Glastonbury Festival 1997 - Part 1 of 4 - Redone for copyright again The Prodigy, Reef, Beck, Supergrass, The Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Franti - Spearhead, The Prodigy See more at webm8.com
Glastonbury 97 was one of the 2 Glastonburys that I did attend (by scaling the fence of course!) - it was one of the last really great Glasto’s despite the boggy conditions because of the rich quality of music across ALL stages, the only bummers that year being the weather and clashing quality band performance times - the fact that I barely remember the weather being a testament to how great the whole event was
The mud was crazy. There was a massive hole in the ground near one of the gates to the main stage field, invisible because of mud... people were falling down it - splat - every couple of minutes, like some sort of cartoon, ending up neck deep.
@@invade81 what made it worse was the straw they put down on the paths to try to soak up the mud - I had mud and straw sticking to my boots increasingly until I ended up resembling a shire horse lol
@@MiniLemmy oh, yeah. All day trudging about with extra lbs of mud stuck to your legs, after a while hoping it would rain again to loosen up the mud. Slept with feet sticking out of the tent as it was too much work to take off boots. There were reports of people getting trenchfoot and then e-coli in the mud people were diving face first into. Bit of a novelty that time... It was different the following year - sunny on the Friday and then along came the rain again, changed the vibe immediately
@@webm8 popular music it seems to me was strictly a 1900s phenomenon. They continued beyond the millenium, of course albeit with ever diminishing returns but the day I don’t recognise any names at all in lineups is fast coming to pass.. will be strange because so many hanger-ons have almost been validating these things.
I see 17 year old me. Front row all day. I think Echo & The Bunnymen we’re on first that day. I’m short and getting round in knee deep mud with giant cord flares and a long leather jacket was not easy. Once I got somewhere, I stayed! 😂
Beck’s harmonica playing, not particularly memorable. Beck’s Devil’s Haircut, priceless! Also, interesting to see the original incarnation of Smashing Pumpkins here. That will change very shortly after this appearance.
I paid a guy in a security high viz £10, got in his Ford Escort where he coloured in a passout hand stamp with a highlighter pen and stamped my hand. I was sure I was being mugged but I walked straight in
I took 10 Es that weekend... Primal Scream and Chemical Brothers...we couldn't find the Prodigy, mind you had seen them a few years before at Tribal Gathering 😂
@@chriscassidy5362 didn’t even know the scream team were on and I followed them around like mad back then ~ Ian Brown’s first solo gig too, I knew nothing about it. Apparently he came into the tent in a hood with a flaming torch n nearly set fire to the tarpaulin
Don’t think I saw a single band I intended was always bogged down other side of the site exploring. Trying to negotiate mud with a flagon of hot cider was a pastime at that thing
@@webm8 yeah a fantastic year I’m telling you mate that 90 - 99 fantastic time to be alive I’m only 9 years old and me dad would have been 33 years old !!!! But man great year with some great bands too like ocean colour scene kula shaker the prodigy supergrass maybe my favourite indie band of all time and many more cheers for replying mate cheers mate many thanks keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@webm8 yeah mate my dad got me in too loads of this stuff my dad told me about supergrass stereophonics stereo mcs and many more my mums music is a bit crap thanks dad for getting me in to indie
