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Newcastle uni 1995, where I heard Children of the bong play squiggleasconica and toby played last train to lhasa, around the time last train was released as a single and triple/quadruple l.p. those were the days eh?, very sirius sounds indeed! we're getting a lot of abnormal interference.................
About 9 years ago(?) Toby played and we danced in a car park next to a beach on which (well IN which) we camped. It was great and everything was "in the sand"..
ah, the megadog beach festival, 1998. yes! i was there.....i remember him playing drippy.
HOW MUCH REALITY CAN YOU TAKE, CROISSANT NEUF IN 2002, THE ONE WITH THE GROUPIES/BANCO-ETTES ON STAGE. MOST OF ALL FOR THE SACRED SYMBOLS I SAW WHEN I SHUT MY EYES DURING SOME OF THE SET ,AHEM, MAGICAL!
Ahh.. megadog beach festival, 1998! What a party - Carlyon Beach - we were down there a few months ago, reminissing over what a feb weekend we had, I remember dave the drummer, banco and the levellers all being fantastic! Unfortunately now the council has decided to built high-rise appartments all over the beach - the place was a building site.. such a shame, it was a beautiful beach. Also remember banco playing with children of the bong at the Roadmender in 1995 - have this wierd memory of someone on the stage shouting 'Anyone for Ice-cream?'.. was this toby or the bong children?
hey palmerama, remember the people scaling the cliffs and swimming onto the beach in order to get in to the fezzie for free? loonatics!!!
Hey icemonster: Do you remember that big boat of pirate types at anchor off the bay? & a strange little "night club" full of sand! (or did I dream that?) It was a great beach, I remember WoMAD there years before too. So they are building down there now?! At the BOTTOM of the cliff? Good plan for future sea-level rise! But then they will build a wall to hold back the sea.. Do mankind ever learn?
"land ahoy!"....course i remember the pirates! i also remember the sand fleas, eat static and 808 state in the rain (?). better than that for me was the lizard festival in 1997 (also megadog)....NOT the 1999 one of the same name!
Oh yes the "hoppy things" we called them "in the sand!" Didn't go to Lizard in '97 but I was working at the '99 eclipse "Lizard" one - which you did well to miss!
I was working at that one aswell. I was wearing an orange fluro jacket thing. I saw the eclipse. It was good. The festival was a disaster though...
Ha ha, who wasn't? (in a hi-vis vest thing) & Wasn't it just! (disasterous that is) I was driving a gold(ish) LandCruiser around in the mud, towing caravans and Land Rovers etc. Was spending a lot of time on the gate (what gate?) in the mud! I did like the (empty) showers and the fairground ride, which I have never seen the like of since!
Hi icemonster, Oh yes! I forgot about the pirates! The cliffs were really steap, but a few made it if I remember correctly! Seem to remember problems with people stealing wrist-bands too? Wow - great to here from everyone who was there. We had such a fab time :) How to destroy a beach? Follow St Austell Council's lead.... http://www.eden-project.co.uk/carlyon-bay-beach.htm
wasn't it the fool who built his house on sand?
Yes - but there was also that "fool on the hill"...
Thanks for that link palmerama - the pictures therin are very sad. I guess too many people found out what a nice beach it was nature had created! Man's next logical move therfore is to 'improve' on nature's work and then sell it off for a quick profit.. Wasn't that beach formed by erosion of the cliffs it is at the base of? Maybe I have that wrong, but it does not seem a very sensible place to build to me!
Sqmike - were you a steward or "headcase scottish security" - ie orange or yellow vest?
Umm - neither actually Duncathon, but I think I had a yellow one on at Lizzard.. Why? The security caused us no end of trouble I have to say, but that's often the way of these things! I was a volunteer on the non-punter gate doing confiscations - always a popular job! Also doing general dog's-body work for the disabled camping field (& other places) not that there was anyone but us volunteers camped in it! Having said that about security, I really did have to leave once they did... They are theoretically on the festival's side. How about you then? Orange or Lemon? I was in a pink vest last time at Glasto!!!
I was a volunteer safety steward in an orange vest. Got in free, and got fed once a day. The yellow vests were a firm from Glasgow. Who were all headers. Rangers fans as I remember - for some of them it was their first time in England so they thought it a license to pillage the land. The nastiest incident I witnessed was in the dance tent when a group of them manhandled a young lady from the dance floor into a van on the pretense that she was seen supplying drugs. Her friends alerted us and we managed to get her out of their clutches unscathed. To cap it all. on the last night, a large group of them systematically looted tents, including my own, leaving me with no means to get home.Tthankfully there were still some people who had faith in human nature enough to give me a lift to Exeter from where i hitched home. Still, good eclipse though.....did you catch a glimpse?
Yeah, really sorry to hear about your Lizard '99 Dunc. I think it was that firm (no names, no blame, no court case) that had (still have?) an 'interesting' recruitment policy. They go round rough pubs in Glasge and when there's a fight (which they may need to provoke) they offer the winning thugs jobs! - I jest not!! Yes, I did see the eclipse from the fest site, cloudy but it just cleared a gap for totality and the 'diamond ring' - it was an unforgettable weird & trippy experience, I'm glad I was there. The looting may have had something to do with there being no money to pay people? That dance tent was great, but lacking in something... Oh yeah that's it, paying punters to dance in it!! We may have met there you know, it was massivly over staffed for the small number of people who bought the over-priced tickets. Do you remember the local EHO's final inspection on day 1 producing three pages of 'snags' which had to be fixed before they could let punters in? What a shambles it was. I am often to be found doing some sort of unpaid stewarding at festivals - except not this year, maybe in 2007 though...
It was worth it for the eclipse. I was on the edge of the site near a crusty bus playing techno. They slowed the music down to a heartbeat in the moments leading upo to totality. There were people from all over the world there - so many different languages but the same frisson of excitement. I remember the miraculous parting of the clouds that allowed us to see the diamond ring. The paper next day said our cheers could be heard miles away down the coast. We were so lucky! I have since learned that the hole in the clouds is due to a weird effect caused by totality. Air beneath the cloud base is warmer than that above (caused by the shadow) so the clouds convect downwards instead of upwards for a brief moment. The "360 dgree sunset" was also eerie and beautiful. I ahve since seen an eclipse in clear skies, and despite seeing totality unbroken for 4 mins it wasn't as interesting as Cornwall because the build - up was enhanced by cloud cover - the "layering" efffect as the shadow drew close, and the final rush of the shadow sweeping across the land were not as pronounced. The multitudes of tourists made it less special also. Yes - it was a poor festie but a wonderful spectacle on 11th August 99. Green Velvet in the Dance tent on the night before the eclipse my fave moment. He mixed King of Pain by Police into the set - altogether now... "There's a little black spot on the sun today..."
Shame about the lizard eclipse, this one was the real Lizard, put on by the locals (same as the Lizard 97) and ruined by competion from greedy national promoters and bad pre publicity by the state
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