Baggy Monday's

[Alan_C]

50 minutes ago, Mardy said:

Devastating comment on the rest of the entertainment on Thursday that the most popular thing is essentially an indie disco from 1994

A bloody good indie disco from 1994.

[Woffy]

Don't worry everyone. We have the spontaneous mass Bowie singalong to look forward to. And you will enjoy it. Or else.

[fatyeti24]

1 hour ago, Woffy said:

Don't worry everyone. We have the spontaneous mass Bowie singalong to look forward to. And you will enjoy it. Or else.

I'll take the 'or else'.

[stuartbert two hats]

Far too packed to enjoy the one time I went.

Having lived the vast majority of my life with Manchester the closest city, it wasn't exactly an experience unlike any other. Certainly less unique than the other delights to be found on site at that time.

[Eks101]

Went to BM last year and stood outside. Was marginally enjoyable for a bit in the sunshine but halfway through they turned the volume right down so you couldnt hear unless you were inside.

The block 9 old skool bash was good though - although had to stand right at the front to hear anything.

The Thursday night noise restriction thing makes having music acts on a bit odd.

 

[JoeyT]

Fuck I always thought they were a covers band!

I'm such an uneducated southerner.

[tevaburger]

i'll always remember that it's where I was when the Michael Jackson news broke in '09...was wondering why they started playing MJ tunes later on, and then people were motioning to their phones with the news...

i've gone 3 times - choosing it over Boy George in 2010 - each time less fun than previous...

getting early for the Stones is one thing...but as Mardy just alluded to, for what it is, and all else going on, it's not worth my hassle this year..

[oneeye]

1 hour ago, tevaburger said:

i'll always remember that it's where I was when the Michael Jackson news broke in '09...was wondering why they started playing MJ tunes later on, and then people were motioning to their phones with the news...

i've gone 3 times - choosing it over Boy George in 2010 - each time less fun than previous...

 

I had just finished watching East 17 in 2009 when Brian Harvey announced that Michael Jackson was dead; Boy George was ace in 2010.

Loitered around Baggy Monday's last year, over crowded and over rated. Stumbeld into the bimble inn and watched Rodney Branigan instead; magic night.

As others have said, plenty of other good entertainment going on around the site; go with the flow, you'll be amazed

 

Edited February 14, 2016 by oneeye

[A Guy Called Matt]

Thanks for all the comments, reinforces stuff I had heard about it. I think the Bimble Inn sounds like my kind of place followed by a stroll up the hill for a glorious sunset.

[Rubber Soldier]

I keep seeing passing mentions of a "I am the Resurrection" sunset sing along. Can someone fill me in on the details? It sounds like something  I  would very much like to get involved with. 

[stuartbert two hats]

37 minutes ago, The Orgazoid said:

I keep seeing passing mentions of a "I am the Resurrection" sunset sing along. Can someone fill me in on the details? It sounds like something  I  would very much like to get involved with. 

I suspect it's nothing more complicated than I Am The Resurrection being played as the sun sets, although I may be wrong.

[jonodillieono]

5 hours ago, The Orgazoid said:

I keep seeing passing mentions of a "I am the Resurrection" sunset sing along. Can someone fill me in on the details? It sounds like something  I  would very much like to get involved with. 

This happened one year (there's a video from 2010 as well which is terrible quality) and it's just become a yearly thing that always happens

[windy_miller]

I's it ju'st me that is annoyed by the erroneou's u'se of an apo'strophe in the title of thi's thread?

Edited February 15, 2016 by windy_miller

[stuartbert two hats]

6 minutes ago, windy_miller said:

I's it ju'st me that is annoyed by the erroneou's u'se of an apo'strophe in the title of thi's thread?

What belongs to Baggy Monday?

Surely you're used to it with all the talk of the Foo's?

[A Guy Called Matt]

23 minutes ago, windy_miller said:

I's it ju'st me that is annoyed by the erroneou's u'se of an apo'strophe in the title of thi's thread?

I deliberately put it there to annoy the grammar police

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

The apostrophe in foo's could be argued to replace fighter. The apostrophe in this thread title was like a rusty nail digging in my skull until I pacified myself with baggy Monday's disco. 

And now I've typed that the nail is back as it'd probably be baggy Mondays' disco. Damn my pedantry. Damn it all the way to hades. 

Yep, that would only work if there was one Monday. So if it was Monday, that'd be fine - it's the disco belonging to this specific Monday. But on a Thursday? It would be belonging to Mondays plural. We can't have the disco on Monday, as the festival has finished... There's only one thing for it:

We have to move the days of the festival. Tell Emily.

[Eks101]

Baggy Mondays = Saturday night at Mojo's in Manchester, with slightly less puke in the bogs (as there is no bogs).

[Purple aki squat]

It's just a pissed up singalong from what I've seen of it. Just like brothers bar in west holts but they give it a name.

More fun to be had elsewhere in my opinion.

Stone circle and Avalon is my preferred Thursday night

[fatyeti24]

19 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Yep, that would only work if there was one Monday. So if it was Monday, that'd be fine - it's the disco belonging to this specific Monday. But on a Thursday? It would be belonging to Mondays plural. We can't have the disco on Monday, as the festival has finished... There's only one thing for it:

We have to move the days of the festival. Tell Emily.

Rules, man. They apply not to names, lower-case stuartbert. 

[stuartbert two hats]

23 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

Rules, man. They apply not to names, lower-case stuartbert. 

OK fatyoda24.

[jonodillieono]

8 hours ago, Purple aki squat said:

It's just a pissed up singalong from what I've seen of it. Just like brothers bar in west holts but they give it a name.

More fun to be had elsewhere in my opinion.

Stone circle and Avalon is my preferred Thursday night

What times the Brothers Bar open till usually anyway? I'd like to go along for a sing along one night

[JoeyMester]

This was great in 2009 as you could get out and get back in easily! Then word got round about it so it was packed the following year and in 2011 after someone pissed up the back of our mate's leg in the queue we never bothered with it again.

I hope that the Propaganda DJs/Absolute Power Silent Disco on the Wednesday doesn't suffer a similar fate, had an absolute blast in there the past two years!

[russycarps]

Yep, another thing to add to the "used to be good but shit now" list.

Glastonbury seem to make a habit of doing things to death these days. Whatever happened to keeping things fresh and innovation?

 

Edited February 16, 2016 by russycarps

[budvar]

On 2/13/2016 at 0:10 PM, Alan_C said:

Only on the Thursday. Was absolutely brilliant last year.

If I recall correctly it was extended because it was one of their birthdays. Great fun; one of my must not misses every year.

[A Guy Called Matt]

2 hours ago, budvar said:

If I recall correctly it was extended because it was one of their birthdays. Great fun; one of my must not misses every year.

The video seems to show plenty of space inside yet many posters here say it is too busy - as someone who goes what is your view?