Fwd: OFF: Ritual of the Solstice/stonehenge

[david hall]

Were you there? How were Gong and Nik?

Dave
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From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
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Date: 27 June 2000 14:03
Subject: Re: Fwd: OFF: Ritual of the Solstice/stonehenge


>david hall writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>Plus there was just about open warfare between drug dealers going on. I
>had a great time in '84 but I could see at the time that things were so
>out of control that the authorities would be forced to do something.
>
>> 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.
>
>At the main stages maybe. Things are still pretty mellow up in the Green
>fields.
>
>> Gong featured in the soundtrack to the Michael Eavis
>> documentary
>
>One incarnation of them also played the Avalon stage.
>
>FoFP
>