Truck Festival 2006

So hopefully I'll be in next year.

yikes.

haha jellybean i saw the map they send out to bands etc this year, i don't think i've seen it before. most amusing: "hay." "cows."

I am mystified.

i remember last year they got annoyed with a bunch of photographers trying to taking arty pictures on the haybales...

i'm going to THE FAROE ISLANDS instead! check this motherfucker out:

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sorry folks, next year then (and muchos luckos to the shimuros curvos...)

For Didcot http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2937 (rain on sat)
For Abingdon http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2939 (sun with cloud)
For Wantage http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2938 (sun with cloud)

Steventon lies in between the 3...

Playing a festival set was great, even though I got "trapped in the LOL" (Amp phrasing for 'fit of the giggles) due to the awful dancing of one particular audience member and spluttered into the mic.

Also thanks to all who came along to the white horse and Rushall and stuff.

Which ilxor was it?

I am back! I am so brown! (I am also slightly sunburned, but I blame the White Horse for that.) I have freckles! We are rock!!!

I like sleeping under trees in fields with lots of cows around. It is ace. But only if you have a lovely giant SILVER MACHINE that blasts Hawkwind every time you put the key in it and FILTRES OUT ALL ANNOYING SOUNDS OF FOETUSES IN THE CAMPSITE NEXT DOOR. Hah!

Veggie burgers were great but they ran out too soon. Banana smoothies were ace, as were three bits of pineapple for a pound!

Aw, the rain wasn't so bad. I kinda liked the end of the world feeling of being in the tent with the wind howling and the rain battering us. And I really especially liked giving up and going to lie down in the van for a nap.

We sold loads of CDs. I was surprised by how popular we proved to be. But I still have a few left if anyone wants one.

-The Early Years (big sheets of motorik shoegazing is just what you want first thing Sunday morning, oh yes)
-Thomas Truax
-Piney Gir
-Keyboard Choir (well, mainly their robot dancers)

but mainly I really liked sitting on the hill under our tree with a big smile on my face.

and BRIAN ENO was there watching them! brian eno at truck! dude.

*faints*

(Most people dream that their real parents are a king and queen and that they are a princess really - I dream that if my real dad wasn't my dad, then I would find out it was Brian Eno all along and go and live in an art gallery.)

No, Lex, it is new and exciting and very handmade and highly collectible and it has songs you don't have.

Ha ha, it was also really fun corrupting the stewards. Though what on earth did happen to Ken?

MMmmm, Ed turned up at just the right time with reinforcements of food and yummy hummus.

My god, how good were those toilets? Flushing! Running water! Wood detailing! MONET PRINTS ON THE WALLS!!!

I am certainly going again next year, even if they won't have us back (which I hope they will) - however, I will book early and bring a VW CAMPER VAN. I do not do tents. I had a moment of madness, but then the rain came and I came back to my senses.

And no, no, no, this is a brand new CD - it is a mix of some old songs and some new ones and even different versions of the 3-song ep you got in the spring.

I should have texted you back at least though sorry! I was really zonked out though by that stage.

How was the backstage party??? Some dudes near my tent decided to have their own "party" by banging drums really loud and singing that Futureheads "oh oh oh oh oh" bit arrgh.

So Gaz had the idea that we should just blast Hawkwind louder than them, so we got in the Silver Machine and did so, but then the security turned up and all was peaceful again. It was lovely.

We heard there was a volleyfootball game by the death metal barn.

i would love a copy of the cd! i'll be at poptimism on sat - unless you're coming to the plan b pub thing on fri, kate...

Though I don't know if I'm going to be in town at all this weekend. I desperately want to go to Norfolk but not sure I've got the money. :-(

if we don't meet this weekend, hmm, i'm sure we'll bump into each other soon - just save a copy for me!

The gang, standing in front of the Silver Machine:

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l to r Ed, Emsk, Arrrrrrrrrr-thur, the Russian, Kate, Kissy Chrissy

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Shimuras Villarge Sarf:

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L to R: Martin "That's not water, it's STRAIGHT VODKA!!!", Kissy Chrissy driver extraordinaire, Cowgirl Kate St.Claire

It was ace to meet/randomly scare all of you this weekend. I think it might be my favourite Truck ever.

The two things I really loved about Truck this year
1) The lovely posh backstage loos.
2) The disco shed in the market field.. The BEST idea EVER!

Haha, it was great to hear Sticky and Brown at last.

I was very impressed by The Organ even if their technical difficulties meant a detour to the Lounge for a while to see the considerably less impressive Seafood.

Battles were fantastic. so were 65 Days of Static.

I so want to steward again if they let me. Picking up litter with my solitary green latex glove and then *almost* shaking someone's hand with it before realising at the very last moment that prolly isn't a good idea!

I had to "deal with" a wasted person with no wristband. Hey maybe I could be Security! actually no, I am the least big and burly person EVAH and I don't possess a bomber jacket.

There must have been at least twenty ppl from my work there.

i will meet you by the men dressed as women stall!

OMG, they were EXTREMELY DISTURBING!

i tried to find somewhere that sold those bouncy LED balls that seemed to be everywhere but couldn't see any

Ilxor spotting. How many can you see? Large version here

Rest of festival photos on my website http://www.nunuworldmusic.co.uk

Wish I'd been there to see the Curves in all their glory. And Buck.

The disco shed wins my RAH award for being consistently brilliant... every time I walked past it was jumpin'. And Futureheads win the MEH award for being just not good enough.

Archel, I'd love to meet up with you again sometime, although I guess you're not drinkin' in your condition (congratulations btw!). I guess the Robin Hood environmental quiz ran out of gaz?

You're never unobtrusive dude!

I am loving working this EN471 + liberty print thing right now, I feel 16 again.

Angle, I thought I saw you in one of the tents, but lost you in the crowd.

I am too shy for mine own good sometimes. :-(

Next time I'll say hello... ;-)

Truck festival 2007

Who's in?

::cries::

can shimuras not make the rescheduled date?

tickets are available, you know

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THEY WOULDN'T BOOK US IF THE SITE WERE ON FIRE AND WE HAD A HOSE. :-(

Oh that's odd. For some reason i thought you were scheduled to play in July. My apologies.

THEY WOULDN'T BOOK US IF THE SITE WERE ON FIRE AND WE HAD A HOSE. :-(

they kind of didn't need any more water in July, to be fair.

when i said "who's in" i meant, as a punter, by the way. i'm not playing there either, cheers.

I was making a joek. Maybe it would have been funnier if I had said "THEY WOULDN'T BOOK US IF THE SITE WERE UNDERWATER AND WE TOTALLY SUCKED!!!" but I thought the irony was funnier? I don't know. I don't understand this humour thing. Oh, I give up. :-(

are you coming?

No, not at the moment! It's rude to masturbate at work!

it might help though

to get over the pain of not going to truck

i don't think i'm coming to truck anymore :-(

why not? because shimura curves aren't playing?