Glastonbury 2024 🎶
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craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
Except that wasn't the first one...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival
Though did influence the first and subsequent ones...
Only been once, 1997, rained erm a lot...
View: https://youtu.be/ATvonKDt6jQ?si=f0d0OhZbUIHE0yvH
preferred Reading (/ Leeds) from the 80's (mid?) to early 2000's for the music I listened to and not as far to go...
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I went in '90 and '92 i think, they had a fallow year between my two visits. The 2nd time was the first time they had to put a fence up all the around the entire site to stop ne'er-do-wells from getting in for free... i still got in though 
I remember reading somewhere that a certain Mr Eaves was at the 1970 one and offered a couple of fields to use for future 'events'.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
whilst i think 71 is the official first one, the 1970 festival was the actual first one... IMO
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Never went, never had the impulse, but I'll watch it wall-to-wall over the weekend
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
3 friends of mine were at the 1st Pilton Festival Graham, Pete and Glynis (Pete's girlfriend at the time and 10 years later (after they split amicably my 1st 'long time girlfriend')
I went in 87, tickets were £21 and it was a 'mudbath'. Highlight for me was 'The Robert Cray Band' who played at 8/8.30 pm friday on the main stage, it had been raining most of the day but went to just drizzling at tea time then stopped at around 7pm.
When Robert and the band came on it wasn't like they started with a big " Hello we're the Robert Cray Band" but rather they started out with a 'blues shuffle' with them around the drumkit/keyboard as a kind of 'warmup' for 5-10 minutes just to get them in the groove then as Robert went to the mic at the front the clouds parted and a shaft of late evening sunlight hit him. Now Robert Cray is a big fella and wearing a 'sky blue' suit with a black 'Strat' in his hands that looked about the size of an Ukelele he just said "Hello" as the band went into their 1st number with the light on him like the Gods had turned on a spotlight.
Blown Away doesn't even come close to how I felt, OK I might have been 'half pissed' and smoked a bit of hashish but standing just in front of the sound-desk tent/gazebo in the middle of the slope it was incredible.
Yep Richard Thomsom was good likewise Van Morrisson but others were shite (the Communards) and Billy Bragg seemed to wander onto the stages whenever there was a delay/hold-up and do a couple of songs (just walk on, plug a lead into his Telecaster and go)
I went in 87, tickets were £21 and it was a 'mudbath'. Highlight for me was 'The Robert Cray Band' who played at 8/8.30 pm friday on the main stage, it had been raining most of the day but went to just drizzling at tea time then stopped at around 7pm.
When Robert and the band came on it wasn't like they started with a big " Hello we're the Robert Cray Band" but rather they started out with a 'blues shuffle' with them around the drumkit/keyboard as a kind of 'warmup' for 5-10 minutes just to get them in the groove then as Robert went to the mic at the front the clouds parted and a shaft of late evening sunlight hit him. Now Robert Cray is a big fella and wearing a 'sky blue' suit with a black 'Strat' in his hands that looked about the size of an Ukelele he just said "Hello" as the band went into their 1st number with the light on him like the Gods had turned on a spotlight.
Blown Away doesn't even come close to how I felt, OK I might have been 'half pissed' and smoked a bit of hashish but standing just in front of the sound-desk tent/gazebo in the middle of the slope it was incredible.
Yep Richard Thomsom was good likewise Van Morrisson but others were shite (the Communards) and Billy Bragg seemed to wander onto the stages whenever there was a delay/hold-up and do a couple of songs (just walk on, plug a lead into his Telecaster and go)
Robert Cray Hammersmith Odeon 1988
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zf7v?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
I had this on cassette taped off the radio
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zf7v?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
I had this on cassette taped off the radio
Windle
Ãœber Member
- Location
- Burnthouses
I bet you'd try if the line up was the same as it was back then!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Festivals are definitely not my thing, so unsurprisingly I've not been. But I do watch it on telly sometimes.
One of my favourite you tube videos is Motorhead at Glastonbury with doing Ace of Spades and Overkill, with Lemmy having the time of his life.
One of my favourite you tube videos is Motorhead at Glastonbury with doing Ace of Spades and Overkill, with Lemmy having the time of his life.
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Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
The one and only time I went was in 1997. Someone stole my wellies and my mates kettle. It rained a lot and was very muddy. We saw lots of good bands but I don't really remember much (and I wasn't on drink or substances either)
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I went in '90 and '92 i think, they had a fallow year between my two visits. The 2nd time was the first time they had to put a fence up all the around the entire site to stop ne'er-do-wells from getting in for free... i still got in though
Chatting to a friend of mine he recalled that in the 90s there were people selling access to fence defeating schemes. Pay £5 they'd let you use their tunnel, or trebuchet, or whatever.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
We went up there with no tickets. A mate took a rope and grappling hook (we were only 16), but we were told we wouldn't be able to scale the fence. We ended up walking to the nearby village and buying tickets from ticket touts. They were £45 IIRC and we feared they wouldn't work, but they scanned fine on the gates
