HW: Hawkfest - one to celebrate

[trev]

7 foot of water?....nothing!
cold gravel?....we would have killed for it

this was glastonbury http://www.realfestivalmusic.co.uk/glasto2007.html


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chaosillumination" <Chaosillumi at CHAOSILLUMI.F9.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Hawkfest - one to celebrate


> You were lucky Mike, having it so easy at Glasters, we dreamt of being 
> able to see any actual mud beneath the 7ft of water that was on the main 
> road interchange into Chesterfield on Monday...we've been living in a lake 
> here, not the luxury of a tent. And eating freezing cold gravel too.
>
> http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/chesterfield?articleid=2981617
>
> Another 6 inches higher on the 'stream' feeding that puddle and Hawkwind 
> would no longer have a lightshow. I lost enough gear at the Hawkfest due 
> to water without being flooded out...hopefully ALL the strobes will be 
> working next time.
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: HW: Hawkfest - one to celebrate
>
>
>> Keith Henderson writes:
>>
>>> So the rain was bad...and the mud was worse...and the fermenting broth
>>> of straw and spilled beer was too much to take.
>>
>> Rain?? Mud?? That was just a wee bit o' damp. At Glasters we had real
>> rain and mud. The kind of rain and mud that goes on forever and drains
>> your soul even as it tries to suck off a welly with every step you take,
>> Mud that permeates every crevice of skin adn clothing and oozes like The
>> Blob into your sleeping bag to keep you awake and fantasising of hot
>> showers and soap.
>>
>> As for straw, we dreamt of having straw. On the whole of Glasters there
>> were exactly three straw bales and traders were involved in armed
>> shootouts to obtain these so that punters could buy from them without
>> the use of advanced nautical equipment.
>>
>> Straw. If only I'd had some straw. Hell, if I could have found grass I'd
>> have made my own straw.
>>
>> FoFP
>