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Dog
04-08-2008, 07:04 PM
Is anyone going to the hippy festival this year?
miserableoldgit
04-08-2008, 07:15 PM
Is anyone going to the hippy festival this year?
Can`t make it this year but it is a cracking week-end with loads of excellent music and lots of real ale!:)
Dog
30-07-2010, 08:09 AM
Is anyone going to the hippy festival this year?

Bump!!!!

Pauline Black & Status Quo playing on the thursday night. WoooooooHoooooooooo............
miserableoldgit
30-07-2010, 08:49 AM
http://www.fairportconvention.com/cropredy_line_up.php
hamster
31-07-2010, 09:22 AM
Will there be any narrowboats there? I've never been but it's well pubicised in all the nb publications.

Is it really as 'hippy' as they make out ie funny fags and naked dancing by moonlight?
Dog
31-07-2010, 10:07 AM
30,000 tickets sold, a few hippies, a few chavs, a few rockers, a few lesbians, a few river rats.

Come and take a look it's a good 3 day festival.
Saint Mikey
06-08-2010, 02:33 PM
LOL. Just seen this thread. I must have gone to this festival about 5/6 times when I was young. My parents took me and siblings until we decided it was too uncool to go anymore. My parents and younger brother still go. My parents must have gone every year for about the last 20 years, although they don't slum it anymore and stay in the Travel Inn!

To be honest, it's a cracking little festival, although hardly any of the music is to my taste anymore. Things I remember about the place are Donut Vans, could smell them from miles away, used to 5 for £1, then 4 for £1, then 4 for £1.50. God knows how much they are now! Also remember people carrying round round and fat cider bottles.
The pub is always packed too, the Brase Nose?

Proper hippy event...
NorthamSteve
06-08-2010, 03:00 PM
Make sure you see: Easy Star All stars and Bellowhead if you're going.
Block 5
06-08-2010, 04:35 PM
Is anyone going to the hippy festival this year?

I just can't see you as a hippy mate....... I want to, but it's just so incongruous.
Dog
06-08-2010, 06:22 PM
I just can't see you as a hippy mate....... I want to, but it's just so incongruous.

I have been known to participate in a few hippy traditions over the years, like getting drunk on 99p cider, then sha99ing a librarian in a mauve thick knit jumper wearing clogs & cords.
Dog
06-08-2010, 06:25 PM
LOL. Just seen this thread. I must have gone to this festival about 5/6 times when I was young. My parents took me and siblings until we decided it was too uncool to go anymore. My parents and younger brother still go. My parents must have gone every year for about the last 20 years, although they don't slum it anymore and stay in the Travel Inn!

To be honest, it's a cracking little festival, although hardly any of the music is to my taste anymore. Things I remember about the place are Donut Vans, could smell them from miles away, used to 5 for £1, then 4 for £1, then 4 for £1.50. God knows how much they are now! Also remember people carrying round round and fat cider bottles.
The pub is always packed too, the Brase Nose?

Proper hippy event...

The Brasenose yes. Are you really the 'Mikey' that they all talk about?

TBF the music is bile, but for a small village with a population of about 2000, to get 35000+ ravers, it's a great crack.
Block 5
06-08-2010, 11:07 PM
I have been known to participate in a few hippy traditions over the years, like getting drunk on 99p cider, then sha99ing a librarian in a mauve thick knit jumper wearing clogs & cords.

Outstanding!
Block 5
16-08-2010, 10:46 AM
Did you have a good time Dog?
hamster
16-08-2010, 05:21 PM
I have been known to participate in a few hippy traditions over the years, like getting drunk on 99p cider, then sha99ing a librarian in a mauve thick knit jumper wearing clogs & cords.

I can see you in that attire Dog, altthough I'd like to think the clogs came off for said deed.
Dog
16-08-2010, 07:55 PM
Did you have a good time Dog?

Outstanding thank you..
Dog
16-08-2010, 07:57 PM
Pauline Black was outstanding, Quo were rubbish, and the New York rastafarian band on saturday afternoon were the best I have ever witnessed, look them up.
Dog
16-08-2010, 07:59 PM
Easy Star All Stars

Them!
Block 5
20-08-2010, 12:01 PM
Easy Star All Stars

Them!

Glad you had a sooper dooper time. I'm off to Cornwall for a messyfest this weekend.

Easy Star All Stars are great. They did a cover of the entire 'Dark Side of the Moon' album that was really rather good.
They also covered 'OK Computer' I believe, although I haven't got round to listening to this yet.