Festivals of 2012

mk2_ginger_biscuit69 wrote: Autograff wrote: I was playing at 'Y Not Festival' on the Sunday in the Seqouia tent, good mates of mine so they kindly cranked it alittle , then someone broke their leg and we had to shut the tent down for 30mins. they were nice guys indeed. And that legbreak incident... such a ballache. I had to chaperone that ambulance all the way from production gate [C2] to the injury and back - apparently crowds arnt clever enough to move out the way of the big blue flashing lights and horn blasts.... anyways, just got back from Strummerville, Leeds and Electric Picnic. Unfortuantly all three of these i was working 15-20hr days not having time to see a single band/be arsed to take many pics at all. so strummerville, heres an artic lorryload of Noise control audio gear being painfully slowly towed out the swamp by a collection of tractors [leaving a bent bumper etc] Leeds - came with a big stage: and a smaller stage: and electric picnic - whats the craic you may ask? - is that a potato? - or do you just wana feck off you lil gobshite? - yeah its a big stage.... t'anks a million!! Amazed me how much the irish punters hated us Brits [most contractors were shipped in English folks], proper patriotism worse than the Yanks. Put me off the country a lot, loved it in the past

It was me playing when it happened, surprised how little people payed attention to people asking them to move out of the way, guessing you were one of the guys in the Hi-Vis around him then?

Why is it that the dumb racist's imagination can only stretch to the use of anti-Irish stereotypes when they want to be derogatory about the people?

"and electric picnic - whats the craic you may ask? - is that a potato? - or do you just wana feck off you lil gobshite? - yeah its a big stage.... t'anks a million!!"

If this was a reference to black people there would be uproar here. To be sure.

S

i also meant no offence at all to the english crews over to work. picnic used to stand out as a great festival, it's getting less great each year. and yes.. getting around the site etc is a nightmare. much frustration with all the types of wristbands etc. i'm sure much of the logistics could be done much more easily.

saw the last 2 tracks of orbital, it looked great. i love the led curtain things.

I think they have very strict sound restrictions on the noise levels there after about 1 or 2 in the morning. It was the same at glade 2009 (also at matterly bowl), I worked in the boomtown tent (not run by boomtown fair I dont think) during the day when Vsnares and MZO were playing, and my hearing took a battering. Went back at night and you could have a normal conversation with someone right in front of the rig.

Edited by sim667 - 07 September 2012 at 12:01pm

Shambala was only loud in the smaller tents, Kamikaze was dismally quiet.

Where when was this?!^^^^^