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Thread: Greenbelt 40 - August Bank Holiday, Cheltenham
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geroff
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I have looked through All Saints several times and we don't seem to have the Greenbelt thread this year. Greenbelt is 40 this year so there are a lot of things from the past and birthday parties. Who is going then? Are there any US Shipmates coming? What do we think of the line up etc etc??
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Heavenly Anarchist
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We always go and in recent years have camped with friends as a group. I used to have a stall there a few years ago selling cloth nappies and handmade clothes and jewellery that was great fun but very hard work! Not looked at the listings yet, will have a peep later. Will there be a ship meet?
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iamchristianhearmeroar
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I'll be there with Mrs hearmeroar and our new baby too. Mrs hearmeroar is 41 weeks pregnant, so we're hoping the little one graces us with his/her presence soon!
We're pretty hardened greenbelters now, and camp religiously. Anyone have any particular tips for camping with a 4 month old at GB? We have an emergency escape plan of a vicar friend who lives about 40 mins from Cheltenham who has offered to have us to stay if everything gets too difficult, but I'm hoping we'll endure (and enjoy!) the camping.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Congratulations! We camped with both our kids as babies, the youngest was only 2 months at his first Greenbelt. Do not underestimate how cold it will be at night. We had planned on him being in a Moses basket (not sure why as he usually slept in our bed anyway) but he was clearly getting cold and ended up in our double sleeping bag with us. Other than that no problems, be prepared to feed instantly when he/she wakes crying but there will be loads of other babies in the curfew area so don't worry about disturbing others. I do recommend the curfew area, not being kept awake by youth groups at 2am is very helpful. In the daytime I often fed Zadok (then aged 7 months) in the performance cafe and them put him under the table to sleep on a blanket. It led to lots of surprised looks from others. I believe there is a baby bathing/ feeding area these days which would be very useful. We used to bath our in a plastic storage box and people used to come up and take photos! [ 23. April 2013, 12:42: Message edited by: Heavenly Anarchist ]
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Schroedinger's cat
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Yes, I am going. I don't do camping, I am staying in a place in the centre.
Lineup - I know there will be plenty of stuff I will enjoy. I will wait until much closer before I make my choices.
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Auntie Doris
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We are planning n going but I think we have decided not to camp. Various reasons, but mainly because all the mud nearly broke me last year!
We need to introduce The Little Mister to the delights of the festival
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The Weeder
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We are already booked and looking forward to it. A bit complicated this year. After the mud of last year, I have booked into the nearest Premier Inn, for me and the 2 god daughters. Their Dad will camp, but will bring the Big Tent, in case we change our minds and want to camp after all. We won't.
Their mum will come in daily, with the 2 younger ones.
Mr Weeder will stay and home and ponder on the folly of festival going and camping or hotel staying in general.
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SyNoddy
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We'll there, parents in a hotel and teenagers camping. Last year's rain and mud was almost biblical with water running through the marquees and performance spaces, to say nothing of the camping fields. Any babes left under tables would likely have floated away! Greenbelt do have a tent with facilities for babies and small children so I think baby shipmates will be fine. Special highlights to look forward to for me and mine are Beer & Hymns, FolkOn and Sunday morning communion. Plus the whole experience of the weekend. It's like an all you can eat God buffet!
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Welease Woderwick
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quote: Originally posted by SyNoddy: ...It's like an all you can eat God buffet!
Quotes file!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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SyNoddy, your favourites list sounds similar to mine. Are FolkOn there again? My kids will be ecstatic and I suspect the youngest will want to fulfil last year's promise to make a banner in support of Ernie!
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Auntie Doris
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quote: Originally posted by The Weeder: We are already booked and looking forward to it. A bit complicated this year. After the mud of last year, I have booked into the nearest Premier Inn, for me and the 2 god daughters.
The Premier Inn also has our custom this year!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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It gets our custom for Thursday so we don't have to drive down early.
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mark_in_manchester
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I've been volunteering for rather a long time, and was starting to think I might drift away...but I find my attention grabbed by a headline act.
The fact that he is an author reminds me how old I am, and how long I have been going. Still like living in a tent, though.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Everyone except me at the Premier. I am at the Central, which, I suspect, is quite a bit cheaper. No breakfast, but I will take some cereal and milk, and be fine!
Having just heard that Milton Jones will be there, I now know my must-see gig.
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Auntie Doris
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Each to their own but I find Milton Jones unbearable and I find my teeth go on edge as soon as I clap eyes on him!
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SyNoddy
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quote: Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist: SyNoddy, your favourites list sounds similar to mine. Are FolkOn there again? My kids will be ecstatic and I suspect the youngest will want to fulfil last year's promise to make a banner in support of Ernie!
So I have been given to understand! FolkOn became a firm favourite last year and their CD is required listening whenever we go on family manoeuvres. Will await the Ernie banner with much anticipation
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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My church (the Order of the Black Sheep) has been asked to do a service. This means we will probably be there after all - our normal meal ticket^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h role there having fallen through.
I'm expecting to find out more on Sunday.
I'm hoping we'll be able to camp as an tOotBS group.
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geroff
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Funny after all these years of going to GB I rarely spot what are the 'firm favourites of last year" - what is this FolkOn to which you refer?
We will be at our usual B&B and probably doing something with our friends at Blessed in the big top.
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SyNoddy
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FolkOn are Donald, Edmund & Derek - a trio of Costwold folk musicians with a nice line in comedy songs. Ernie is a slug who meets a messy death in a 'salty bath of shame', Black Beauty is a recently deceased horse and 'I'm in love with a Morris Dancer' tells the tragic tale of young love destroyed by a shotgun toating homicidal father! And that's just a small sample of some of their delights - All far more jolly than might be thought from the description.
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Jengie jon
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I found their website. The second clip is about Ernie.
Jengie
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Lucia
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Just booked, sneaking in for the cheaper tickets before the April 30th deadline! We will camp again this year, despite the nightmare of the rain/mud last year. Statistically it's unlikely to be that bad again, right? However have made the decision to go to GB without children this year (Hooray for grandparents!) as we just felt so frustrated last year at missing so much that we wanted to see/hear as it would only have worked for the adults. Looking forward to it now!
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Schroedinger's cat
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Ive just seen that they have Black Rebel Motorcycle Club signed up. Which is pretty cool.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider: My church (the Order of the Black Sheep) has been asked to do a service. This means we will probably be there after all - our normal meal ticket^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h role there having fallen through.
I'm expecting to find out more on Sunday.
I'm hoping we'll be able to camp as an tOotBS group.
It's looking quite likely that I will now be there with a guitar hanging around my neck. If I'm asked to play "Shine Jesus Shine" it might get wrapped around someone else's.
I do not have a rainbow guitar strap. And my guitar can play more than four chords
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geroff
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Following previous post - we should be there with this lot. The main picture is from the Big Top service last year.
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Carys
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So no craft tent Karl?
I'll be with the Franciscans
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Miffy
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I'll be venue stewarding again. Same team, different venue place, and name, our old site (according to the GB blog) having been taken over by the relocated Performance Cafe, 'Nuts,' and wine bar.
I'll also be with the TO Franciscans as usual.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Carys: So no craft tent Karl?
I'll be with the Franciscans
Carys
Alas not this year.
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East Price Road
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Will be there. Looking forward to seeing Eliza Carthy. Am hoping there's more to be announced of the line-up.
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The Weeder
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quote: Originally posted by Auntie Doris: quote: Originally posted by The Weeder: We are already booked and looking forward to it. A bit complicated this year. After the mud of last year, I have booked into the nearest Premier Inn, for me and the 2 god daughters.
The Premier Inn also has our custom this year!
Auntie Doris x
Which one? We are at the one neaest to the Racecourse.
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Emma Louise
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We're not for the first time in 10 years! Mainly financial reasons, but we will also have some Australian visitors and will be showing the delights of Dorset instead.
We camped quite a lot with a baby. Can be exhausting if baby doesn't get much sleep but can be great fun waking up and going out on the grass and seeing their enjoyment of it all.
- think about sleeping. As said above can be cold. We've at various times used a travel cot, sleeping ready bed or sort of co-slept. When breastfeeding I think I just latched on and pretty much left her there in order to maximise sleep.
- mine woke with the dawn at Greenbelt - the parents tent was wonderful at that time when you don't want to wake the campsite up. My husband took our little one last year (8 month then) and there were a lot of dad's and babies They also set up baths at night and provide you with tea. This is good.
It's a different festival when you have children, but at 4 months they can still be put in a sling/pushchair and come around to whatever you want to do. Next year they will be running around, wanting food etc! Have a fantastic time.
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Rev per Minute
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quote: Originally posted by Emma Louise: It's a different festival when you have children, but at 4 months they can still be put in a sling/pushchair and come around to whatever you want to do. Next year they will be running around, wanting food etc! Have a fantastic time.
And before you know it, you won't see them from one meal to the next... We're just getting used to Greenbelt without children, more or less - they're now both old enough to go round by themselves all day without parents getting in the way. As our first GB was when the younger one was 18 months, this is quite a change for us! [ 12. July 2013, 15:54: Message edited by: Rev per Minute ]
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Miffy
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I'm very much hoping the current spell of hot weather will last right up to and beyond the Bank Holiday weekend.
Am I being hopelessly optimistic?
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Auntie Doris
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quote: Originally posted by Miffy: I'm very much hoping the current spell of hot weather will last right up to and beyond the Bank Holiday weekend.
Am I being hopelessly optimistic?
I hope not. We are camping the week before and I am dreaming of a hot sunny trip. For a change!
Auntie Doris x
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No, please, let it be cooler! Camping is murder in weather like this!
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harmony hope
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Can anyone please remember how soon to the Festival weekend they send out tickets? We're about to move house sometime over the Summer and I'm trying to second-guess which address to have them sent to!
many thanks HH
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Schroedinger's cat
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My wristband arrived a couple of weeks ago. Which is very exciting!
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Jack the Lass
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No wristbands here yet, but we didn't actually get round to buying tickets till just before the end of June, so I'm assuming we'll not be at the top of the list for getting them sent out. Harmony Hope, it might be an idea to phone the Greenbelt office and explain, and maybe they will take pity on you and send you the wristbands before you move (although then of course it's down to you not to lose them in the chaos of moving! ).
We're camping, and I really hope it's not this hot. Dry yes, hot no. A few years ago I remember having to get up at about 7 each morning despite being knackered, because the tent was already so hot I couldn't breathe (actually that might have been at Womad rather than Greenbelt, but it's the same tent so heat at GB would have the same effect).
Apart from Amadou and Mariam I can't say I'm overwhelmed by the headliners, but there are quite a few things I'm looking forward to on the line-up. My obscure musical top tip this time is Mama Rosin - I saw them supporting another band a few years back and thought they were brilliant: a Cajun band from that well-known Cajun heartland, Switzerland ...
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harmony hope
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Jack the Lass - thank you that's a good idea but they're complimentary tickets via a church agency I did some work for so I'm relying on them to post them on to me!
I think that any type of weather has to be better this year than last year's terrible rain and mud!
Excited now (4th year for us)
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Manipled Mutineer
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Am going en famille for the day on the Sunday and would be grateful for some advice. Is there any danger of not getting in if I wait to get my tickets on the day or am I fairly safe to do so? (Could do without more £ on credit card this month if avoidable...)
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iamchristianhearmeroar
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I can't remember Greenbelt having sold out in the last 8 years I've been going, but that's not to say it won't of course. If you email the office they might let you know the likelihood of getting tickets for Sunday on the day. Or put up a post on the facebook group?
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Does anyone know which day Martyn Joseph is on - I can't see on the GB website, or on his own. Can't afford to come for all of it sadly.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Laxton's Superba: Does anyone know which day Martyn Joseph is on - I can't see on the GB website, or on his own. Can't afford to come for all of it sadly.
Sunday and Monday according to his website. Come on the Monday. Last I heard that's when we (Order of the Black Sheep)'ll be doing some worship.
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Thanks Karl. Why didn't I see that then?! Yes I will probably come on the Monday. What do you get up to?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Hard to describe. It's the first time I've played electric guitar in an ecclesiastical setting without being asked to (a) turn the distortion off, (b) just play the chords, (c) make it sound more like an acoustic and/or (d) play something awful from Songs of Fluffiness. Normally though we don't do live music at our services, so it's all a bit experimental.
That there's been a running joke about wearing "Post Happy-Clappy" t-shirts might tell you something. Our main services are Eucharistic unless our priest is away, and my understanding is that the services we're doing at GB also will be.
Other than that I would expect audio-visual montages dramatising the readings and liturgy.
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Horatio Harumph
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I'm in.
Room booked. Ticket sorted.
Looking forwards to it. Had last year off totally, this will be my first year in about 8 being there just as a punter.
cant wait
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Which Premier Inn are you all staying at? After a couple of years missing Greenbelt we have booked into Premier West. (I think there's another one too). Maybe we could have a Greenbelt breakfast corner or something?
Sorry to be missing you Emma
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Incidentally, if anyone follows me on twitter (@s_cat) I am planning to do a selfie each day so any of my followers there can recognise me.
In the desperate hope that I won't be entirely alone for the whole weekend (self-pitying smilie).
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Pomona
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I have never been before but this year will be volunteering at the Student Christian Movement stand and camping in the SCM area. Would be nice for Shippies to pop over and say hello!
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