Glastonbury '95
I was on the dole in Leeds with no money and only 3 cans of baked beans left - but some friends were driving down to the Festival in their hippy van to bunk over the fence so I thought 'Fuck It - might as well be skint and hungry at Glastonbury'. It was the worst weekend of my life.

My 3 cans of beans became 2 as some nob head nicked one off me as I was eating it.

Having no tent and nowhere to sleep was a bad idea. This was made worse by the fact that when I did find a 'quiet' spot and try to kip next to some bins, I was woken up by a stranger shouting with glee after finding a carrier bag filled with drugs next to my head.

I could have done with those. Starving, sleep deprived and sober is a shit way to enjoy a festival.

In the days before mobiles it was very easy to get lost. I spent the 3 days wandering about in a hungry knackered stupor with no idea where my handful of friends were.

Oasis headlined. They were fucking shit. I actually walked off - preferring my desperate hungry solitude to their dreadful performance.

I did see some lovely naked breasts though when I was sat at the Tor :)

Hitch hiking home on the Monday morning was the best bit. A complete stranger gave me 10 fags. I got a lift to Stone Henge after 2 seconds of putting my thumb out and I spent 2 days in the sunshine meandering back to Leeds. I had to beg for 20 pence outside a remote petrol station to buy a Mars Bar though.

TL;DR - I've never been back.
(l0bst3r, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 13:43, 30 replies)

The Tor is about ten miles away from the festival. Did you take binoculars or sutin?

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 13:47, closed)

Good point - Just googled it. Can't have been the Tor - it was a massive stone monument on top of a mound though. Maybe part of the stone circle? It was a LONG time ago......
(l0bst3r, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 13:55, closed)

You mean those fairly small rocks half way up that gentle slope?
For somebody who failed to find a bag of drugs, you seem to have a very drug-addled memory. Are you just making this up to seem less dreary?
(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 14:25, closed)

The green fields

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 14:41, closed)

What about them?

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 14:50, closed)

They are green

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 16:31, closed)

That's a pretty unusual colour for fields. Are you sure you weren't tripping balls?

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 17:08, closed)

Try comprehending the reality of being sleep deprived and starving for 3 days - as mentioned in the post. Recollections two decades later may seem vague don't you think? Or are you deliberately being obtuse just because you're jealous that I've seen naked breasts?
(l0bst3r, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:00, closed)

I'm just wondering how you managed to dream up a massive stone monument on a mound when there are just a few standing stones on a grassy slope.
Don't get defensive, petal. Nobody cares if you make stuff up on the internet.
(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:06, closed)

I think it was this: i1.cdnds.net/13/26/618x409/glastonbury-2013-pics.jpg

in my memory it was MASSIVE.
(l0bst3r, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:10, closed)

Like your penis?

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:13, closed)

bigger actually.
(l0bst3r, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:22, closed)

Fortunately nobody has seen it for twenty years.

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:32, closed)

Nice to see that you have something in common.

( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 23:55, closed)

This is the internet. We've ALL seen naked breasts.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 25 Jun 2015, 15:06, closed)

All you have to do is wander round the food vans as they are about to shut up
You can eat like a king for free at most festivals if you time it right
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 14:42, closed)

I don't see many kings skulking around burger vans these days, so I'll have to take your word for it.

( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Thu 25 Jun 2015, 23:59, closed)

Oasia are always shite
When protools isn't available in the studio to put them in tune and in time.
( jagwap, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 6:11, closed)

Being in tune and in time doesn't ever make shit songs good though

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 8:42, closed)

I like about two Waziz songs.

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 9:56, closed)

Yeah, but you're a soft cunt, who is very tolerant of mediocrity.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 11:15, closed)

truth

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 16:37, closed)

Alright, Jay.

(yo man river INVINCIBLE, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 9:56, closed)

Best as can be expected.
( jagwap, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 16:18, closed)

Heh heh
I did this in '98 or '99 but ten minutes after jumping the fence I bumped into a mate who had taken a spare tent, which he'd already pitched. Had an absolutely brilliant festival for about £20 all told.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 10:52, closed)

You lucky git
:)
(l0bst3r, Fri 26 Jun 2015, 11:10, closed)