Comments on: F@#! Glastonbury

By: Tony Walsh

Tony Walsh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:55:22 +0000

Some absolutely stunning pics of Glastonbury 09 can be found at http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/glastonbury_2009.html

Pics, blogs and Annie McGann’s great video diaries from both front of house and backstage at the Poetry and Words stage can be found at http://www.myspace.com/glastonburypoetry – click back for the June blogs.

Footage from the poetry stage is also being edited and posted, slowly but surely, at the poetryandwords channel on youtube.

By: Byron vincent

Byron vincent — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:10:03 +0000

It was absolutely my pleasure. They were great. I read through all their poems and there are some genius lines. I’d love to check out anything else they’ve done and get back to them with whoops and cheers.

Also, I DO look like a twiglet.

Seesoon x

By: Byron vincent

Byron vincent — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:06:03 +0000

Glad your Glasto wasn’t a wash out. AGWA sounds like just the tonic, I’ll be petitioning my local Happy Shopper to get some in immediately. The other fezzies have been a blast. Those Glastonbury lay lines clearly disrupt my chakras.

Cheers

By: annamaria

annamaria — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:23:33 +0000

Dear Byron,
thanks for your fabulous performance at the Port Eloit Festival, you inspired Carefree to write a load more poems, which they’ve sent me, and i shall pass onto you. when i do, would love it if you’d give them a word of encouragement, for them, especially the boys, you put the cool back into poetry. also, you don’t look like a twiglet.
annax

By: Benbuddha

Benbuddha — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:16:20 +0000

Byron..I have to say your awful Glastonbury made my day today…sorry.I delighted in the use of the marvellous word crapulent which only came to my notice recently ..as a result of a court case…the overseeing Judge was upset by counsels use of the words’….pretty pissed’. On dismissing the court he privately suggested that a more appropriate description beffitting a court should be used.’crapulent’ was the word he suggested.Bless. I have to tell you my Glasto was a blast…much assisted by the discovery of AGWA …a guarana and cocoa leaf based liquer..which is downed in a shot after a little slurp on a lime…um yummy…BOING!!!!! and away you go….Cheers..hope other festies do it for you like Glasto didn’t.

By: Byron vincent

Byron vincent — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:37:03 +0000

I seem to be developing a bit of a potty pen. Its probably summat Freudian.

I went to a little festival in Devon called Watts Fest at the weekend. It was just a few small marquees on someone’s farm. It was brilliant, I had a great time. I felt part of something, rather than just a herded element in a homogenized mass. I guess its just personal preference but I’m consistently finding that the scale of the event has a direct correlation to my enjoyment of it. It makes such a difference knowing that the people who’ve striven to make a thing happen have done it out of creative passion rather than economic edacity.

By: Lucy Lepchani

Lucy Lepchani — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:53:37 +0000

Brilliantly entertaining blog, especially considering the quantity of vividly unattractive bodily fluids involved. Glastonbury, sadly, is the perfect experiment to demonstrate how even a collective of the most creative minds will never reform capitalism. And I think you have wonderful hair.

By: Byron vincent

Byron vincent — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:30:18 +0000

There’s so much going on at Glastonbury that its impossible to focus on any one thing for too long. If I hadn’t seen The Mandela bar immediately upon arrival, i probably wouldn’t have given it a second thought. There is a lot of ridiculousness at Glastonbury, but also loads of fantastic stuff too. I’m not completely down on the place. Just in a bit of a grump. x

By: Byron vincent

Byron vincent — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:13:45 +0000

Thanks Charlie. I do whinge on though, loads of people I know had a great time. I’m just a bit of a grump. Please feel free to use Shoreditch wanksatchel as liberally as you like, maybe between us we can crowbar it into the popular vernacular. x

By: Sophia Blackwell

Sophia Blackwell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:08:18 +0000

We are getting old. You’re so right about the Nelson Mandela Bar- too Student Graant for words. Can’t believe I never picked up on that but perhaps Glasto itself erodes my sense of irony. x