C'est moi... And we got even closer! And then the security guards stole the giant inflatable thing Ahhh..... Mmmm..... Cept that stupid hippy got in the way And, erm, yeah...thats me in the middle
Thank you! I think I might send some photos into the organisers for next year's program...maybe get free tickets for next time!!
Great photos..This year was the first time in about 8 years I haven't been.....This has made me miss it even more....Looks like you had a wicked time...
I know I've officially left - but I had to post my claim to fame... See the head on the Franz Ferd pic, just to the left and infront of the tall ginger gut with a red t-shirt on? S'me. Bye!
Really?! Thanks, you don't know how much that means to me!! Lauren, that was you?! But we were so close, doh!
I was there. The problem was that it was originally a rave. The festie was gonna be just outside Bristol where the Avon free festie had always been. Coppers decided to stamp on it, and directed everyone to a rave over the borders that they knew about. Figured they were better off shunting us off to another force to deal with. Which was kinda funny, coz Avon and Somerset coppers didn't tell West Mercia coppers that they had 20,000 festie goers heading over their borders. Even gave us maps 'n' everything. Was very weird. Festie was actually ok. It wasn't 'organised' by anyone except in the sense that the original rave was 'organised'. Had a blast, personally, and the whole event was very mellow. If anything though, the travellers were as much to blame for any problems as anyone else. They'd been encouraging ravers to attend festies so as they could sell 'em drugs and make more money. 'twas the capitalist ethos of the traveller scene that dug the grave of free festies. Castelmorton screwed it good 'n' proper, just coz it was so fucking big. Tories couldn't ignore it anymore. Plus all the nice middle class raver kids had started attending. Game over.
Don't doubt it for a minute. But then there were 25,000 people at Castlemorton. That requires a lot more entertainment than three sound systems! I, for example, spent the best part of the weekend in front of Wango Riley's Travelling Stage (ah, them were the days!). Highlights being Poisoned Electrick Head, Back to the Planet and Citizen Fish - if memory serves. Well yeah. They were expecting a big rave, not a fucking immense free festie. Totally agree. Was the tail-end of the days when travellers, as a whole, really did clean up after themselves. West Mercia coppers were also top banana. I think I still have a photo somewhere from the guardian of the old bill playing rounders on site with some crusties. Yup. Had a mate that got sucked in by one of the largest smack sites in Somerset. And boy, that wasn't pretty! You may well have passed me then
I was in jail in Limerick, Ireland during this. At the time I was living on site in Thurles, got drunk and kicked in a shop window.....six months for my effort!:&
