homelands 2000

[jjinit]

who was there??

what are your memories??

losing my trainers in thick mud and not caring
the river running through the main ten during pvd's early morning set
that daft bitch hanging from the cables during leftfield
realising that everybody climbing up the sides of the bowl and pissing were just adding to the mud as the piss dribbled back down the slope into the myre.
8) dancing with sarah cracknell from st etienne
gf getting the hump cause of dancing with sarah cracknell
8) ian brown...king monkey
waiting at winchester station at 8am, witha 2hr wait bfore the first train back to wokingham
the warm cab we got all the way from winchester to farnham, even if it cost £80

 

[Robder]

what are your memories??80

All of the above (minus St Etinenne & cab fayres)

Plus:

Purposely losing all my friends so I could run around in the mud on my own.

That BRILLIANT Ministry house tent with the wallpaper, flying ducks, kitchen, ironing board and diva-tastic house wife dancers...LOVED it in there (but not sure if it was 2000 )

 

[silvia]

dancing with sarah cracknell from st etienne

Cool!

 

[jjinit]

almost forgot, fit lesbian coming on to my missus!!

 

[Robder]

Loving the way 'fit lezza' is fine but 'fit bloke' would warrant a black eye.

 

[jjinit]

Loving the way 'fit lezza' is fine but 'fit bloke' would warrant a black eye.

you know it!!!!

 

[Barbie]

Yay I was there

Got to be one of the all-time classic festivals, even the rain couldn't dampen our spirits 8)

We'd gone down on a coach so left the site at 6am, walked across the hill soaking wet up to our knees in mud, got on the coach, the coach driver didn't know how to turn the air con off so we had to drive all the way back to London in sub zero temperatures Got back to Victoria at 8am just longing for a nice warm bath, were begging taxis to take us home but they wouldn't cos we were covered in mud. I lived in North London then, got the tube to Tottenham Hale, waited there for an hour (still in freezing cold conditions), eventually a train came and we jumped on it, it was only as we whizzed past my stop that we realised it didn't stop where we wanted to Ended up at some random stop in the middle of Hertfordshire, both still wrapped in foil and blankets, there was only one train an hour and again no taxis would take us, we must have looked such a state that the bloke who worked at the station came over to us and said 'here's a cup of hot tea, I've added lots of sugar to it, you look like you need it'

Eventually got home at 3pm Sunday afternoon, it had took us 7 hours to get across London

When people say they're not going to do a festival if it's not sunny they don't know what bad weather is at a festival

 

[NITEFLY]

Yay I was there

Got to be one of the all-time classic festivals, even the rain couldn't dampen our spirits 8)

We'd gone down on a coach so left the site at 6am, walked across the hill soaking wet up to our knees in mud, got on the coach, the coach driver didn't know how to turn the air con off so we had to drive all the way back to London in sub zero temperatures Got back to Victoria at 8am just longing for a nice warm bath, were begging taxis to take us home but they wouldn't cos we were covered in mud. I lived in North London then, got the tube to Tottenham Hale, waited there for an hour (still in freezing cold conditions), eventually a train came and we jumped on it, it was only as we whizzed past my stop that we realised it didn't stop where we wanted to Ended up at some random stop in the middle of Hertfordshire, both still wrapped in foil and blankets, there was only one train an hour and again no taxis would take us, we must have looked such a state that the bloke who worked at the station came over to us and said 'here's a cup of hot tea, I've added lots of sugar to it, you look like you need it'

Eventually got home at 3pm Sunday afternoon, it had took us 7 hours to get across London

When people say they're not going to do a festival if it's not sunny they don't know what bad weather is at a festival

fook that on a comedown

 

[Barbie]

fook that on a comedown

We just laughed about it, I think if we didn't we'd have curled up in a ball under a bush crying

 

[jjinit]

omg babs, I thought we had it bad!!!



we also found a crate of that horrible re-bull type drink in the mud, and we had ove 50 gary's left when we got back!!!

much masho!!

 

[NITEFLY]

50 left over,you should calm down, your not getting any younger

 

[Robder]

When people say they're not going to do a festival if it's not sunny they don't know what bad weather is at a festival

I can't feel sorry for you, much as I'm trying b____ o__!

I was at the two quagmire glasto years where everyone got e-coli!

I didn't take a tent or sleeping bag and had to resort to sleeping in a eurohike porch in a plastic bin liner!

Needless to say after hammering it on the spiral tribe techno stand with all the dirty smelly hippies I was in no mood for waving my arms and singing Angels with Robbie Williams on the Sunday.

 

[Barbie]

I can't feel sorry for you, much as I'm trying b____ o__!

I was at the two quagmire glasto years where everyone got e-coli!

I didn't take a tent or sleeping bag and had to resort to sleeping in a eurohike porch in a plastic bin liner!

Needless to say after hammering it on the spiral tribe techno stand with all the dirty smelly hippies I was in no mood for waving my arms and singing Angels with Robbie Williams on the Sunday.

You've definitely acheived your B______ Camper badge

 

[onemore]

I was there. As barbie said people who moan about weather at festivals now shouldn't really complain!! i have never epxerienced mud like that before or since!!

main memories:

dancing in a very flooded arena to Sasha and Digweed playing Yeke Yeke

PMSL at cybers with very very muddy furry boots!

trying to shelter from the rain at about 4am in an ice cream van

sitting at basingstoke station wrapped in one of those ludicrously overpriced blankets waiting for the connection and looking like a gang of refugees.


All in all, everything you could want from a festival!!!

 

[zoella]

I was there too in 2000!

I only lived 1/2 an hr from the site, but it took us nearly 6 hrs to get back home!

It was quite decent weather when we got there - mainly sat by the bungie thing (watching people get off that thing when was very amusing!)...after a while the rain started to come down and it all went pear-shaped from there!

remember seeing 2 girls dressed in white cyber dresses and high heels (?!) slip 'n' slide all the way from the slinky tent to the portaloos - very amusing!

Went into the Slinky tent and everyone dancing in the middle was knee deep in mud...we were perching right at the top trying to salvage the platic sheet we bought to sit on!

the mud didnt really bother us until it was time to leave at 7am. the queue for buses to take people back from the bowl to the station was massive (probably stood in it for 1 1/2 hrs) and all i can remember was this american girl saying 'jesus, whys does it always rain in England?' and she kept stabbing me in the back of my head with the spikey bits of her umbrella! (i was too wrecked and cold to turn round and say something!)

I've never felt such relief as i did when i got onto that bus - next problem was getting on a train/taxi covered in mud!

anyway, despite the mud/cold i had a laugh and am now preparing myself for Glastonbury in june.....!