Golden Oldies photos thread

[Pinhead]

8 hours ago, Homer said:

Glastonbury 1995 - a bizarre time when tents were triangular!

That is such a perfect image of 90's Glasto - triangle tents with peeps chillin and have a drink and smoke around their shared community tent areas before all this SE corner stuff took over. Ah nostalgia. Still have my 90's A frame tent.

[philipsteak]

10 hours ago, Homer said:

Glastonbury 1995 - a bizarre time when tents were triangular!

And in the case of mine, a massive hole in it. 

 

[gooner1990]

On ‎1‎/‎23‎/‎2020 at 10:13 AM, Homer said:

Glastonbury 1995 - a bizarre time when tents were triangular!

Which one is you?  

[gooner1990]

On ‎1‎/‎23‎/‎2020 at 6:32 PM, Pinhead said:

That is such a perfect image of 90's Glasto - triangle tents with peeps chillin and have a drink and smoke around their shared community tent areas before all this SE corner stuff took over. Ah nostalgia. Still have my 90's A frame tent.

Also before the camping chair became the norm too.

 

My first few Readings 99-03 ish were all sat on the floor like in that pic from '95, then once one mate got a chair the rest of us like sheep all got them

[Crazyfool01]

A very soggy U2 in 2011 

[Sawdusty surfer]

1995 when we finally realised that we had to go completely legit so ran a sourdough workshop in The Green Kids field. Fiery pic also '95. The photo of the two young ladies in the bath tub on the pram base,taken in '97, are totally grown up now.....and still go every year. Edit, actually I think that the third photo is my favourite ever Glastonbury pic. 

Edited January 28, 2020 by Sawdusty Surfer

[Padjeq]

Took my £10 tent from Morrisons to 2008 after it had worked alright for me at Leeds 04 - except now there were 2 of us. Went back on the thursday night to find it full of rain water. Without understanding why, I took off my shoes and socks and walked around on the freezing wet grass, covering the 'holes' (as I saw them) in the top of the tent with a wrap of bin bags - without questioning why they'd make a tent with gaps in in the first place. Woke up the next morning, dry outside, but with water peeling down the tent walls. I'd managed to confine us to a night of showering in our own breathy effluence. Most miserable night of my life. Bought a new tent on the friday morning, missing a few acts in the process. Couldn't feel my feet for about 6 months.

In my head I'm so much further back at Winehouse. Strong memories of her punching some guy in the face, saying her Blakey was the only white man she ever fancied, and giving out to the crowd when they booed her convict husband's name. also this guy near us who pulled it out and started pissing with the strength of a fire hose on the ground, only to scream and shout at people reacting to it, like it was the real problem was them calling attention to his shame.

 

Take me back x

[EarlSquirrelson]

1998, torrential rain, a leaky tent and no wellies.

The last photo was Tony Bennett on the main stage.

[MrZigster]

This is a great thread.

I really must dig out my 1995 photos, re-photograph them, upload them to eFests and then post them here. Gotta find the time though and it's a bit late tonight.

Just hope that: a) I can find them, and b) It's my photos I'm remembering and not my mates.

Still gutted at dropping my camera in the mud at the tail end of Metallica. At least three festivals worth of stuff I had on the card.

[EarlSquirrelson]

1995, pre superfence. In the first photo the girls other leg was in the clutches of security but she did make it over.

The second photo was around midnight when it started raining bags, then about 20 or 30 guys made it over.

 

[eFestivals]

17 hours ago, EarlSquirrelson said:

The second photo was around midnight when it started raining bags, then about 20 or 30 guys made it over.

 

uhhh?? There was no need to climb over the fence at night in 95. Several huge sections of fence were brought down on Wednesday afternoon.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, eFestivals said:

uhhh?? There was no need to climb over the fence at night in 95. Several huge sections of fence were brought down on Wednesday afternoon.

One of my mates paid £20 to get through the fence in 2000, after accidentally getting lost and leaving the festival. He didn't know he just had to walk for 10 minutes to get in for free.

Information was not well distributed in those days. Didn't half the site believe that John Major had died in 1995?

Edited February 2, 2020 by stuartbert two hats

[Crazyfool01]

On 1/29/2020 at 10:57 PM, MrZigster said:

This is a great thread.

I really must dig out my 1995 photos, re-photograph them, upload them to eFests and then post them here. Gotta find the time though and it's a bit late tonight.

Just hope that: a) I can find them, and b) It's my photos I'm remembering and not my mates.

Still gutted at dropping my camera in the mud at the tail end of Metallica. At least three festivals worth of stuff I had on the card.

any luck digging out those photos ?  

[MrZigster]

8 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

any luck digging out those photos ?  

Still haven't found time. On last work shift now and then have twelve days off so hopefully soon...

[The Red Telephone]

9 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

One of my mates paid £20 to get through the fence in 2000, after accidentally getting lost and leaving the festival. He didn't know he just had to walk for 10 minutes to get in for free.

Information was not well distributed in those days. Didn't half the site believe that John Major had died in 1995?

I can remember some bloke, who looked like he’d done a shitload of mushrooms, shouting out “JOHN MAJOR HAS RESIGNED- THERE’S NO FUCKING GOVERNMENT!!!”

Turns out it was a trumped-up leadership challenge that he won comfortably.

I admired the knowledge of political machinations in the pre-smartphone era of the guy though.

[Padjeq]

14 hours ago, The Red Telephone said:

I can remember some bloke, who looked like he’d done a shitload of mushrooms, shouting out “JOHN MAJOR HAS RESIGNED- THERE’S NO FUCKING GOVERNMENT!!!”

Turns out it was a trumped-up leadership challenge that he won comfortably.

I admired the knowledge of political machinations in the pre-smartphone era of the guy though.

In 2008 people on site kept asking me if Rihanna was really dead. I wasn't there in 2009, but Michael Jackson actually died on Glastonbury thursday. I bet no one who heard the information believed it.

[strummer77]

5 hours ago, Padjeq said:

In 2008 people on site kept asking me if Rihanna was really dead. I wasn't there in 2009, but Michael Jackson actually died on Glastonbury thursday. I bet no one who heard the information believed it.

Yeah that was weird. We all thought it was rubbish until someone managed to text home and get confirmation.

My mate got told by someone that Michael Jordan had died.

[stuartbert two hats]

6 hours ago, Padjeq said:

In 2008 people on site kept asking me if Rihanna was really dead. I wasn't there in 2009, but Michael Jackson actually died on Glastonbury thursday. I bet no one who heard the information believed it.

I did, I checked it on my phone.

[shuttlep]

6 hours ago, Padjeq said:

In 2008 people on site kept asking me if Rihanna was really dead. I wasn't there in 2009, but Michael Jackson actually died on Glastonbury thursday. I bet no one who heard the information believed it.

I drove up Thursday night, I picked up a friend in Liverpool and then we travelled down, all the way talking about this and that. when i arrived someone told me Michael was dead, i told them to fuck off.. only for my mate who i had been sat in a car with for the best part of five hours to pipe up "oh yeah i forgot to tell you that "

 

how can anyone go that long and not mention it . I knew about her fucking auntie cat dying , but Michael oh no why would i want to know that  

[Crazyfool01]

The only festival ive missed since 2003 .... massive thunderstorm in Taunton .... dont know how it missed the site ( I think ) text to my friends to tell them the news  but in those days the texts were hit and miss so no idea when they got it  ... and internet WAP ? 

[Johnnyseven]

On 2/2/2020 at 9:53 AM, stuartbert two hats said:

One of my mates paid £20 to get through the fence in 2000, after accidentally getting lost and leaving the festival. He didn't know he just had to walk for 10 minutes to get in for free.

Information was not well distributed in those days. Didn't half the site believe that John Major had died in 1995?

On the Friday night of 2000 I hooked up with young lady during Nine Inch Nails and went back to her tent which was somewhere at the back of Oxlyers or Park Home Ground (I think) and a big section of the fence was just lying on the ground. 

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, Johnnyseven said:

On the Friday night of 2000 I hooked up with young lady during Nine Inch Nails and went back to her tent which was somewhere at the back of Oxlyers or Park Home Ground (I think) and a big section of the fence was just lying on the ground. 

Yeah, loads of it was down.  Up at the Stone Circle, you could walk through easily.

[Johnnyseven]

4 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Yeah, loads of it was down.  Up at the Stone Circle, you could walk through easily.

TBH it could have been anywhere from Oxlyers round to the Stone Circle, I was pretty blasted at the time so my memory is a bit hazy.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, Johnnyseven said:

TBH it could have been anywhere from Oxlyers round to the Stone Circle, I was pretty blasted at the time so my memory is a bit hazy.

From what I gathered it was probably all of the above.

[Pinhead]

On 1/29/2020 at 11:20 AM, Padjeq said:

Took my £10 tent from Morrisons to 2008 after it had worked alright for me at Leeds 04 - except now there were 2 of us. Went back on the thursday night to find it full of rain water. Without understanding why, I took off my shoes and socks and walked around on the freezing wet grass, covering the 'holes' (as I saw them) in the top of the tent with a wrap of bin bags - without questioning why they'd make a tent with gaps in in the first place. Woke up the next morning, dry outside, but with water peeling down the tent walls. I'd managed to confine us to a night of showering in our own breathy effluence. Most miserable night of my life. Bought a new tent on the friday morning, missing a few acts in the process. Couldn't feel my feet for about 6 months.

In my head I'm so much further back at Winehouse. Strong memories of her punching some guy in the face, saying her Blakey was the only white man she ever fancied, and giving out to the crowd when they booed her convict husband's name. also this guy near us who pulled it out and started pissing with the strength of a fire hose on the ground, only to scream and shout at people reacting to it, like it was the real problem was them calling attention to his shame.

 

Take me back x

Heh, remember Winehouse and the 'punch' at the front row. At one point she said something like, "I'm gonna tell Blake about any of you who give me grief and get your numbers", and a bloke just along from me with a megaphone starts broadcasting his mobile number for all and intentionally her to hear.