skidaisuki 0 Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Who's going? I'll be there... Particularly keen to see The Cure, Chemical Brothers, Ash, Iggy & the Stooges and Happy Mondays Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 The Cure?? Hammersmith Odeon, those were the days... The Lovecats da da dada da da dada Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 Yep, we are all waiting to see how much hair Robert Smith still has! Friday night Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I went a few years back (the year Oasis and the Sterephonics were playing). Loved it. Memories of sitting in a field eating a kebab that was so hot it seemed to be buring the skin off my lips and swimming in the freezing river. There was a cool rocky horroresque London circus there too. I'm planning on MMT making his music festival debut next year... but perhaps without the kebabs! Have fun skidaiski! Advice: Using the keitai rechargers is a hassle cos of the waiting times so keep your it switched off to save the battery and make plans to check in with your friends at certain times of the day. Just turn it on at those times. Get one of those blue tarps and hammer it down outside your tent, otherwise when you get back to your tent you won't be able to get in the door because someone else will be pitched on top of you. Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 Thanks me jane - good camping advice. I was there 2 years ago, but we were organised that time and stayed in a pension. No such luxury this time! My main memory was drinking enormous quantities of beer and wandering around a lot. The music was pretty good, but simply talking to new people was the best thing. Keeping my keitai dry may be the issue... Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 rach has been eating a lot of pies of late. I hope the truck is big enough Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 rach, pies and a big trcuk. Subliminal images appearing. Stop, stop. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Originally Posted By: me jane Advice: Using the keitai rechargers is a hassle cos of the waiting times so keep your it switched off to save the battery and make plans to check in with your friends at certain times of the day. Just turn it on at those times why not get a emergency battery pack for your keitai? - they use AA batteries and you can pick them up at 100yen shops.. Easy peasy. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 How long do those emergency battery packs last? I don't use them any more but when I used to, they would hardly last the night out if you made 2 or 3 calls. I suppose you could just take a load of AA batteries with you. I don't remember there being any convenience stores nearby but then I wasn't looking so might have missed them. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 If your 2 or 3 calls are on average 36.5 minutes each, then you will run down your batteries. Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 Well, I went, I saw, I enjoyed... The Cure were excellent, Happy Mondays were shambolically brilliant and Ash haven't suffered as much as they might from losing a lead guitarist. Surprise yesterday was Fermin Muguruza - an excellent ska / reggae band led by a Basque separatist-socialist. Not 100 percent on the politics, but no arguing with the tunes. Only negative was having to pitch the tent on too much of a slope - there simply ain't enough flat land (yes, I know it's a ski-jo...). The weather was pretty good compared to previous years and I had lots of vodka and tonics Link to post Share on other sites
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