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MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

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I actually liked the 'wrecking'. Looked nasty from outside but it was rare for anyone to get hurt same when it came to Pogo'ing for punk stuff. If you are in the know it's all good fun but if you're not and try to wade in you're liable to get pasted and, to everyone else, it looks like you're just wreckin'/pogoing.

Cor blasts from the past there in that poster @Scrappy Demented are Go, Long Tall Texans, Torment, Stage Fright, Hicksville Bombers!
Haven't been to a weekender of any sort in thirteen years now because family life got in the way. Lord how time flies.
 
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gazzatriumph

gazzatriumph

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MartytheMartian said:
I actually liked the 'wrecking'. Looked nasty from outside but it was rare for anyone to get hurt same when it came to Pogo'ing for punk stuff. If you are in the know it's all good fun but if you're not and try to wade in you're liable to get pasted and, to everyone else, it looks like you're just wreckin'/pogoing.

Cor blasts from the past there in that poster @Scrappy Demented are Go, Long Tall Texans, Torment, Stage Fright, Hicksville Bombers!
Haven't been to a weekender of any sort in thirteen years now because family life got in the way. Lord how time flies.
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My best mate used to love wrekin, I've seen him come out with cuts from Stanley knives, maybe just in Brum, didn't look like much fun to me plus I always wanted to watch the band play and maybe learn from them.
 
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MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

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I wouldn't say that's really a great loss. When I worked on Security at Glastonbury in the early nineties I was seriously disappointed. Thought it was going to be great but it was full of tossers all pretending to be hippies. Most of the 'real' people were working at it rather than attending it. From what I have seen and heard about it since then it has become even more of a vastly overpriced highly commercial venture.
 
GaleForceEight

GaleForceEight

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MartytheMartian said:
I wouldn't say that's really a great loss. When I worked on Security at Glastonbury in the early nineties I was seriously disappointed. Thought it was going to be great but it was full of tossers all pretending to be hippies. Most of the 'real' people were working at it rather than attending it. From what I have seen and heard about it since then it has become even more of a vastly overpriced highly commercial venture.
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I used to cover engineering support for Astreus, an airline for whom Bruce Dickinson (of Iron Maiden) flew.

While at Sonisphere with a friend, I said "Iron Maiden are headlining tonight and should be backstage - what about seeing if we can grab a coffee with them?".

So we wended our way to the backstage door and this security guard who didn't have so much have a height as a diameter was there... "Is Bruce there? Tell him it's David, put the kettle on, and he'll know who it is!"

He was just starting to tell us to fuck off when Bruce wanders past, coffee in hand "Dave what are you doing here? Kettle's just boiled!"

The bouncer was like "The one fucking time they are telling the truth....."

An interesting aside to that was that we were going to try to blag our way backstage to the Monster Energy party later that night. We technically had been invited, but the guy in charge of it all had the same first name as their sound tech who was the guy who had suggested we came along - though he had been a bit off his face when he made the suggestion). The same bouncer was looking after their gate, Vicki and I rock up and I was about to say we'd been invited, and he just said "have you got a wristband?" Me: "No, but Brian said come along..." Him: Here's a band for you then!" Me: "Sounds like a plan."

Backstage - as much Vodka and Monster Energy drink as you could stomach, and hanging out with the DJs in the tower during the showDSC00332.JPGDSC00336.JPGDSC00338.JPGDSC00340.JPGDSC00365.JPGDSC00366.JPG.
 
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Doc Strange

Doc Strange

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MartytheMartian said:
I wouldn't say that's really a great loss. When I worked on Security at Glastonbury in the early nineties I was seriously disappointed. Thought it was going to be great but it was full of tossers all pretending to be hippies. Most of the 'real' people were working at it rather than attending it. From what I have seen and heard about it since then it has become even more of a vastly overpriced highly commercial venture.
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Totally agree.

Used to do Glastonbury in the 80s, and a lot of the free festivals. It was fine then and I even enjoyed a couple in the 90s - the Prodigy were awesome in 94 iirc.

But haven't been since the late 90s and have no desire to.

It gradually became more middle-class and self-regarding, the BBC stuff hasn't helped. Learning that if you want to camp in the camper van field, it has to be a camper van not a works van with a mattress in the back really summed it up for me - middle class tossers in their £30K Mk I/II restored VWs = yes; younger and poorer folks = no.

Have friends who still attend as performers, but that's it.

DS
 
Old Nick

Old Nick

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Not sure if anyone’s interested but I have just found a radio App with 800 radio stations covering everything from Radio 2 to Planet rock, to Radio Punjab to Jazz FM and everything in between (y)

Called Radio Stations UK

https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs92UvfKK8gIVAe_tCh3okwK6EAAYASAAEgKjRvD_BwE

I thought radio died years ago:D Clearly not(y)

I’ve got Absolute 60’s playing Frank Sinatra on my Amp over WiFi - I love tech:D:D

And it’s Chrystal clear sound (y)
 
Don the Don

Don the Don

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Old Nick said:
Not sure if anyone’s interested but I have just found a radio App with 800 radio stations covering everything from Radio 2 to Planet rock, to Radio Punjab to Jazz FM and everything in between (y)

Called Radio Stations UK

https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs92UvfKK8gIVAe_tCh3okwK6EAAYASAAEgKjRvD_BwE

I thought radio died years ago:D Clearly not(y)

I’ve got Absolute 60’s playing Frank Sinatra on my Amp over WiFi - I love tech:D:D

And it’s Chrystal clear sound (y)
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Nice find, prefer music to the box kept a link to that cheers
 
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