Crashed into the coverage of Reading last night & realised it was 20 years since I was last there in 92. The line up was quite good that year: I did manage to catch the fabled entry of Kurt Cobain wheelchaired out on stage in a hospital gown. Last time they played UK Missed the Beastie Boys & manics -I was selling programs. In there for Public Enemy & Public image May be I was doing it wrong to have memories(!), but where, when, what & maybe who did you do at a festival?
I remember standing in a field at Glastonbury in 1986 we were a team from UMIST collecting money for tickets, it was mad, it went like this,' how many in the car? 4 that will be 12 x 4 48 pounds please.' Then we handed all the money into the organisers I must have collected about 1000, it was mental, I remember lisening to England lose to Argentina, saw the cure madness and loads of stuff on the second stage microdisney fuzzbox etc. Back there in 1990 and my rucksac got nicked, not very impressed I think its the only time I had pints of cider for breakfast. I'll have to look up who played then. Even better was Milton Keynes Bowl: U2 REM Ramones Billy Bragg Spear of Destiny and someone else I don't remember. Wont bore you with lots of nostalgia including Dead Kennedys Subhumans Clash Undertones and New Model Army etc
only festivals i've done is download, so my memories are just of sweaty, long haired dudes! lol prodigy was immense this year though, hanging with some peeps off their faces on pills, skanking like feck in wellies after trying my first "brownie" ozzy osbourne trying to jump and run around on stage was pretty epic as was turning around from the front and seeing a wave of people facing back at you teaming up with some guys who had attached a piece of string to a used cup, so when the skanks come round to collect them for pennies we could pull it out the way and watch them fall over lol laughing at ****ed people passed out everywhere, one guy last year started a mini pile-on with about 20 people on him so people could take pictures, drawing on him, then some lass nicked his sunnies, possibly phone, and his wallet, I had words but she told me to **** off and did one, poor lad! the darkness after reforming with original line-up, they really can wail! lol SOAD reforming after their solo stuff, man I was wasted, some dude had bought a load of ciders but lost his mates, so shared them with me
I often reflect on past festivals, gigs and raves, though any memory of the raves is very hazy, always makes me want to go and do it all again and then I remember music is sh*t nowadays and people are even worst.
looked it up 1986 half man half bisciut level 42 lloyd cole and housemartins 1990 James Jesus Jones Happy Mondays
