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sjhande Newbie

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May have been 81.

Roy Harper - Ginger Baker - Hawkwind - Richie Havens - Gong

1 stage (the old Pyramid)

Cinema Tent (where you could kip if you didnt have a tent)

and I think --- a circus area.

£8 in I think - but as there were no fences dont know anyone who paid.

Great fight on stage between Roy Harper and Ginger Baker.

My fave period for Glasto is late 80's/ early 90's - so this was still a wee bit small but without the commercialism of nowadays.

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1992. Hitch-hiked down from Sheffield, excitement mounting, ducked under the fence where it crossed over a stream. Sunny all weekend. Lots of all night raves going on. Awesome set from The Levellers.

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oooo...loving all these first time stories. B)

Mine was 2005. I went in a car, with a ticket and walked through the gates after paying £125! Ouch! Doesn't quite have the same touch as the other stories does it?! lol. I hate that everything is so....sterile and samey nowadays (not that I hate Glastonbury or think its samery)...

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98, poured down all weekend, was knee deep in mud, spent a fortune on dry clothing (wasn't prepared) and ended up with trench foot!! still did'nt put us off going every years since (except 2000)

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I went in 1983. I was 9 and it was fantastic but really scary all at the same time. Not sure how young kids cope with it now as it was much smaller in those days. Main memories are making fires from all the beer cups, Reggae everywhere and Fun Boy Three headlining. We used to camp under the pylons on Home Ground with our car next to our tent!

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1986 - the first of many non-paying years. Just went through a hole in the hedge. Different festival back then in some ways - more like Woodstock - trail bikes, dogs, naked people, drugs EVERYWHERE. The pyramid field was litterally a market - stall after stall with boards advertising every drug you could think of. I was offered acid the moment I walked on site - and for the record, I don't take any drugs other than coffee and tea!

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Ah-ha !!!! Now this sounds like just the excuse I need to once again post what is probably the bestest vid of the Levellers that I've ever seen:

Thank you, can I have another an action replay sometime *very* soon please sir :D I've no idea if it was '92 '94 or whatever although I'm kinda sure someone confirmed '94 last time I posted it but it defo looks like a pyramid headliner gig to me in any case and what a bl**dy amazing crowd ! Sadly, I was wasn't even on-site never mind amongst them ... and that's always going to pi$$ me right off B)

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First one was 1985 and what difference from nowadays.

What bit of a fence was there was just on the floor with hundreds walking in. It was a real drugs fest as well. Guys walking round with balaclavas on shouting "Black Hash, Speed, Thai sticks" One guy we scored off was just walking round holding scales up in the air shouting "Red Leb" good deals and cheap as chips.

I noticed a massive queue for the ice cream van but it was not selling ice cream! It was acid, and by the sheet. Superman springs to mind, the acid, not me although.....

Lots of tents with big signs outside saying Hot knives 50p. I remember that there were quite a few big sort of open sided tents that were just for the people that had nowhere else to sleep. Loads od really messed up people. Me included. New Order and Elvis Costello spring to mind but I wasn't there for the bands.

Didn't go again until 1994 and again it was a drugs fest but this time it was all pills and raves. We queued up to climb over the fence and, I kid you not , we were behind two foreign girls trying to get over with suitcases! We eventually got over and we found that we had landed in the circus performers area. Possibly the best time I have ever had in my life in that field, met some awesome people and had a blast. We still tell the stories to this day.

The mood was darker in and around that festival and a couple of people I knew had a real bad time with a group of thugs. Orbital were immense though, and i can still hear Leftfield blasting out at little market stalls and people going ballistic.

I have been to everyone since 2005 and when I am packing up to leave I am already looking forward to the next one. These days I consider it to have lost a bit of it's edge but as I am older (and wiser) this is not a bad thing. It definately feels safer and everyone is just there to have a good time.

If I was ever to meet Michael Eavis I would probably apologise for abusing his hospitality back then and then I would thank him for all the effort and hard work him and the organisers do for the greatest show on earth.

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First one was 1985 and what difference from nowadays.

What bit of a fence was there was just on the floor with hundreds walking in. It was a real drugs fest as well. Guys walking round with balaclavas on shouting "Black Hash, Speed, Thai sticks" One guy we scored off was just walking round holding scales up in the air shouting "Red Leb" good deals and cheap as chips.

I noticed a massive queue for the ice cream van but it was not selling ice cream! It was acid, and by the sheet. Superman springs to mind, the acid, not me although.....

Lots of tents with big signs outside saying Hot knives 50p. I remember that there were quite a few big sort of open sided tents that were just for the people that had nowhere else to sleep. Loads od really messed up people. Me included. New Order and Elvis Costello spring to mind but I wasn't there for the bands.

Didn't go again until 1994 and again it was a drugs fest but this time it was all pills and raves. We queued up to climb over the fence and, I kid you not , we were behind two foreign girls trying to get over with suitcases! We eventually got over and we found that we had landed in the circus performers area. Possibly the best time I have ever had in my life in that field, met some awesome people and had a blast. We still tell the stories to this day.

The mood was darker in and around that festival and a couple of people I knew had a real bad time with a group of thugs. Orbital were immense though, and i can still hear Leftfield blasting out at little market stalls and people going ballistic.

I have been to everyone since 2005 and when I am packing up to leave I am already looking forward to the next one. These days I consider it to have lost a bit of it's edge but as I am older (and wiser) this is not a bad thing. It definately feels safer and everyone is just there to have a good time.

If I was ever to meet Michael Eavis I would probably apologise for abusing his hospitality back then and then I would thank him for all the effort and hard work him and the organisers do for the greatest show on earth.

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1990 , great year The Cure headlined the one main stage , so many people turned up at the pyramid that a helicopter was brought in the winch people out from the crush at the front (nobody was badly injured) . Good times all round .

Anyone remember seeing The Orb at the 2nd stage in 1993 ? I thought that was the greatest headline act i've seen at the festival . Monumental show , lightshow from outer space , speakers at the back and the side of the field , great tunes and thousands going mental .

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Anyone remember seeing The Orb at the 2nd stage in 1993 ? I thought that was the greatest headline act i've seen at the festival . Monumental show , lightshow from outer space , speakers at the back and the side of the field , great tunes and thousands going mental .
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Aye, I remember that light show alright, or at least bits of it....Did I imagine it, or were there actually lights in the sky? I think it may have been balloons with either lights inside or really bloody bright spotlights being shone on them - I was a little worse for wear so could've made the whole thing I guess B)
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Oh this makes me feel old.... 1969 to the Shepton Mallet Folk and Blues Festival which mutated in 1970 to Glasto.

It was the first major UK festival after Woodstock and most of the Woodstock bands, with the exception of Hendrix played.

Pink Floyd did their first ever performance of Atom Heart Mother, amazing music floating over us and we lay back under a cloudless, star filled sky. At least that's my rather hazy memory.

I was shocked to meet some Americans who'd been at Woodstock to discover it hadn't been all peace and love over there.

One of them asked us if they could borrow some sugar or coffee so we just gave it to them.

"How much do you want?" they asked.

We said no money, they could have it.

They were surprised and said that at Woodstock everyone had been charging each other for the smallest thing.

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