T in the Park

Entry posted by Rachie August 6, 2006

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Right, this is my first blog on Efests, so i thought id write a little bit about T in the park that happened last month (or how little i actually remember)

Darren (aka blue_mondays) my boyfriend was able to get us full weekend tickets on the guest list!!!

[b]FRIDAY 6TH JULY

Me and darren get up for about 7:30am, i remember my back being bad (erm, i fell out of a tree when very drunk about a month before and done my back some damage) because the day before we bought a load of ale from asda and carrying it made my back go again. - So darren had most of the carrying (stuck everything in a suit case!) We got to the station for about 9am met our friends Carrie and John in the massive que in beucanon street. I remember feeling abit sick with excitment and nerves. The nerves were because we got told we needed photographic ID to get in on the guest list, neither of us have photo id, so where worried if this whole rigmaroll was for nothing.

Anyway we get there, and its sunny but alittle windy. We sit on the grass out side the venue for half hour or so eatinging butties and resting. Later more friends turn up. Theres about 12 of us now. Me and darren decide its time to go for it with the guest list, the que looks small - but it took a good hour to get served. We dont get in. Our names are no where......(!!!) we go back to our friends and darren begins to ring the person who was supposed to put us on the guest list. No answer. We tell our friends to go in anyway and we'll meet them later ensuring them WE WILL GET IN. Our friend John looks well worried, as he wants darren to get in as he has no other male company! lmao.

I get the camping chairs out while darren has rang probably everyone he knows - hes givin somone elses name and a 'different' list we should be on. He goes and ques again. Im feelng sick, but want to keep spirits up so out comes the massive bottle of Jack Daniels. Darrens back with no luck.... we decided to move away from the guest list que cos its just getting embarrising now.

Darren comes to the conclusion that maybe where on tomorrows list or somthing (he still cant get direct touch with the guy who actually put us on the list) so we go to the carpark, camp chairs out, stereo and the JD is flowing down our necks like a waterfall. We're completly pissed and dancing to the yeah yeah yeahs, nirvanna and iggy pop - we dont give a shit if we dont get into the festival now. we are having the best best time in the bloody car park... we start to set plans on how we'll put the tent up in the dark in the carpark hehehehe. Have our own festival. Who need T eh?

Darren disapears to go and 'try' again to get in to festival (we've been not getting in for about 4hrs or somat now) he comes back with a face on, so me full of beans starts the 'awww man, no worrys im happy here anyway, where having a laugh arnt we?' Darren hands me 2 tickets.

WE'RE INNNNN!!!!! WE'RE INNNN!!! - i remember jumping n screaming for a good 10 minutes

then we head in..... the massive bottle of JD is well gone and we've moved onto a box of red wine. Now to find where our 10 other mates are.

Now seriously i dont remember finding them, i dont actually remember looking - me and darren could hardly bloody stand up but somhow we got to where they where camped (isnt T 150,000 people?? - what the fook where the chances of that with a dead battery in ya phone!!??)

Then the tent was up (had nout to do with me, just noticed it was all of a sudden up) and the drinking started again. I dont remeber anything tho. Just lots of giggles and funfufnfufn.

i get a call from Paul TM later in the night (no concept of time at all) and i go off to meet him, eventually meet him i think by some bar by the cinema field. I remeber nothing of what i said, but i know there was a few other efesters there (bubblie??) but i dont remeber anything else. I then was back at my tent and going to sleep.

SATURDAY 7TH JULY

Hmmmm now Saturdays a wee bit vaugue for me, i know there werent that many bands i really wanted to see, and with a killer hangover i just wanted to sit in the campsite with a spliff and the last of my 2nd box of red wine. I had my first experience of the festy toilets tho... OMG SCOTTISH ONES ARE DEFFO WORSE THAN ENGLISH ONES. i walked to one set checked about 6 of them and just the sight (never mind the smell) made me bork like mad - i had to move away cos id just spent 5 pound on a burger - it aint coming back that bloody quick! - walked to the next set of toilets, they are just as bad, i decided i wont piss. ill just explode later in the day as its easier. (later i spot they get cleaned mid afternoon and there not THAT bad if you go strsaight after) Its really hot today, but keeps clouding over with this like tropical rain fall... so you have to keep coming in and out of your tent like a ...well somthing that goes in and out alot. :rolleyes:

I did go and see The Zutons tho - and they where brilliant - i was on darrens shoulders for most of the set. Hahaha... i just remeberd darren poured a pint over his own face at some point by accident

It was raining in the night time so most of the group sat in there tents, john and carrie came into our tent and we just sat off and smoked and drank. Bit of a quiet one after yesterdays antics.

SUNDAY 8TH JULY

Quite a few bands i want to see today, as do alot of the group everyones seleo-taping bottles of vodka and shit to there legs and stomaches so they can take them into the venue. Me and darren cant do that we've somhow drank our way through a rediculas amount of ale and have only abit of red wine left. With only about 20quid left too this is gunna be harsh (T in the park is seriously the most expensive festival i have been to, for 7 cans of Tenants your talking over 20 pound - SERIOUSLY. how the f**k can they justify that???????) amazingly this lad comes over and gives us 20 cans of tenants just like that!! he was going and didnt want to carry the weight. - - - - -IT WAS LIKE HE READ OUR MINDS! - - so the party started all over again.

Me and darren head to the venue an we catch Dirty Pretty things, Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes. Then my back starts again. really bad this time.. i have to get out of the crowed sit on some grass and throw up so of the pain (my back just starts going into spasams) with no pain reliefe i get so drunk so i cant feel it anymore - stupid anno but ffs im at T in the park this back will NOT conquer me.

We go and sit in King Tuts tent where later Primal scream will be on. The Go team are on and tho i know none of there songs i really enjoy the set. Then primal scream are due on so me and darren take our places right at the front on the barrier. The show starts and its wild. Fans are climbing up the tent brackets and Bobby (singer) has to stop the show and tell them to get down. TRhe atmosphear is great tho, and the show goes on. But my back starts again so i leave darren in the crowd and go outside and lay on my back for abit. Then i decide to go to the 'Hospitality' part (extra bonus of being on the guest list) theres propper tolilets, private bar, campsite, disco... think thats it.

As i come back i hear a couple of The Who tracks i know so stop and give them a watch. I then go back and meet darren, carrie and john outside king tuts and they wanna go and watch the rest of the who so we do.. and im back up on darrens shoulders There brilliant and the end show has lots of fire works and some bag pipe music comes on that darren knows all the words to. hahahah.

Back at the campsite spirts are high and i feel the atmosphear is really good. Everyones well pissed tho. As are we. Me and darren are the only ones to have camping chairs so its like if your arse moves off it for a split second you loose it to somone else in the group. this keeps pissing me off cos i cant sit still anyway so i go on the rob (oh yes a scouser on the rob) I go and nick a futher 7 chairs from people who had left them there. -----NOT WITH TENTS ROUND THEM THO. just people who'd left already and left there chairs there. I think... i was majorly pissed tho.

Anyway everyones got a chair and are happy.

then everythings really vague.. i went missing for ages aparrently. i thought i wasnt gone that long but it was like an hour or somat. Then there was a row about a ciggy?!?!? lmao then there was fun and games. and more ale.

woke the next day to find everyone else had done an all nighter and left dead early, me and darren had died with ale poisining so that wasnt possible. We couldnt even be arsed packing the tent away (it wasnt even ours) and left it there.

The bus home was horrid....i remember wanting to throw up the whole time, but we eventually got back to glasgow and i just went straight to bed.

VERDICT - - had a brilliant time at T in the park, was a great atmosphear and loads of fun.

the only draw backs i find is that ale is stupidly expensive and the fact you need to keep your ticket on you at all times to be scanned when you come in and out of the venue. - - so many people must loose this bit of paper surly? - i thought i lost mine like a million times. why dont they just give you another band?.

Heres some pictures for good messure.