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so, you're not going to glastonbury, for whatever reason...

what are you doing instead?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm up for stuff, who knows what though.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Might go and see Basement Jaxx and others in Hyde Park if there are still tickets. Would like to go somewhere for the weekend (Cornwall! tho Paris ideally) but looks doubtful.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If there were tickets left, I'd go to Yat Kha and Tinariwen as part of Patti Smith's meltdown. But I'd have to fly to London and find somewhere to stay and so forth.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Reading Festival

if i wanted to spend my time watching shitty indie bands and sharing my personal space with sweaty hippies i'd stay at home.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, I thought this was referring specifically to that same weekend but I guess not.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Tapestry and watching Glasto on the telly.

― snotty moore, Friday, 27 May 2005 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

sonar

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I banned from this thread if I am going to Glasto? Stevem, I still cannot believe that you are not going this year!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hyde park. already have tix.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

my beloved is going to Bir Zeit University instead of Glastonbury. I feel like such a phony.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 27 May 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been. Looks like I'm never going to go. Sigh. This year that kind of bothers me. But I'm sure I'll get over it when I start thinking about the smell of the toilets.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

do you like the smell of toilets?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yat-Kha! They played in my home town a few years ago - really really good!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are you never going to Glasto Kate? COs ur always poor? Or is there more 2 it?

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

When is it?

I'll find something to do, I'm sure.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

i meant non-glastonbury, rather than anti-glastonbury.

anything else happening this weekend?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Ascona Jazz Festival, Switzerland

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Hurrah? What *IS* going on this weekend? Everyone I know is going to be away. Sigh. While I'm at home swotting Oracle manuals like a mad person.

There's a BBQ at the Brixton Windmill on Sunday. Is anything going on Saturday? I'd really like something to do so I don't feel quite so much like my new job has killed my social life.

― MIS Information (kate), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm preparing for the 2006/2007 season on Football Manager 2005, and specifically attempts to get Northampton Town into the Championship.

Lee Bullock: best signing ever.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Am I banned from this thread if I am going to Glasto? Stevem, I still cannot believe that you are not going this year!
-- PinXorchiXoR

Yes Pink, exactly. I do not need my face rubbed in it even more. Everyone I am working with has gone. There are three of us left in the room (me and two boss-types). To add insult to injury I am working the weekend doing regular rotated weekend work and *ouch* being London support person to the team out at Glastonbury. So ... I'm working this weekend. What fun.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Naturally I wish I was at Glastonbury now but I will settle for Wireless@Hyde Park on Saturday and maybe Brighton on Sunday.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

See, I was supposed to have Wireless tickets but there was a corporate sponsor issue and now I do not. And anyway I have to work. I 'm feeeling really fucking bitter right now. I swear if they all come back and start banging on about how great it was and 'wasn't it funny when' my computer is going out the window.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

My sister's over from Dallas with her husband, so we're up to Chorley for the weekend. Bad timing as I would have loved to go to Wireless.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Now you KNOW full well that this will be the BEST GLASTONBURY EVAH because we are not there (not actually because WE are not there but you know what I mean). Batten down the hatches for the gleeful reminiscing next week. xpost.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

No, no, no. I've just convinced myself it's a giant Sausage Party and it will be rubbish.

Which is what I've said every year since 1998.

― MIS Information (kate), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Not only am I not going, I don't even get a weekend. I'll stop moaning now and actually do something about my work mountain.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Because ... yes! I am now doing the regular work of five people!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Well, the one good thing about them not getting me a laptop yet is that I won't have to take work home with me this weekend! Except I will be reading the Big Book Of Oracle on the grass. If the neighbours aren't up to their usual tricks. Can we rehearse in the garden tonight with added extra guitar feedback, so they will experience what *NOISE* really is? Heh.

― MIS Information (kate), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Reading Festival

if i wanted to spend my time watching shitty indie bands and sharing my personal space with sweaty hippies i'd stay at home.

aren't shitty indie bands the raison d'etre of reading/leeds?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

I've only ever been to Glastonbury the two muddiest mud-filled mudulating years, and they were a bit rubbish, so I'm not bothered that I'm not going. I am more annoyed that I'm going to be cooped up in my house revising for the next few days, and will therefore miss the guy from Nurse With Wound playing (although I am still considering skiving off, after all if I get myself off this bloody computer then work will go a lot quicker).

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

the plan was for myself, my friend and her boyfriend (who is now also my good friend) to all go this year. they had a big row, tickets didn't get bought in time. so no show.
found out the other day that he managed to get a snidey ticket for himself to go with some other bunch of people. the snidey snake

manchester i think at the weekend, wouldn't mind going to see Batman begins at some point as well.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

whoa just as i speak i get a text inviting me to a party on saturday, thats manchester out the question then.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

I am at work, somehow still managing to act as the control centre between people who are already there/on their way down. I'm braced for an onslaught of "mmm, perry" texts this evening. When I'll still be working. (I know, I know, at least I'm going at all...)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

This is not the thread for that, Matt. Now OFF before we hit you.

― MIS Information (kate), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

I really want a Wireless ticket for Saturday. Really really. Really.

I'll be watching more Wimbledon and going to a friend's birthday party in Oxford, anyway. Glasto really doesn't hold any appeal for me any more and anyway I've just been to Sónar.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Really Matt, you are not allowed to moan on this thread as I will be a control centre ALL WEEKEND! AND I WILL STILL BE WORKING ALL WEEKEND TOO.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Poor Anna. I am very tempted by the idea of running into the sea this weekend. Vaguely impractical, but so what.

I really really need to buy some summer clothes before I do anything summery. I think I have none. My lovely (cheap) shirt from Primark has shrunk to beyond ridiculously small in the wash, sadly. I hate shopping though. What a dilemma.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

i think mdc is planning on delivering pastries this weekend.

i...might too

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

or you could have sex (not with each other).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Having had a noisy weekend last weekend, I'm looking forward to a quiet one.

I think I have a barbecue to go to on Saturday, perhaps after a little shopping, and there's a viewing for a print auction on Sunday (the auction itself is on Monday).

Uh, rock 'n' roll!

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Big end of term department party on Saturday. No plans for Sunday yet, am happy to do a small Brighton FAP if anyone fancies the seaside?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

cool, i'll let you know!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Steve, you don't understand.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I am entertaining my mother and trying not to argue with my sister this weekend. But we will get bought dinner at some point, so that's alright. And the National Portrait Gallery will be nice and cool.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Having dinner with lovely friends on Saturday, then helping move my grandmother's stuff out of her old flat on Sunday. Add to this some bike-riding (if it's not too wet), some cricket nets and some cold chillin', and I think a fine weekend is in order.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

emil.y (or anyone else who knows), where is this Nurse With Wound happening????

― Andrew ExL, Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

It's not actually Nurse With Wound:

COLIN POTTER + KEITH ROWE + PHIL MOULDYCLIFFE
Nurse With Wound collaborator, ex-AMM guitarist and a lesser-known soundscaper get together in a first of a new series of nights in Nottingham. Nottingham The Bunkers Hill, 23 June, 8pm, £5

Should I go??? I really ought not to.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I'll be taking it easy.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

TY emil.y, keith rowe is def worth seeing for a fiver

― Andrew exL, Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

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Anna's post seems to imply the wrath of God unleashed on Glasto for inviting Coldplay.
-- Markelby

Given the views of the writer, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was deliberate.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Dear lord:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twhume/21277115/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Woah. That gazebo is the saddest sight, somehow.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I know that I shouldn't laugh coz loads of my friends are there, too but my god... BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH. OK, I'm done being a smug, festival-hating bastard.

Ed, I'm probably not getting out until about 6 (bloody training still going on) but I will ring you when I do.

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

There are families inside those tents saying to their kids "careful now - don't touch the sides!"

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

i kind of want to be there again now in order to witness the devastation first hand.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently enjoying this:

http://glastonbury.blogspot.com/

I like the way it goes from

Sunburnt noses yesterday

Rivers Of Shit! today

― Davel (Davel), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

HOLY. SHIT.

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

i went out in peckham last night rather than tonite, and am consequently too ill to go anywhere today.

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 25 June 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop eating pastries

― The danish deliverer, Saturday, 25 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

from mdc

"me, the fitzgeralds, and erol. now thats a pastry"

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

and, later

"me ronan dastoor hayley kelly. huge"

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

fuck!

i wanna be there now after all.

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

i feel i am not at my rightful place somehow

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

But you do know that you, Nick, Matt and Ronan are never allowed to be in the same place at the same time or the world will explode?

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

haha, but, hayley and kelly too!

i can only imagine the fun that im missing out on

nambucca tonite?

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

To be honest I don't think I'll fancy it. I'm working until 7:00 and after that I just want to have a bath/ go to bed. Sorry hon.

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

i think i'm going to be in camden town tonite, mixer/castle probably, who knows, somewhere anyway. anyone still in londontown?

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 26 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/glasto.htm

Estimates that Michael Eavis personally makes around £11 million a year from Glastonbury.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

i'm glad i was at hyde park, yesterday, rather than glastonbury

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

when will you be at kelvingrove park?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I kinda wish I was there too, now

― c/n (Cozen), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

why aren't you?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm having a hard time picturing that 'She Pee' thing. You point it where?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

i went to bromley mall for a haircut

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

i went to see jamie liddell and got tired. today i went on bike rides to rodley and weird newbuild towns in west yorkshire that sprung up out of nowhere. ever been to rodley bridge G?

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Alex Smoke was excellent on Friday, and the Kliks residents were pretty solid too. I did indeed go to the Lewes beer festival yesterday where a Camra member tried to persuade us to join and help Camra appeal to the under 25s, and we went to Wakehurst Place and had a walk today.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

glastonbury looks terrible on TV. I'll never understand what people like about Basement Jaxx. Primal scream looked embarassing.

i'm sure it's pretty good though.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 June 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I went charity shopping on Saturday. And then to the Windmill BBQ on Sunday. Much fun was had.

― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

The Jaxx are great. But I agree with you about Glastonbury on TV. They mostly show the acts I would have avoided - but I suppose most of what makes Glastonbury great wouldn't really translate well to TV - "We're now going live to see Chewshabadoo watching an avant gardé trapeze troupe while he skins up, and then goes and gets and amazing vegetarian Mezze before finding a small sound system inside someone's tent, dancing for a while and meeting a strange couple who seem to have travelled over from Ukraine. After this he will be seeing a group dressed as the Big Brother housemates, who are conducting conversations in unison whilst complementing everyon choices of footwear.... After that we return to wimbledon".

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 27 June 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

i saw some of it on TV but didnt manage to catch much else over the weekend - the White Stripes looked fun. B Jaxx very good at Hyde Park - too bad Clodplay pipped them to the Kylie cover, Vitalic is better in clubs at 1am really, LCD and Lady Sov also pretty cool tho the latter didnt play 'Ch-Ching' or 'Tango', cuh...as good a non-Glasto weekend could be for me except for the worst hayfever ever yesterday whilst sitting atop Devil's Dyke.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 27 June 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

i never want to wear wellies again. i have weird bumps on both shins now.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 June 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Botfly larvae?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

giant bruises, really.

(but no doubt filled with larvae.)

(EW.)

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

But you do know that you, Nick, Matt and Ronan are never allowed to be in the same place at the same time or the world will explode?

Funnily enough, this exact point was made on Saturday night.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

He lives!

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

my man actually got trench foot one year at a wet, muddy music fest
sad, that

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

i think weve manage 3 of the 4 of us together a number of times?

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

It would be Glastonbury weekend in two days time :(

So, what are people doing instead?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Nothing much, possibly the Shimuras.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Berlin

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I hope it floods and there's a river going right past your hotel door. And that the stadium gets struck by lightning. And that Coldplay play.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

hopefully watching England in the next round, going to a wedding, *really* hopefully playing a bucket load of GTA Liberty City Stories that should come out for PS2 this Friday.

(i would be doing all this even if Glastos was on)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Arctic Monkeys are actually playing Berlin this Saturday. Not worth the 30 euros or whatever it is to go heckle them though.

At around that point I may well start wishing I was at Fabric dancing to the electrohouse.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to crouch end.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to support my mates who are organising the second room at:

http://www.kerfuffle.org.uk/

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

I am leaving Crouch End to go to Geneva.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

going to a classical concert for my girlfriend's dad's birthday.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

going to play singstar and pictionary.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

sitting listlessly around the house. have been sick since after glastonbury last year!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

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