bands seen: the offspring, puddle of mudd, the strokes, weezer, the white stripes, foo fighters, ash, muse, SUM 41, the hives, A, less than jake, andrew w.k, new found glory, the shining, spunge. plus loads more, because i was merrily tipsy all saturday and so many rockish bands blurred. hehe. but the memory of all those bands will be indefinitely ruined by what happened.

thursday evening was good, campfires and drink flowing and spectacular atmosphere. friday, it was okay.

saturday night: drunken asses built huge dangerous fires in the campsite. then decided they'd barrel their mates down slopes in the campsite via shopping trolleys they'd knicked from sainsburys. then they kicked the fucking shit out of the fish & chip van near our tent. it rolled over. they still carried on.

that's nothing.

sunday: they built huge dangerous-er fires. huge ones. they shook the security watchtower until the security people climbed down in haste and ran off probably pissing themselves, stupid fucking wimpish wankers. they shook the watchtower until it fell over, crushing tents and trees. then they set it alight into a huge inferno.

people at this point packed up their tents and ran for the hills. the drunken shitheads started pulling the watchtower apart by pure drunken strength and got the poles from said watchtower, beating on tents remaining standing.

THEN.

they decided, oooh, normal firewood wasn't good enough fuel.

they got several large GAS CANNISTERS and LIT THEM.

they fucking EXPLODED. in five minutes, half of the campsite had gone up in flames.

my friends left when the watchtower fell over. some other people i was hanging around with started packing up their stuff when some drunken shithead sprayed solvents on their tent and tried to light it.

boom.

ooooh let me mention: a police helicopter arrived after the watchtower incident, but just flew around for an hour and a half and there were no security stewards or fucking police or ANYTHING.

when we left after the huge explosion, police were only. just. arriving.

when we were running out of the gates, we stopped and asked a policewankerofficer what was going on, i.e. what had caused the explosion - hoping to god it wasn't gas - and the officer said 'oooh. there's a riot. yeah.'

2002-08-26 - 12:27 p.m.
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