GILLESPIED !

[The Placid Casual]

Ummm, I think you mean a Guardian bag, unless you took your own Telegraph one in :-)

Haha, whoops.

[The Placid Casual]

BURN THE TORY!

Christ, I'm far from a Tory, haha.

 

I really need to be given some work to do here

[Dog Burger]

2005, after a brush with the Amazonian Toxic Fungus Kettle, containing seven different types of exotic brew, I took a turn for the worst during of all bands Coldplay's headline show. Became very animated and thought I was watching the show from a Cotswold Stone Bridge over a babbling stream in the heart of the Pyramid crowd. Fell unconscious and was dragged out of the crowd by my dear friends, one of whom spent the rest of the set convinced he was watching the show alone on a long tube-like white spaceship, with him at one end and Chris Martin at the other. I went to sleep relieved I wasn't dead, in my sleeping bag that night, to the sounds of my best friend repeatedly murmuring over and over again "I'm going to die or I'm going to go insane; there are only two remaining options now". 

[Sack truck]

2013 : Bought some facepaint for the kids as a present for when I got home, little yellow tube and little blue. Got Gillespie'd heading back to main stage. By time I'd got back I'd nipped to the toilets, covered all my face in blue, had obtained a see you jimmy hat and was doing my home country no favours on the stereotype front at all - The yellow tube ended over my mates head, which made it to my face - I looked like a bad scottish hulk

 

happy times

[pentura]

2005, after a brush with the Amazonian Toxic Fungus Kettle, containing seven different types of exotic brew, I took a turn for the worst during of all bands Coldplay's headline show. Became very animated and thought I was watching the show from a Cotswold Stone Bridge over a babbling stream in the heart of the Pyramid crowd. Fell unconscious and was dragged out of the crowd by my dear friends, one of whom spent the rest of the set convinced he was watching the show alone on a long tube-like white spaceship, with him at one end and Chris Martin at the other. I went to sleep relieved I wasn't dead, in my sleeping bag that night, to the sounds of my best friend repeatedly murmuring over and over again "I'm going to die or I'm going to go insane; there are only two remaining options now". 

 

There is nothing more frightening that being stuck in a tube-like spaceship with Chris Martin

[Dog Burger]

There is nothing more frightening that being stuck in a tube-like spaceship with Chris Martin

I can only imagine. The Cotswold Stone bridge was bad enough.

[adamg1602]

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 !

No I think you're right.. E's are commonly known as garys here in Merseyside. Not heard Gillespied till I read it on here but I immediately thought it must be from "gary's"

[Likearollingstone]

Good - got so nutted at Blur in 2009 I was adamant that I was the only person in the Pyramid field and they were playing solely for me in the distance. Was a weird turnout but brilliant, was informed by friends I was the life of the party dancing around etc when it felt like I just stood dribbling for 2 hours in awe.

 

Bad - Got Gillespied at Primal Scream and Rolling Stones for 4 hours. Was brilliant at the time. But afterwards I'd taken so many uppers and downers I didn't know whether i was coming or going. Couldn't function and had to retire by 1am on the saturday of Glastonbury.One and only time I couldn't carry on even if my life depended on it.

[paulo999]

For the benefit of the thread...

From NME, after Glastonbury 2005... the preamble to an interview with the man...

 

It was Sunday afternoon at last year's Glastonbury and the multitudes were revelling in Brian Wilson's hippy vibes. The sun was shining and all was at peace with the world. Enter Primal Scream. Bobby Gillespie's gang had been at the festival since Friday, heading straight there after recording their forthcoming album 'Riot City Blues' at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London. On arriving, they hooked up with their pals Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, then proceeded to get teeth-grindingly wrecked on as much speed as they could find. 

 

BBC viewers had a foretaste of the trouble to come when they saw bassist Gary Mani Mounfield and Bobby being interviewed live by Colin Murray and Edith Bowman. On being asked what they thought of that night's headliners Basement Jaxx, Bobby announced, "They're cocksuckers - no offence to cocksuckers." There'd been even more uproar in the bands enclosure. Inside was a poster with the slogan 'Make Poverty History', which the entire festival's bands had signed. With indelible black marker pen, Bobby crossed out the world 'Poverty' and wrote 'Israel'.

 

Taking to the stage, a foam-flecked Bobby informed the startled crowd that they were "a bunch of fucking hippies", asked, "Did anyone come to see Kylie? Fuck you", and, referring both to Mani and Ian Brown, the headliner on the Other Stage, enquired, "Would you like to hear The Stone Roses? Well, you're 15 fucking years too late."

 

The gig came to a messy conclusion when Bobby and Mani refused to leave the stage. Their version of John Lennon's 'Gimme Some Truth' ended only when the plug was pulled and security bundled them into the wings. Some music fans later wrote to NME to claim that, amid the mayhem, Bobby had also given a Nazi salute. "Screw the nut, mate' one told Bobby, "you're a 45-year-old dad fi' Glasgae".

[Purple aki squat]

I get Shane macgowaned

[pentura]

There's a million of these you can do..surprised Doherty hasn't been mentioned yet

[Space Shanty]

In 2002 (or maybe 2003) I was in a state in The Glade area somewhere on the Thursday night and ended up wandering off before being found by a kind group about 2 hours later comatose in a massive pile of plastic bottles.

I came around a bit and they explained their Samaritan act before giving me a cheeser to smoke on the way back to my tent.

It put me back into such a shape that I went into the wrong tent in the wrong field and was sitting on the end of an airbed humming when another extremely kind couple, who were in bed sleeping before my arrival, had the decency to get up and walk me to the gate at the end of my field.

 

These days, being an older gentleman, I wouldn't remember such antics, and it's better that way

Edited June 15, 2015 by Space Shanty

[Tommy__]

There's a million of these you can do..surprised Doherty hasn't been mentioned yet

 

I went through a good period of getting totally and utterly Charlie Sheen'ed (this was in and around his last drug induced "tiger blood" break down.)

[fatyeti24]

i once got completely coldplayed.

 

no dramas, got home safe and sound.

[stuartbert two hats]

For the benefit of the thread...

From NME, after Glastonbury 2005... the preamble to an interview with the man...

 

It was Sunday afternoon at last year's Glastonbury and the multitudes were revelling in Brian Wilson's hippy vibes. The sun was shining and all was at peace with the world. Enter Primal Scream. Bobby Gillespie's gang had been at the festival since Friday, heading straight there after recording their forthcoming album 'Riot City Blues' at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London. On arriving, they hooked up with their pals Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, then proceeded to get teeth-grindingly wrecked on as much speed as they could find. 

 

BBC viewers had a foretaste of the trouble to come when they saw bassist Gary Mani Mounfield and Bobby being interviewed live by Colin Murray and Edith Bowman. On being asked what they thought of that night's headliners Basement Jaxx, Bobby announced, "They're cocksuckers - no offence to cocksuckers." There'd been even more uproar in the bands enclosure. Inside was a poster with the slogan 'Make Poverty History', which the entire festival's bands had signed. With indelible black marker pen, Bobby crossed out the world 'Poverty' and wrote 'Israel'.

 

Taking to the stage, a foam-flecked Bobby informed the startled crowd that they were "a bunch of fucking hippies", asked, "Did anyone come to see Kylie? Fuck you", and, referring both to Mani and Ian Brown, the headliner on the Other Stage, enquired, "Would you like to hear The Stone Roses? Well, you're 15 fucking years too late."

 

The gig came to a messy conclusion when Bobby and Mani refused to leave the stage. Their version of John Lennon's 'Gimme Some Truth' ended only when the plug was pulled and security bundled them into the wings. Some music fans later wrote to NME to claim that, amid the mayhem, Bobby had also given a Nazi salute. "Screw the nut, mate' one told Bobby, "you're a 45-year-old dad fi' Glasgae".

"Fucking cocksuckers" actually!

 

https://youtu.be/ZSNvNq1XshA?t=3m47s

[Homer]

Got absolutely Gillespie'd 

This thread is well Jackson.

[fatyeti24]

This thread is well Jackson.

it's gone totally mexico.

[The Nal]

Completely Gillespied

 

[Spindles]

That is brilliant

[Homer]

it's gone totally mexico.

Keep it dusty!

[pentura]

On a scale of Mumford'ed to Gillespie'd how Catfish'ed are you gonna get

[fatyeti24]

Keep it dusty!

well weapon!

[Avalon_Fields]

Mines a double Gillespie on the rocks

[fatyeti24]

On a scale of Mumford'ed to Gillespie'd how Catfish'ed are you gonna get

i'm not lad enough for that.

[ivan]

Completely Gillespied

 

I am near the front somewhere.

 

I do remember they were late coming on and did suffer technical issues that had em hanging around for ages.  I remember the road crew were looking at cables and equipment hoping to fix it just by staring at it or giving it a shake.