From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #224 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, June 29 2005 Volume 04 : Number 224 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:34:13 +0100 (BST) From: Stu Bird Subject: Re: seven-seas glasto tv Listen, I really value the majority of your comments on this list. You have a massive knowledge of the Bunnymen, and without your input, there are times when this list would be dead. Yes, of course you are entitled to your opinions, just as much as I'm entitled to think that those opinions are uninformed and wrong. You've posted so many times that you hate festivals like Glasto in the past, why keep on? That was my point. I ain't gonna change you ( I've no reason to.. Why would I make gettiung a ticket even harder for myself? ), and you ain't gonna change me. The "stronger stuff" and "tolerance" jibe was purely that, just to illustrate that a little common sense in knowing what you're embarking on should mean that you do certain things.. Don't camp at the bottom of a hill, look at the weather reports, take appropriate clothing etc etc. I was expecting you to bite though ;-) I apologise, twas a bit childish on my part but I couldn't resist it. BTW, there is a massive craft section ( and I mean huge ) at Glastonbury. Some people spend ALL their festival time there. It's not only music. As per usual, the TV only ever gives half a story. Perhaps it's best to resist from comment until people who you may trust a bit better ( and were there ) can give comment. The media as you should know always gives a half-baked report based on sensationalism.. They ain't gonna say "149450 people get on with the festival unaffected by the downpour" when "450 people left with nothing for the entire weekend at pop festival" sounds so much more eye ctaching are they? You actually said that the person was "lucky" not to be affected by the flooding and lightning. That, as I proved was statistically untrue. You also said "it" got flooded.. err what did, the festival? Only a very small part of it. Again, you don't know the complete layout of the site because the media don't go into those details Of course I feel sorry for those who lost everything, but there was plenty of room in the top fields.. It means that you have to walk a bit further to get to the "action". You are wrong again in saying that "someone has to camp at the bottom of a hill". Therefore, it's a CHOICE that people make. Of course you probably won't know that because it wasn't mentioned on the TV. The reason there's a fuck-off fence around the site is to limit numbers, but really, I can only shed so much sympathy for those who ignore the weather forecasts and the layout of the site. I also said that you should only take what you don't mind losing. Common sense again no? And most things would have dried out by Saturday evening anyway.. enough to use for the rest of the festival. Please don't suggest that I'm uncaring, because I'm not. I will ( and have done)go out of my way to help most people. So in conclusion, yes, it's your right to slag off festivals as much as it's mine to defend them. Glasto is very close to my heart, and having been going on and off for over 20 years both as a worker and a punter, did you really expect me to sit back and say nothing, when I know that you haven't been there? Most of the people I've taken to Glasto as first-timers go on to repeat the experience ( the only 2 exceptions I can think of funnily enough are also on this list, and I'm not sure that they actually hated it ). No personal offence meant, let's get on with stuff we all know about, like the Bunnymen.. Peace & love Stu - --- Red wrote: > At 03:07 PM 6/28/05, you wrote: > > >Just to give you the FACTS. > > > >We had 5 hours of thunder and lightning Friday > >morning, starting at 0500. Yes there were lightning > >strikes on site, but NO-ONE hurt. Yes, there was > >MINIMAL flooding on one VERY SMALL area of the 800+ > >acre site, and 450 people lost everything > > My facts came from British TV....and I think I said > exactly > what you said....they got flooded, and there was a > lightning strike... > did I ever say anyone got hurt? no. But geesh, if > you think it's > no big deal that 450 people lost everything, then I > feel sorry for you. > Yeah, they maybe shouldn't have pitched their tent > at the bottom of the > hill......... > but someone has to. > ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! 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It is not quite entirely incomprehensible: [1 of 2] Flower children Who are the amusing people on the Cover of the new Bunnymen CD? "Britney Spears, Freddie Mercury and Edith Piaf", means Ian McCulloch schmunzelnd, "Britney is the small figure in the center." That is natural quatsch: The Cover shows a koloriertes photo from the last century, looks simply only beautiful and has far nothing to mean. It points however the turn of the Bunnymen to a completely own kind of humor. Ian McCulloch is glad things. It told the met writer shank its life history and more all day long and is still hardly to be braked. The new album of the Bunnymen is called "Flowers" and sounds cheerful for Bunnymen conditions almost merrily - now, anyhow and somehow optimistic. "already still typical, dark Bunnymen is TRACKS however there drauf", persists to Ian - only over then to give in, "naja, nevertheless actually you are right. That is already an optimistic plate. Do not ask me however, why. Sometimes grow up you in the morning simply and are lucky." Can be, but one does not take up a plate nevertheless on one day, or? "not completely", Ian describes, "however this disk we as fast as ever did not take up. We had worked only a limited budget and to have as efficiently as possible. The result has so also an animating freshness. That was not planned, but we took over many trial runs directly on the finished CD with." There are also again new Bunnymen. ", we met and thought the three young rather coincidentally directly that that the correct would actually be. They are coole types. Before 20 years they would have been eh in that volume. And the Keyboarder, Ceri James, is condemned still times a best musician, with whom we co-operated ever and who will carry also outside of the Bunnymen large out." ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #224 ********************************