WOMAD 2008

[Beatmonkey]

So I've just been sorted a crew ticket for this in exchange for helping a mate of a mate blow up some helium ballons, stewarding can suck my ass I don't even need a deposit or anything. The benefits of haveing a festival only 2 miles from your house eh?

So anyone else going to this? I think theres gonna be quite a lot of middle class hippys but should be a laugh anyway, nothing like as hardcore as glade though

[Five Alive]

Who is playing ?

When is it ?

Can you get me in for free ?

[Beatmonkey]

Lee scratch perry, Roni Size Reprazent, TC, DJ Marky (hardly as exciting as the glade line-up hey) (oh and those arn't the headliners just the people I recognise) It's all world music and that sorta shizznizz

It's this weekend

And no I can't I took the last place on the ballon filling crew, 4ish hours filling helium ballons in exchange for a ticket, not bad, not bad at all. Took me some serious blagging to get myself in for free.

[leah]

the very words 'world music' give me the heebie jeebies

[Beatmonkey]

the very words 'world music' give me the heebie jeebies

quite so. I'll put up with it though as my girlfriend and plenty of mates are going what with it being local and all. A festival is what you make of it, I'm sure it's not beyond me to liven it up a little

[Beatmonkey]

Full of hypocritical middle class middle aged middle of the road wankers, unless you get a free ticket avoid this festival.

Some of the music was pretty cool though.

[leah]

hypocritical

how so?

middle class

shit, better tout my boat party tickets at the working men's club then...

middle aged

there goes my boat rave birthday

middle of the road

seems to me that most people are fairly middle of the road in most ways

wankers

how so?

[Beatmonkey]

I only phrased it that way cos of the poeticness of it. The entire festival seemed to have a genral air of smug self satisfyedness about it as if these middle management types needed to wear their hippy credentials on their (tie-dyed) sleves for a weekend before jumping back into their audi estates to cruise home to buy into whatever ethicly produced product they read about in the independants modern lifestyle section.

[leah]

weekend tie-dye/ weekend dreadlocks. same, same.

[Beatmonkey]

Aye, I'm a hypocrit myself, everyone is to a lesser or greater degree, I'm just so at home with my hypocriticalism that I feel able to complain about other people being hypocrits

[leah]

i'm worse