The Cheer!

[Bike_Like_A_Mum]

Just saw this on Facebook. The 'cheer' version of a mexican wave 🙂Lots of comments about how it doesn't really happen any more...time to bring it back??

 

Edited June 15, 2022 by Bike_Like_A_Mum

[FuzzyDunlop]

IMO  The cheer happens when the fireworks finish. Even if you watch them at your tent.... people clap & cheer.

[bennyhana22]

I'm sure I remember it from not that long ago...2015, maybe?

Agree - it's just fantastic!

Ben

[Pinhead]

It is time. Emily, we wont disappoint.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

Not sure I can remember The Cheer happening since about 2004.

[Pinhead]

Ps. It usually used to happen around 6-7pm the day people arrived. Thay day has changed now to Wed. Lets do it proud.

[Pinhead]

Yes its been a few years since I last head it too, but my God it needs to be heard again this year doesn't  it?

[scaryclaireyfairy]

I think I'll get something in my eye if it happens.

[Pinhead]

For those unfamiliar, it really is something to behold. I'll try and start it in Holts around 6pm.

[Pinhead]

B4 I head to the meet obviously... 🙂

[Pinhead]

2 minutes ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

I think I'll get something in my eye if it happens.

Unashamedly I will bawl my eyes out.

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

Not sure I can remember The Cheer happening since about 2004.

I definitely remember it happening later than that.

[Bike_Like_A_Mum]

3 minutes ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

I think I'll get something in my eye if it happens.

Perfect year to bring it back...would be soooo special!

[stuartbert two hats]

I remember it pulsating out of the stone circle in waves. Euphoric!

[Bike_Like_A_Mum]

11 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

IMO  The cheer happens when the fireworks finish. Even if you watch them at your tent.... people clap & cheer.

Cheering after fireworks is kind of normal.

'THE' Cheer is something a bit different I think. It's unity and release. Would be epic for it to come back

[gherkin8r]

5 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I definitely remember it happening later than that.

It's a while since I heard it but it was definitely a thing in at least the first one or two years I went from 2008

[Gnomicide]

From a Caitlin Moran atricle:

Every so often during the festival, you will suddenly hear a cheer begin – a cheer, followed by wild applause. The first time you come, you presume something has happened – a celebrity has arrived, a show has finished. Eventually, you realise: people are just cheering the festival. They’re just cheering being alive. They’re just cheering being here.

[Poorside.2]

It's going to be such a release, it'll feel like the proper end of a crazy couple of years. 

 

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

It also happens when the sun pops out on a cloudy day.

[fightoffyour]

Bollocks!

[Beaver89]

It's happened most years I've been there so the 2004 chat is nonsense. It will make a glorious and continuous return this year. It'll be remarkable if the acts can get a note in sideways!

[CaledonianGonzo]

It happened after the sun finally came out on the Saturday in 2011.

[gigpusher]

18 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It happened after the sun finally came out on the Saturday in 2011.

It also happened in 2017 when the sun finally went behind a cloud for a few minutes respite on the Wednesday! 

[TheGChild]

I'm so down with this. Definitely happened in 2009 (my first time). 

[chazwwe]

27 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

It also happened in 2017 when the sun finally went behind a cloud for a few minutes respite on the Wednesday! 

Followed by an 'ohhhhhhh' in the pyramid filed when it came back out.