surely there's a java twitter app for nokia/ericsson/dumbphones now?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, there is - I used to use something called Twim on my old Sony Ericsson. It was pretty rubbish, mind - better off on the website.
― Alba, Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you remember us using Twitter at 2007 Glastonbury, Matt, and thinking it was well cool for ... arranging things?
― Alba, Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Wombles should do Screamadelica
http://yfrog.com/khhpyp
― blueski, Friday, 17 June 2011 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
They will 'slip inside this house' if those wombles don't tidy some of those cables away.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I made several very ill advised tweets at Glastonbury 2007 thinking it was just going out to six friends and not being published on the internet under my full name. Lol naivety.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2011 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I know it's misanthropy, but the way the papers seize on FESTIVAL SEASON every summer, and have so many aspirational articles about where you should go to be more "in the know" than whoever else, despite the fact these articles are blatantly targeted at people who still somehow seek cultural guidance from the last remaining dinosaurs, just sickens me. A friend of mine from work asked me last year if I was going to any festivals and I said "no, I am a big music fan."
Which was being a dick, I just feel like they've become like an extended travel section or something, not that it's really a reflection on the events themselves, just sort of ostentatious consumerism.
Having said all that I should say I'd LOVE to be going to Glastonbury, it is totally irrelevant who's playing. But the prospect of rain there is pretty awful. It's not really that much fun if it rains, at all.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of see what you mean Local Garda - festivals have slowly but surely gone from being events attended by the hardcore contingent of music, culture and party-goers to an alternative holiday destination for part-timers and dilletantes. Fair enough if that's the way things are going it would be bad form to dismiss it. But festival season's seeing an increased transition between "We hitched down to Glastonbury in a camper-van and jumped over the fence" to "Couldn't afford the Seychelles this year, so we booked a day off work, loaded the Land Rover with camping gear, pens and swimming trunks and headed down to Glasto. The kids love the new Coldplay BTW".
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
If you're genuinely worried about that you're going through some Reynoldsesque mid-life crisis. I mean, complaining about gentrificiation is one thing but does anyone above a certain age really want to go to Reading or Leeds or one of those other festivals full of 18-year olds getting trashed and throwing gas canisters on bonfires?
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
umm... wat? no
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not really the age profile that worries me, and actually I'm not really sure what DL says is what I mean. I think it's more the accompanying idea that loving music necessitates going to festivals, when actually I know some people who go to like 3/4 festivals a summer whom I wouldn't really consider major music fans. But actually I feel a sort of shammed up concept of "loving music" is kind of used as part of the bombardment to sell people festival tickets. I'm trying to say this without actually creating straw men...
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Friday, 17 June 2011 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I know what you mean - it's because festivals are embedded in the marketing process for bands these days, far more than they used to be.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost That is, i'm not necessarily opposed or worried about it - it's just something that happens when good things get popular. Admittedly, i do find it annoying having to camp next to a family of screaming children who'd rather not be there while their parents seem to do nothing but scream back at them from under the world's biggest fucking gazebo. Take them camping FFS, or leave them with the grandparents or whatever. I know I shouldn't complain as everyone's entitled to attend a festival, but it is a factor that put me off last time I went to Glasto and one of the reasons I sought alternatives.
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link
If you're not going to complain, dog latin, then I will. For years, festival-goers have been told "It's not really about the music", the idea being that you should be too busy getting up to all kinds of great stuff with hash brownies in the stone circle to worry about seeing boring old bands, but now the average festival (Glastonbury is too big and varied to qualify) teems with people who think it's not about the music and they're not crazy psychedelic adventurers, they're fucking awful, because they're only interested in setting up gazebos and taking picnic hampers and being a part of the festival "experience" and not getting excited about any music except Kings of Leon and Groove Armada. Which is fine if that's the festival's whole deal - Camp Bestival, say - but it's infected almost all of them.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Friday, 17 June 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Leonard Pine, Friday, 17 June 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh dear
that was supposed to be the video to Adam Buxton's Festival Song and be terrible witty but instead it just ended up a massive embarrassment
― Leonard Pine, Friday, 17 June 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
someone posted this on another thread, last word in festival line-ups imo:
http://recordpreserveshare.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/the_standard_festival_line-up_template.jpg
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
No comedian?
― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 June 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Ronan, stop harshing my buzz re: the weather.
― Alba, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry Nick, just trying to improve my own buzz as regards not going. god knows it's hard to keep our own personal buzzes unharshened in the current climate.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Friday, 17 June 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh God, now I'm firmly on the treadmill of checking metcheck and accuweather's forecasts every few hours.
― Alba, Friday, 17 June 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Should I visit <a href="http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/the-unfairground/bezs-acid-house-tent">Bez's Acid House</a>, is the question.
― Alba, Friday, 17 June 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Should the Submit Post and Convert to BBcode buttons be further apart, is also the question.
think there was an episode of scooby doo in bez's acid house.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Friday, 17 June 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
old mr ryder covered himself in powder to scare away potential ravers.
Awesome times:
http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Glastonbury-UKXX1641
― Alba, Friday, 17 June 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I've realised that this is to be my 10th Glastonbury (that I've camped at, at any rate) and, in spite of this, I still have no idea what I need to take. Sleeping bag, wellies, waterproof trousers, wet wipes and a box of wine should cover me for the weekend, no?
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
A tent should cover you...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's the canonical Glasto packing list with some lady-centric things removed:
festival tickettrain tickets (+railcard if you have one)tentsleeping bagsleeping matpillow if you can be arsed to carry itblanket if you're a big wussbig chunky (waterproof?) shoes/boots/welliessummer shoes/trainers (flip flops/sandals are nice but not when yr inthe middle of a heaving crowd)anything waterproof you have - jacket/trousers/binbagst-shirts/tops (as many as you plan to wear plus one spare)socks (ditto)pants (ditto)jeans/some kind of trousers, x2 if you can carry them in case of rainshorts/skirtjumper (with hood if you have one)something else warm (if it's cold you want lots of layers rather thanone big thing)woolly hatsun hatshadeswater bottlesas many bin bags as you can find in your house - these are for wearingas well as putting stuff inumbrellatoilet rollmobile phonecash & cardsalarm clock?deodorantwet wipessoaptoothpastetoothbrushtowelsun creamearplugs?aspirin/paracetamolsomething to readpens & paperimmodium if you really can't face the looshairbrush if you need onetorch + spare batteries (batteries are a total rip-off on site)plastersswiss army knifefruit/nuts/crisps etcalcomahol - you're allowed to bring your own booze to glastonbury,glass isn't allowed but if you're bringing anything in bottles shovethem down inside your wellies in your bag and pack around them withclothes/plastic bagsstove? if yes then gas, tea, coffee, filk, cupasoup, a cup,lighter/matches, pan/sif you smoke, cigarettes/tobacco/papers and a million lighters
Gets less essential the further down. Would add spare mobile phone batteries to that list, or something you can charge yr phone with.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I think tampons are fairly lady-centric. unless you're doing that "light the end and throw" thing beloved of student parties...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I am in awe.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
An alarm clock seems pretty unnecessary.
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Of that list. Massive help, thanks Matt.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah no one needs an alarm clock at Glastonbury unless you're getting up super-early to go home on Monday and will have no phone battery by then. Otherwise, you're lucky if you get any sleep.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently it absolutely shat it down on site yesterday. There was a hoax picture doing the rounds on Twitter (from 2007, purporting to be the Other Stage yesterday) but the Park field and the Shangri-La area were reportedly waterlogged. If they have decent weather today and the drainage has improved then we should be alright come tomorrow.
Metcheck is looking pretty positive now. Won't be a scorcher but it's looking like being a bit like 2002 and 2003 - mix of rain and sun but neither too extreme. I can work with that.
Biggest worry at the moment is the worst rain coming at exactly the point tomorrow that I need to put my tent up.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Glastonbury Twitter is saying it's pretty wet underfoot at the moment onsite.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Also lol poshos.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― blueski, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:13 (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01329/SNF17BIZWW-682_1329197a.jpg
Backstage at Glastonbury, sounds of struggling and mild imprecations fill the air...
BOB: Oof... get tae... Jesus fuck man, ah cannae get this fuckin' 'hing oan! Holl', Orinoco! Or whatever yer fuckin' name is, gie's a haun here.MIKE BATT: Having trouble with your costume, Mr. Gillespie?BOB: Too fuckin' right ah um! How the fuck did you manage to get through the 70s inside wan o' these fuckers?BATT Well, I didn't actually wear one all the time.BOB: Here, don't be shatterin' ma illusions, man! Next, ye'll be tellin' me Bernard Cribbins never wore wan.
fumbling
BOB: Come oan, ya bastard... fuck sake, ah'm sweatin' like a fuckin' rapist here, so ah um...
more fumbling
BOB: ... at last... noo, gie's ma heid ower, wull ye?.
even more fumbling
BOB (muffled): Here, ah've jist thoat o' sumthin'... how the fuck am ah supposed to shake ma tambourine wi' this 'hing oan? Ah cannae even fucking haud it wi' these... fuckin'... paws! And ma tambourine playin's fuckin' central to 'Screamadelica', it's fuckin' key, man, ah'm tellin' ye.BATT: Uh, 'Screamadelica'? I think there's been some misunderstanding, the classic album we're playing in its entirety tonight is "Keep On Wombling"...
Bob rapidly removes head
BOB: Keep oan WHIT??!?!??!BATT: ... Wombling... Mr McGee said...BOB: McGee! Ah might ah known that wee rrrrrrrat wid be involved in this... baldy Orange bastard... here, ah'm fuckin' phonin' the cunt up...
Ringtone plays 'The Sash'
BOB: McGee, it's Boab, you fuckin' takin' the pish or whit?muffled voiceBOB: ...aye...muffled voiceBOB: ...aye, but...muffled voiceBOB: ...hey, haud oan a minute therr...muffled voiceBOB: ...ah'm no fuckin' daein' it!muffled voice (expositional dialogue follows)BOB: ... listen ah didnae leave a cushy number as drummer in the Mary Chain in October 1985 and form Primal Scream wi' fuckin' Big Jim Navajo tae get up oan a stage and fuckin' make a tit o' mahsel'...muffled voiceBOB: ... ya cheeky cunt, ah kept you in charlie fer years and don't you forget it!muffled voiceBOB: ... awright, fer weeks then! Jesus Christ, can you no' open yer mooth wi'oot mentionin' Oasis, man. Gie it a rest, Al, naeb'dy's impressed!muffled voiceBOB: ... naw, you ur...muffled voiceBOB: ... ah've tellt ye, ah'm no daein' it!muffled voiceBOB: ... aye, well you jist dae that then... ya fuckin'... balloon!muffled voiceBOB: ... listen, fer the last time, can you no' understaun plain English or sumthin'? AH'M UR NAE DAEIN' IT!
pause
BOB: ... and Fuck the Queen!
slams phone down
MADAME CHOLET: Two minutes, Mr. Gillespie.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Metcheck is looking pretty positive now.
I'm not sure how well my tent will stand up to those 266 mph winds.
― Alba, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/7days.asp?zipcode=shepton%20mallet
a bit like 2002 and 2003 - mix of rain and sun
both these years were pretty much wall to wall sun as far as i recall. 2002 had a bit of rain on friday morning and sunday night. 2003 was roasting for most of it AFAIR
― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
2002 was the year of Saharan Gusts
― blueski, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Alba, stop checking the weather forecast. :-P
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember 2002 being pretty rainy, although not a washout.
Quite sad really, that's the last time I went! And there isn't one next year so that means at least 10 years until I next go to one. If I ever do because most of my friends aren't up for it any more.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
My prediction for this year's Babylon/You Got The Love Fuck Me Not This One AGAIN Televisual Ubiquity Award: Ed Sheeran - "The A Team".
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Sad I'm not going to this. Vicky is. Mind you, I am such a moaner when it starts raining I'm not sure I'd be any fun.
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I have seen a few snaps of muddy wellies and I can't wait. Feel simultaneously well prepared and massively disorganised, after drunkenly dancing around in the loft late last night looking for my waterproofs. Which were, in fact, somewhere more convenient.
Similarly I'm annoyed that after the first time I've ever bought a train ticket in advance I get a ring from a mate offering me a lift. Not sure whether I'll go in this evening or have a night at home (just outside Shepton) and go into the site tomorrow.
Unneccessary detail there.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Do not understand all these smug fucks making their public proclamations about how glad they are that it's raining and aren't they clever not to be going.
SHUT THE FUCK UP. NO ONE CARES.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
If I can be forgiven a plug, because this may never happen again, I'm appearing at the Free University of Glastonbury near the Park Stage at 11.30am on Saturday. Say hello if you're awake/around/can be bothered. Every year I read the Glastonbury thread but I've never actually met any ILXors there.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link