Weirdest thing you've seen at Glastonbury Festival?

[actionstations]

just read this whole thread again, always read it around balance payment time, always results in a good mood after emptying my account (£35 for parking this year jesus christ).

one year (probably my first in 2009 I reckon) pretty smashed, went out with a load of friends all wearing viking/wolf masks one night, when a thunderstorm occurred. My bro sprinted off down the railway track, lost all my other friends, ended up crammed in a little gazebo thing (on south side of railway track by glade I think) with a load of others. somehow a girl was passing on a light-up bicycle (no idea how she was coping with the mud) and offered us some 'vodka gin' which was just what we needed, clearly

[Beerqueen]

Not something I saw, but something I did.  I've only been once (desperately hoping to get a ticket in this year's resale, I didn't even come close in the original sale) and just loved wandering around experiencing the whole thing.  Anyway, I left my grown up kids to do a bit of bimbling and was in the theatre field where I strolled into a tent.  5 minutes later I was in a group of people dancing around the field, singing the Flintstones theme tune and pretending to be ostriches!  Very surreal and loved it.

And when I tell people, they do look at me as though I'm deranged!

Edited April 3, 2016 by Beerqueen

[CaledonianGonzo]

Annual shout out for Barry, the roving portaloo sound system.

[Earthwindandfire2205]

On 2 April 2016 at 1:06 PM, sloseph said:

Probably would have been even better if he was left to dance how he wanted without worrying about someone filming him then posting him on the Internet to laugh at 

If Glastonbury isn't a place we can all get Gillespied without ending up on YouTube then we have a problem 

My Wife had her photo with him on the Saturday. Nice man by all accounts 

[gerardfenton18]

On 2 April 2016 at 10:29 AM, bamber said:

Nothing weird about that whatsoever by the way, I saw a tent full of people high on LSD react to the spectacle of an oak tree being split in two by a lighting bolt, That was a bit special

 

 

On 2 April 2016 at 10:35 AM, bamber said:

Nothing weird about that whatsoever by the way, I saw a tent full of people high on LSD react to the spectacle of an oak tree being split in two by a lighting bolt, That was a bit special

 

WOah lighting does strike twice then 

[Amy Lawn]

Saw yer man with the great big bushy beard and banana hammock in the Avalon field on the Thursday. Massive hit with the crowds, he was loving the smiles he was getting and happy to stop and take pictures with people. We need more people like him in this world! Union Jack banana hammock that day, if I recall correctly.

Getting a picture with somebody, which they have agreed to is nice. Although I wouldn't be happy if somebody just filmed me dancing when I was off my nut, not sure anybody here would either.

[Gucci Piggy]

5 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Saw yer man with the great big bushy beard and banana hammock in the Avalon field on the Thursday. Massive hit with the crowds, he was loving the smiles he was getting and happy to stop and take pictures with people. We need more people like him in this world! Union Jack banana hammock that day, if I recall correctly.

Getting a picture with somebody, which they have agreed to is nice. Although I wouldn't be happy if somebody just filmed me dancing when I was off my nut, not sure anybody here would either.

You've given me an objective for Glastonbury now. Catch GOML dancing on camera.

[Woffy]

5 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

You've given me an objective for Glastonbury now. Catch GOML dancing on camera.

GOML or GOAL?

I prefer the second one as it makes a word.

GOML is rather sexually onomatopoeic.

[Gucci Piggy]

3 minutes ago, Woffy said:

GOML is rather sexually onomatopoeic.

Hahaha fuckkkkk

[Amy Lawn]

Either is acceptable.

[Woffy]

12 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Either is acceptable.

I prefer GEOFF YAWN.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Woffy
;-)

[mr gumby]

Is Amy Lawn this elusive 'friend' of Philipa's we've heard about?

[Amy Lawn]

I missed whatever the Philipa thing was, everybody just started talking about vans one day. It's like the tortilla profile pic all over again.

Geoff Yawn is an alias I use when evading tax.

[ogriff]

7 hours ago, Beerqueen said:

Not something I saw, but something I did.  I've only been once (desperately hoping to get a ticket in this year's resale, I didn't even come close in the original sale) and just loved wandering around experiencing the whole thing.  Anyway, I left my grown up kids to do a bit of bimbling and was in the theatre field where I strolled into a tent.  5 minutes later I was in a group of people dancing around the field, singing the Flintstones theme tune and pretending to be ostriches!  Very surreal and loved it.

And when I tell people, they do look at me as though I'm deranged!

That's probably the work of Jonathan Kay. He's in the Astrolabe every day, always a festival highlight. Corrals everyone into fun silly acts in the surrounding fields. 

 

A highlight every year, check him out you won't regret it

[Hovis]

The thing that sticks out in my mind is from my first glasto in 2013,  I was walking around the circus fields on Thursday and saw these four people in full traditional Chinese clothing and what can only be described as marge Simpson hair peices (black not blue)  standing completely dead pan in a little square outside some long drops. It Soon became apparent there was someone in the long drop and they were waiting for him to emerge,  after about 5 minutes  a crowd of around 30 people had formed around this one long drop,  the four Chinese guys still compleatly silent and still.  Eventually the man emerges and everyone cheers,  the four guys start singing and dancing and then they  all start repeatedly bowing so that their marge hair keeps hitting the man on the head.  

I think I'll always remember the look of confusion as he came out of the long drop  and then the smile on his face as he embraced it.  

[Brave Sir Robin]

14 hours ago, ogriff said:

That's probably the work of Jonathan Kay. He's in the Astrolabe every day, always a festival highlight. Corrals everyone into fun silly acts in the surrounding fields. 

A highlight every year, check him out you won't regret it

Cheers, been meaning to check him out the past couple of years, will make sure I do now.

[joelovesleeds!]

Really enjoyed reading these and it's done a good job getting me in the mood for this year's festival.

Might be a bit mean to call my memory weird, but it definitely made me laugh on my only visit to Glastonbury (until this year!)

In 2009 on the Thursday we went for a walk of the site and found a tiny little stage somewhere (couldn't tell you where) that had performances from prisoners who had written music while inside. The way my memory tells it, these were current prisoners who had been escorted there and had security watching very closely, though that doesn't make a lot of sense and given this is a hazy 7 year old memory I won't be held to that! Anyway this one guy was talking about how depressing he'd always found it on Glastonbury weeks when he was inside and said he'd written this song in his cell one Glastonbury weekend.

It was awful! like something a 10 year old would write who'd had a couple of guitar lessons. Regardless the people watching got well into it and were chanting the chorus back at him- "I want to go to Glastonberry I want to get muddy and smelly!" it was great seeing everyone embrace it and definitely made this guy's day/year.

Now Glastonbury can't be mentioned in my house without a chorus of "I want to go to Glastonberry I want to get muddy and smelly!"- which happens daily at the moment.

[CaledonianGonzo]

This doesn't sound *exactly* like something arranged by Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors initiative, but it might be:

http://www.jailguitardoors.org.uk/

In which case you were maybe even in the Leftfield (!).

[Stooonami]

7 minutes ago, joelovesleeds! said:

Really enjoyed reading these and it's done a good job getting me in the mood for this year's festival.

Might be a bit mean to call my memory weird, but it definitely made me laugh on my only visit to Glastonbury (until this year!)

In 2009 on the Thursday we went for a walk of the site and found a tiny little stage somewhere (couldn't tell you where) that had performances from prisoners who had written music while inside. The way my memory tells it, these were current prisoners who had been escorted there and had security watching very closely, though that doesn't make a lot of sense and given this is a hazy 7 year old memory I won't be held to that! Anyway this one guy was talking about how depressing he'd always found it on Glastonbury weeks when he was inside and said he'd written this song in his cell one Glastonbury weekend.

It was awful! like something a 10 year old would write who'd had a couple of guitar lessons. Regardless the people watching got well into it and were chanting the chorus back at him- "I want to go to Glastonberry I want to get muddy and smelly!" it was great seeing everyone embrace it and definitely made this guy's day/year.

Now Glastonbury can't be mentioned in my house without a chorus of "I want to go to Glastonberry I want to get muddy and smelly!"- which happens daily at the moment.

Aww I thought you were going to say he then successfuly made a run for it and blended into the crowd ala Escape to Victory

[BlackHole2006]

One time I was sat in the market stalls, saw a guy who looked like he was having a very serious chat about something to somebody on the phone. Didn't think anything of it until I took a closer look and realized that he was in fact holding a banana to his ear pretending to have a conversation.

[shuttlep]

back in 2005 I think it was

 

 

it was wet and we found  a couple of benches in the healing fields I think it was. Some old guy was on stage wearing just a pair of jeans , singing songs that he had obviously written him self.  we sat around having a cup of tea that we got from the booth next to the stage for 50p . There was just three of us sat there. then he started shouting at us asking us why we weren't singing along. we replied that we didn't know his songs and could he sing anything current.

 

 

he then went on to do a Bowie Song, he totally murdered it . we were rolling around laughing it was so funny. we ended up dancing along to him. he was getting right in to it . just him and his guitar on a small stage with his wife selling cups of tea and cakes by the side.

[Funkyfairy!]

First year (2007 I think) a guy walking around in the rain, nothing on apart from walking boots, wide brimmed hat and a clear seethrough disposable poncho .... it was raining and he was dry :-)

For a few years now on the Monday morning I've seen an older lady walking around the market without anything on, I always wonder where she is during the rest of the festival or does she only venture to the markets when there are not so many people around

The green police were excellent, First year again sitting by the glade bar having a cider when the green police were protecting the woodland, one middle age guy goes into the woods and gets the green police treatment, only to come running out trying to put 'it away' with a large wet stain appearing down the front of his shorts as he obvisouly couldn;t stop - and the whole glade whooping and cheering .... served him right, he looked so embarassed !

 

 

[MissMollyAnna]

Glasto 2015, Friday just after James Bay's set at the Pyramid...

 

anyone see a girl dressed as Jasmine from Aladdin crowdsurfing on a magic carpet? The crowd then broke out into 'A Whole New World' 

[4AssedMonkey]

I've recounted this before on here but in 2009, Shangri-La had a very other-worldly vibe to it. The hidden doorways, the mini-theatrical performances, the oxygen bar and the dentist chair etc. It felt really dystopian and alien at times.

I remember early hours of Sunday morning being in a secret room about 8 feet square with a young woman in a tweed suit/hat combo and fake 'tache selling bloody marys from a water cooler whilst a guy with a guitar sang protest songs in a west country accent in the opposite corner.  I then remember playing the devil at ping pong for my soul and winning tequila shots. I remember stumbling down a tiny corridor after walking through a no entry doorway in a room full of cassette players (ask your parents) and coming out into a beer garden with a water feature with a bar selling real ale. That was without any doubt, the strangest and one of the most wonderful nights of my life.

Shame that Shangri-La doesn't seem like that now.  It's just a collection of dance music venues and the oddness seems to have evaporated.  Either that or I'm too dumb/drunk/old to find them.

[musky]

35 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

Shame that Shangri-La doesn't seem like that now.  It's just a collection of dance music venues and the oddness seems to have evaporated.  Either that or I'm too dumb/drunk/old to find them.

I've got to admit that I miss the allys as well. I understand that they've got to shake things up and change things to stop them getting stale but I'd love to see a return of something similar.