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« on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 14:42:21 » |
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Just bought tickets for me and a mate. They came to £170 each which seems crazy probably more than this years Glasto.
Anyway, has anyone been before? Never been to a foreign festival before should be quality!
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« Reply #1 on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 20:57:55 » |
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Sounds good....is that in Denmark?
The nearest I've been to a foreign festival, was the Rose of Tralee in I think Kerry RoI.
This is a celebration of Irishness....spose its main thing is music and dancing around the pubs and open spaces of the aforementioned town. I was there for about three days, I cycled. Don't remember too much about it as its just a huge :guinness: piss up.
A couple of things stood out though, one....I've never seen so many people pissed up and just lying about on the street unconscious and two.. drinking in an IRA pub.
I went in my political phase, and chatting to some fellas in a pub, mentioned a certain sympathy for the Irish cause in the north....so these fellas invited me to a back room for a bit of a drink On arriving the atmosphere was OK, got introduced to a few people, but there was a few fellas wearing the Yasser Arafat teatowel...apparently they had just returned from a training camp in Libya :shock:
When you've had a few it can be easy to say the wrong thing....I made sure I didn't..
fB would enjoy a thing like that, the guiness and falling asleep in the street....not necessarily the politicos.
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 21:05:20 » |
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i'll probably do radfest if its on and the ragged eged one in ciren.that will be it
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« Reply #3 on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 22:59:11 » |
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fB would enjoy a thing like that, the guiness and falling asleep in the street....not necessarily the politicos. i think ben would probably get kneecapped, bless him roskilde is in denmark, i believe there was a few deaths there after an accident there a few years back? i've always liked the look of that festival in valencia, benicassim i think it's called. usually a good line up with lots of twee indie. |
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« Reply #4 on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 23:51:20 » |
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fB would enjoy a thing like that, the guiness and falling asleep in the street....not necessarily the politicos. i think ben would probably get kneecapped, bless him roskilde is in denmark, i believe there was a few deaths there after an accident there a few years back? i've always liked the look of that festival in valencia, benicassim i think it's called. usually a good line up with lots of twee indie. Is that Valencia..Ireland, or Valencia ...Spainland? I'd have thought you'd be going along to a few folk festivals like Bromyard, which specialise in Morris dancing  |
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 23:52:28 » |
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spain.
i've been tempted to do cropredy but don't really know anyone who would go with me!
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 23:58:21 » |
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spain.
i've been tempted to do cropredy but don't really know anyone who would go with me! No need to take someone....just don your smock, hang your pint pot from your belt...and sing hey nonny no, and the job will be a good un...moustachioed bird back in the tent in no time. I know a bird who's in the Swindon Morris group, who's half decent, problem is I've no point of reference for any sort of communication. Hey ho nonny no. |
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« Reply #7 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:02:33 » |
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i think you're a folkie in denial, reg. one of these days i'll drag you down the folk club
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« Reply #8 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:06:40 » |
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i think you're a folkie in denial, reg. one of these days i'll drag you down the folk club Folk off SY.....as an open minded type, I'm prepared to give most things a try....but having given folk a bit of a chance, I realise it should be Ein Volk musik. |
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« Reply #9 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:11:52 » |
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the bloke who ran swindon folk club for years is a communist.
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:14:34 » |
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« Reply #11 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:18:10 » |
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the bloke who ran swindon folk club for years is a communist. Indeed... Ted Poole. |
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« Reply #12 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:19:51 » |
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see, you're a closet folkie.
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« Reply #13 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 00:26:45 » |
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see, you're a closet folkie. I have to admit to having looked at Alfred Williams' s collection, Folk Songs of the Upper Thames Valley, but it was solely for historical reasons, and the only finger in the ear, was trying to remove wax. |
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« Reply #14 on: Sunday, March 2, 2008, 04:20:59 » |
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i have been to roskilde, its the best european festival,and the closest to glastonbury in size and vibe, i had a fucking great time there.
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