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« Reply #480 on: July 16, 2021, 10:47:38 AM » |
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Top man as well, best wishes to him for his retirement. |
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blagden
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« Reply #481 on: July 16, 2021, 04:59:31 PM » |
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Tim Fletcher
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« Reply #482 on: July 17, 2021, 07:19:29 AM » |
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On a sad note, it seems that Leon is retiring after two more festivals. That will be a hole in the field.
Shame, his fare in huge portions is fantastic value and top quality. Leon has posted on Facebook that he is not retiring. Just two festivals left this year.  |
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Andy
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« Reply #483 on: July 17, 2021, 08:26:49 AM » |
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On a sad note, it seems that Leon is retiring after two more festivals, I can't recall the name of the penultimate one, the last being "Under the Stars".
So, no Leon's at Cropredy 2022. That will be a hole in the field.
Completely incorrect. I misunderstood what Leon said.
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« Reply #484 on: July 17, 2021, 02:51:36 PM » |
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On a sad note, it seems that Leon is retiring after two more festivals, I can't recall the name of the penultimate one, the last being "Under the Stars".
So, no Leon's at Cropredy 2022. That will be a hole in the field.
Completely incorrect. I misunderstood what Leon said.
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Andy
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« Reply #485 on: July 17, 2021, 05:49:47 PM » |
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On a sad note, it seems that Leon is retiring after two more festivals, I can't recall the name of the penultimate one, the last being "Under the Stars".
So, no Leon's at Cropredy 2022. That will be a hole in the field.
Completely incorrect. I misunderstood what Leon said.
An alcohol related misunderstanding? Nope. I haven't had a drop for months. |
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« Reply #486 on: July 20, 2021, 10:49:51 PM » |
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Beautiful Days is going ahead, but “COVID status” check is required before wristbands are issued - seems a good call to me 👍
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« Reply #487 on: July 24, 2021, 10:15:49 AM » |
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Beautiful Days is going ahead, but “COVID status” check is required before wristbands are issued - seems a good call to me 👍
Absolutely! I was shocked at the number of comments on their Facebook page saying that they’d ‘sold out’ to the government, abusing freedom, and that they will be burning all their levellers records. Still, if it means fewer anti-vax morons about,then that’s fine with me. |
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« Reply #488 on: July 24, 2021, 11:10:41 AM » |
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Beautiful Days is going ahead, but “COVID status” check is required before wristbands are issued - seems a good call to me 👍
Absolutely! I was shocked at the number of comments on their Facebook page saying that they’d ‘sold out’ to the government, abusing freedom, and that they will be burning all their levellers records. Still, if it means fewer anti-vax morons about,then that’s fine with me. Bejesus. The world is a very odd place at the moment, isn't it? |
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« Reply #489 on: July 24, 2021, 03:15:20 PM » |
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Speaking as someone who has stewarded at one festival already that imposes such "restrictions", I can say that very, very few people argued with us taking their temperature upon entering the site. Anyone who did was given a choice: comply with the conditions or leave. No-one left.
Out of several thousand people, we had two whose temperature was dangerously high. One turned out to have driven to the festival with SEPSIS. Thoroughly unwise, to say the least and nothing to do with COVID. They ended up in hospital.
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« Reply #490 on: July 24, 2021, 03:56:24 PM » |
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Speaking as someone who has stewarded at one festival already that imposes such "restrictions", I can say that very, very few people argued with us taking their temperature upon entering the site. Anyone who did was given a choice: comply with the conditions or leave. No-one left.
Out of several thousand people, we had two whose temperature was dangerously high. One turned out to have driven to the festival with SEPSIS. Thoroughly unwise, to say the least and nothing to do with COVID. They ended up in hospital.
I'm sorry but that made me laugh out loud. That's nearly an automatic Darwin award. The stupid gene is certainly alive and well in 2021. |
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« Reply #491 on: July 24, 2021, 09:03:30 PM » |
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Speaking as someone who has stewarded at one festival already that imposes such "restrictions", I can say that very, very few people argued with us taking their temperature upon entering the site. Anyone who did was given a choice: comply with the conditions or leave. No-one left.
Out of several thousand people, we had two whose temperature was dangerously high. One turned out to have driven to the festival with SEPSIS. Thoroughly unwise, to say the least and nothing to do with COVID. They ended up in hospital.
Interestingly enough, after 18 months or so of temperature measuring all patients coming into our department daily (200 or so per day) we only found 3 cases by this method. We found more cases of early sepsis! |
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« Reply #492 on: July 27, 2021, 04:23:03 PM » |
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Proper festivals for proper people...from back in the day   Some great silent footage of Windsor Free Festival from '73 - featuring Stacia, Jesus, Wally Hope....and apparently pre Squeeze Difford & Tilbrook (Skywhale?). Entertaining. Parental advisory blah blah blah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIyjvEUINx8 |
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« Reply #493 on: July 27, 2021, 05:56:45 PM » |
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Stacia Blake....possibly the tallest woman I ever met. (close run thing with Erica Knockheart).
Certainly the only one who drew a crowd eager to watch her put her clothes ON.
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« Reply #494 on: July 27, 2021, 06:44:28 PM » |
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The clip has been amended to suggest that the pre-Squeeze outfit was called, er, CUM.
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« Reply #495 on: July 27, 2021, 07:44:01 PM » |
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The clip has been amended to suggest that the pre-Squeeze outfit was called, er, CUM.
Wikipedia offers "Captain Trundlow's Sky Company" or "Skyco" as early names for Squeeze. |
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« Reply #496 on: July 28, 2021, 07:17:39 AM » |
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Stacia Blake....possibly the tallest woman I ever met. (close run thing with Erica Knockheart).
Certainly the only one who drew a crowd eager to watch her put her clothes ON.
She was **** at table footy. |
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« Reply #497 on: August 18, 2021, 05:20:00 PM » |
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Sidmouth’s scaled-down festival was a great success. The evening concerts (outdoor and seated, but not socially distant) were mostly sell-outs and the daytime events were very well attended. The performers were as delighted as the audience – many of them said it was their first live gig for over a year. It felt like a proper festival, even if the marquees, the indoor venues, the dances and the parades were all missing. Hopefully they will all be back to normal next year. Highlights for me were Show of Hands, Seth Lakeman, Banter, and Zoe Wren. In stark contrast, Towersey has had to pull the plug on its ‘pint-sized’ festival. Here are a couple of messages from Joe, which highlight the problems but offer hope for the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIE-fdxSHAIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbiy4RyhfU |
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« Reply #498 on: August 21, 2021, 11:01:45 AM » |
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Beautiful Days has been fab so far. Bit of rain expected today, but sunny Thurs, Fri and expected of Sunday.
Hawkwind were exceptional! Hurry On Sundown..!
Henge were fun too, as we're Alabama 3.
More to come!
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« Reply #499 on: August 21, 2021, 12:06:23 PM » |
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Beautiful Days has been fab so far. Bit of rain expected today, but sunny Thurs, Fri and expected of Sunday.
Hawkwind were exceptional! Hurry On Sundown..!
Henge were fun too, as we're Alabama 3.
More to come!
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