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Title: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: squirrelciv on June 26, 2007, 04:37:48 PM: Home, washed and unpacked from Glastonbury at last. For those who saw the pictures on telly let me tell you it was far worse than it looked. Despite rain, mud and 10 hour wait to get out, it was by far the best event Mrs Squirrel and I have ever been to. Too many great acts to tell about or see come to think of it, but Dame Shirley was the best of the ones we saw by a country mile. Didn't go to the Who show, but went to the jazz stage instead to watch 'Fat Freddie Drop' and hang out with serious weirdo's. Excellent!! :-)

Sorry to have missed the rally Smudge (I did say I wasn't coming) and even sorrier to here some let you down after all your hard work :-( but I felt I was with you in spirit as I too was covered in crap, living in a tent and half p155ed most of the time :-)

Roll on next year.
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: Bruce on June 26, 2007, 07:19:41 PM: Last time I went to Glastonbury was 1999 Bob Dylan was there all I I could see was this wizened little man droning and playing so I moved to see Rolf Harris much more entertaining. Doctor John was also playing that weekend it brought back a lot old memories.
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: guest27 on June 26, 2007, 07:37:09 PM: 1982 - hot and dry, GS750, Foxhole tent, too much interesting herbs from the front line. Have no idea who was playing.

R
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: mini-thumper on June 26, 2007, 08:09:50 PM: One, and only, big open-air concert I ever went to was Knebworth 1980. Headlining band was the Beach Boys, along with Santana, Devo, The Blues Band, but they may or may not have been there. We travelled from Cardiff in a converted ex-GPO Luton van (no windows, three sofas tied in the back, cobbled together intercom with those in the front), and one of the guys, Geoff Lewis, worked for Welsh Brewers so he cashed in all his 'dreymans coupons' to have the Luton well down on its axels with beer. Needless to say we were pi**ed when we got there and remained so for the whole event! Didn't really see the need to bother again after that, but each to their own.

Glad to hear that you survived Pat, and hopefully all that mud has made your skin oh so soft.....

Boyd
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: guest7 on July 03, 2007, 08:26:20 PM: 1985, Cornwall, Elephant Fayre. Very muddy, quite violent (although the Peace Convoy had been slapped with an injunction banning then from the county). Saw New Model Army, Killing Joke and sundry other acts, but had the best time in the reggae tent out of my tree.

And no, I don't know why I wore a captains hat. The other galling thing about this picture is that those belstaff Trailmaster trousers (purchased from my mum's Littlewoods catalogue) had a 30" waist!

(http://www.dragonrally.org.uk/temp/graham%20and%20toby.JPG)
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: Steffan on July 04, 2007, 09:55:20 AM: Personally I think the hat and the hair makes you look rather like a chirpy version of that SS officer in the great escape:-p Now what was that actors name - you know the one that was just busting to torture Anthony Quayle - no doubt for his dreadful acting, although Gregory Peck's hamming it up at the end made them all look good. A great film nonetheless - doesn't excuse the hat mind!

Steffan
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: Andy M on July 04, 2007, 10:17:51 AM: Quote from: Steffan on July 04, 2007, 09:55:20 AM
Personally I think the hat and the hair makes you look rather like a chirpy version of that SS officer in the great escape:-p Now what was that actors name - you know the one that was just busting to torture Anthony Quayle - no doubt for his dreadful acting, although Gregory Peck's hamming it up at the end made them all look good. A great film nonetheless - doesn't excuse the hat mind!

Steffan

Anthony Quayle and Gregory Peck? Sounds more like the Guns of Navarone to me? More Urals/BMW's and fewer Triumphs I think ;-)

Andy
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: Steffan on July 04, 2007, 10:35:46 AM: that's right, that's what I meant :-(
You are correct, but don't you think there is a resemblence?
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: Andy M on July 04, 2007, 11:15:55 AM: Quote from: Steffan on July 04, 2007, 10:35:46 AM
that's right, that's what I meant :-(
You are correct, but don't you think there is a resemblence?

Yes. Can't remember the guys name though. I'll take a look at the DVD box later.

Andy
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: boze on July 04, 2007, 06:08:59 PM: Quote from: Bruce on June 26, 2007, 07:19:41 PM
Doctor John was also playing that weekend it brought back a lot old memories.

i was in the right place, but it mustve been the wrong time.....hahaha
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: mini-thumper on July 04, 2007, 07:52:19 PM: Graham
I was at college with the bloke on the left, Toby Parsons - South Glamorgan Institute, Howard Gardens 1983. Do you know what he's up to these days? I even vaguely recognise the women on the right - should I know her as well?

Boyd
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: themoudie on July 04, 2007, 08:19:04 PM: Recognition! Watch out! You could regret that rhetorical question Boyd. ;-)

Genes Re-United here we go!

The Geaneologist!
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: 002 on July 04, 2007, 09:18:42 PM: Quote from: mini-thumper on July 04, 2007, 07:52:19 PM

I even vaguely recognise the women on the right - should I know her as well?

Its Bonnie Langford ! Dont you know anything ?

I think GC looks more like the camp German Officer in 'Allo 'Allo personally.

Jethro
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: themoudie on July 04, 2007, 10:30:40 PM: Oh how sweet Jethro. A gathering of youthfull thespians about to appear in a jolly jape starring Cliff Richard! "We're all going on a Summer Holiday".

Or is it the re-incarnation of 'The King' himself?

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'Melody Maker'
Title: Re: Well that was muddy :-)
Post by: mini-thumper on July 06, 2007, 05:34:36 PM: Quote from: themoudie on July 04, 2007, 10:30:40 PM
Or is it the re-incarnation of 'The King' himself?

Don't you mean 'Queen'? Or is it Camp Commmadant?

Boyd