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over a year ago
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Im watching Isle of Wight highlights and regretting my decision not to go to any big festivals this year!
Who's going to one this year and what was your best ever? |
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"Closest I've been to attending a festival was taking a tin of soup to school for the old people.
Its such a rave don't ya think' especially if the man in the dress gets up and gets on the mike."
I bet the man in the dress got on Mike a few times.... |
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over a year ago
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I went to one day of Love Supreme last year down on the south coast. Was a great day and saw a couple of cool acts.
I think I would need to go glamping if I went to Glastonbury  |
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over a year ago
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"Electric Fields last year and before that (and the last time was 10 years ago) T in the park every year without fail   "
I miss T 
Ive done Belladrum the past few years and heading up again this year |
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Have been to many over the years, Monsters of Rock/Download, Reading, Pentrich Rock&Blues, Milton Keynes, Knebworth.
Best was probably Led Zep at Knebworth in '79. Am going to Pentrich this year with a sexy forumite  |
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live 
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though"
What?!?! We have so much to do! I will take you in between pastries! Live music is sssssssssooooo much better!! |
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"Electric Fields last year and before that (and the last time was 10 years ago) T in the park every year without fail
I miss T
Ive done Belladrum the past few years and heading up again this year "
I did the 96 T, brilliant line up in those days and looking back hard to believe Foo Fighters and Prodigy were far from headliners. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've been to loads of festivals, glad to have done Glastonbury in the late 80s and early 90s before it went huge, did Reading the year Nirvana headlined and never been back, loved Select festival up by Oban the 2 years that was on. Last one 1 went to was Hellfest in France and it was better than any British festival. This year might do Shiiine but being at Butlins not sure it;s really a festival. If I ever go to another festival it will be overseas and not in the UK |
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though
What?!?! We have so much to do! I will take you in between pastries! Live music is sssssssssooooo much better!! "
I just haven't got around to it yet
It's on my list with a lot of other things  |
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over a year ago
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The prices of big fests really put me off!! So I go to the Godiva festival in Cov, which is free Best memory there was seeing Happy Mondays a couple of years ago, being right at the front and having Bez shaking his shakers at me looking forward to seeing the Stra-nglers there this year |
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over a year ago
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Glastonbury and Boomtown for me this year.
I don't know that I could pick my best weekend ever but seeing Kate Tempest do spoken word at Glastonbury a few years ago is almost certainly my favourite festival moment ever. Powerful stuff! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I watch Gladtonbury on the telly. Would quite like to go to that but it's a bit pricey and i'm not sure i could handle a really muddy year. Plus when i need the loo i really need the loo. |
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though
What?!?! We have so much to do! I will take you in between pastries! Live music is sssssssssooooo much better!!
I just haven't got around to it yet
It's on my list with a lot of other things "
Yo Cyberjam! You're in Bristol, I'll give you a shout when my band is playing so I can pop your live music cherry at least! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though
What?!?! We have so much to do! I will take you in between pastries! Live music is sssssssssooooo much better!!
I just haven't got around to it yet
It's on my list with a lot of other things
Yo Cyberjam! You're in Bristol, I'll give you a shout when my band is playing so I can pop your live music cherry at least! "
Haha, I might take you up on that |
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My favourite was Glastonbury 2003 and it was my first festival I was such young not so innocent 17 year old haha. Since then I've been to Isle of Wight festival 3 times reading once, Leeds 3 times and download once which is weird cause I live like 20 mins from download. Going Leeds again in august. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I only go to festivals abroad now because of the beautiful UK climate. I'm going to best kept secret in Holland on Friday.
I went to festival on a beach in Croatia last year, that is the way to do it |
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Wouldn't go to one now but did a few in the 90's. Glasto '94 was awesome.
The last (and most fun) one I went to was Kendall calling about 9 years ago. Line up wasn't great but my boyhood heroes EMF were playing. Invaded the stage during 'unbelievable' and got thrown out by security, sneaked back in, got backstage and hung out with the band who were total gents!
Didn't think I could ever top that so never been to a festival since.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Electric Fields last year and before that (and the last time was 10 years ago) T in the park every year without fail
I miss T
Ive done Belladrum the past few years and heading up again this year "
Cool; Beauly is a lovely place and the lineup looks great! Hope you have a lovely weekend |
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant |
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
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Off to Green Man yet again.
Glastonbury 2000 was probably my favourite experience. It was the year when the police said the security had to be sorted in future or else!
Was amazingly good fun, but with a real edge - Scousers and Mancs every few yards flogging cans of "cold" Stella from a steepling tower of 24 packs that had been out in the sun for hours (and "other merchandise" too!).
A gorgeous woman invaded the stage and danced with the Happy Mondays for ages.....naked. If I ever meet the cameraman, I'll shake his hand for the shameless close-ups.
Some blokes from the Valleys gave a hitchhiker a lift home. When they stopped the van and opened up the back to let him out he was dead.
I think there was some good music too  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
Elephant Fayre was amazing They now do The Port Eliot Literary Festival now but the elephant is no longer there "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant "
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By (user no longer on site)
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Will prob go to Reading again as it's just down the end of my road ..will look at a couple of smaller ones too.
Couple of gigs booked up, Stone Roses this weekend |
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant
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That must have been from the early days as it was much bigger at the end. I worked on the gate at the last one and got our friends whole wedding/honeymoon party in for nothing. I woke up at the top of the wooden elephant one afternoon with no knowledge of actually climbing it   |
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I recommend going to festivals abroad (see some of my pics), as in my experience they are better value and have less restrictions on camping/bringing your own booze and less nobheads.
U.K. Exception to this would be Festival No.6, which has the most spectacular location of any of them.. |
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though
What?!?! We have so much to do! I will take you in between pastries! Live music is sssssssssooooo much better!!
I just haven't got around to it yet
It's on my list with a lot of other things
Yo Cyberjam! You're in Bristol, I'll give you a shout when my band is playing so I can pop your live music cherry at least! "
What other cherry do you want to pop? |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Edinburgh, Hay and Oxford festivals are the best ones I have been to.
I've done Reading, Download, Secret Garden Party and they were cool but I've moved on to wankier festivals now. Literary is where it is at. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though
What?!?! We have so much to do! I will take you in between pastries! Live music is sssssssssooooo much better!!
I just haven't got around to it yet
It's on my list with a lot of other things
Yo Cyberjam! You're in Bristol, I'll give you a shout when my band is playing so I can pop your live music cherry at least!
What other cherry do you want to pop? "
Any cherries you have on offer B. 
I think Cyberjam knows my intentions towards him are strictly musical... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant
That must have been from the early days as it was much bigger at the end. I worked on the gate at the last one and got our friends whole wedding/honeymoon party in for nothing. I woke up at the top of the wooden elephant one afternoon with no knowledge of actually climbing it "
How long did it go on for ?
I thought it had stopped happening by the early 80s ? |
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant
That must have been from the early days as it was much bigger at the end. I worked on the gate at the last one and got our friends whole wedding/honeymoon party in for nothing. I woke up at the top of the wooden elephant one afternoon with no knowledge of actually climbing it
How long did it go on for ?
I thought it had stopped happening by the early 80s ?"
Not sure as I'm not from down here. Maybe 84 but don't quote me, twas many moons ago. It stopped because some travelers lit a fire inside one of his oak trees that lined the drive then kicked off when the fire brigade tried to put it out. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant
That must have been from the early days as it was much bigger at the end. I worked on the gate at the last one and got our friends whole wedding/honeymoon party in for nothing. I woke up at the top of the wooden elephant one afternoon with no knowledge of actually climbing it
How long did it go on for ?
I thought it had stopped happening by the early 80s ?
Not sure as I'm not from down here. Maybe 84 but don't quote me, twas many moons ago. It stopped because some travelers lit a fire inside one of his oak trees that lined the drive then kicked off when the fire brigade tried to put it out. "
Oh dear ! |
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"I used to love the Elephant Fayre in the late 70s/early 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0X3o6K3tHI
this video will bring back the memories .... some great bands at elephant
That must have been from the early days as it was much bigger at the end. I worked on the gate at the last one and got our friends whole wedding/honeymoon party in for nothing. I woke up at the top of the wooden elephant one afternoon with no knowledge of actually climbing it
How long did it go on for ?
I thought it had stopped happening by the early 80s ?
Not sure as I'm not from down here. Maybe 84 but don't quote me, twas many moons ago. It stopped because some travelers lit a fire inside one of his oak trees that lined the drive then kicked off when the fire brigade tried to put it out. "
It was The Peace Convoy that burnt the tree, the oldest oak tree there .... not very peaceful !! I looked online about the dates and it seems to be 1981 to 1986. I went twice and one year saw The Cure and i think Clint Eastwood and General Saint. I can't remember who i saw the year before ! Some HA from Leicester went one year and were struggling to be allowed entrance to it. My ex vaguely knew some of them (we were bikers) and oddly some were allowed entrance just because he knew them although i have no idea why that helped them lol. I got really sunburnt at the beach one day and had to spend the rest of the day with very few clothes on because my skin hurt with clothes on. Many others were almost naked anyway |
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86 was the last one .... the festival ended for a number of reasons. i remember seeing saint & eastwood, cure, poison girls, LKJ, john martyn, wilko, killing joke, urban wariors, souixsie, SPK ... i was pretty young then .... festivals were proper mental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2jl_f7Bos
.... anyone go to treworgey tree fayre a few years later ... 1989? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm off to Glastonbury, Kendal calling and end of the road this year
My favourite festival was Kendal calling last year, great weather, good company and decent music was the perfect combination |
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"Im watching Isle of Wight highlights and regretting my decision not to go to any big festivals this year! "
I would have loved to go and see Arcade Fire.
I just go to smaller ones these days - I think a lot of them are overpriced. |
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"Im watching Isle of Wight highlights and regretting my decision not to go to any big festivals this year!
I would have loved to go and see Arcade Fire.
I just go to smaller ones these days - I think a lot of them are overpriced."
I watched their set earlier. So good! |
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"86 was the last one .... the festival ended for a number of reasons. i remember seeing saint & eastwood, cure, poison girls, LKJ, john martyn, wilko, killing joke, urban wariors, souixsie, SPK ... i was pretty young then .... festivals were proper mental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2jl_f7Bos
.... anyone go to treworgey tree fayre a few years later ... 1989?"
By 86 i was a mummy and had another baby on the way ! |
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"86 was the last one .... the festival ended for a number of reasons. i remember seeing saint & eastwood, cure, poison girls, LKJ, john martyn, wilko, killing joke, urban wariors, souixsie, SPK ... i was pretty young then .... festivals were proper mental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2jl_f7Bos
.... anyone go to treworgey tree fayre a few years later ... 1989?"
Treworgy was the next year after the last Elephant. Was a bit of a shambles but we did see Hawkwind play there. |
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"86 was the last one .... the festival ended for a number of reasons. i remember seeing saint & eastwood, cure, poison girls, LKJ, john martyn, wilko, killing joke, urban wariors, souixsie, SPK ... i was pretty young then .... festivals were proper mental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2jl_f7Bos
.... anyone go to treworgey tree fayre a few years later ... 1989?
Treworgy was the next year after the last Elephant. Was a bit of a shambles but we did see Hawkwind play there."
last elephant was 86 ... treworgey was 89 ... treworgey was more than a bit messed up too lol.... dead sheep in the drinking water bowser was just one of a chain of events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5HRRGW6Ghw
... time we left this world today |
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"Im watching Isle of Wight highlights and regretting my decision not to go to any big festivals this year!
Who's going to one this year and what was your best ever? "
went to transmission festival on Sunday and I'm still not fully alive lol |
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"Im watching Isle of Wight highlights and regretting my decision not to go to any big festivals this year!
Who's going to one this year and what was your best ever? "
love it wen u post op.cutest profile pic on fab lol |
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"My first was Windsor Free Festival in '74 lol, I want to relive some hippie days! "
mam and dad took me to those when i was young ... still got memories of running around the queens back yard playing with the other kids and later on hundreds of old style coppers on the rampage with truncheons, beating people over the head. |
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"My first was Windsor Free Festival in '74 lol, I want to relive some hippie days!
mam and dad took me to those when i was young ... still got memories of running around the queens back yard playing with the other kids and later on hundreds of old style coppers on the rampage with truncheons, beating people over the head."
Yes I was there when the police broke it up but managed to avoid a truncheon. |
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"My first was Windsor Free Festival in '74 lol, I want to relive some hippie days!
mam and dad took me to those when i was young ... still got memories of running around the queens back yard playing with the other kids and later on hundreds of old style coppers on the rampage with truncheons, beating people over the head.
Yes I was there when the police broke it up but managed to avoid a truncheon. "
we would be over at the henge prior to that with the wallys .... the following year i got taken to Watchfield ... it was a lot calmer than windsor 74 .... here's a vid of Strife playing live at watchfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWJdJ3JudUQ |
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"I've never been to a festival...or even seen a band live
It's one thing I want to do, not sure which one to go to though"
Dude!! That's crazy talk you live in Bristol!! Get the full listings for The Fleece, pick something where the description piques your interest, have a listem online and get yourself down there. Stand at the bar, have a beer, watch some bands.
Might become your new favourite thing to do. |
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"My first was Windsor Free Festival in '74 lol, I want to relive some hippie days!
mam and dad took me to those when i was young ... still got memories of running around the queens back yard playing with the other kids and later on hundreds of old style coppers on the rampage with truncheons, beating people over the head.
Yes I was there when the police broke it up but managed to avoid a truncheon.
we would be over at the henge prior to that with the wallys .... the following year i got taken to Watchfield ... it was a lot calmer than windsor 74 .... here's a vid of Strife playing live at watchfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWJdJ3JudUQ"
There's loads of pics from Windsor on a site somewhere, everyone looks like someone I knew lol!
God knows what my parents were thinking letting me go away, damn sure they didn't know where I was going!! |
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"Would love to see Coldplay at Glasto, never been. My first was Windsor Free Festival in '74 lol, I want to relive some hippie days! "
We have seen Coldplay loads of times, mostly in football stadiums. They are brilliant live |
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"Im watching Isle of Wight highlights and regretting my decision not to go to any big festivals this year!
Who's going to one this year and what was your best ever? "
Been to many this year with work already in Europe. Favourite one is still Werchter in Belgium and in the UK it's Belladrum, near Inverness. Great wee festival sans neds. |
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i used to enjoy them in the 80s and 90's .last one i really enjoyed was Bestival about 10 years ago ..theres too many now and theyre too commercial and corporate ..i liked the free festivals better but guess it was because i was so much younger ..different times then |
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