My first too! Remember the storm as The Cure finished?Bristol Ashton Court music festival when I was a teen, but first proper festival was Glastonbury in about 1986.
Amazingly I went on my own via hitch hiking, and even more amazingly managed to bump into some friends, in the days before anyone had mobile devices to communicate
Glastonbury '92, '93, '94. I could say I have some great memories of those times, but truth is I can hardly remember a bloody thing. Dance culture had really taken hold, and I embraced it and everything that came with it!Mine was V Festival 1996 Warrington - Pulp, Supergrass, Cast, Gary Newman to name a few
I was conceived at this festival.First one is always pretty special.
Organised by non other than Jeremy Beadle. When I say "organised" facilities were non existent. Of course the weather was appalling.
But what a stellar lineup.
Friday:
Hawkwind
Dr John,
Wishbone Ash
Saturday:
Incredible String Band
Donovan
Family
Kinks
Captain Beefheart
Sunday:
Brinsley Schwartz
Country Joe
New Riders of Purple Sage
Grateful Dead for 5 -6 hours
Glastonbury 93 for me. Hitched from London with no ticket, got there and there was someone with a dodgy wristband you could unclip and reclip (they were made to snap if you tried). He said have it but make sure you give it to someone else when you're in, so me and my bird at the time got in free too.Glastonbury '92, '93, '94. I could say I have some great memories of those times, but truth is I can hardly remember a bloody thing. Dance culture had really taken hold, and I embraced it and everything that came with it!
'95 was the year Oasis was the big name, and tickets went double quick. So we sacked it off and went to Phoenix.
Oh yes Glasto '93, I do remember one or two things. Like being robbed twice. Someone smashed the side window of my Golf and nicked my CD player and all the CDs. That was a very noisy, blowy music-less drive home.Glastonbury 93 for me. Hitched from London with no ticket, got there and there was someone with a dodgy wristband you could unclip and reclip (they were made to snap if you tried). He said have it but make sure you give it to someone else when you're in, so me and my bird at the time got in free too.
High point for me was Spiritualised on the last night I think, I had the crazy idea that the guy next to me with a fire had the last human flame and my job was to make sure it didn't go out. How Spiritualised was that - don't ask me what induced it as I can't remember!!