Went from 1979 to 1986, Good times and memories, Still got the tickets. 1979 FIVE QUID!!!
11 January 2015
Gareth from canada
Lived there during my teenage years. Few of the purported charms or facilities of Chatteris. On the positive side, most of the pubs thought it was better to turn a blind eye to blindingly obvious underage drinkers. Never went to the festival, which was really stupid of me, come to think about it. Was employed one summer ( 1977, I think) at a small scale archeological dig in the Abbey grounds. Had a lovely, elderly American lady tourist come up to us as we were working, bemoaning that ‘ it was a pity that our boys didn’t get here before the Germans bombed this place….’
11 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
I think it was either in 1981 or 1982,that one of the highlights was Roy Harper and Ginger Baker kicking the crap out of one another on stage.
11 January 2015
Dr Desperate
1981, it was. Hats off to Harper, who describes the meeting thus: “Later I’m playing the gig, going down quite well, building up to the finale. Then Ginger starts walking on with drums, setting up right in front of me, destroying everything. I couldn’t believe it. So I left the microphone and said ‘Hey, what you doing?’ And he said, ‘F— off, you’ve been on here too f—ing long, you c—‘ and his band started bringing all their gear on. So I started to seethe, nudged one of his drums with my left foot and he lunged at me. I just burst, turned round and gave him one right in the guts. Ginger goes, ‘Urrgghh you c—-.’ Then we were fighting and the stage was full of people. I completely flipped my lid.” The crowd then proceeded to bottle Ginger , one allegedly hitting him on the head with a chunk of granite.
11 January 2015
This leaden paul
It’s all the fault of Led Zeppelin for encouraging Eavis when they played at Bath.
11 January 2015
Eugene C
There aren’t enough fights on stage any more
12 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
Indeed. Love to witness Lemmy take on Elton John.
12 January 2015
dirk hofman
Lemmy looks a bit frail these days Peter,i don’t think he’d take too many handbags and backhanders from Reg..
14 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
Lemmy will have the know how and if required ,a concealed weapon.
14 January 2015
Eugene C
A Tiger Tank possibly?
19 January 2015
EXXO
Talking of Romeo Zondervan (I once had a goldfish called Romeo), this is what I call a football career – over 29 seasons, about 16 of them as a full- time professional.
Full name Paul ‘Punky’ Randall
Date of birth 16 February 1958
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Playing position Forward
Youth career 1971 Charlton Mackrell 1972 Glastonbury Town 1973 Bristol Rovers
Senior career Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1977 Glastonbury Town 1977 Frome Town 1977–1978 Bristol Rovers 52 (33) 1978–1980 Stoke City 46 (7) 1980–1986 Bristol Rovers 184 (61) 1986–1989 Yeovil Town 121 (50) 1989–1993 Bath City 143 (80) 1993 Weymouth 1993 Clevedon Town 1993 Welton Rovers 1994–1995 Glastonbury Town 1995 Street 1995–2000 Wells City
Total (professional career only) 546 (231)
20 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Your goldfish, Romeo? (salt’n’vinegar? yes, please!) What about Billy the Fish, then?
20 January 2015
EXXO
I’ve got sick of chilli really early this year.
What happens is that Mrs. Exford works at Glastonbury every year where she cooks Mexican food for 8-12 hours a day depending on demand (Jazz World Stage, or West Holts or whatever it’s called these days).
So she gets so sick of 6 days of chilli that she won’t ever look at a plate of what is, after all, one of my specialities, between about mid-May and mid-September.
So while she’s down there I end up cooking a massive pot to last 4-5 days, freeze it, take it fishing, etc. I’ve already been eating it for 3 days. Had enough. Might use the rest for pre-baiting (seriously, it should work).
23 June 2016
KITTYMCDERMOTT
Exxo, I may well send this to Pseuds’ Corner:
“I’ve got sick of chilli really early this year.
What happens is that Mrs. Exford works at Glastonbury every year where she cooks Mexican food for 8-12 hours a day depending on demand (Jazz World Stage, or West Holts or whatever it’s called these days).
So she gets so sick of 6 days of chilli that she won’t ever look at a plate of what is, after all, one of my specialities, between about mid-May and mid-September.
So while she’s down there I end up cooking a massive pot to last 4-5 days, freeze it, take it fishing, etc. I’ve already been eating it for 3 days. Had enough. Might use the rest for pre-baiting (seriously, it should work).”
No, 1979 was my last Glastonbury, Steve Hillage, Alex Harvey. absolutely crap.
17 September 2016
bobby svarc
The rest was lies
17 September 2016
EXXO
86 was my first, and no exaggeration to say it saved my life (that’ll be a verse in ‘Paintball’ one day), but I didn’t decide to go till the middle of the Friday afternoon which may be why I have no recollection of knowing HMHB were on the bill until many years later.
I think I ended up sharing a tent with an armed robber called ‘Shoulders’.
18 September 2016
Peter Mcornithologist
Not a spliff in sight .
24 June 2017
bobby svarc
I jacked festivals in when folks started using tents with sewn-in groundsheets.
24 June 2017
dr desperate
From The Times of London’s Glasto report last week: “Looney, 22, is a seasoned festivalgoer who, like his father before him, sees no reason to pay. Having broken into the Somerset festival six times before, he is confident he will get in again. Looney and his friends first broke in by stealing high visibility jackets from the security operatives and walking through the gates.”
28 June 2017
dr desperate
The same report goes on to state that Billy Preston broke into his first Glastonbury festival in 1995. He climbed the wall, drank in the view and then “slid 12ft down a pole straight into a slushy cesspit that went up to my thighs”. Bet he wished he could ‘Get Back’.
28 June 2017
Transit full of keith
1986 Glastonbury, seems they were sandwiched between the Go-betweens (?) and The Happy End (?) on stage 2, not a Crispy Ambulance in sight.
The list near the bottom of the flyer is crying out for a ‘much much more’.
1 July 2019
EXXo
Apparently there was an alphabetical order squabble fest. “Go-Betweens? Happy End? We’re not going on a list between them, they should have ‘The’ ”
[actually I hate lists that have ‘The’ bands under T (yes I’m looking at you, RadMac Chain archive), but I was just trying to say something sarky about a publisher perhaps not recognising alphabetical order]
Was my first Glastonbury, with some very vivid memories and some total haze. The Cure’s set was almost identical to the one last night. I’d already seen HMHB 3 or 4 times in the previous few months so allowed myself to be waylaid and miss them on that occasion. I might be able to dig up who they actually played between, or find an image of the programme somewhere – I certainly used to know – but don’t hold your breath.
1 July 2019
Transit full of keith
Right you are. Should’ve spotted that. Of course, I would organise a festival running order thematically, using the Dewey Decimal system.
1 July 2019
Alice van der meer
Assuming that “Fuzzbox” is the band also known as “We’ve Got a Fuzzbox etc”, I heard Rules and Regulations for the first time on Marc Riley’s show this evening and was fairly startled – I only know the Pink Sunshine-era Fuzzbox, so to discover that they’d sounded not unlike the Stooges’ sisters came as a bit of a shock.
1 July 2019
paul f
They are indeed the same band – Rules & Regulations (in my fading memory) always seemed to be part of the same “indie chart” rundown on The Chart Show as Dickie Davies Eyes with an equally lo-fi video.
1 July 2019
EXXO
I hope I’ve still got a cassette somewhere of the Festive 50 1986, where before 30-21 in the chart countdown, Peel also re-plays four or five of his favourite sessions of the year, including Misty, the Fall, Fuzzbox and HMHB, so they’re very much intertwined in my memory of that year. Rules and Regulations had been number 31 on the previous evening’s show, so it was played on the show two nights running. It was their only really good song. They’d already started doing stupid novelty covers in summer ’86, with ItzyWitzyShittyBittyBikini or whatever it was called. Everyone used to do Fever as a live cover, so that was a very boring choice too. Didn’t surprise me at all when I heard their big label had made them go ‘dance’ in 88-89.
2 July 2019
EXXO
Mind you I’ve just been doing some revision and three of Fuzzbox were only just 17 years old when they recorded that session and played Glastonbury, so hardly surprising they had to do the covers.
2 July 2019
LUX INFERIOR
“Rules and Regulations…was their only really good song.”
I beg to differ Exxo. ‘Love Is The Slug’ was, and still is, a magnificent tune.
2 July 2019
EXXO
Decent tune I’ll give you, but annoying chanty vocals throughout which should be reserved for chorus. Make the verse vocals more like the sound of the middle eight and you’ve got something miles more interesting.
Ted Chippington on that bill as well – I’d like to have seen him in his heyday, a comedian with such a gift for baiting the audience into a hostile frenzy that Mark E Smith used to get him to open for the Fall.
2 July 2019
This leaden paul
“Rocking With Rita, You sure can’t beat her, oh no…”
3 July 2019
EXXo
Fella called Steve that just won a reality show called ‘The Brigade,’ winning a job in a Pirelli-starred restaurant or something, worked with us on the Glasto chilli stall a few years back. Doubt Private Eye will be bothered yet, though Kittie.
4 September 2019
dr desperate
It’s just struck me that when the band played there in 1986 it was still called ‘The Glastonbury CND Festival’, as it was from 1981 to 1990, so it’s conceivable (though unlikely) that Nigel may have come up with the Squabblefest line then. ‘Snooker Loopy’ was still in the charts that week, though coming to the end of its 11-week run.
30 June 2020
IDIOT SAUL
Was Snooker Loopy’s 11 weeks in the charts a run or a break?
30 June 2020
EXXO
You wouldn’t be able to quibble about the running order at Glasto.
I seem to remember being told once by the man that the first seeds of Squabblefest were sown at one of the very first HMHB gigs in the Birkenhead area in ’85, where there was such a kick-off, though the scale of the sums mentioned is deliberately set in a higher bracket, to make the satire more general.
Bobby SVARC
Went from 1979 to 1986, Good times and memories, Still got the tickets. 1979 FIVE QUID!!!
11 January 2015
Gareth from canada
Lived there during my teenage years. Few of the purported charms or facilities of Chatteris. On the positive side, most of the pubs thought it was better to turn a blind eye to blindingly obvious underage drinkers. Never went to the festival, which was really stupid of me, come to think about it. Was employed one summer ( 1977, I think) at a small scale archeological dig in the Abbey grounds. Had a lovely, elderly American lady tourist come up to us as we were working, bemoaning that ‘ it was a pity that our boys didn’t get here before the Germans bombed this place….’
11 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
I think it was either in 1981 or 1982,that one of the highlights was Roy Harper and Ginger Baker kicking the crap out of one another on stage.
11 January 2015
Dr Desperate
1981, it was. Hats off to Harper, who describes the meeting thus:
“Later I’m playing the gig, going down quite well, building up to the finale. Then Ginger starts walking on with drums, setting up right in front of me, destroying everything. I couldn’t believe it. So I left the microphone and said ‘Hey, what you doing?’ And he said, ‘F— off, you’ve been on here too f—ing long, you c—‘ and his band started bringing all their gear on. So I started to seethe, nudged one of his drums with my left foot and he lunged at me. I just burst, turned round and gave him one right in the guts. Ginger goes, ‘Urrgghh you c—-.’ Then we were fighting and the stage was full of people. I completely flipped my lid.”
The crowd then proceeded to bottle Ginger , one allegedly hitting him on the head with a chunk of granite.
11 January 2015
This leaden paul
It’s all the fault of Led Zeppelin for encouraging Eavis when they played at Bath.
11 January 2015
Eugene C
There aren’t enough fights on stage any more
12 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
Indeed. Love to witness Lemmy take on Elton John.
12 January 2015
dirk hofman
Lemmy looks a bit frail these days Peter,i don’t think he’d take too many handbags and backhanders from Reg..
14 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
Lemmy will have the know how and if required ,a concealed weapon.
14 January 2015
Eugene C
A Tiger Tank possibly?
19 January 2015
EXXO
Talking of Romeo Zondervan (I once had a goldfish called Romeo), this is what I call a football career – over 29 seasons, about 16 of them as a full- time professional.
Full name Paul ‘Punky’ Randall
Date of birth 16 February 1958
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Playing position Forward
Youth career
1971 Charlton Mackrell
1972 Glastonbury Town
1973 Bristol Rovers
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1977 Glastonbury Town
1977 Frome Town
1977–1978 Bristol Rovers 52 (33)
1978–1980 Stoke City 46 (7)
1980–1986 Bristol Rovers 184 (61)
1986–1989 Yeovil Town 121 (50)
1989–1993 Bath City 143 (80)
1993 Weymouth
1993 Clevedon Town
1993 Welton Rovers
1994–1995 Glastonbury Town
1995 Street
1995–2000 Wells City
Total (professional career only) 546 (231)
20 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Your goldfish, Romeo? (salt’n’vinegar? yes, please!) What about Billy the Fish, then?
20 January 2015
EXXO
I’ve got sick of chilli really early this year.
What happens is that Mrs. Exford works at Glastonbury every year where she cooks Mexican food for 8-12 hours a day depending on demand (Jazz World Stage, or West Holts or whatever it’s called these days).
So she gets so sick of 6 days of chilli that she won’t ever look at a plate of what is, after all, one of my specialities, between about mid-May and mid-September.
So while she’s down there I end up cooking a massive pot to last 4-5 days, freeze it, take it fishing, etc. I’ve already been eating it for 3 days. Had enough. Might use the rest for pre-baiting (seriously, it should work).
23 June 2016
KITTYMCDERMOTT
Exxo, I may well send this to Pseuds’ Corner:
“I’ve got sick of chilli really early this year.
What happens is that Mrs. Exford works at Glastonbury every year where she cooks Mexican food for 8-12 hours a day depending on demand (Jazz World Stage, or West Holts or whatever it’s called these days).
So she gets so sick of 6 days of chilli that she won’t ever look at a plate of what is, after all, one of my specialities, between about mid-May and mid-September.
So while she’s down there I end up cooking a massive pot to last 4-5 days, freeze it, take it fishing, etc. I’ve already been eating it for 3 days. Had enough. Might use the rest for pre-baiting (seriously, it should work).”
23 June 2016
EXXO
Good luck with that Kitty x
24 June 2016
dr desperate
Did you see the lads at Glasto in 1986, @Bob?
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/glasto-advert-1986.jpg
17 September 2016
bobby svarc
No, 1979 was my last Glastonbury, Steve Hillage, Alex Harvey. absolutely crap.
17 September 2016
bobby svarc
The rest was lies
17 September 2016
EXXO
86 was my first, and no exaggeration to say it saved my life (that’ll be a verse in ‘Paintball’ one day), but I didn’t decide to go till the middle of the Friday afternoon which may be why I have no recollection of knowing HMHB were on the bill until many years later.
I think I ended up sharing a tent with an armed robber called ‘Shoulders’.
18 September 2016
Peter Mcornithologist
Not a spliff in sight .
24 June 2017
bobby svarc
I jacked festivals in when folks started using tents with sewn-in groundsheets.
24 June 2017
dr desperate
From The Times of London’s Glasto report last week:
“Looney, 22, is a seasoned festivalgoer who, like his father before him, sees no reason to pay. Having broken into the Somerset festival six times before, he is confident he will get in again. Looney and his friends first broke in by stealing high visibility jackets from the security operatives and walking through the gates.”
28 June 2017
dr desperate
The same report goes on to state that Billy Preston broke into his first Glastonbury festival in 1995. He climbed the wall, drank in the view and then “slid 12ft down a pole straight into a slushy cesspit that went up to my thighs”.
Bet he wished he could ‘Get Back’.
28 June 2017
Transit full of keith
1986 Glastonbury, seems they were sandwiched between the Go-betweens (?) and The Happy End (?) on stage 2, not a Crispy Ambulance in sight.
The list near the bottom of the flyer is crying out for a ‘much much more’.
1 July 2019
EXXo
Apparently there was an alphabetical order squabble fest. “Go-Betweens? Happy End? We’re not going on a list between them, they should have ‘The’ ”
[actually I hate lists that have ‘The’ bands under T (yes I’m looking at you, RadMac Chain archive), but I was just trying to say something sarky about a publisher perhaps not recognising alphabetical order]
Was my first Glastonbury, with some very vivid memories and some total haze. The Cure’s set was almost identical to the one last night. I’d already seen HMHB 3 or 4 times in the previous few months so allowed myself to be waylaid and miss them on that occasion. I might be able to dig up who they actually played between, or find an image of the programme somewhere – I certainly used to know – but don’t hold your breath.
1 July 2019
Transit full of keith
Right you are. Should’ve spotted that. Of course, I would organise a festival running order thematically, using the Dewey Decimal system.
1 July 2019
Alice van der meer
Assuming that “Fuzzbox” is the band also known as “We’ve Got a Fuzzbox etc”, I heard Rules and Regulations for the first time on Marc Riley’s show this evening and was fairly startled – I only know the Pink Sunshine-era Fuzzbox, so to discover that they’d sounded not unlike the Stooges’ sisters came as a bit of a shock.
1 July 2019
paul f
They are indeed the same band – Rules & Regulations (in my fading memory) always seemed to be part of the same “indie chart” rundown on The Chart Show as Dickie Davies Eyes with an equally lo-fi video.
1 July 2019
EXXO
I hope I’ve still got a cassette somewhere of the Festive 50 1986, where before 30-21 in the chart countdown, Peel also re-plays four or five of his favourite sessions of the year, including Misty, the Fall, Fuzzbox and HMHB, so they’re very much intertwined in my memory of that year. Rules and Regulations had been number 31 on the previous evening’s show, so it was played on the show two nights running. It was their only really good song. They’d already started doing stupid novelty covers in summer ’86, with ItzyWitzyShittyBittyBikini or whatever it was called. Everyone used to do Fever as a live cover, so that was a very boring choice too. Didn’t surprise me at all when I heard their big label had made them go ‘dance’ in 88-89.
2 July 2019
EXXO
Mind you I’ve just been doing some revision and three of Fuzzbox were only just 17 years old when they recorded that session and played Glastonbury, so hardly surprising they had to do the covers.
2 July 2019
LUX INFERIOR
“Rules and Regulations…was their only really good song.”
I beg to differ Exxo. ‘Love Is The Slug’ was, and still is, a magnificent tune.
2 July 2019
EXXO
Decent tune I’ll give you, but annoying chanty vocals throughout which should be reserved for chorus. Make the verse vocals more like the sound of the middle eight and you’ve got something miles more interesting.
2 July 2019
paul f
Chart Show Indie Chart No 1s from 1986….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJfeV4XmxI
2 July 2019
transit full of keith
Ted Chippington on that bill as well – I’d like to have seen him in his heyday, a comedian with such a gift for baiting the audience into a hostile frenzy that Mark E Smith used to get him to open for the Fall.
2 July 2019
This leaden paul
“Rocking With Rita,
You sure can’t beat her, oh no…”
3 July 2019
EXXo
Fella called Steve that just won a reality show called ‘The Brigade,’ winning a job in a Pirelli-starred restaurant or something, worked with us on the Glasto chilli stall a few years back. Doubt Private Eye will be bothered yet, though Kittie.
4 September 2019
dr desperate
It’s just struck me that when the band played there in 1986 it was still called ‘The Glastonbury CND Festival’, as it was from 1981 to 1990, so it’s conceivable (though unlikely) that Nigel may have come up with the Squabblefest line then.
‘Snooker Loopy’ was still in the charts that week, though coming to the end of its 11-week run.
30 June 2020
IDIOT SAUL
Was Snooker Loopy’s 11 weeks in the charts a run or a break?
30 June 2020
EXXO
You wouldn’t be able to quibble about the running order at Glasto.
I seem to remember being told once by the man that the first seeds of Squabblefest were sown at one of the very first HMHB gigs in the Birkenhead area in ’85, where there was such a kick-off, though the scale of the sums mentioned is deliberately set in a higher bracket, to make the satire more general.
30 June 2020