Phew, that was fun!

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: Phew, that was fun!

What a fantastic festival!

- And an absolutely amazing bunch of Festival Weather friends to party with!

wave

Great vibe, great site, brilliant music and absolutely stunning weather!

Already I'm finding myself smiling as I think of some of the 'happenings' over the weekend.

As the stories unfold again in your memory, ( Poke

) why not share them here with us, to brighten the day.

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:23 am Post subject:

My fondest memories are of hanging out in the Fairy Garden with various random monged up spangled people, saturday night and all sunday afternoon! There were two young women there saturday night (glowing as if in moonlight, reflected glowing colours lending auras and smiley sheen of gleaming), and after awhile they asked me and J if we had any children, and when we said no, they said they wanted to be our children! Shocked

Mellow, illuminating hours spent in a timeless, musically busy flood of time reaching into the eternal spaceous special spaces...

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

I have so many highlights of this year that I don't know where to start!! Being hugged by random telling me how wonderful I am (ohh my ego!). Dancing with randoms who had so much energy it was scary. The bonkers lunchtime mash up crew. My best mate being pulled up to be part of the act in Pussy Parlor Laughing

The general respect shown by all. The walkabout characters. Naked orange guy. The three masked guys during Koxbox. Glowsticks, and glowstick sellers. Chilling out under the gazebo. Chai tea. Pancakes. Bumping into so many friends. I really could go on all day.... oh and the music was pretty good to Wink

I had such a good time I don't want the vibe to end, saw this place in the back of the program thought I'd come say hi thumbs up

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

howdy partners!

Stormin fest - big shout to glade krew and a stompin good time. Greatr music and vibes galore. Big hello to all weather krew who welcomed me into their fold with open arms, also big ahoy there! to efest krew for their awsome pirate camp and smiles...

cheers for an awsome experience

peace out

SI

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject:

That was indeed a great festival. I had an awesome time, and especially enjoyed dancing to Hellfish and Producer, Roland the Bastard and Sphongle. My two sets of the weekend, though, were Zinc (of course) and the People's Republic of Disco doing Juke Joint in the Pussy Parlure... I got to pick tunes by Lady Sovereign, Zinc and Madonna... woo hoo! And dance to Prince and Salt n Pepa... easily the highlight of my weekend. Big up PROD!!!

And welcome to si and Zem. Very Happy

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

mangakitten wrote (View Post): › That was indeed a great festival. I had an awesome time, and especially enjoyed dancing to Hellfish and Producer, Roland the Bastard and Sphongle. My two sets of the weekend, though, were Zinc (of course) and the People's Republic of Disco doing Juke Joint in the Pussy Parlure... I got to pick tunes by Lady Sovereign, Zinc and Madonna... woo hoo! And dance to Prince and Salt n Pepa... easily the highlight of my weekend. Big up PROD!!!

And welcome to si and Zem. Very Happy

Hi

We started the weekends dancing fun with Rowland, I'd not heard him before but was assured I'd love him and they were right, just as well there was lots of big dancing space Wink

Was the Pussy Parlor on the Friday? My boyfriend came back from that convinced he was the King of Funk, he showed us his moves, there was some wiggle going on thats for sure Laughing

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:

Nah, the Juke Joint bit of the Pussy Parlure was on Sunday night. It was fab. I really enjoyed the cabaret I saw in the PP on Friday as well. That place rocks!

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

Im in a bit of a strange state of mind but theres lots i want to say - give me till the end of the week and i might get it together! i also have some awesome photsos to put up, though having looked at fritz's they are sooo good!

Oh and is that Si as in Efests Bens friend? wave

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:41 am Post subject:

Rantings from the edge....

I think it was Friday afternoon,( could have been any day or time really <g>) when I bumped in to Jean, Syd was dancing his socks off at the origin stage. we just chatted about nothing really, but agreed we walk along together (as we were both going the same way) along the market. we looked at this, looked at that. when we got to the sticky arch I suggest we carried on to the rabbit tea house? to try and find Robin scarlet. when we got there is was farily empty - no Robin. There was some good jazz coming from the stage, so we got a ballon each, made our selves comftable in the soft arm chairs. the man opposite smiled as we sat down. A young girl to our left just stared- fixed - ahead. The sound of our ballons going in and out seemed to fit in well with the jazz. we both sat there for a while ...just... being. the man had gone. Jean made some comment about the jazz, wether it was live or recorded.... a couple arrived and asked if they could sit in the vacant seat opposite, we laughed and said of course, we were going anyway...we got up and left, going our serperate ways....

I have no idea why it sticks in my mind amongst all the chaos, maybe it was just a quiet moment, a peaceful moment, a moment shared......thanks Jean.. you and Syd are a very cool couple..

PS I hope I have spelt your name right <g>

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:28 am Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

Joyous wrote (View Post): › Im in a bit of a strange state of mind but theres lots i want to say - give me till the end of the week and i might get it together! i also have some awesome photsos to put up,

You got a sneaky photo in of me doing five minutes of Qigong. Razz

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

Can't really put into words the experience I had, it's been spectacularly amazing wicked safe, nice one everyone.

I can honestly say I went through every single emotion known to man, and a few unknown to man! I saw much beauty, almost too much perhapse. The weather was almost too good, and the people I met were all so kind and friendly.

I've recovered quite quickly considering, just trying my best to keep seeing the good in everything, after such an awe inspiring experience.

Safe as fuck people, Dr Don....

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:09 am Post subject:

What an awesome festival, definitely the best one I've ever been to!

Great vibe, wicked music, tasty food and blazing hot sunshine to top it all off.

Can't wait till next year! (Can we get a countdown timer going please Wink

)

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:15 am Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

Dr. Don wrote (View Post): › Can't really put into words the experience I had, it's been spectacularly amazing wicked safe, nice one everyone.

Same here man, truly amazing!

Highlight sets for me were, Rowland the bastard,shpongle,dino psaras, hellfish,domestic,Zinc.
Though my main highlights were sitting around chatting with all you guys at the so many random points we did Heart

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:20 am Post subject:

I was too twatted to really appreciate Domestic Sad

I'll lay off the ganja a bit next year I think...

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject:

mangakitten wrote (View Post): › Nah, the Juke Joint bit of the Pussy Parlure was on Sunday night. It was fab. I really enjoyed the cabaret I saw in the PP on Friday as well. That place rocks!

The cabaret was awesome! A great way to easy ourselves into the Saturday, plus our friend got pulled up to be part of the acrobatics, having large knives juggled past him, before they turned him into a Super Star DJ juggle

zenecho - It's funny the things that stick in your mind, my moment of the festival last year was seeing a middle class couple late 40's early 50's. They were dressed in smart clothes he had a shirt and jumper slung over his shoulders and she was wearing a long skirt and sensible shoes type outfits. I loved that he was carrying a glowstick and she had a cup that as they wondered along started to glow. As they stood there looking at the cup, into the sky, at the cup, ect, in a slight state of confusion, people wondering past would just stop and ask if them were OK.

I loved the acceptance from both the couple but also from the crowd, I don't know what they were doing there, maybe they were locals just checking it out but they didn't judge and weren't worried when a fully dressed up fairy gave them both a big hug. For me this summed up Glade, and to this day I wish I'd had a camera on me.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

Wow Zem! What a lovely memory, that is indeed the spirit of the Glade... I love this image you've created of them being slightly bemused, but open to it, and the fairy obviously picking up on the same vibe you describe, and acting on his urge to embrace and welcome them... all humans discovering the vulnerable tissue of the moment... thanx, for that one, Zem... Very Happy

And Zenecho! J told me about yr balloon interlude, she had a similar feeling about it you describe... nice, a special moment you two shared, and now have both shared with me! It's those random encounters that are the heart of the festy, like the guy that smiled at you as you sat down...

One of my best memories is simply of seeing a girl all dressed up in mad pink and orange outfit, with big stompy boots, getting her friend she had just run into at ID Spiral to photograph her, and then they chatting away, and laughing... she was so full of energy, bopping and zapping, and very compos mentos, I felt... when I suddenly realised I could take her picture, she kindly saw and responded by posing beautifully with her friend, and the two pictures turned out to be the best of my pics... (one didn't load during th six hours I spent uploading my pics tuesday Exclamation

... I'm gonna post em both again! They'll be at the beginning of the photo album for this year's Glade!) After I took them I got up to show them to her, and she told me she was loving my stuff (meaning my stripey socks with sandles, pink mesh gloves and wristlets, and stuff in my dreads and my hat, and my shirt! Laughing

) which made me happy, cos I thought I was hardly noticeable next to her, and loved her efforts, so for her to say that was a charge for me! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

Allen!

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: Phew, that was fun!

Thanks to layla, ghosty, daddy, crazy diamond, and chris massage for making me laugh and sorting me after finding me freezing and half dead wandering past them at 6am monday morning, thanks lalya for wrapping ghostys sleeping bag around me, and thank you for lending it mate, i cant begin to tell you how frozen i was.

smitten

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:46 am Post subject:

asydhouse wrote (View Post): › Wow Zem! What a lovely memory, that is indeed the spirit of the Glade... I love this image you've created of them being slightly bemused, but open to it, and the fairy obviously picking up on the same vibe you describe, and acting on his urge to embrace and welcome them... all humans discovering the vulnerable tissue of the moment... thanx, for that one, Zem... Very Happy

Any time

Love your hat by the way, I used to have one just like it!

CheshamCat - Are you talking about everyone shouting 'Allen!!' @ the ID on Sunday night *sniggers*

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:52 am Post subject:

"allan!"

wtf was up with that eh? Laughing