie'd you were.

[The Placid Casual]

Great effort. I wonder if Gillespie noticed how Gillespie'd you were.

One can only dream of Gillespie seeing how Gillespie'd you are. I hope so.

[SteveTLizard]

Good. Thursday night/Fri Morn 2009 an enjoyable day on the ale meant I could finally stomach the wine on sale at the cheesy tunes Wine bars in the market area and ended up dancing for a couple of hours in the mud with some other very happy people indeed. It was my first Glastonbury and I think it was the moment I really got it.

 

Bad. None through over-indulgence funnily enough but I got sunstroke on the way in in 2010. I had to crash out on the Railway track whilst my less than happy partner trekked off with the tent to find a camping spot. Not an episode I am particularly proud of.

 

Oooooh forgot about 2010, here we go again.

 

Good: The entire 2010 festival, from getting a perfect spot in pennards on the Wednesday to Faithless and Stevie on Sunday, utterly amazing weekend ..... until

 

Bad:  Monday after 2010, my turn to drive me the missus and a mate home (in missus's new scirrocco ).  I had spent the entire weekend totally over doing it (and enjoying every moment mind). As per my usual Glastonbury habits I'd eschewed the rather essential intake of non-alcohol based fluids.  This turned out to be one very bad error of judgement what with the exceedingly clement weather we experienced that year.  On the way back to the car I was feeling worse and worse.  Got in the car, started off out of the gate, got 30 yards and had to pull over, and proceeded to be very ill, had to get very very grumpy missus to drive home from there (still will not let me forget it 5 years later), I then spent the entire journey with my head in various vessels and plastic bags.  Felt no better when I got home, spent the next 3 days sick as the proverbial dog ........ had a bloody fantastic festival before that mind.   Top tip, when the mercury's nudging 32 degrees get some H2O down your screech and plenty of it.

[mjsell]

Not at Glastonbury as I haven't yet been, but good would probably be at bestival late afternoon on the Sunday going into the cabaret tent for a class hour or so of cardioke (people on a cross trainer singing karaoke songs) getting steadily more hammered, then once reaching a great peak heading over to see Chic/Nile Rodgers and having the time of our lives. It's a shame that Elton then went and put a bit of a dampener on it all. He wasn't bad but it just wasn't a party.

Bad: always the massive come down after any festival