Glastonbury 05

my pois were ruined from the river that went thru our tent on friday morning.... why i camped at the bottom of the hill i dont know!!! best glasto though

thanks meg, alex and nat from tepooka .... for teaching me staff and having us in your stall alllllll the time x

Im sure I must have met you at some point..

Wow, what a wicked Glastonbury! Everyone who didn't go says to me it must have been miserable because of the bad weather, but I was there from the Tuesday afternoon to the Monday evening and it was only bad for Fri/Sat, the rest of the time it was absolutely gorgeous!

UCOF, apologies for abusing your celebrity and dumping my fire gear in your tent, think I am the random you speak of. 'Twas a very long walk from Tom's field where I was camped to the stone circle... much appreciated!

Definite thanks go to Ben and Meg from te pooka for the lovely doubles and poi they made me, they are all lovely! Thanks also for brain dumping a shitload of new doubles moves, which I'll have to go away and practice for a long time....

to those of you here that I met, however briefly! Hopefully see you guys again at Falmouth, provided a) I can get some more time off work, and b) can scab another lift off Mr Durbs... If anyone is interested, I've posted most of my glasto photos here on dontstayin.com. They are mostly random, but there are some nice ones!

Oh, btw am curious about everyone's favourite moments of the festie.. other than the stone circle at dawn, obviously! I would have to say, best band = the magic numbers, best dance act = timo maas, best moment = loads of them, but surely it has to be the madness that is Lost Vagueness on sunday night!

UCOF - i was a bit embarrassed about the cake, as it was crap, and transport didnt really allow it to be transported...umm...

Foul Muff will be cake infested, as I will have transportable abilities then. There will be brownies too...

Damn, I should have bought more donuts! and I owe:

UCOF a pizza and chips

and Millhouse a couple of beers.

But now i am skint. Damnit!

Loved it tho, and am extremely p/o about missing Sunday night!

erm...

and a Hello to Dom who I saw for about 5 minutes

Did anyone else forget he was there or was it only me?

and i cant believe that ive only just got back on here and from glasto and had not checked this before i left s i could fid and meet you all gutted, guessill have to find anotehr festival at some point or wait 2 years to meet ya'll
just thought as im back id say hi and GLASTO KICKED ASS!!!!!
sorry guess im stil a bit hyper after still not really gtting much sleep since it ended.

*sigh* wish i knew more ppl closer to me that had even a remote interest, im stil far to new to be any good but im practicin almost every day, sorry wrong forum lol ill go whine on a different board to this one

I saw Dom briefly at Shpongle

just got home last night after all the festy goodness, it was great fun, ive had an absolutely awesome couple of weeks, sorry i missed you guys alot of the time but i was bumbling around on some kind of crazy mission for most of it.

sorry to UCOF and Bov, i think i may have scared jons sister when i came to say goodbye to you guys monday morning and get my sticks.

anyway, i guess my point for the whole weekend is
Thankyou Glastonbury and goodnight, i'll see you in 2007.

Arrrg...

I've been at an academic conference since Tuesday mornin, havin got back from Glasto late Monday night... definately not the place for a festival comedown...

Just wanted to say thanks again to TePOOKA for digging the river diversion which prevented all our stuff from being washed away...

yo!!! Big thanks to everyone who came down to the Te POOKa stall! You guys rocked. You know who you are. Cos I don't... Don't know anyones on-line names or nothin. Hey if you remember me, Ben, who was organising the te POOKa stall and you chatted with me and hung out with my minions but who I don't know your name say hello. Toz and Lazyangel I know but that's it...

I would particularly like to speak with John about his staff that he wants a fixing

Anyway.

Heckling. Almost more fun that spinning. My particular favorites were:

"Your a c*nt" MCP
"You can't spin, you're ginger" MCP
"That might look fancy but I can spin faster than that" myself.
"that's good but do it again with prancing... no more prancing... still more..." john

I met you (albeit briefly) at the shop on Sunday afternoon.

I was the guy who was hammered on Pear cider.

Oh yeah... that really narrows it down doesn't it?

@ self

really? yey. That was a gooood heckle

Hello MarkMark

i saw dom. i even hugged him(outsie the stall, and in the circle)

soooo wish the muso meet and the spinning meet had been together on the last night. i was so up for a spin it wasn't true.



R

Ok I need to say some thank you's:

Bovril: Thanks for helping us find everyone when we arrived and for trying to teach me fishtails and that club spinning thing!

UCOF: for always being entertaining, cheeky and managing to poo in a disposable box: I only took a piss in a fabric conditioner bottle, which pales in comparison!

Wild Child: it was cool to get you a bit better after Fal3, especially as I can now remember your 'real' name!

Trippy Hippy: thanks for just being there, turning up with a random coat and even randomer stories, and your great effort on mill's birthday surprise!

Mill: Thanks for letting us steal your flags, always smiling and being a ray of sunshine no matter how bad the weather was! Hope you're enjoying the smiley glasses!

Dom: was cool to see you again all of two times! sure you had a great time. We missed the 'pendulum of death' or whatever it's called at the circus stage, but thanks for all your advice and smiles

MarkMark: was great to see you again after Clapham, even when you were trashed on that amazing cider!

MCP: great to meet finally you in the flesh! thanks for the inspiration, humour and heckling! hope to see you at Fal 4 I especially liked 'circles are for wimps! let's see some squares!' (which were very cool I might add!)

Ben: was nice to meet you, hope to see you at another meet soon?

Bluecat: Thank you for the superbitchy ridiculously pontificated (or whatever it was) tangling workshop which I thoroughly enjoyed! Your spinning is a continuing inspiration to me! Sorry about Sunday. Wish I'd known about the muso meet!

Gayle....! and Neil for being lovely as always and always being the first people we met at the stone circle! Look forward to seeing you again at Fal 4. P.S: Spin more! I want to see more!

Flashpoint: For being a friendly bloke: See you at Fal 4

Garthy: for being a very nice bloke and for getting HoP on the BBC website!

Ok, I'm starting to lose track now, and I have to go to a BBQ, so let me end by saying Thank you to the Te Pooka stall for all their hospitality (putting up with me and Karen on Monday morning) and a great show. Someone give some hugs to Alex for me! I would also like to say that I really enjoyed the Chimaera fire show, particularly Tim on stilts and all the acro stuff! although somehow it got credited to Xfire (who were also great to watch and had fantastic audience participation!). Thanks to anyone else I haven't mentioned here for helping make those few days a proper escape from reality and thoroughly enjoyable!
And also thanks to all those that passed the green and let me use their toys!
On a personal note, before Glastonbury, I was getting totally stuck with my poi, facing a drought of moves. Since then I have learned more about spinning poi than I thought I ever would and have ceased to look som much for 'moves' as such, getting closer to what I aim for spinning to be. Don't know if any of that makes sense but I just want to say to everyone cos I'm so happy about it!

Hey was a quality weekend had to go down to London for work for the week afterwards so only just had a chance to read all this. The Levellers were most definatly the highlight although Kaabian done an awesome set.

Sorry i didn't really get to see any of you i tried but after the initial injury to Gemmas feet we just set up camp near near the bottom of pennards! just high enough to meet the flooding.

Those of you i did meet it was most definatly a pleasure and look forward to seeing you again. Elaine sorry didn't see more of you, millhouse and Ro but i kind of got caught up in the trying to do everything at once and barely had enough time to do anything!

Speak to you all later

Next time I'm going to bring my own parrafin and go around the stone circle laying the smack down until there are no up themselves spinners left.

Or maybe Falmouth 4 will chill me out. Really hope I make it down there.

LazyA you was cool, what did you teach me with poi? Blatently I've forgotten... oh well...

mcp: me.... teach....you......? erm not sure. I do remember talking to you about different types of antispin (antispin vs. antisolations).... maybe how to grunt like a female tennis player? Thanks for your pointers on btb weave, i got about 8 beats of it before tw*tting myself yesterday..

Oh wait was it the changing longarm weave fountain thing that I spoke to you about?

hey,

I'm new to HoP but I was at glasto this year - been going for last 10 years when it's been on and I can get a ticket - love it!

Nice to see so many like minded folk.
Can anyone tell me about this Falmouth thing? I've seen it mentioned but have no idea what it is?



Am a complete novice when it comes to poi but so keen

xx

Have a looksie here: http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbthreads/show.../o/all/fpart/21

*mutter mutter* lucky sods who can go to Falmouth and who aren't busy.... *mutter mutter*

Hey guys, Ro's got some wicked vid footage of Glastonbury - I'm sure it'll pop up on HoP at somestage when he get's it edited n stuff

can he send any out on disc or anything?

I too would like a full copy please if available

Is there any footage of the sunday heckling?

i missed lots of the heckling so would love a copy of that!

You missed out on Heckling Gayle?? ... Pfffft thats so unlike you

i got a few heckles but not nearly enough

there's lots of lots of things - I'll poke him to get it sorted and copied onto copious qty of discs and bring to Falmouth.

Shouldn't be too difficult to persuade him - I have weed, he doesn't