The Glastonbury Beer Festival
Posted by Afkatglhoops
on 20/04/09 20:39:53
What a weird day on Saturday. We were booked to play at a Beer Festival at the Tor Leisure centre in Glastonbury and was especially asked to bring down as many Circus Stunts in the afternoon to add a bit of spectacle and make sure that people stuck around for the evening show. Now we like playing at Beer Festivals mainly because they are usually run well and provide us with a ready made trollied audience who usually respond well the Fabulous Fezheads. Glastonbury is nearly 200 miles from my house, so I set off at 9.30am on Saturday morning collected Dolly from his boat at the Medway Dockside Marina, drove into Maidstone to pick up Cleggett then up to Borough Green to unload our stuff into Gobby's new Camper Van. So we set off at 11.00am and overtook the Old Blue Van on the A303, followed the satnav though Castle Carey but somehow the OBV got there first - how does that work? Anyway we found the Tor Leisure Centre. And guess what - no beer festival! 'It's not happening' ..........'It's just the evening gig' From then on the day just went down hill. To add insult to injury we couldn't set up at the stage end because the equipment would be infront of the cinema screen which was showing the Arsenal v Chelsea FA cup semi. The Club owner couldn't understand why we didn't want to use his old JBL speakers and 20year old desk in favour of our own PA, funny that. So we set up down one side of the hall with our equipment individually angled at 45 degrees. I'd had enough when the single inbreed sitting in the hall at 4.00pm ( the match coverage was at 5.15pm ) asked me to move the mic stands back as they might obstruct his view! Fu.....k....g move then.... So I set off alone into town to find Gobby, Dolly and Cleggett. Some horrible beer and a couple of very strange pubs later, we thought we better head back for a coffee and sound check. Glastonbury is a strange place, every other shop was Magic or Pagen shop, holistic this and holistic that.... And they even had a pagan convention on the go. All round town there were posters - Fabulous Fezheads fun day, kick off 2pm!!!!! What???? I warned the lads this might be the first Fezhead gig to nobody! Fortunalty there was a small but very appreciative audience who appeared more by accident than design, somehow we put together a pretty good show, and I've got to say that I really enjoyed the evening. Many thanks to Corinne for buying a round of Tequila shots which spiced up the Tequila song, and for Andy from Festivaleye who partied with us afterwards and drunk the campervan out of red wine. Managed to get £100 cash out of the venue to fuel up the wagons for the way home , with hopefully Graham getting a cheque for the rest. I've got to say I've seen some cockups along the road, but this has to rate up there with the great Derby Assembly rooms fiaso back in the 1990's. But that's another story........
What a weird day on Saturday. We were booked to play at a Beer Festival at the Tor Leisure centre in Glastonbury and was especially asked to bring down as many Circus Stunts in the afternoon to add a bit of spectacle and make sure that people stuck around for the evening show. Now we like playing at Beer Festivals mainly because they are usually run well and provide us with a ready made trollied audience who usually respond well the Fabulous Fezheads. Glastonbury is nearly 200 miles from my house, so I set off at 9.30am on Saturday morning collected Dolly from his boat at the Medway Dockside Marina, drove into Maidstone to pick up Cleggett then up to Borough Green to unload our stuff into Gobby's new Camper Van. So we set off at 11.00am and overtook the Old Blue Van on the A303, followed the satnav though Castle Carey but somehow the OBV got there first - how does that work? Anyway we found the Tor Leisure Centre. And guess what - no beer festival! 'It's not happening' ..........'It's just the evening gig' From then on the day just went down hill. To add insult to injury we couldn't set up at the stage end because the equipment would be infront of the cinema screen which was showing the Arsenal v Chelsea FA cup semi. The Club owner couldn't understand why we didn't want to use his old JBL speakers and 20year old desk in favour of our own PA, funny that. So we set up down one side of the hall with our equipment individually angled at 45 degrees. I'd had enough when the single inbreed sitting in the hall at 4.00pm ( the match coverage was at 5.15pm ) asked me to move the mic stands back as they might obstruct his view! Fu.....k....g move then.... So I set off alone into town to find Gobby, Dolly and Cleggett. Some horrible beer and a couple of very strange pubs later, we thought we better head back for a coffee and sound check. Glastonbury is a strange place, every other shop was Magic or Pagen shop, holistic this and holistic that.... And they even had a pagan convention on the go. All round town there were posters - Fabulous Fezheads fun day, kick off 2pm!!!!! What???? I warned the lads this might be the first Fezhead gig to nobody! Fortunalty there was a small but very appreciative audience who appeared more by accident than design, somehow we put together a pretty good show, and I've got to say that I really enjoyed the evening. Many thanks to Corinne for buying a round of Tequila shots which spiced up the Tequila song, and for Andy from Festivaleye who partied with us afterwards and drunk the campervan out of red wine. Managed to get £100 cash out of the venue to fuel up the wagons for the way home , with hopefully Graham getting a cheque for the rest. I've got to say I've seen some cockups along the road, but this has to rate up there with the great Derby Assembly rooms fiaso back in the 1990's. But that's another story........
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