Fwd: OFF: Ritual of the Solstice/stonehenge

[david hall]

The problem with the Stonehenge festival is that it got too big. I think
that the last one in 84 had 60000 at it. Although some hung around  to clear
up afterwards they could do a cosmetic operation only. The festival was fun,
but, if I'm honest I wouldn't like a free festival of that size and duration
round the corner from me. A small scale one okay but not that size. The
woods were full of human shit and the local rivers turned into latrines (the
site was a paradise compared to the woods), a lot of the locals had real
problems with thefts from gardens etc etc. A victim of it's own success
perhaps. Even members of Hawkwind said they wouldn't loke to be in the
local's shoes. I've just finished watching Glastonbury on the TV, too big
and too mainstream. Gong featured in the soundtrack to the Michael Eavis
documentary

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Browne <jon at COMICS.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 25 June 2000 11:48
Subject: Re: Fwd: OFF: Ritual of the Solstice/stonehenge


>In article <5b.780b778.2683759b at aol.com>, DASLUD at AOL.COM writes
>>In the past
>>Stonehenge was a focus of Class war- New Age versus
>>the Old Aged and the rich folks living down there in
>>pretty southern England.
>
>Yeah, well, maybe. Some of us didn't go to Stonehenge to go to war.
>
>We just used to piss off afterwards into the Welsh mountains and get on
>with it, man....
>
>--
>Jon
>