Chrismpw's letters from a festival

[chrismpw]

Rozzers if you mean the old bill

Thought it didn't look right. Damn it now i don't look down with the kidz.

 

[Jimishorts]

rosser
a logger who peels the bark from, and often smooths one side of, a log so that it may be dragged easily.

@BigBlueNose is a lot of things but he’s no rosser.

 

[chrismpw]

rossernoun
a logger who peels the bark from, and often smooths one side of, a log so that it may be dragged easily.

Apologies if you meant this

Well it being the wychWOOD festival just maybe I did

 

[degsy]

To the tune of

I once spent a week in 1986? in a pre airbnb renter in Staithes (N yorks coast) its basically a little cove and the radio was poor in the evenings. By some flukey line of sight radio thing I was able to pick up radio aberdeen (??? ffs)...anyway that introduced me to the lads.
Strange days indeed.

 

[chrismpw]

I have learned, at this festival, that there's a new generation of warbling female singers doing bad impersonations of Amy Winehouse.

There's only so much woooah and waaaaaaay i can take. Especially when they're used almost to the exclusion of actual lyrics.

To balance this up, i discovered a potentially tremendous good band called the outcasts today. Very much in the mould of the levellers with driving bass lines and fiddle. But ruined by the male Larry the lamb warbling-voice singer. Sounded like he was permanently in tears ffs. Such a shame.

 

[Frang]

I have learned, at this festival, that there's a new generation of warbling female singers doing bad impersonations of Amy Winehouse.

There's only so much woooah and waaaaaaay i can take. Especially when they're used almost to the exclusion of actual lyrics.

To balance this up, i discovered a potentially tremendous good band called the outcasts today. Very much in the mould of the levellers with driving bass lines and fiddle. But ruined by the male Larry the lamb warbling-voice singer. Sounded like he was permanently in tears ffs. Such a shame.

So glad I'm not at this awful sounding event..

Crap bands, amateur comedy and teachers..

It's A no from me!

 

[chrismpw]

So glad I'm not at this awful sounding event..

Crap bands, amateur comedy and teachers..

It's A no from me!

To be fair, its a really good festival. I'm just a miserable git. But i enjoy that.

 

[Philw]

Two very decent bands today - YouTube not really doing justice to their live presence and showmanship:

Folk On


Rusty Shackle

First: terrible. Sort out sounds levels for a start. Also comedy is not their thing.
Second: quite decent.

 

[Wayno]

Just got home from download, feet are suitably sore.

Made sure to spend Thursday in castle Donington in my Everton shirt and met a couple of blues out there

The mind absolutely boggles as to how people still get caught short by the weather, I’ve been to every download for the last decade and it’s never once been 100% dry, yet every year you see some poor soul leaving early because their tent flooded lol

 

[chrismpw]

Doing the same gig at Cornbury festival this weekend. Part of the world inhabited by Jeremy Clarkson and David Cameron and the likes.

Better get my flat cap washed and ready so I can doff it to our wealthy overlords.

 

[Blue Piper]

Doing the same gig at Cornbury festival this weekend. Part of the world inhabited by Jeremy Clarkson and David Cameron and the likes.

Better get my flat cap washed and ready so I can doff it to our wealthy overlords.

Wash your cap and when you reach the festival - Lay it out flat in front of you - Start reading aloud from your letters from a festival - Viola people will start putting coinage into your cap

 

[chrismpw]

Wash your cap and when you reach the festival - Lay it out flat in front of you - Start reading aloud from your letters from a festival - Viola people will start putting coinage into your cap

More likely I'll get booted out!

 

[scratchnsurf]

The frigging dance tent industrial booming of pre-recorded pap continues to ruin all the live acts.

But worse, far worse than all this, it fails to drown out the drunken dirge being shreiked out by the utter muppets in red in the tv tent.

Please win this spuds. Put an end to this misery.

Was massively disappointed when I realised you didn't mean the transvestite tent.

 

[kev]

Doing the same gig at Cornbury festival this weekend. Part of the world inhabited by Jeremy Clarkson and David Cameron and the likes.

Better get my flat cap washed and ready so I can doff it to our wealthy overlords.

Beautiful part of the country is the cotswolds. Spent a lot of time in Chipping Norton and Burford etc over the years as my ma was originally from there.
Speaking of Festivals, does anybody else off here go to Tolpuddle? Later this month I'll be going to my 9th Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in the last 12 years.

Programme | Tolpuddle Martyrs

www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Loving this thread - has proper made me laugh. Chris, please continue with the griping.

I've never been to a festival of any sort that required staying in a tent. I wish I had done it when I was younger, I don't think I|'d appreciate it now. I suppose I could try glamping but that seems to defeat the object.